July 19th: Born On This Day In Music

1992
English singer and musician Ellie Rowsell from the Mercury Prize winning indie rock band Wolf Alice. Their 2017 album Visions of a Life debuted at No.2 on the UK Albums Chart, and won the 2018 Mercury Prize.

1979
Michelle Heaton, singer, from British-Irish group Liberty X, who had the 2002 UK No.1 single ‘Just A Little’. The group was formed by the five finalists of the British talent show Popstars who failed to make it into the group Hear’Say. Liberty X went on to achieve ten consecutive UK Top 20 singles.

1976
Eric Prydz, Swedish DJ and producer, ( 2004 UK No.1 single ‘Call on Me’).

1971
Urs Bühler, from the multi-national classical crossover vocal group Il Divo. Their 2004 self-titled album, was No.1 in 14 countries around the world.

1969
Gabrielle, English singer who had the 1993 UK No.1 single ‘Dreams’ and the 2000 UK No.1 album Rise. Gabrielle has won two BRIT Awards, the first in 1994 for British Breakthrough Act, and the second in 1997 for Best British Female.

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1968
Ged Lynch, drums, Black Grape, (1995 UK No.8 single ‘In The Name Of The Father’).

1960
Kevin Haskins, from English post-punk band Bauhaus, who had the 1982 UK No.15 single with their version of the David Bowie song ‘Ziggy Stardust’.

1952
Allen Collins, guitarist with southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd who had the 1974 US No. 8 single ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ the 1977 US No. 5 album Street Survivors and the 1982 UK No.21 single ‘Freebird’. Collins was behind the wheel in a car accident in 1986 that killed his girlfriend and left him paralysed from the waist down. Collins died on January 23, 1990 from chronic pneumonia, a complication of the paralysis.

1948
Keith Godchaux, pianist, best known for his tenure in Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Godchaux sustained massive head injuries after being involved in a car crash while being driven home on his birthday. He died four days later on 23 July 1979 aged 32..

1947
Brian May, guitarist, singer and songwriter with Queen who had the 1975 UK No.1 single ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ which returned to No.1 in 1991. Queen scored over 40 other UK Top 40 singles, and also scored the 1980 US No.1 single ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’. May had the solo 1992 UK No.5 single ‘Too Much Love Will Kill You’. May was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for ‘services to the music industry and his charity work’. May earned a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College, London, in 2007.

1946
Allan Gorrie, bassist from Scottish funk and R&B group the Average White Band who scored the 1975 US No.1 and UK No.6 single ‘Pick Up The Pieces’.

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1944
Commander Cody, (George Frayne), piano, vocals, Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen, country rock group.

1941
American blues, jazz and R&B guitarist and bassist Phil Upchurch who has worked with Curtis Mayfield, Otis Rush, Jimmy Reed, Cat Stevens, David Sanborn, and appeared on Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall album.

1941
Pop singer Vicki Carr is born Florencia Bisenta de Casillas-Martinez Cardona in El Paso, Texas. Her first hit is a cover of The Crystals’ “He’s A Rebel” in 1962.

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1937
George Hamilton IV, US country singer, (1958 US No.10 & UK No.22 single ‘Why Don’t They Understand’). Hamilton had a heart attack on September 13, and died September 17 at Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital in Nashville.

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