Born on this day in music, January 31st

1987
Marcus Mumford, English musician, best known as the lead singer of Mumford & Sons. Their second studio album ‘Babel’ released in 2012 debuted at No.1 on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. It became the fastest selling album of 2012 in the UK. The live performance at the 2011 Grammy ceremony with Bob Dylan and The Avett Brothers led to a surge in popularity for the band in the US. The band received eight total Grammy nominations for Babel and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

1987
Tyler Hubbard is born in Snellville, Georgia. He becomes one-half of Florida Georgia Line, whose seering harmonies earn hits with “Cruise,” “Dirt,” “H.O.L.Y.” and “Simple,” among others. FGL wins a series of Vocal Duo of the Year awards.

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1982
Singer Helena Paparizou is born in Borås, Sweden.

1981
Justin Timberlake, singer with *NSYNC who had the 2000 US No.1 single ‘It’s Gonna Be Me’ and the 1999 UK No.5 single ‘I Want You Back’. As a solo artist scored the 2003 UK No.2 & US No.3 single ‘Cry Me A River’. His second solo album ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’ was released in 2006 with the US No.1 hit singles ‘SexyBack’, ‘My Love’ and ‘What Goes Around… Comes Around.’ With his first two albums, Timberlake has sold over fourteen million albums worldwide. Timberlake has his own record label called Tennman Records. He also has an acting career, having starred in films such as The Social Network, Bad Teacher and Friends with Benefits.

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1970
Minnie Driver, actress, singer, songwriter who had the 2004 album ‘Everything I’ve Got In My Pocket’. Was once a member of UK band Puff, Rocks and Brown who were signed to Island records.

1967
Chad Channing, Nirvana’s first drummer who left the band in 1990. Has since worked with The Methodists, East of the Equator and Redband.

1966
Al Doughty (born Alan Jaworski), bassist with English group Jesus Jones who had the 1990 US No.2 hit with ‘Right Here Right Now’ and the 1991 UK No.7 single ‘International Bright Young Thing’.

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1964
Jeff Hanneman, guitarist with American thrash metal band Slayer who released the 1986 album ‘Reign in Blood’. Hanneman died on 2nd May 2013 at the age of 49. Since 2011, Hanneman had been suffering from necrotising fasciitis, a flesh-eating disease that he is believed to have contracted from a spider bite.

1964
Prolific music video director Sophie Muller is born in St Pancras, London, England. She’ll get her start in the music biz directing several promos for the Eurythmics and their lead singer Annie Lennox before bringing her talent to a wide array of acts, including Sade, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, Sarah McLachlan, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Birdy, Garbage, Radiohead, Kings of Leon, and many more.

1961
Lloyd Cole, English singer, songwriter, who formed Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. Had the 1985 UK No.19 single ‘Brand New Friend’, from their debut album ‘Rattlesnakes’ and as a solo artist the 1995 UK No.24 ‘Like Lovers Do’. An avid golfer, he is known for playing concerts in towns suspiciously close to famous golf courses.

1956
John Lydon, (Johnny Rotten,) singer with the Sex Pistols who had the 1977 UK No.2 single ‘God Save The Queen’ and 1977 UK No.1 album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols’. Formed Public Image Ltd who scored the 1983 UK No.5 single ‘This Is Not A Love Song’.

1954
Adrian Vandenburg, Dutch guitarist who was a member of Whitesnake who had the 1987 US No.1 & UK No.9 single ‘Here I Go Again’. Also a member of Manic Eden.

1952
Curley Smith, drummer with American group Jo Jo Gunne who had the 1972 UK No.6 & US No. 27 single ‘Run Run Run.’

1951
Harry Wayne Casey, singer with American disco and funk group KC and the Sunshine Band who had the 1975 US No.1 single ‘That’s The Way, I Like It‘, and the 1983 UK No.1 single ‘Give It Up’.

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1951
Phil Manzanera, guitarist with Roxy Music who with Roxy Music scored the hit singles ‘Street Life’, ‘Love is the Drug’, ‘Dance Away’, ‘Angel Eyes’, ‘Jealous Guy’ and ‘Avalon’. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour’s No.1 album album On An Island.

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1946
Terry Kath, guitarist with Chicago who had the 1976 UK & US No.1 single ‘If You Leave Me Now‘. Kath accidentally shot himself dead on January 23rd 1978. His last words were, “Don’t worry it’s not loaded” as he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. The guitarist and singer was killed instantly. Chicago have had five consecutive No.1 albums on the Billboard chart and 20 top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100.

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1941
American bassist Jerry Scheff best known for his work with Elvis Presley in the 1960s and 1970s as a member of his TCB Band and his work on The Doors’ final recordings. Scheff has also worked with Willy DeVille, Bob Dylan, John Denver and Elvis Costello.

1932
American record producer, songwriter, music publisher, and musician Rick Hall best known as the owner of Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Hall almost single-handedly established the town of Muscle Shoals as a crucible of some of the greatest soul music to be produced in America in the Sixties and Seventies. Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Etta James and Clarence Carter were just a few of the rhythm and blues artists who recorded under Hall’s supervision, using the superlative group of session musicians who formed the basis of what became known as the “Muscle Shoals sound”. Hall died on January 2, 2018 aged 85.

1930
American record producer and session musician Al De Lory. He played keyboards for various Phil Spector productions, and The Beach Boys Glen Campbell including John Hartford’s ‘Gentle on My Mind’, Jimmy Webb’s ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’, ‘Wichita Lineman’ and ‘Galveston’. He was also a member of the Los Angeles session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew. As a bandleader he had his own hit in 1970 with an instrumental version of the ‘Song from MAS*H’. Died on 5 February 2012.

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1928
Chuck Willis, known for his rendition of “C.C. Rider,” is born in Atlanta.

1921
Mario Lanza, American tenor of Italian ancestry and an actor and Hollywood film star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. Lanza played the role of tenor Enrico Caruso, his idol, in the biopic The Great Caruso, which produced ‘The Loveliest Night Of The Year’, a duet with Anne Shelton which was a million-selling single in 1957. Lanza died age 38 on 7 October 1959.

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