Born On July 12th In Music

Born On This Day In Music, July 12th
1984
Gareth Gates, UK singer, TV’s Pop Idol runner up, (2002 UK No.1 single ‘Unchained Melody’).

1983
Kimberly Perry, singer with American country music group The Band Perry, who scored the US Country No.1 hit ‘If I Die Young’. The bands second album, Pioneer, released in 2013 produced additional No.1 singles in ‘Better Dig Two’, and ‘DONE.’

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1977
Dominic Howard, drums, from English rock band Muse who scored the 2003 UK No.1 album Absolution, and the 2003 UK No.8 single, ‘Time Is Running Out’. Muse were nominated for five Grammy Awards, of which they won Best Rock Album for The Resistance.

1976
R&B singer-songwriter Tracie Spencer is born in Waterloo, Iowa. Shortly after signing to Capitol Records in 1988, at age 12, she releases the hit singles “Hide and Seek” and “Symptoms of True Love.”

1968
American hip-hop and R&B record producer Chucky Thompson. He was a member of Bad Boy Entertainment’s ‘Hitmen’ team of in-house producers during the 1990s, and worked with Bad Boy mogul Sean Combs on material for artists such as The Notorious B.I.G. and Faith Evans. He died of complications from COVID-19 on 9 August 2021.

1967
American guitarist John Petrucci, best known as a founding member of the progressive metal/rock band Dream Theater.

1964
Tim Gane, guitar, keyboards, with British indie group Stereolab, who had the 1994 UK minor hit single ‘Ping Pong’.

1962
American musician Dan Murphy, guitarist with American alternative rock band Soul Asylum, who had the 1993 US No.5 and UK No.7 single ‘Runaway Train’.

1956
Christian singer Sandi Patti is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1953
Billy and Bobby Alessi, (identical twin brothers), known as the Alessi Brothers who scored the 1977 UK No.8 single ‘Oh. Lori. Both Billy and Bobby Alessi had previously worked in the Broadway cast of the musical Hair.

1952
Philip Taylor Kramer, bass guitar, Iron Butterfly. His disappearance on February 12, 1995 caused a mystery lasting four years. On May 29, 1999, Kramer’s Ford Aerostar minivan and skeletal remains were found by photographers looking for old car wrecks to shoot at the bottom of Decker Canyon near Malibu, California. Based on forensic evidence his death was ruled as a probable suicide.

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1952
Liz Mitchell, singer, from German vocal group Boney M, who had the 1978 UK No.1 & US No.30 single ‘Rivers Of Babylon’ and with more than 150 million records sold, they are one of the best-selling artists of all time.

1950
Eric Carr, drummer with American hard rock band Kiss. Their 1976 US No 11 album Rock and Roll Over spent 26 weeks on the chart and they had the 1987 UK No.4 single ‘Crazy Crazy Nights’. Carr died on 24th November 1991.

1947
English singer, guitarist, songwriter Wilko Johnson who with Dr Feelgood had the 1979 UK No.9 single ‘Milk And Alcohol’ and a founding member of Solid Senders. Wilko stated in early 2013 that he had terminal cancer and was given just 10 months to live, and aptly announced he was going on a farewell tour. On 22 March 2013, Wilko played what he thought would be his final show guesting with Madness on the television programme Madness Live: Goodbye Television Centre which was broadcast on BBC Four. In Oct 2014 Johnson said he has been “cured” of the terminal pancreatic cancer. Johnson died on 21 November 2022 at the age of 75.

1943
Christine McVie, keyboards, vocals, Chicken Shack, and then Fleetwood Mac, who scored the US No.1 single ‘Dreams’ taken from their worldwide No.1 album Rumours which spent 31 weeks on the US chart. Eight of her songs appeared on Fleetwood Mac’s 1988 Greatest Hits album. McVie died at 79, following a brief illness, on November 30, 2022.

1937
Saxophonist Howie Casey who was a member of Derry and the Seniors, the first rock and roll band from Liverpool to play clubs in Germany and later, as leader of the renamed Howie Casey and the Seniors, the first Liverpool group to record an LP. He later featured on several albums by Paul McCartney (Band on the Run, Wings at the Speed of Sound and Back to the Egg) and played live with Paul McCartney on the Wings Over the World tour. He also worked with Marc Bolan The Who, Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins.

1935
English songwriter Barry Mason. A leading songwriter of the 1960s, he wrote the bulk of his most successful songs in partnership with Les Reed. His song writing credits included three UK Singles Chart No.1s, “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)”, “The Last Waltz”, and “I Pretend”. His songs have been recorded by many artists including Tom Jones, David Essex, The Drifters, Rod Stewart, Petula Clark, Perry Como, Elvis Presley and Engelbert Humperdinck. He died age 85 on 16 April 2021.

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