Born On This Day In Music, March 20th

1982 – Nick Wheeler
Nick Wheeler (lead guitarist for The All-American Rejects) is born in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The band single “It Ends Tonight” peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2006.

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1976 – Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington, American singer, songwriter with Linkin Park who had the 2002 US No.2 & UK No.4 single ‘In The End’, and the 2002 US No.2 & 2001 UK No.4 album Hybrid Theory. He was also lead vocalist for Dead by Sunrise, Grey Daze, and Stone Temple Pilots. Bennington took his own life on July 20, 2017.

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1972 – Alex Kapranos
Alex Kapranos, singer with Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand, who were the winners of the 2004 Mercury Music Prize for their self-titled debut album.

1972 – Shelly Poole
Shelly Poole, singer, songwriter, Alisha’s Attic who had the 1996 UK No.14 ‘I Am I Feel’. Now a solo artist, who released the 2006 album Hard Time For The Dreamer. Poole is the daughter of 60s musician Brian Poole.

1968 – Fredrik Schnfeldt
Fredrik Schnfeldt, with alternative Swedish rock band The Wannadies who had the 1996 UK No. 18 single, ‘You And Me Song’.

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1967 – David Shuttleworth
David Shuttleworth, drummer with English rock band Terrorvision who had the 1999 UK No.2 single ‘Tequila’. Terrorvision were originally known as The Spoilt Bratz.

1961 – Slim Jim Phantom
Slim Jim Phantom, (James McDonnell), drummer with The Stray Cats who spearheaded the neo-rockabilly movement of the early 1980s. They scored the 1980 UK No.9 single ‘Runaway Boys’, and the 1983 US No.3 single ‘Stray Cat Strut’. He has also worked with Dead Men Walking with Kirk Brandon, Mike Peters and Captain Sensible.

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1959 – Ian Rossiter
Ian Rossiter, drummer with British hip hop/electronic dance group Stereo MCs who had the 1992 UK No.12 single ‘Step It Up’.

1959 – Richard Drummie
Richard Drummie from Go West who had the 1985 UK No.5 single ‘We Close Our Eyes’ and hits with ‘Call Me’ and ‘King of Wishful Thinking’. Go West were named Best British Newcomer at the 1986 Brit Awards.

1956 – Fonso Martin
Fonso Martin, from roots reggae group Steel Pulse who had the 1978 UK hit single ‘Prodigal Son’. Steel Pulse were the first non-Jamaican act to win the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.

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1951 – Carl Palmer
English drummer and percussionist Carl Palmer who was a member of Atomic Rooster, (1971 UK No.4 single ‘The Devil’s Answer’). Emerson Lake and Palmer, (1977 UK No.2 single ‘Fanfare For The Common Man‘). Asia, (1982 US No.4 single ‘Heat Of The Moment’).

1951 – Jimmie Vaughan
American blues rock guitarist and singer Jimmie Vaughan who was a member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. He is the older brother of the late guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. The Fabulous Thunderbirds had two hit songs of the 1980s, ‘Tuff Enuff’ and ‘Wrap It Up.’

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1944 – Jance Garfat
Jance Garfat (bassist for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) is born Robert Jance Garfat in California.

1942 – Robin Luke
Rockabilly singer Robin Luke is born in Los Angeles, California.

1940 – Rod Lauren
“If I Had A Girl” singer Rod Lauren is born in Fresno, California.

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1940 – Glenn Schwartz
American guitarist Glenn Schwartz, the original guitar player of the James Gang. He later joined the Los Angeles based blues band Pacific Gas & Electric and in 1970, scored a national top 20 hit with the song ‘Are You Ready?’ Schwartz died on November 2, 2018, at the age of 78.

1937 – Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed, US country guitarist who worked with Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Elvis Presley. His signature songs included ‘Guitar Man,’, ‘East Bound and Down’ (the theme song for the 1977 blockbuster Smokey and the Bandit, and ‘She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)’. Reed died on 1 Sept 2008.

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1937 – Joe Rivers
R&B singer Joe Rivers (of Johnnie & Joe) is born in Charleston, South Carolina.

1936 – Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry), musician and producer who has been influential in the development and acceptance of reggae and dub music in Jamaica and overseas. He employs numerous pseudonyms, including Pipecock Jackxon and The Upsetter. He died from an unspecified illness, on 29 August 2021 aged 85.

1935 – Sam Lay
American drummer and vocalist Sam Lay. He began recording and performing with prominent blues musicians, including Willie Dixon, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Junior Wells, Bo Diddley, Earl Hooker and Muddy Waters. In the mid-1960s, Lay joined the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Bob Dylan used Lay as his drummer when he introduced electric rock at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Lay also recorded with Dylan, notably on the album Highway 61 Revisited. Died on January 29, 2022, at the age of 86.

1917 – Vera Lynn
Vera Lynn, English singer, songwriter and actress whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War. In 2009 she became the oldest living artist to make it to No. 1 on the British album chart, at the age of 92. Lynn died on 18 June 2020 age 103 at her home in East Sussex, England.

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