Born On This Day In Music: August 18th

1983
Mika, (Mica Penniman), UK singer, (2007 UK No.1 single ‘Grace Kelly’ and 2007 UK No.1 album ‘Life in Cartoon Motion’).

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1977
Canadian multi-instrumentalist and singer, Régine Chassagne, founding member of Arcade Fire. (She is married to co-founder Win Butler). Had the 2005 album Funeral, and 2017 US No.1 album Everything Now.

1971
Richard James, Aphex Twin (1993 UK No.32 single ‘On’).

1969
Erik Schrody, Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter, House Of Pain, (1993 UK No.3 single ‘Jump Around’). Member of Everlast, (1999 UK No. 34 single ‘What It’s Like’).

1968
MC Eric/Me One (of Technotronic) is born Eric Martin in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

1967
Dan Peters, drummer with American alternative rock band Mudhoney. Their early releases on the Sub Pop label were massively influential on the Seattle music scene.

1967
Tracy Tracy, The Primitives, (1988 UK No.5 single ‘Crash’).

1960
English songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer Stuart Matthewman. He gained worldwide fame as the guitarist/saxophonist of the English band Sade. Stuart is also a member of Sweetback, and was one half of Twin Danger. He appeared on all of Sade’s tours and albums: Diamond Life, Promise, Stronger Than Pride, Love Deluxe, Lovers Rock, and Soldier of Love all of which went triple platinum in the US.

1957
Ron Strykert, Men At Work, (1983 UK and US No.1 single ‘Down Under’).

1956
Tony Garnier American bassist, best known as an accompanist to Bob Dylan, with whom he has played since 1989. He is Dylan’s longest-running sideman and was also a long-time sideman for David Johansen in his Buster Poindexter persona, and was also briefly a member of the Saturday Night Live house band.

1953
Marvin Isley from American group The Isley Brothers who first came to prominence in 1959 with their fourth single, ‘Shout’, and then the 1962 hit ‘Twist and Shout. The Isley Brothers also scored the hits ‘This Old Heart Of Mine’, ‘Summer Breeze’ and ‘Harvest for the World’. Sixteen of their albums charted in the Top 40. Marvin Isley died from complications of diabetes on June 6, 2010.

1952
Patrick Swayze, actor, singer, (1988 US No.3 & UK No.17 single with Wendy Fraser, ‘She’s Like The Wind’). Swayze died from pancreatic cancer on September 14, 2009.

1951
John Rees, Men At Work, (1983 UK & US No.1 single ‘Down Under’).

1950
Dennis Elliott, drummer with English-American rock band Foreigner, who scored the 1985 UK & US No.1 single ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’. They are one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records.

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1949
Nigel Griggs bassist from New Zealand group Split Enz who had the 1980 UK No.12 single ‘I Got You’. Split Enz had ten albums (including seven studio albums) reach the top ten of the Official New Zealand Music Chart.

1949
American musician, songwriter and producer Greg Leisz. His playing has appeared throughout the years on many recordings including Alison Krauss, Beck, Black Crowes, Bruce Springsteen, Eagles, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Haim, Jackson Browne and Joni Mitchell.

1945
American singer and actress Sarah Dash, who with Labelle had the 1975 US No.1 & UK No.17, single ‘Lady Marmalade’. She worked as a singer, session musician, and sideman for The Rolling Stones, and Keith Richards. Dash died unexpectedly on 20 September 2021 at the age of 76.

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1945
Barbara Harris, singer, The Toys, 1965 US No. 2 & UK No.5 single ‘A Lover’s Concerto’).

1943
Carl Wayne, singer, with British rock band The Move who had the 1969 UK No.1 single ‘Blackberry Way’ and hits with ‘I Can Hear The Grass Grow’, ‘Flowers in the Rain’ and ‘Fire Brigade’. Wayne died of cancer on 31st Aug 2004.

1939
Pop singer Johnny Preston is born in Port Arthur, Texas. Died March 4, 2011.

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