August 1st: Born On This Day In Music

1981 – Ashley Parker
Ashley Parker, from American boy band O-Town, who were the winners of US TV show ‘Making The Band’ They scored the 2001 US No. 3 single ‘All Or Nothing’.

1978 – Dhani Harrison
Dhani Harrison is born to George Harrison and his soon-to-be-wife Olivia. Dhani, who like his dad becomes a musician, is the couple’s only child.

1970 – Kenwyn House
Kenwyn House, guitarist with English band Reef who had the 1996 UK No. 6 single ‘Place Your Hands’ and the 1997 UK No.1 album ‘Glow’.

1968 – Dan Donegan
Dan Donegan, guitar, Disturbed, (2005 US No.1 album ‘Ten Thousand Fists’).

1964 – Adam Duritz
Adam Duritz, from American rock band Counting Crows, who had the 1994 UK hit single ‘Mr Jones’, and the 1996 US No.1 album Recovering The Satellites. They received a 2004 Academy Award nomination for their song ‘Accidentally in Love’, which was included in the film Shrek 2.

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1964 – Nick Christian Sayer
Nick Christian Sayer guitar, Transvision Vamp ,(1989 UK No.3 single ‘Baby I Don’t Care’).

1963 – Coolio
Coolio, (Artis Ivey Jr), 1995 US & UK No.1 single ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’.

1960 – Chuck D
Chuck D, (Carlton Ridenhour), Public Enemy, (1988 UK No.18 single ‘Don’t Believe The Hype’). He gets his stage name when a friend sees him playing guitar and says, “Who do you think you are, Coolio Iglesias?”

1960 – Suzi Gardner
Suzi Gardner, guitar, vocals, with American rock band L7 who were associated with the grunge movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s. L7 influenced many of the riot girl bands of the 1990s.

1959 – Joe Elliott
Joe Elliott, vocals, Def Leppard, who had the 1987 UK No.6 single ‘Animal’ and the 1987 world wide No.1 album Hysteria 1988 and the US No.1 single ‘Love Bites’. As one of the world’s best-selling music artists, Def Leppard have sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

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1958 – Robert Buck
Robert buck, from American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs that was founded in 1981. They achieved their greatest success between 1987 and 1993 when they released four albums that charted in the top 50 in the US. Buck died on 19 December 2000.

1958 – Paul Gray
Paul Gray, bassist for the Southend-on-Sea rock band Eddie and the Hot Rods, which had several hit singles and albums in the late 1970s, including ‘Do Anything You Wanna Do’. In early 1980, he joined the punk rock band The Damned.

1953 – Robert Cray
Robert Cray, singer, Blues guitarist, and five times Grammy Award winner. Cray played with Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, and Stevie Ray Vaughan at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin, performing ‘Sweet Home Chicago’. This was Stevie Ray Vaughan’s final performance before he died in a helicopter accident later that night.

1951 – Tim Bachman
Canadian guitarist and vocalist Tim Bachman best known as a member of Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO). Bachman was one of the four founding members of BTO, a group that have sold nearly 30 million albums worldwide and also featured his brothers Randy (guitar/vocals) and Robbie (drums). He died on 28 April 2023.

1951 – Tommy Bolin
Tommy Bolin, guitarist. Joined Deep Purple in 1975, member of Zephyr and The James Gang. Bolin died of a heroin overdose on 4th December 1976.

1947 – Prakash John
Canadian rock bassist Prakash John who has worked with Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer of (White Trash) as well as Bobby Whitlock (Derek & the Dominos). John was recruited in 1971 by George Clinton to work with Parliament/Funkadelic on the albums Chocolate City and America Eats Its Young while sharing bass playing duties with Bootsy Collins on tour.

1947 – Rick Anderson
Rick Anderson bassist with American band The Tubes known for their 1977 hit single ‘White Punks On Dope’ and the 1983 US No.10 single ‘She’s A Beauty’.

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1947 – Ricky Coonce
Ricky Coonce, who with Grass Roots had the 1968 US No.5 single ‘Midnight Confessions’, plus 13 other US Top 40 singles.

1946 – Boz Burrell
English musician Boz Burrell, who with Bad Company scored the 1974 UK No.15 & US No.5 single ‘Can’t Get Enough’). He was also a member of King Crimson. Burrell suddenly died of a heart attack on 21 September 2006 aged 60.

1942 – Jerry Garcia
American singer-songwriter and guitarist Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead. He was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” cover story. Garcia also founded a variety of side projects, including the Saunders–Garcia Band, the Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, Legion of Mary, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Garcia died from a drugs-related heart attack on 9 August 1995.

1938 – Paddy Moloney
Irish musician, composer, and record producer Paddy Moloney. He co-founded and led the Irish musical group the Chieftains, playing on all of their 44 albums. He died suddenly at a hospital in Dublin on 12 October 2021 at the age of 83.

1898 – Morris Stoloff
Morris Stoloff, arranger, (1956 US No.1 & UK No.7 single ‘Moonglow and Theme From Picnic’, arranged film music including ‘Lawrence Of Arabia’). Died 6th April 1980.

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