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Born on this day in music: October 27th
1984
Kelly Osbourne (2002 UK No.3 single ‘Papa Don’t Preach’, 2003 UK No.1 with Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Changes’.
1970
Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth), born in Malmö, Sweden
1967
Scott Weiland, vocals, Stone Temple Pilots, (1993 UK No.23 single ‘Plush’). Velvet Revolver, (2004 US No.1 & UK No.11 album ‘Contraband’). Weiland has also established himself as a solo artist, releasing three studio albums, a cover album, and collaborations with several other musicians since 1998. Weiland died on December 3, 2015 after being found in cardiac arrest on his tour bus in Bloomington, Minnesota, just before he was scheduled to go on stage with his band The Wildabouts. He was 48 years old.
1958
Hazell Dean, UK singer, (1988 UK No.4 single ‘Who’s Leaving Who’), (Always Doesn’t Mean Forever), born in Chelmsford, Essex, England
1958
Simon Le Bon, vocals, Duran Duran who scored the 1983 UK No.1 single ‘Is There Something I Should Know’, plus 25 other UK Top 40 singles, and the 1984 US No.1 single ‘The Reflex’. Le Bon is also a member of its offshoot Arcadia, who had the 1985 UK No.7 single ‘Election Day’. Le Bon went to Pinner County Grammar School, the same school that Elton John attended some years earlier.
1953
Peter Dodd, guitar, The Thompson Twins, (1984 UK No.2 single ‘You Take Me Up’, 1984 US No.3 single, ‘Hold Me Now’).
1952
American record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bill Bottrell. He has collaborated with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Electric Light Orchestra, George Harrison, Starship, Tom Petty and Sheryl Crow. Bottrell was a co-writer of Michael Jackson’s hit ‘Black or White’ and also worked on Jackson’s Bad album.
1951
K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter, and one of the founding members of the British heavy metal band Judas Priest. Downing officially left Judas Priest in 2011.
1949
American musician and record producer Garry Tallent who is the bass player with the Bruce Springsteen E Street Band. He started playing with Springsteen in 1971 and as of 2013, and not counting Springsteen himself, Tallent is the only original member of the E Street Band remaining in the band.
1949
Byron Allred, keyboards, Steve Miller Band, (1974 US No.1 & 1990 UK No.1 single ‘The Joker’)
1949
Guitarist Jack Daniels is born in Choctaw, Oklahoma. He joins Highway 101, twice named the Country Music Association’s Top Vocal Group behind such hits as “Somewhere Tonight,” “The Bed You Made For Me” and “Cry, Cry, Cry”.
1945
Mark Ryan (bass guitarist for Quicksilver Messenger Service) is born.
1942
Country singer Lee Greenwood is born Melvin Lee Greenwood in Los Angeles, California, but grows up on a poultry farm in Sacramento. The smoky-voiced singer gains the Country Music Association’s Male Vocalist of the Year in 1983 and ’84. He earns numerous pop-tinged hits, topped by his signature anthem “God Bless The U.S.A.”
1940
Fabulous Wailers guitarist and trumpeter John Greek is born.
1933
Floyd Cramer, country piano player, (1961 UK No.1 single ‘On The Rebound’). Worked with Elvis Presley on ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ and other hits. Cramer died on 31st December 1997.
1924
Country/rock ‘n roll singer Bonnie Lou [Mary Joan Okum] is born in Towanda, Illinois. Emerging from The Midwestern Hayride on Cincinnati’s WLW, she scores a pair of 1953 hits: “Seven Lonely Days” and “Tennessee Wig Walk”. Known for the 1955 hit “Daddy-O.” Died December 8, 2015.
1909
Henry “Mule” Townsend, American blues singer, guitarist, and piano player, born in Shelby, Mississippi (Died in 2006).
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