Born On This Day In Music, February 18th

1994
J-Hope (Jung Ho-seok), South Korean singer, songwriter, with the boy band BTS. They became the first Korean act to top the US Billboard chart with their studio album Love Yourself: Tear (2018). BTS also became the fastest group since The Beatles to earn four US No.1 albums, doing so in less than two years. They became the first Asian act to chart a No.1 song in the US since Kyu Sakamoto with ‘Sukiyaki’ (1963).

1970
Twins, Andy Williams (drums, vocals), and Jez Williams, (guitar) who were members of English group Sub Sub who had the 1993 UK No.3 single ‘Ain’t No Love, (Ain’t No Use’). Also members of Doves, who had the 2002 UK No.3 single ‘There Goes The Fear’ and 2002 UK No.1 album ‘The Last Broadcast’.

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1966
Tommy Scott, singer from English group Space who had the 1996 UK No.14 single ‘Female Of The Species’.

1965
Dr Dre, NWA, who had the 1990 UK No.26 single ‘Express Yourself’. As a solo artist had the 1996 US No.1 & UK No.6 single ‘California’. Dre is the host of ‘Yo! MTV Raps.’

1961
Jasper Stainthorpe, with English rock band Then Jerico who had the 1989 UK No.13 single ‘Big Area’.

1955
Brian James, from British punk group The Damned, who had the 1986 UK No.3 single ‘Eloise’, James was also a member of Lords Of The New Church.

1954
John Travolta, American actor, singer, who had the 1978 UK & US No.1 single with Olivia Newton John, ‘You’re The One That I Want‘. The track topped the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks in the summer of 1978 and as of 2008, is still the sixth best-selling single ever in the UK where it has sold over 2,015,000 copies. His mother and his sister Ann appeared as extras in Saturday Night Fever and his sister Ellen appeared as a waitress in Grease.

1953
Canadian drummer Robbie Bachman from Bachman Turner Overdrive who had the 1974 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’.

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1953
Little River Band drummer Derek Pellicci is born in London.

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1952
Juice Newton American pop and country singer, songwriter, and musician who had the 1981 US No.2 single, ‘Queen Of Hearts’. Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories.

1952
Randy Crawford, US female singer who had the 1980 UK No.2 single ‘One Day I’ll Fly Away’ and with the Crusaders the 1979 UK No.5 & US No.36 single ‘Street Life.’

1948
American rock drummer, vocalist, and songwriter Keith Knudsen best known as a drummer and vocalist for The Doobie Brothers. Knudsen died of pneumonia on 8 February 2005 in California, at the age of 56.

1947
American singer, songwriter Dennis Deyoung, from Styx who had the 1979 US No.1 & 1980 UK No.6 single ‘Babe’. He was the band’s most successful writer, penning 7 of the band’s 8 Billboard top 10 singles as well as a solo top 10 single.

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1945
British musician Jimmy Jewell, from Gallagher & Lyle who had the 1976 UK No.6 single ‘I Wanna Stay With You’.

1941
Herman Santigo, singer with American-Puerto Rican doo wop group Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, who had the 1956 UK No.1 & US No.6 single ‘Why Do Fools Fall In Love’. They are also noted for being rock’s first all-teenaged act.

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1939
American singer, songwriter Bobby Hart, who had the 1968 US No 8 single with Tommy Boyce, ‘I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonite’. He also wrote ‘Last Train To Clarksville’, and ‘I’m Not Your Stepping Stone’ covered by The Monkees.

1934
American singer, songwriter, bassist, Skip Battin, from The Byrds, who had the 1965 US & UK No.1 single ‘Mr Tambourine Man’. In 1959-60 he sang in a duo, Skip & Flip, with Gary Paxton when they had two US hits that each went to No.11, Paxton later formed the Hollywood Argyles, who had the No.1 hit, ‘Alley Oop’. Battin was in the Byrds from 1970 to 1973. He was also a member of New Riders Of The Purple Sage and The Flying Burrito Brothers. Battin died on 6 July 2003.

1933
Yoko Ono, Japanese artist, singer, poet, author and peace activist and wife of John Lennon. Ono moved to New York City from Tokyo aged 14 and first met John Lennon in London in 1966, the couple married in 1969.

1914
Country singer Pee Wee King, co-writer of “Tennessee Waltz,” is born Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski in Abrams, Wisconsin. Died March 7, 2000.

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