Born on this day in music, November 30th

1987 – Dougie Poynter
Dougie Poynter, bass, vocals, McFly, (2004 UK No.1 single ‘Colours In Her Hair’, 2004 UK No.1 album ‘Room On The 3rd Floor’).

1978 – Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken, singer, runner-up in 2003 US American Idol, (2003 US No.1 single ‘This Is The Night’).

1975 – Mindy McCready
Country singer Mindy McCready is born in Fort Myers, Florida. Died February 17, 2013.

1973 – John Moyer
John Moyer, bass, Disturbed, (2005 US No.1 album ‘Ten Thousand Fists’).1968

1968 – Des’ree
Des’ree, UK singer, songwriter, (1998 UK No.8 single ‘Life’).

1965 – Paul Wheeler
Paul Wheeler, Icehouse, from Australian rock band Icehouse who had the 1983 UK hit single ‘Hey Little Girl’. Their best known singles on the Australian charts were ‘Great Southern Land’, ‘Crazy’ and ‘Electric Blue’.

1959 – Cherie Currie

Cherie Currie is born in Encino, California. As lead singer of The Runaways she is at the core of the LA party scene in the late 1970s, leading to a lifelong struggle with drug addiction.

1958 – Stacey Q
Pop singer Stacey Q, known for the 1986 hit “Two of Hearts,” is born Stacey Lynn Swain in Fullerton, California. She picks up her stage name as a member of the synthpop band Q, who borrowed its name from the James Bond tech scientist.

1957 – Richard Barbieri
Richard Barbieri, Japan, (1982 UK No.5 single ‘Ghosts’).

1957 – John Ashton
John Ashton, guitarist with English rock band The Psychedelic Furs. Film director John Hughes used their song ‘Pretty in Pink’ for his 1986 movie of the same name.

1955 – Billy Idol
William Broad (Billy Idol), singer, Generation X, (1979 UK No.11 single ‘King Rocker’). Solo (1987 US No.1 & UK No.7 single ‘Mony Mony’, plus nine other UK top 40 singles).

1954 – George McArdale
George McArdale, from Australian group, Little River Band who scored the 1978 US No.3 single ‘Reminiscing’ plus 12 other US Top 40 singles selling more than 30 million records.

1953 – June Pointer
June Pointer, singer with American R&B singing group The Pointer Sisters who had the 1981 US No.2 single, ‘Slow Hand’ and the 1984 UK No.2 single ‘Automatic’. The Pointer Sisters have won three Grammy Awards and had 13 US top 20 hits between 1973 and 1985.

1953 – David Sancious
David Sancious, keyboard player and guitarist, and an early member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. Sancious contributed to the first three Springsteen albums and has also worked with Stanley Clarke, Narada Michael Walden, Zucchero Fornaciari, Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel and Sting among many others.

1953 – Shuggie Otis
Guitarist Shuggie Otis is born Johnny Alexander Veliotes, Jr. in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of R&B pioneer Johnny Otis. Shuggie composes the 1977 crossover hit “Strawberry Letter 23” for The Brothers Johnson.

1945 – Roger Glover
Roger Glover, bassist with Deep Purple who had the 1970 UK No.2 single ‘Black Night’ and the 1973 US No. 4 single ‘Smoke On The Water‘.

1944 – Rob Grill
Rob Grill, who with Grass Roots had the 1968 US No.5 single ‘Midnight Confessions’, plus 13 other US Top 40 singles. Grill died on 11th July 2011 after suffering a head injury from a fall caused by a stroke. He was 67.

1943 – Leo Lyons
Leo Lyons, bass, Ten Years After, (1970 No.10 UK single ‘Love Like A Man‘).

1937 – Frank Ifield
English-Australian country music singer and guitarist Frank Ifield who often incorporated yodelling in his music. He had the 1962 UK No.1 single ‘I Remember You’, plus 15 other UK Top 40 singles.

1937 – Jimmy Bowen
Jimmy Bowen, producer of Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night,” is born in Santa Rita, New Mexico. He starts his music career as a teen idol, singing the 1957 hit “I’m Stickin’ With You.”

1935 – Jack Reno
Country singer Jack Reno, who has a Top 10 hit in 1967 with “Repeat After Me,” is born in Bloomfield, Iowa.

1932 – Bob Moore
American session musician, orchestra leader, and double bassist Bob Moore. He was a member of the Nashville A-Team during the 1950s and 1960s and performed on over 17,000 documented recording sessions, backing acts such as Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison. He died on 22 September 2021.

1929 – Dick Clark
Dick Clark, host of US TV’s longest running music show American Bandstand and he created and produced the annual American Music Awards show. Clark died on April 18, 2012.

1924 – Allan Sherman
Allan Sherman, singer, (1963 US No.2 & UK No.14 single ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’). He died on 21st November 1973 aged 49.

1915 – Brownie McGhee
American folk music and blues singer and guitarist, Brownie McGhee. He is best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry. McGhee died of stomach cancer on 16 February 1996 in Oakland, California, aged 80.