July 28th: Born On This Day In Music

1990 – Soulja Boy
DeAndre Cortez Way (Soulja Boy), American rapper. 2007 US No.1 single ‘Crank That (Soulja Boy).’

1986 – Jacoby Dakota Shaddix
Jacoby Dakota Shaddix, lead singer with Papa Roach.

1980 – Noel Sullivan
Welsh singer and actor Noel Sullivan from Hear’Say who had the 2001 UK No.1 single ‘Pure and Simple’. Sullivan played the lead role of Galileo Figaro in the 2011 UK tour of We Will Rock You and later took over from Alex Gaumond in the lead role of Galileo in We Will Rock You in the London West End Production of the musical at the Dominion Theatre.

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1976 – Jacoby Shaddix
Jacoby Shaddix, lead singer of Papa Roach is born in Mariposa, California.

1974 – Afroman
American rapper, multi-instrumentalist Joseph Edgar Foreman, better known by his stage name Afroman known for his singles ‘Because I Got High’ and ‘Crazy Rap’. In October 2014, Afroman released a remix of his song ‘Because I Got High,’ to highlight the usefulness of marijuana as part of the fight to legalize its sale across the United States.

1972 – Dan Warton
Dan Warton, drums, Neds Atomic Dustbin, (1991 UK No.16 single ‘Happy’).

1965 – Nick Banks
Nick Banks, drummer from English rock band Pulp, who had the 1995 UK No.2 single ‘Common People’. He quit the band in January 1997. Pulp were regarded among the Britpop “big four”, along with Oasis, Blur and Suede.

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1965 – Texas Axile
Texas Axile, keyboards, with English group Transvision Vamp who had the 1989 UK No.3 single ‘Baby I Don’t Care’.

1963 – Beverley Craven
Beverley Craven, (1991 UK No.3 single ‘Promise Me’, 1991 UK No.3 self-titled album).

1962 – Rachel Sweet
Singer/actress Rachel Sweet is born in Akron, Ohio. Recorded the hit “Everlasting Love” with Rex Smith. Also, in 1978 UK No.35 single ‘B-A-B-Y’.

1960 – Malcolm Holmes
Malcolm Holmes best known for being the original drummer with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. In 2013 during at gig at the Danforth Music Hall, Toronto Canada, Holmes had a cardiac arrest and his heart stopped for over 3 minutes. The rest of the group thought he had died. Luckily a paramedic restarted his heart.

1954 – Steve Morse
Guitarist Steve Morse is born in Hamilton, Ohio. After forming The Dixie Dregs, he joins Deep Purple in 1994.

1949 – Peter Doyle
Peter Doyle, singer, from The New Seekers who had the 1972 UK No.1 and US No.7 single ‘I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing’ and hits with ‘You Won’t Find Another Fool Like Me’ and ‘Beg, Steal or Borrow’. Doyle died on 13th October 2001.

1949 – Simon Kirke
Simon Kirke, English drummer with Free, who had the 1971 UK No.2 & US No.4 single ‘All Right Now’ and Bad Company. Their first three albums, Bad Company (1974), Straight Shooter (1975), and Run with the Pack (1976), reached the top five in the album charts in both the UK and the US.

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1949 – Steve Took
Steve Took, percussionist, best known for his membership of the duo Tyrannosaurus Rex with Marc Bolan. Took died on 27th October 1980. His death certificate records the cause of death as being asphyxiation after inhaling a cocktail cherry.

1948 – Gerald Casale
Gerald Casale, vocalist, bass guitar/synthesizer player, and a founding member of the new wave band Devo. He also directed most of Devo’s videos and has also directed videos for The Cars, Rush, Foo Fighters and Soundgarden.

1946 – Jonathan Edwards
Singer/songwriter Jonathan Edwards is born in Aitkin, Minnesota. Best known for his 1972 pop hit “Sunshine,” he briefly has a country deal with MCA in the ’80s. He also appears as a supporting musician on hits by Emmylou Harris and Glen Campbell

1943 – Mike Bloomfield
American guitarist Mike Bloomfield who was a member of the Paul Butterfield band and Electric Flag. He played on Bob Dylan’s album Highway 61 Revisited. Bloomfield’s Telecaster guitar licks were featured on Dylan’s ‘Like a Rolling Stone’, and he appeared onstage with Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, where Dylan used Bloomfield and the Butterfield Band which marked Dylan’s first use of an electric band in a live performance. Bloomfield was found dead in his car in San Francisco from an accidental heroin overdose on 15 February 1981 aged 37.

1943 – Rick Wright
Richard Wright keyboards, vocals, Pink Floyd (1973 US No.1 & UK No.2 album The Dark Side Of The Moon, spent a record breaking 741 weeks on the US chart. 1979 UK and US No.1 single ‘Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)’. Wright died on 15th Sept 2008 aged 65 from cancer. Wright appeared on the groups first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason.

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1938 – Buddy Spicher
Fiddler Buddy Spicher is born in Dubois, Pennsylvania. He plays on George Strait’s “Amarillo By Morning,” Dolly Parton’s “Coat Of Many Colors,” The Oak Ridge Boys’ “Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight” and Waylon Jennings’ “Dreaming My Dreams With You,” among others

1938 – George Cummings
George Cummings, steel guitar, with American rock band Dr Hook who had the 1970s hits ‘The Cover of Rolling Stone’, ‘A Little Bit More’, ‘When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman’ and ‘Sylvia’s Mother’. He also writes Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley’s novelty “Where’s The Dress”

1935 – Simon Dee
Simon Dee (Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd), British TV and radio presenter, hosted a twice-weekly chat show ‘Dee Time’ during the 1960’s, with musical guests including Jimi Hendrix and Lulu. Dee died on 29th August 2009.

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