Born on this day in music, December 10th

 1985 – Grace Chatto
British cellist, percussionist and vocalist Grace Chatto from the electronic music group Clean Bandit. The had the 2017 UK No.1 hit ‘Symphony’ featuring Zara Larsson.

1974 – Meg White
Meg White, American drummer, The White Stripes. Their 2003 UK No.1 album ‘Elephant’ spent 46 weeks on the UK chart.

1972 – Brian Molko
Brian Molko, guitar, vocals, with alternative rock band Placebo who had the 1997 UK No. 6 single ‘Nancy Boy’.

1965 – Joseph Mascis
Joseph Mascis, guitar, vocals, Dinosaur Jr, (1993 UK No.20 single ‘Start Choppin’).

1957 – Paul Hardcastle
Paul Hardcastle, British composer, musician, and multi-instrumentalist who scored the 1985 UK No.1 single ‘Nineteen’ which became the top-selling single in 13 countries

1955 – Garth Smith
Garth Smith, bassists of the punk rock band Buzzcocks. He took part in the first BBC Peel sessions and recorded the ‘Orgasm Addict’ single.

1954 – Geoff Deane
Geoff Deane from British pop band Modern Romance who had the 1982 UK No.4 single ‘Best Years Of Our Lives’ and a string of UK hits.

1952 – Susan Dey
American actress Susan Dey, known for her television roles as Laurie Partridge on the sitcom The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974. The Partridge Family had the 1970 US No.1 single ‘I Think I Love You’, and the 1972 UK No.3 single ‘Breaking Up Is Hard To Do’.

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1951 – Johnny Rodriguez
Country singer Johnny Rodriguez is born Juan Raul Davis Rodriguez in Sabinal, Texas. Among other hits, reached #5 on the country charts with a cover of the Eagles’ “Desperado.”

1948 – Jessica Cleaves
Jessica Cleaves, The Friends Of Distinction, (1969 US No.3 single ‘Grazing In The Grass’).

1946 – Ace Kefford
English bassist, Ace Kefford, 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’. He was the co-founder of The Move in October 1965 with Trevor Burton, after meeting David Bowie at Birmingham’s Cedar Club, following a performance by Bowie’s band Davy Jones and the Lower Third. The duo invited Roy Wood, then Carl Wayne and Bev Bevan to join and complete the classic Move line-up.

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1941 – Chad Stuart
British musician Chad Stuart. He was one half of the duo Chad & Jeremy that began working in 1962 and had its first hit song in the UK with ‘Yesterday’s Gone’ followed by a string of successful records in the United States through the mid-60s. He died on 20 Dec 2020 died from pneumonia following a fall.

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1941 – Peter Sarstedt
Northern Indian-born British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Peter Sarstedt, best known for the single ‘Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?’, which topped the UK Singles Chart in 1969 (and 14 other countries), and won an Ivor Novello Award. He died on 8 January 2017 at the age of 75.

1941 – Ralph Tavares
Ralph Tavares, from American R&B, funk, and soul group Tavares, who had the 1976 UK No.4 and US No.15 single ‘Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel’. He died on 8 December 2021, two days before his 80th birthday.

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1926 – Eddie Jones
Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones, New Orleans blues guitar player from the 1940s and 1950s best known for the million-selling song ‘The Things That I Used to Do’, a song that is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. He died of pneumonia aged 32 on 7 February 1959.

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1924 – Ken Albers
Pop singer Ken Albers (The Four Freshmen) is born in Woodbury, New Jersey. Died April 19, 2007

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