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Born On This Day In Music, March 17th
1990 – Hozier
Hozier, Irish singer-songwriter. His self-titled 2014 album went to No.1 in nine European countries and his 2013 single ‘Take Me to Church’ was a Top 3 hit 10 European countries.
1976 – Stephen Gately
Stephen Gately, vocals, Boyzone, who have had 21 UK hit singles, including 6 UK No.1 singles. Their breakthrough hit was their second single and cover version of the classic Osmonds hit, ‘Love Me for a Reason’, which peaked at No.2 on the UK Singles Chart. Gately had the solo 2000 UK No.3 single ‘New Beginning / Bright Eyes’). He died of a congenital heart defect on 10th Oct 2009.
1975 – Justin Hawkins
Justin Hawkins, singer with English rock The Darkness who had the 2003 UK No.2 single ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love’, and the 2003 UK No.1 album ‘Permission To Land’. The album was certified quadruple platinum in the United Kingdom, with sales of over 1,300,000 and in 2004 the band won three Brit Awards.
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1973 – Caroline Corr
Caroline Corr, drums, 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.
1972 – Melissa Auf Der Maur
Canadian musician, singer-songwriter Melissa Auf Der Maur for the American alternative rock band Hole who she joined in the summer of 1994 and is included on several Hole releases, including the album Celebrity Skin (1998).
1972 – Sean Price
American rapper Sean Price who was a member of the hip hop collective Boot Camp Clik and was also half of the duo Heltah Skeltah, performing under the name Ruckus. Price died on 8 Aug 2015 aged 43.
1967 – Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan, American musician, songwriter with alternative rock band, Smashing Pumpkins who had the 1995 US No.1 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
1963 – Michael Ivins
Michael Ivins, bassist and keyboardist and one of the founding members of The Flaming Lips. Their 1999 release The Soft Bulletin was NME magazine’s Album of the Year and the group has won three Grammy Awards.
1962 – Clare Grogan
Scottish actress and singer Clare Grogan who with Altered Images had the 1981 UK No.2 single ‘Happy Birthday’. Her first film appearance was in the acclaimed film Gregory’s Girl, and has since appeared in UK soap Eastenders, Red Dwarf and the comedy Father Ted.
1959 – Mike Lindup
Mike Lindup, keyboard player and falsetto voiced singer from Level 42, who had the 1986 UK No.3 & US No.12 single ‘Lessons In Love’ & 19 other UK Top 40 hits.
1951 – Scott Gorham
American guitarist and songwriter Scott Gorham Thin Lizzy, who had the 1976 hit single ‘The Boys Are Back In Town‘ and the UK No.2 album Live and Dangerous. Gorham joined the band at a time when their future was in doubt after the departures of original guitarist Eric Bell and his brief replacement Gary Moore.
1948 – Pat Lloyd
Pat Lloyd, from the British pop, R&B and rock group The Equals who had the 1968 UK No.1 & US No.32 single ‘Baby Come Back’ written by Eddy Grant.
1946 – Harold Brown
Harold Brown, drummer and vocalist and band leader with American funk band War. Their album The World Is a Ghetto was the best-selling US album of 1973. They also scored the 1973 US No.2 single ‘Cisco Kid’.
1944 – Bob Johnson
Bob Johnson, guitarist with English folk rock band Steeleye Span who formed in 1969. They had the 1975 UK No.5 single ‘All Around My Hat’ and a hit with ‘Gaudete’.
1944 – Pattie Boyd
Pattie Boyd is born in Taunton, Somerset, England. She would later marry George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and also inspire the song “Layla.”
1944 – John Sebastian
American singer, songwriter, guitarist, harmonicist, and autoharpist, John Sebastian who is best known as a founder of The Lovin’ Spoonful. They had the 1966 UK No.2 single ‘Daydream’, and 1966 US No.1 single ‘Summer in The City’ and Sebastian scored the solo 1976 US No.1 single ‘Welcome Back’. In August 1969, Sebastian made a memorable, albeit unscheduled appearance at Woodstock. He was not on the performance bill and traveled to the festival as a spectator, but he was asked to appear when the organisers suddenly needed an acoustic performer after a rain break.
1944 – Pat Mcauley
Pat Mcauley, keyboards with the Northern Irish band Them who had the 1965 UK hits ‘Baby, Please Don’t Go’ and ‘Here Comes The Night’ with Van Morrison on lead vocals. Morrison quit the band in 1966 and went on to a successful career as a solo artist.
1943 – Jim Weatherly
American singer-songwriter Jim Weatherly. He wrote mostly pop and country music, his notable songs include “The Need to Be” and “Midnight Train to Georgia” a 1973 No.1 hit single by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Ray Price, Lynn Anderson, Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Chesney and Garth Brooks have all recorded his songs. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006. Weatherly died on 3 Febuary 2021 age 77.
1941 – Paul Kantner
American guitarist, singer and songwriter Paul Kantner from Jefferson Airplane. He was known for co-founding Jefferson Airplane, the leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era, and its more commercial spin-off band Jefferson Starship. With Jefferson Airplane, Kantner was among the performers at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1966 and the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and the Woodstock Festival in 1969. Kantner died in San Francisco at the age of 74 on Jan 28, 2016 due to multiple organ failure and septic shock after he suffered a heart attack days earlier.
1941 – Clarence Collins
Clarence Collins from Little Anthony and The Imperials who had the 1958 US No.4 single ‘Tears On My Pillow’. The song gave Kylie Minogue a UK No.1 in 1990.
1938 – Zola Taylor
Zola Taylor from American vocal group The Platters who had the 1959 UK & US No.1 single ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes’. She was the original female member of The Platters from 1954 to 1962. The Platters were one of the first African-American groups to be accepted as a major chart group and were, for a period of time, the most successful vocal group in the world. She died on 30 April 2007 age 69.
1935 – Adam Wade
Pop singer/drummer Adam Wade is born Patrick Henry Wade in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Known for “Take Good Care Of Her” (1961), among other hits. He died July 7, 2022
1919 – Nat King Cole
American jazz pianist and vocalist Nat King Cole, who had the 1955 US No.2 single ‘A Blossom Fell’, the 1957 UK No.2 single ‘When I Fall In Love’. He recorded over one hundred songs that became hits on the pop charts and was the first black man to host an American television series. Nat King Cole died of lung cancer on February 15th 1965.
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