Born On This Day In Music, September 9th

1990 – Magnus Larsson
Magnus Larsson, bassist with the Danish band Lukas Graham who had the 2016 hit ‘7 Years’ which topped the charts in Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK and Canada.

1977 – Stuart Price
Stuart Price, British electronic musician, songwriter, producer, remixing. Worked with artists including Madonna, Missy Elliott, The Killers, Gwen Stefani, Seal and Keane.

1975 – Michael Buble
Michael Buble, Canadian singer, crooner, big band singer and actor, (2005 world-wide top 10 album ‘It’s Time’, 2007 US No.1 album, ‘Call Me Irresponsible’).

1952 – Dave Stewart
Dave Stewart, guitarist, songwriter, producer. Member of Longdancer, Tourists, (1979 UK No.4 single ‘I Only Want To Be With You’), Eurythmics, (1983 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘Sweet Dreams’, 1985 UK No.1 single ‘There Must Be An Angel’), solo, (1990 UK No.6 single ‘Lily Was Here’).

1950 – John McFee
American singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist John McFee. The Doobie Brothers who had the 1979 US No.1 single ‘What A Fool Believes’ and the 1993 UK No.7 single ‘Long Train Runnin’. He was a member of Southern Pacific from 1985-91.

1948 – Pamela Des Barres
Pamela Des Barres, perhaps the most famous groupie of all time, is born. She boasts liaisons with Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger and Keith Moon, and even joins a band made up of groupies, The GTO’s, in 1969. In 2013 she starts her own fashion label: “Groupie Couture.”

1947 – Freddy Weller
Freddy Weller, Paul Revere and the Raiders, (1971 US No.1 single ‘Indian Reservation’ plus 14 other US Top 30 hit singles).

1946 – Bruce Palmer
Canadian musician Bruce Palmer, bassist with Buffalo Springfield, who scored the 1967 US No.17 single ‘For What It’s Worth’. Palmer died of a heart attack on October 1, 2004 in Belleville, Ontario, at the age of 58.

1946 – Trevor Leslie Oaks
Trevor Leslie Oaks, from English revival group Showaddywaddy who had the 1976 UK No.1 single with their version of ‘Under The Moon Of Love’. Showaddywaddy spent 209 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, and had 10 Top Ten singles.

1946 – Inez Foxx
Soul singer Inez Foxx is born in Greensboro, North Carolina. She and her brother Charlie has in 1963 No.2 (US R&B) and No.7 (US Pop Chart) “Mockingbird”. Cover in 1974 by Carly Simon and James Taylor. She died on August 25, 2022.

1945 – Doug Ingle
Doug Ingle, Iron Butterfly (1968 US No.14 single ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’).

1942 – Luther Simmons
Luther Simmons, singer with American soul and R&B group Main Ingredient, best known for their 1972 hit song ‘Everybody Plays the Fool’.

1941 – Otis Redding
Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter, record producer. After appearing at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival Redding wrote and recorded his iconic ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay’ with Steve Cropper. The song became the first posthumous No.1 record on the Billboard Hot 100 and The Dock of the Bay became the first posthumous album to reach No.1 on the UK Albums Chart. Redding was killed in a plane crash on 10th December 1967.

1940 – Joe Negroni
Joe Negroni, singer with American-Puerto Rican doo wop group Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, who had the 1956 UK No.1 & US No.6 single ‘Why Do Fools Fall In Love’. They are also noted for being rock’s first all-teenaged act. He died on 5th September 1978.

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