Born on this day in music, February 1st

1994
Harry Styles from English-Irish pop boy band One Direction who formed after finishing third in the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010. Scored the 2011 UK No.1 single ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ and the 2013 No.1 ‘One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)’. His self-titled debut solo album (2017) debuted at No.1 in the UK and the US and his second album, Fine Line (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with the biggest ever first-week sales by an English male artist. Styles has received various accolades, including two Brit Awards, a Grammy Award, an Ivor Novello Award, and three American Music Awards.

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1990
British folk singer-songwriter Laura Marling. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards. Her sixth record, Semper Femina, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Album category.

1985
Swedish songwriter, record producer and musician, Shellback who was listed as the No.1 producer of 2012 on Billboard magazine’s year end chart. With songwriter Max Martin he has produced, written and/or co-written songs for Taylor Swift, Usher,Pink, Lily Allen, Carrie Underwood ,Adam Lambert, Maroon 5, Avril Lavigne, Adele and other artists.

1975
Big Boi, (Antoine Patton), Outkast, US rapper who had the 2001 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘Ms Jackson’ and the 2004 US No.1 single ‘Hey Ya’.

1971
Ron Welty, drummer from American punk rock band The Offspring, who had the 1999 UK No.1 single ‘Pretty Fly, (For A White Guy)’, and the 1999 US No.6 & UK No.10 album Americana.

1968
Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley. Also known as the “Princess of Rock and Roll.” She married Michael Jackson in 1994, and separated on 10th December 1995. She was also married to actor Nicolas Cage. Lisa Marie had the UK No.16 single ‘Lights Out’. She died January 12, 2023.

1957
Dennis Brown, reggae singer, who had the 1979 UK No.14 single ‘Money In My Pocket’. He died on July 1st 1999.

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1950
Mike Campbell, guitarist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers who had the 1977 single ‘American Girl’, the 1989 UK No.28 single ‘I Won’t Back Down’, and the 1991 UK No.3 album ‘Into The Great Wide Open’. Campbell has also worked with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Fleetwood Mac, Roger McGuinn, Tracy Chapman, Warren Zevon, George Harrison and Stevie Nicks.

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1948
Rick James, US singer who scored the 1981 US No.3 album ‘Street Songs’, and the 1981 US No 16 single ‘Super Freak part 1’. James was found dead at his Los Angeles home on 6th August 2004.

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1947
Normie Rowe, singer, biggest solo star of Australian pop in the Sixties, who in 1965 had the Australian No.1 single ‘Que Sera Sera’ which spent 11 weeks at the top of the charts.

1939
Joe Sample, keyboards with The Crusaders who had the 1979 UK No.5 single ‘Street Life’.

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1938
Jimmy Carl Black, drummer who worked with Frank Zappa on his 1970 UK No.9 album Hot Rats. Black died on 1st Nov 2008.

1937
American singer, songwriter Don Everly, from The Everly Brothers who had the 1958 UK & US No.1 single ‘All I Have To Do Is Dream’. Other hits include: ‘Wake Up Little Susie,’ ‘Bird Dog,’ ‘Cathy’s Clown,’ ‘Walk Right Back’ and ‘Crying in the Rain’. The music of the Everly Brothers influenced The Beatles who based the vocal arrangement of ‘Please Please Me’ on ‘Cathy’s Clown. Everly, the surviving member of the rock ‘n’ roll duo died on 21 August 2021 at the age of 84.

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1937
Ray Sawyer, singer, songwriter with American rock band Dr Hook who had the 1970s hits ‘The Cover of Rolling Stone’, ‘A Little Bit More’, ‘When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman’ and ‘Sylvia’s Mother’. Sawyer died on 31 December 2018 aged 81.

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1934
Bob Shane from The Kingston Trio who had the 1958 US No.1 & UK No.5 single ‘Tom Dooley’ plus nine other US Top 40 hits. He died on January 26, 2020.

1928
American singer Debbie Dean who was the first white solo artist to record for Motown. She went on to work with The Supremes, Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Martha and the Vandellas, Edwin Starr, and other Motown artists. She died on February 17, 2001.

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