Born on March 4th in music

Born Today In Music, March 4th

1994 – AJ Tracey
British rapper, singer, songwriter AJ Tracey. His 2019 self-titled debut album peaked at No.3 on the UK Albums Chart. It featured his highest-charting single as a solo artist, ‘Ladbroke Grove’, which peaked at No.3 on the UK Singles Chart

1977 – Jeremiah Green
American indie rock drummer Jeremiah Green. He is best known as a founding member and drummer of the indie rock band Modest Mouse. The band achieved mainstream success with their fourth album, Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004), and it’s singles ‘Float On’ and ‘Ocean Breathes Salty’. He died from cancer on December 31, 2022, at the age of 45.

1974 – Jeff Bhasker
American record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Bhasker. His accolades include Grammy Awards for the songs ‘Run This Town’ by Jay-Z and ‘Uptown Funk’ by Mark Ronson plus he was the music director of Lady Gaga’s The Monster Ball Tour.

1971 – Feargal Lawlor
Feargal Lawlor, drummer, with Irish rock band The Cranberries who had the 1994 UK No.14 single ‘Linger’. The bands 1993 album Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We spent 86 weeks on the UK chart.

1968 – Patsy Kensit
Patsy Kensit, actress, who appeared in the 1986 film Absolute Beginners and was the singer in Eighth Wonder who had the 1988 UK No.7 single ‘I’m Not Scared’. Once married to Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr and married Oasis singer Liam Gallagher in 1997. The couple split in 2000.

1967 – Evan Dando
American musician Evan Dando from alternative rock band The Lemonheads. A cover of Simon And Garfunkel’s ‘Mrs. Robinson’, became one of the band’s most successful single in the early 90s. It’s a Shame About Ray the groups fifth album released in 1992 was a critics favourite.

1966 – Patrick Hannan
Patrick Hannan drummer with English alternative rock band The Sundays. Their first album, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, was released in 1990 and was a UK Top 5 hit along with the single ‘Here’s Where the Story Ends’.

1965 – Richard March
Richard March, bassist 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!’ He formed Bentley Rhythm Ace in mid 90s.

1963 – Jason Newsted
Jason Newsted, American bassist with Metallica. He joined Metallica in 1986 after Cliff Burton’s death, Newsted remained a member until 2001. Before Metallica he was a member of Flotsam and Jetsam. After Metallica he has been involved with Echobrain, Ozzy Osbourne, Voivod, and led the band Newsted from 2012 to 2014.

1955 – Boon Gould
English musician Boon Gould guitarist with Level 42, who had the 1986 UK No.3 & US No.12 single ‘Lessons In Love’ & 19 other UK Top 40 hits. He died on 30 April 2019 age 64.

1954 – St Clair L. Palmer
St Clair I. Palmer, from British soul group Sweet Sensation who scored the 1974 UK No.1 and US No.14 single ‘Sad Sweet Dreamer’.

1953 – Emilio Estefan
Cuban-American musician and producer Emilio Estefan who with Miami Sound Machine had the 1984 UK No.6 single ‘Dr Beat’, 1989 US No.1 single ‘Don’t Wanna Loose You’.

1951 – Chris Rea
Chris Rea is born in Middlesbrough, England. He has his first Top 20 UK single, “Let’s Dance”, which reached No. 12, in 1987.

1948 – Shakin’ Stevens
Shakin’ Stevens, (Michael Barratt), Welsh singer. In the UK Stevens has charted 33 Top 40 hit singles including four chart-topping hits; ‘This Ole House’, ‘Green Door’, ‘Oh Julie’, and ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’. The former milkman became the UK’s biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s.

1948 – Chris Squire
Yes bass player Chris Squire is born in London. He died June 27, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona.

1946 – Red Stripe
Red Stripe, singer from British a cappella vocal group The Flying Pickets who had the 1983 UK No.1 single with their version of Yazoo’s track ‘Only You’, the UK Christmas No.1 of 83. The name “Flying Pickets” refers to mobile strikers who travel in order to join a picket, reflecting the group’s radical socialist political views.

1944 – Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack, American singer-songwriter and musician who started his career as the lead singer of the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke’s backing guitarist. Womack was a prolific songwriter who wrote and originally recorded the Rolling Stones’ first UK No. 1 hit, ‘It’s All Over Now’. Womack died at his home in Tarzana, California at age 70 on June 27, 2014.

1944 – Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson, from British pop/rock group, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, who scored the 1968 UK No.1 single ‘Legend Of Xanadu’.

1942 – Bob Wootton
American guitarist Bob Wootton. He joined Johnny Cash’s backing band, the Tennessee Three, after original lead guitarist Luther Perkins died in a house fire. He remained Cash’s guitarist for nearly thirty years. He died on 9 April 2017.

1936 – Eric Allandale
Eric Allandale, from British soul band The Foundations who scored the 1967 UK No.1 single ‘Baby Now That I’ve Found You’ and the 1969 US No.3 single ‘Build Me Up A Buttercup’. The group was the first multi-racial group to have a No.1 hit in the UK in the 1960s. Died August 23, 2001.

1925 – Paul Mauriat
Paul Mauriat, French, conductor, arranger, (1968 US No.1 single chart ‘Love Is Blue’, a No.12 hit in the UK). Died November 3, 2006