Born Today In Music: February 25th

1973
Justin Jeffre (of 98 Degrees) is born in Mount Clemens, Michigan.

1971
Daniel Powter, Canadian singer, songwriter who had the 2005 UK No.2 single ‘Bad Day’. The song had been featured in a Coca-Cola ad campaign in Europe. In 2006, Powter won in the New Artist of the Year category at the Canadian Juno Awards.

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1965
American punk rock musician Brian Baker best known as one of the founding members of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat, and as a guitarist in Bad Religion since 1994.

1959
Mike Peters, Welsh musician who with The Alarm had a 1983 UK No.17 single ’68 Guns’. After the band split up in 1991, Peters wrote and released solo work and later became a member of Dead Men Walking with Kirk Brandon, (ex Spear Of Destiny), Slim Jim Phantom, (Stray Cats), Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) and Bruce Watson (Big Country). Between 2011 and 2013, Peters was the vocalist for Big Country. Additionally, he is co-founder of the Love Hope Strength Foundation. Peters was awarded a MBE in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to cancer care.

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1957
Stuart Wood from Scottish group Bay City Rollers who had the 1975 UK No.1 single ‘Bye Bye Baby‘ plus 11 other UK Top 20 singles’ and the 1976 US No.1 single ‘Saturday Night‘.

1957
American drummer Dennis Diken who co-founded American rock band The Smithereens, (hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including “Only a Memory”, “A Girl Like You” and “Too Much Passion”). Diken has also played drums for former Kinks guitarist Dave Davies’ solo band.

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1953
Reggie Lucas, American musician, songwriter and record producer. Lucas is best known for having produced the majority of Madonna’s 1983 self-titled debut album, and for playing with the Miles Davis electric band of the first half of the 1970s. Lucas died on 19 May 2018.

1953
American singer, songwriter, actor John Doe who co-founded LA punk band X. In addition to X, Doe performs with the country-folk-punk band the Knitters and has released records as a solo artist.

1950
American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer Emitt Rhodes. He was a member of The Palace Guard as the group’s drummer before joining The Merry-Go-Round as a multi-instrumentalist. He worked as a recording engineer and record producer for Elektra Records. He died on 19 July 2020 age 70.

1948
Elkie Brooks, (Elaine Bookbinder), English singer who had the 1977 UK No.8 single ‘Pearl’s A Singer’. Brooks was also a member of Vinegar Joe with Robert Palmer.

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1947
American musician and singer Doug Yule, most notable for being a member of the Velvet Underground from 1968 to 1973. Yule joined the band (then consisting of Reed, Morrison and Maureen Tucker) as John Cale’s replacement.

1943
George Harrison guitarist and vocalist with The Beatles The all-time bestselling album in the UK is The Beatles’ ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, with over 4.5 million copies sold. Harrison wrote the 1969 US No.1 & UK No.4 Beatles single ’Something’. As a solo artist he had the 1971 US No.1 album ‘All Things Must Pass’ and the 1970 worldwide No.1 single ‘My Sweet Lord’. He was also a member of the Traveling Wilburys with Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. Harrison died of cancer on November 29th 2001 age 58.

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1938
American musician, songwriter, and record producer, Ed Cobb, who was a member of the Four Preps. His greatest claim to fame was that he wrote the northern soul hit ‘Tainted Love’ for Gloria Jones, which Soft Cell reworked into one of the biggest pop hits of the 1980s. He died on September 19, 1999.

1937
American keyboard player, bandleader and songwriter Don Randi. He was a member of the Wrecking Crew, as well as releasing his own jazz records. In the early 1960s, he was a major contributor, as musician and arranger, to record producer Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound. He also played piano on ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin”, and every album by Nancy Sinatra. He played on The Beach Boys ‘Good Vibrations’ and has appeared on over three hundred hit records, working with musicians such as Linda Ronstadt, Quincy Jones, Herb Alpert, Sarah Vaughan and Frank Zappa.

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