Born On This Day In Music, May 28th

1985
Colbie Caillat, American singer-songwriter. 2008 Australian No.1 single ‘Bubbly’. 2009 US No.1 album ‘Breakthrough’. (Her father, Ken Caillat, co-produced the Fleetwood Mac albums Rumours and Tusk).

1980
Mark Feehily, from Irish pop vocal group Westlife who scored 14 UK No.1 singles, and have sold over 50 million records worldwide. Despite their success worldwide, Westlife never managed to break into the US market, achieving only one hit single in 2000, ‘Swear It Again’.

1970
Mark Richardson, drummer with British rock band Skunk Anansie who had the 1996 UK No.20 single ‘Weak’. The band have spent a total of 141 weeks on both the singles and album charts.

1970
Jimi Goodwin, vocals, bass, guitar with Sub Sub who had the 1993 UK No.3 single ‘Ain’t No Love, (Ain’t No Use’. And with Doves, the 2002 UK No.3 single ‘There Goes The Fear’ and 2002 UK No.1 album The Last Broadcast.

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1968
Australian-born singer, songwriter, and actress Kylie Minogue who scored the 1988 UK No.1 single ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ plus over 40 other UK Top 40 hit singles). She achieved recognition by starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, where she played tomboy mechanic Charlene Robinson and as of 2013, Minogue had worldwide record sales of more than 70 million.

1963
Gavin Harrison, English drummer and percussionist best known for playing with the British progressive rock bands Porcupine Tree and King Crimson.

1962
British singer Roland Gift, who with the Fine Young Cannibals, had the 1989 US No.1 & UK No.5 single ‘She Drives Me Crazy’.

1959
Welsh singer Steve Strange from Visage who had the 1980 UK No.8 single, ‘Fade To Grey’. Strange appeared in the video for David Bowie’s No.1 hit ‘Ashes to Ashes’. He died on 12th Feb 2015 after suffering a heart attack in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

1955
John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist, who was a member of Magazine, who had the 1978 UK hit single ‘Shot By Both Sides’. Also worked with Siouxsie And The Banshees, Armoury Show, Public Image Ltd. McGeoch died in his sleep 5th March 2004 aged 49.

1949
Wendy O. Williams singer with The Plasmatics, a New York punk band who had the 1980 UK No. 55 single ‘Butcher Baby’. Williams took her own life in 1998.

1948
Ray Laidlaw, from English group Lindisfarne who had the 1970s hit singles ‘Meet Me on the Corner’, ‘Lady Eleanor and ‘Run For Home’. Their album Fog on the Tyne became the biggest selling UK album in 1972.

1945
American musician, singer, and songwriter John Fogerty from Creedence Clearwater Revival who had the 1969 UK No.1 and US No.2 single ‘Bad Moon Rising’, plus ten other US Top 30 hits and the 1970 US & UK No.1 album Cosmo’s Factory. After CCR parted ways in 1972 Fogerty had a successful solo career.

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1944
American singer, songwriter Billy Vera, who had the 1987 US No.1 single with The Beaters, ‘At This Moment’ featured in the US TV show, ‘Family Ties’.

1944
American singer, songwriter Gladys Knight, who had the 1973 US No.1 single ‘Midnight Train To Georgia’, and the 1975 UK No.4 single ‘The Way We Were’ plus 20 other UK Top 40 singles. Best known for her work with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips.

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1943
Tony Mansfield, from Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas who had the 1964 UK No.1 & US N0.7 single ‘Little Children’.

1931
Sonny Burgess, rockabilly guitarist of the Pacers and later The Sun Rhythm Section, made up of former Sun Records’ session musicians, is born Albert Austin Burgess of Newport, Arkansas. He died on August 18, 2017.

1923
Gyorgy Ligeti, a contemporary classical music composer, is born in Târnăveni, Romania, Romania. Died June 12, 2006 in Vienna, Austria.

1917
American blues violinist Papa John Creech, with Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Starship and Hot Tuna. He had also worked with Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Nat King Cole. He died in 1994 aged 76.

1910
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, T-Bone Walker who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound. His most famous song, ‘Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)’ was released in 1947. He died of bronchial pneumonia on 16 March 1975 at the age of 64.

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