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Born on this day in music, January 20th
1985
Brantley Gilbert is born in Jefferson, Georgia. He earns his first hit, “Country Must Be Country Wide,” in 2011, following with “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do,” “Bottoms Up” and “One Hell Of An Amen,” among others. Gilbert also writes Jason Aldean’s hits “My Kinda Party” and “Dirt Road Anthem”.
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1981
Nathan Connolly, from Northern Irish rock band Snow Patrol, who scored the 2006 UK No.1 album Eyes Open and the 2006 UK No.6 single ‘Chasing Cars’.
1980
Matthew Tuck lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist in the Welsh metalcore band Bullet for My Valentine. Their second album Scream Aim Fire peaked at No.2 on the UK chart and US Rock chart in 2008. He is singer and guitarist in the supergroup AxeWound, which was formed in 2012.
1979
Rob Bourdon, drummer with Linkin Park who had the 2002 US No.2 & UK No.4 single ‘In The End’, and the 2002 US No.2 & 2001 UK No.4 album Hybrid Theory.
1979
Will Young, singer, UK TV’s Pop Idol winner, (2002 UK No.1 single ‘Anything Is Possible / Evergreen’).
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1977
Sid Wilson, American DJ, keyboardist and pianist, best known as the turntablist of the Grammy Award-winning band Slipknot. Outside Slipknot, Wilson has made a following in Japan as a jungle musician, under the pseudonym DJ Starscream.
1971
Gary Barlow, vocals, piano, songwriter, Take That (1995 UK No.1 single ‘Back For Good’ plus eight other UK No.1 singles, 1993 UK No.1 album ‘Everything Changes spent 78 weeks on the UK chart). Solo, (1996 UK No.1 single ‘Forever Love’). Written songs for Donny Osmond Charlotte Church, Bryan McFadden and Atomic Kitten. Re-formed Take That without Robbie Williams in 2006 for a sold-out European tour. Topped the UK singles and album charts simultaneously for the first time in their career when the single ‘Patience’ and album ‘Beautiful World’ both reached No.1 in Dec 2006.
1969
Nicholas Allen Jones, Manic Street Preachers, (1996 UK No.2 single ‘A Design For Life’ 1998 UK No.1 album ‘This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours’).
1969
Tina O’Neill, drummer, from English alternative rock group We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It who had the 1989 UK No.11 single ‘International Rescue’.
1965
Heather Small, singer, M People, (1993 UK No.2 single ‘Moving On Up’ plus over 15 other UK Top 40 singles).
1959
American guitarist and singer-songwriter, Rusty Anderson, best known as the accompanying lead guitarist for Paul McCartney’s tours since 2001. Anderson has also worked with Gwen Stefani, Steven Tyler, Richie Sambora, Regina Spektor, Dido, Cat Stevens, Miley Cyrus, Eros Ramazzotti, Nelly Furtado and Meat Loaf.
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1952
Ian Hill, English musician, best known as the bassist of the heavy metal band Judas Priest who have released over 15 studio albums.
1952
Paul Stanley, guitarist and singer with American hard rock band Kiss who had 1976 US No.11 album Rock and Roll Over which spent 26 weeks on the chart and the 1987 UK No.4 single ‘Crazy Crazy Nights’. Kiss have been awarded 24 gold albums to date, the most of any American rock band – selling more than 40 million albums. Stanley established The Starchild character for his Kiss persona.
1948
Mel Pritchard, drummer with the British progressive rock band, Barclay James Harvest. He died on 28 January 2004 aged 56.
1947
George Grantham, drums, Poco, (1979 US No.17 single ‘Crazy Love’).
1946
Jimmy Chambers, singer, Londonbeat, (1990 UK No.2 & 1991 US No.1 single ‘I’ve Been Thinking About You’).
1945
English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eric Stewart who with the Mindbenders had the 1966 UK No.2 single ‘Groovy Kind Of Love’. With Hotlegs the 1970 UK No.2 single ‘Neanderthal Man’ and as a member of 10cc the 1975 UK No.1 & US No. 2 single ‘I’m Not In Love’ plus 10 other Top 30 hits). Stewart co-owned Strawberry Studios in Stockport, England from 1968 to the early 1980s. He also collaborated with Paul McCartney extensively in the mid-1980s, playing on or co-writing songs for McCartney’s solo albums Tug of War (1982), Pipes of Peace (1983), Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), and Press to Play (1986).
1943
Rick Evans, singer, Zager and Evans, (1969 US & UK No.1 single ‘In The Year 2525’).
1942
Billy Powell, vocals, The O’Jays, (1973 US No.1 & UK No.9 single ‘Love Train’). Powell died on 26th May 1982.
1933
Ron Townson, The 5th Dimension, (1969 US No.1 & UK No.11 single ‘Aquarius’). Died on 3rd August 2001.
1924
American country music, western music and folk music artist singer-songwriter Slim Whitman. He had the 1955 UK No.1 single ‘Rose Marie’. Known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth, high, three-octave-range falsetto in a style christened as “countrypolitan”. In the 1990s and 2000s a new generation was exposed to Whitman through his songs featured in the film Mars Attacks!; his famed ‘Indian Love Call’ would kill the invading Martians every time the record was played. He died of heart failure on June 19, 2013 aged 90.
1889
Leadbelly, (Huddi William Ledbetter), Blues musician, who wrote ‘Goodnight Irene’, ‘The Rock Island Line’, and ‘The Midnight Special’. He was once jailed for shooting a man dead during an argument over a woman. Leadbelly died on 6th December 1949.
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