Born On This Day In Music, May 29th

1978 – Daniel Pearce
Daniel Pearce, from British boy band One True Voice, created on the ITV television series Popstars: The Rivals who had the 2002 UK No.2 single ‘Sacred Trust / After You’re Gone’.

1975 – Melanie Brown
Melanie Brown, (Mel B), Scary Spice, The Spice Girls who scored the 1996 UK No.1 & 1997 US No.1 single ‘Wannabe’, plus eight other UK No.1 singles. She had the solo 1998 UK No.1 single ‘I Want You Back’ and has now become a television presenter, talent competition judge, and model.

1967 – Noel Gallagher
English singer, songwriter and guitarist Noel Gallagher, Oasis. First single was the 1994 UK No.31 single ‘Supersonic’, followed by the 1994 UK No.1 album Definitely Maybe which became the fastest selling UK debut album ever. Their third studio album, Be Here Now (1997), became the fastest-selling album in UK chart history. Gallagher now fronts Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

1963 – Blaze Bayley
Blaze Bayley, lead vocalist with Wolfsbane and Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999 after being chosen as Bruce Dickinson’s replacement after hundreds of auditions.

1962 – John Pedder
John Pedder, bassist from British indie band Babybird, who had the 996 UK No.3 single ‘You’re Gorgeous’, and the 1996 UK No. 9 album Ugly Beautiful.

1961 – David Palmer
David Palmer, from English pop band ABC who as part of the New Romantic movement had the 1982 UK No.4 & 1983 US No.18 ‘The Look Of Love’. Their 1982 debut album, The Lexicon of Love, was a UK No.1 and they achieved ten UK and five US Top 40 hit singles between 1981 and 1990.

1961 – Melissa Etheridge
Rock singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge is born in Leavenworth, Kansas. A gritty, powerful vocalist, she finds her way into the country charts when Trisha Yearwood scores a minor hit with her song “You Can Sleep While I Drive” in 1995.

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1959 – Mel Gaynor
Mel Gaynor, drummer with Scottish rock band, Simple Minds, who had the 1985 US No.1 single ‘Don’t You, Forget About Me’, and the 1989 UK No.1 single ‘Belfast Child’, plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles. In 2016, they won the British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection.

1956 – La Toya Jackson
La Toya Jackson, sister of Michael Jackson. She sang backing vocals with The Jackson 5 and on Michael Jackson’s Thriller album and has released various singles and albums none of which ever charted in the UK.

1955 – Mike Porcaro
Mike Porcaro, bassist with American rock band Toto who had the 1980s Top 5 hits ‘Hold the Line’, ‘Rosanna’, and ‘Africa’. The band has released 17 studio albums, and has sold over 40 million records worldwide. Porcaro died on 15th March 2015 following a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease).

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1949 – Francis Rossi
Francis Rossi, guitarist, singer, songwriter with Status Quo. The group have had over 60 chart hits in the UK, more than any other rock band, including ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men’ in 1967, ‘Whatever You Want’ in 1979 and ‘In the Army Now’ in 2010. Twenty-two of these reached the Top 10 in the UK. In July 1985 the band opened Live Aid at Wembley Stadium with ‘Rockin’ All Over the World‘.

1945 – Gary Brooker
Gary Brooker, English singer, songwriter, pianist and founder and lead singer of the rock band Procol Harum who had the 1967 UK No.1 and US No.5 single A Whiter Shade Of Pale. (one of the few singles to have sold over 10 million copies) and scored the hits ‘Homburg’, ‘Conquistador’. Brooker founded The Paramounts in 1962 with his guitarist friend Robin Trower and has also worked with Eric Clapton, Alan Parsons and Ringo Starr. He died from cancer on 19 February 2022 age 76.

1941 – Roy Crewsdon
Roy Crewsdon, from the 1960s pop band Freddie and the Dreamers. They scored the 1963 UK No.3 single ‘You Were made For Me’, and the 1965 US No.1 single ‘I’m Telling You Now’.

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1935 – Sylvia Robinson
Singer Sylvia Robinson who had the 1973 US No.3 & UK No. 14 single ‘Pillow Talk’ and as Mickey & Sylvia the 1957 US No.11 single ‘Love Is Strange’. She later became known for her work as founder and CEO of the hip hop label Sugar Hill Records. Robinson died on 29 September 2011.

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