July 31st: Born On This Day In Music

1994
American hip hop recording artist Lil Uzi Vert who had the 2017 US No.1 album Luv Is Rage 2 which includes guest appearances from The Weeknd and Pharrell Williams.

1988
Singer/songwriter Ruston Kelly is born in Georgetown, South Carolina. His smart songs and raw performances earn attention in the mid-2010s. The spotlight is magnified by a two-year marriage to fellow artist Kacey Musgraves

1981
M. Shadows American vocalist, songwriter and founding member of Avenged Sevenfold who had the 2010 US No.1 album Nightmare and the 2013 US No.1 album Hail to the King.

1978
English musician, Will Champion, drummer with Coldplay who had the 2000 UK No.4 single ‘Yellow’, the 2000 UK No.1 album Parachutes and the 2005 worldwide No.1 album X&Y. In December 2009, Rolling Stone readers voted the group the fourth-best artist of the 2000s.

1978
Zac Brown American singer and guitarist with the Grammy Award winning country music group, Zac Brown Band. Their 2015 album Jekyll + Hyde which debuted at No.1 on the US chart featured the single ‘Heavy Is the Head’ with vocals from Chris Cornell.

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1971
Guitarist John William Lowery is born in Grosse Point, Michigan. Better known by his stage name “John 5,” he goes on to contribute to acts such as Marilyn Manson (1998 US No.1 album, Mechanical Animals), Rob Zombie, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

1964
Jim Corr, guitar, keyboards, vocals, with Irish band The Corrs, who had the 1998 UK No.3 single ‘What Can I Do’. Talk On Corners was the best selling UK album of 1998 spending 142 weeks on the UK chart. The Corrs have sold 40 million albums worldwide.

1964
Robert Townsend, from English alternative rock band, Pop Will Eat Itself who scored the 1991 UK No.15 single ‘X Y & Zee’ and the 1993 top ten hit, ‘Get The Girl! Kill The Baddies!’

1963
Norman Cook also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, English DJ, musician, multi-instrumentalist and record producer/mixer who with The Housemartins had the a cappella cover version of ‘Caravan of Love’ (originally by Isley-Jasper-Isley) which was a UK No.1 single. He was a member of Beats International who had the 1990 UK No.1 ‘Dub Be Good To Me’). Freak Power, who scored the hit ‘Turn On Tune In Cop Out’ and as as Fatboy Slim, had the 1999 UK No.1 single ‘Praise You’.

1960
Malcolm Ross, Aztec Camera, (1988 UK No.3 single ‘Somewhere In My Heart’).

1958
Bill Berry, drums, R.E.M. (1991 UK No.6 & US No.10 single ‘Shiny Happy People’, plus over 20 Top 40 UK singles, 1992 UK No.1 & US No.2 album ‘Automatic For The People’). Berry quit the band in 1997.

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1957
Daniel Ash, singer songwriter from English post-punk band Bauhaus, who had the 1982 UK No.15 single with their version of the David Bowie song ‘Ziggy Stardust’.

1953
Hugh McDowell, English cellist with Wizzard and Electric Light Orchestra who had the 1979 UK No.3 & US No.4 single ‘Don’t Bring Me Down’ plus 26 other Top 40 hits. ELO have sold over 50 million records worldwide. McDowell died of cancer on 6 November 2018 aged 65.

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1951
Carlo Karges, from German group Nena who had the 1984 UK No.1 & US No.2 single ’99 Red Balloons’. The track made them UK One Hit Wonder.

1947
Karl Green, guitarist with English beat rock band, Herman’s Hermits who scored the 1964 UK No.1 single ‘I’m Into Something Good’ (cover of Earl-Jean’s) and the 1965 US No.1 single ‘Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter’.

1945
Gary Lewis singer, (1965 US No.1 single with The Playboys, ‘This Diamond Ring’ plus 11 other US Top 40 hits).

1943
Seventies singer-songwriter Lobo is born Roland Kent LaVoie in Tallahassee, Florida, successful in the 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including “Me and You and a Dog Named Boo”, “I’d Love You to Want Me”, and “Don’t Expect Me to Be Your Friend”.

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1942
Daniel Boone , born Peter Charles Green, is an English pop musician who became a one-hit wonder in the United States with the single “Beautiful Sunday” in 1972. The song was written by Boone and Rod McQueen and sold over 2,000,000 copies worldwide. Died January 27, 2023.

1939
John West, organ and accordion from The Playboys that had the 1965 US No.1 single ‘This Diamond Ring’ plus 11 other US Top 40 hits.

1923
Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder and president of Atlantic Records, is born in Istanbul, Turkey. Also a songwriter, he writes songs such as “Chains of Love” and “Sweet Sixteen” under the pseudonym A. Nugetre. Died December 14, 2006.

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