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Born On This Day In Music, February 17th
1991
Ed Sheeran, British singer, songwriter. In 2012, he won two BRIT Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist, and British Breakthrough of the Year, while ‘The A Team’ also won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. Also won Best Song of the Year at the 2016 Grammys for ‘Thinking Out Loud’.
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1988
Arin Ilejay, American drummer of Avenged Sevenfold, who had the 2010 US No.1 album Nightmare and the 2013 US No.1 album Hail to the King.
1981
John Hassall, bassist with English group The Libertines who had the 2004 UK No.1 album The Libertines.
1981
Paris Hilton, American socialite, singer, actress and fashion model. Heiress to a share of the Hilton Hotel fortune, featured in the reality TV series, The Simple Life. Had the UK No.5 and US No.18 single ‘Stars Are Blind’, from her debut album ‘Paris’ released in 2006.
1976
Svein Berge, Norwegian electronic musician who makes up half of the duo Röyksopp. Berge has done several remixes for other artists, amongst them artists like Coldplay, Lady Gaga, Depeche Mode and Beck.
1974
Country singer Bryan White is born in Oklahoma.
1972
Taylor Hawkins, American drummer, who worked with Alanis Morissette as her touring drummer on her Jagged Little Pill tour. He joined Foo Fighters in 1997, and had a side project, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, in which he played drums and sings. He was voted Best Rock Drummer in 2005 by the UK drumming magazine Rhythm. At Live Earth in 2007, Hawkins was part of SOS Allstars with Roger Taylor of Queen and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Hawkins died on 25 March 2022 age 50 in Bogota, Colombia, where he was set to perform with the Foo Fighters headlining set at Lollapalooza Brazil.
1972
Billie Joe Armstrong, American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and actor with Green Day who had the 1995 UK No.7 single with ‘Basket Case’. Their 1994 album Dookie has sold over 10 million copies and they were the Top Modern Rock Act in the US in 1995. Armstrong is also a member of the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and provides lead vocals for Green Day’s side projects Foxboro Hot Tubs and The Network.
1965
Samuel Bayer, who directs the videos for Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Blind Melon’s “No Rain,” is born in Syracuse, New York.
1950
Rickey Medlocke, American musician best known as the frontman/guitarist for the southern rock band Blackfoot and a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd. During his first stint with Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1971-1972 he played drums and sang lead on a few songs that would initially be released on 1978’s ‘First and Last’. Medlocke would rejoin Blackfoot in 1972 and later returned to Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1996 as a guitarist.
1941
Packy Axton, American rhythm and blues tenor saxophone player and bandleader, who was a member of the Mar-Keys and later the Packers. The Mar-Keys and had a major hit with ‘Last Night’ in 1961. Axton also worked with Otis Redding. He died on 20 January 1974.
1941
Gene Pitney, singer, who had the 1962 US No.4 single ‘Only Love Can Break A Heart’. Also scored the 1967 solo UK No.5 & 1989 UK No.1 single with Marc Almond ‘Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart’, plus over 15 other US & UK Top 40 hits. Pitney was found dead aged 65 in his bed in a Cardiff hotel on 5th April 2006. The American singer was on a UK tour and had shown no signs of illness.
1936
English actor and singer John Leyton, who had the 1961 UK No.1 single ‘Johnny Remember Me’, despite being banned by the BBC for its death references. His follow-up single, ‘Wild Wind, reached No.2 in the charts. His films include an appearance in the 1963 American epic war film The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen and James Garner.
1935
Country singer Johnny Bush is born in Houston, Texas. He writes “Whiskey River,” which becomes a signature tune for Willie Nelson. Died October 16, 2020
1933
American rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer Bobby Lewis, known for his 1961 US No.1 single ‘Tossin’ and Turnin’. Lewis died on 28 April 2020, aged 95, after contracting pneumonia.
1922
Tommy Edwards (“It’s All In The Game”) is born in Richmond, Virginia. Died October 23, 1969
1905
American singer and bassist Orville ‘Hoppy’ Jones, who with the Ink Spots, had the 1955 UK No.10 single ‘Melody Of Love’. He Died 18th October 1944.
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