July 9th: Born On This Day In Music

1980
American drummer Aaron Sterling who has drummed for John Mayer since 2011. As a session musician Sterling has played on hundreds of recodings including acts such as Taylor Swift, Glen Campbell, Richie Sambora, Natalie Maines, Shakira and Kelly Clarkson.

1976
Dan Estrin, guitarist, Hoobastank, 2004 US No.2 hit ‘The Reason.’

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1975
Isaac Brock, singer, guitarist, Modest Mouse, (2007 US No.1 album ‘We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank’).

1975
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jack White, (John Gillis). With The White Stripes, he had the 2003 UK No.1 album Elephant which spent 46 weeks on the UK chart. White is also a member of The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. Three of his solo albums have reached No.1 on the Billboard charts.

1971
Kelvin Grant, vocals, Musical Youth, best remembered for their successful 1982 single ‘Pass the Dutchie’, which became a No.1 hit around the world. It was a cover version of two songs: ‘Gimme the Music’ by U Brown, and ‘Pass the Kouchie’ by Mighty Diamonds, which deals with the recreational use of cannabis (kouchie being slang for a cannabis pipe).

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1965
Frankie Bello, bassist with American heavy metal band Anthrax. The group is considered one of the leaders of the thrash metal scene from the 1980s.

1965
Tom Hingley, from English alternative rock band Inspiral Carpets who had the 1990 UK No.14 single ‘This Is How It Feels’.

1964
American singer, songwriter, actress Courtney Love, who was a notable presence in the punk and grunge scenes of the 1990s. She married Kurt Cobain from Nirvana on 24th Feb 1992.

1959
D.H. Peligro, American punk rock musician and the second drummer for the Dead Kennedys from February 1981 until their breakup in December 1986. In 1988, Peligro joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers replacing drummer Jack Irons for a short time.

1959
Jim Kerr, singer, songwriter with Scottish rock band, Simple Minds, who had the 1985 US No.1 single ‘Don’t You, Forget About Me’, and the 1989 UK No.1 single ‘Belfast Child’, plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles. In 2016, they won the British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection.

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1959
English singer-songwriter Marc Almond, who with Soft Cell had the 1981 UK No.1 single ‘Tainted Love’, (an obscure 1965 northern soul track originally released by Gloria Jones, the girlfriend of Marc Bolan). Solo hits include the 1989 UK No.1 single with Gene Pitney, ‘Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart’.

1954
Debbie Sledge, singer, Sister Sledge, (1979 US No.2 single ‘We Are Family’, 1985 UK No.1 single ‘Frankie’).

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1953
Kate Garner, vocals, Haysi Fantayzee, (1982 UK No.11 single \’John Wayne Is Big Leggy\’).

1950
American singer-songwriter and pianist Gwen Guthrie who had the 1986 UK No.5 single ‘Ain’t Nothing Goin’ But The Rent’. She also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Peter Tosh, and Madonna, among others, and wrote songs made famous by Ben E. King and Roberta Flack. Guthrie died on 4 February 1999 aged 48.

1946
Mitch Mitchell, drums, The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967 UK No.3 single ‘Purple Haze’, 1970 UK No.1 single Voodoo Chile’). Mitchell had been in the ITV’s ‘Ready Steady Go!’ house band. Mitchell was found dead in his US hotel room on 12th Nov 2008 aged 61.

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1946
British singer Bon Scott (Ronald Belford Scott), with Australian rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980. He was brought up in Kirriemuir, Scotland before moving to Melbourne, Australia, with his family in 1952 at the age of six. Having arrived from ‘Bonnie Scotland’, he was dubbed ‘Bon’, and the nickname stuck. After a night of heavy drinking, Scott was found dead in the backseat of a friend’s car in South London on 19 February 1980, the cause of death being subsequently listed as ’acute alcohol poisoning’.

1946
Joe Micelli, from John Fred and His Playboy Band who had the 1968 US No.1 & UK No.3 single ‘Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)’ which was a parodic play on the title of The Beatles’ song ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’.

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1941
Don McPherson, singer with American soul and R&B group Main Ingredient, best known for their 1972 hit song ‘Everybody Plays the Fool’. He died on 4th July 1971.

1929
Lee Hazlewood, US male singer, (1967 US No.14 & UK No. 11 single ‘Jackson’, 1971 UK No.2 single with Nancy Sinatra). Wrote the Nancy Sinatra hit, ‘These Boots Are Made for Walkin.’ Died of cancer on 4th Aug 2007 at his home near Las Vegas aged 78.

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1927
Sixties pop singer Ed Ames (“My Cup Runneth Over”) is born Edmund Dantes Urick in Malden, Massachusetts. He died May 21, 2023

1925
Alan Dale, US singer. He had his own TV & radio show during the 50s and scored the 1955 US No.7 single ‘Cheery Pink and Apple Blossom White’. Dale died on 20th April 2002.

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