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Born On This Day In Music, May 13th
1993 – Morgan Wallen
Singer/songwriter Morgan Wallen is born in Tennessee. Signed to Big Loud Records, he partners with Florida Georgia Line for his first hit, “Up Down,” in 2017. . His second album, Dangerous: The Double Album, released in January 2021, became the only country album in the 64-year history of the Billboard 200 to spend its first seven weeks at No. 1. It went on to spend a total of ten weeks at that spot, the first album to do so since Whitney Houston’s Whitney in 1987.
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1979 – Michael Madden
Michael Madden, bass, Maroon 5, who had the 2004 UK No.1 album ‘Songs About Jane’, the 2004 US No.1 & UK No.4 single ‘She Will Be Loved’ and the 2014 US No.1 album V.
1969 – Brian Patrick Carroll
Brian Patrick Carroll known professionally as Buckethead, an American musician who has worked within many genres of music and was a member of Guns N’ Roses from 2000 to 2004.
1967 – Chuck Schuldiner
American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Chuck Schuldiner. He founded the pioneering band Death in 1983 and is often referred to as “The Godfather of death metal”. Death’s best-selling album is the 1991 release Human. Schuldiner died of brain cancer on 13 December 2001.
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1966 – Darius Rucker
American singer and songwriter Darius Rucker, from American rock band Hootie & the Blowfish who had the 1995 US No.1 album Cracked Rear View. As a country music singer, his first single, ‘Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It’, made him the first black artist to reach No.1 on the Hot Country Songs charts since Charley Pride in 1983.
1966 – Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Goldfrapp, English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp who had the 2008 UK No.2 album Seventh Tree.
1964 – Lorraine McIntosh
Scottish singer Lorraine McIntosh from Deacon Blue who had the 1988 UK No.8 single ‘Real Gone Kid’ plus over 15 other UK Top singles. The name Deacon Blue comes from the title of the Steely Dan song ‘Deacon Blues’. McIntosh is married to Deacon Blue lead singer Ricky Ross.
1963 – Julian Brookhouse
Julian Brookhouse from British pop band, Curiosity Killed The Cat who had the 1989 UK No.14 single ‘Name And Number’ and the UK No.1 album Keep Your Distance.
1951 – Paul Thompson
Paul Thompson, drummer who with Roxy Music scored the hit singles ‘Street Life’, ‘Love is the Drug’, ‘Dance Away’, ‘Angel Eyes’, ‘Jealous Guy’ and ‘Avalon’.
1950 – Danny Kirwan
British musician Danny Kirwan, guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac between 1968 and 1972 who had the 1969 UK No.1 single ‘Albatross’.
1950 – Johnny Logan
Australian-born Irish singer and composer Johnny Logan. He first won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980, with the song ‘What’s Another Year’.
1950 – Stevie Wonder
American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist Stevie Wonder. A child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Wonder who has been blind from shortly after birth, signed with Motown’s Tamla label at the age of eleven and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day. Wonder has scored over 40 US & UK Top 40 singles. Albums include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life.
1947 – Pete Overend Watts
Pete Overend Watts, bassist with Mott The Hoople, who had the 1972 UK No.3 & US No.37 single ‘All The Young Dudes‘ which was written for them by David Bowie. Other hits include, ‘All the Way from Memphis’ and ‘Roll Away the Stone’. Watts continued with Dale Griffin, Morgan Fisher and Ray Major in the Mott successor British Lions. He later became a record producer, producing albums for artists including Hanoi Rocks and Dumb Blondes. Watts died on 22 January 2017 from throat cancer, aged was 69.
1945 – Magic Dick
Magic Dick, harmonica, with American rock band The J Geils Band, who had the 1982 US No.1 & UK No.3 single ‘Centerfold’ which was taken from their US No.1 1981 album Freeze Frame.
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1943 – Mary Wells
American singer Mary Wells, who had the 1964 US No.1 & UK No.5 single ‘My Guy’, (written by Smokey Robinson). Other hits include, ‘The One Who Really Loves You’, ‘Two Lovers’ and the Grammy-nominated ‘You Beat Me to the Punch’. Wells died of cancer on 26th July 1992 at the age of 59.
1941 – Joe Brown
English entertainer and rock and roll singer and guitarist Joe Brown, who had the 1962 UK No.2 single ‘A Picture Of You’. He has made six films, and presented specialist radio series for BBC Radio 2.
1941 – Ritchie Valens
American singer, songwriter, Ritchie Valens, who had the 1958 US No.2 hit single ‘Donna’ and a hit with ‘La Bamba’. On February 3, 1959, on what has become known as “the Day the Music Died”, Valens died in a plane crash in Iowa, an accident that also claimed the lives of fellow musicians Buddy Holly and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson.
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