Born On This Day In Music, September 11th

1981
American country music singer-songwriter and founding member of Lady Antebellum, Charles Kelley. Their debut album included the trio’s debut hit, ‘Love Don’t Live Here’, along with the singles, ‘Lookin’ for a Good Time’ and ‘I Run to You’.

1977
Jonny Buckland, guitarist with Coldplay who had the 2000 UK No.4 single ‘Yellow’ and the 2000 UK No.1 album Parachutes and the 2005 worldwide No.1 album X&Y. The band have won a number of music awards throughout their career, including eight Brit Awards, winning Best British Group three times, five MTV Video Music Awards and seven Grammy Awards.

1977
Ludacris, (Chris Bridges), 2001 UK No.10 single with Missy Elliott, ‘One Minute Man’, 2002 US No.3 album ‘Word Of Mouf’.

1971
Singer, songwriter Richard Ashcroft, from English rock band The Verve, who had the 1997 album Urban Hymns, one of the best-selling albums in UK Chart history. The album features the hit singles ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’, ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’ and ‘Lucky Man’ and spent over 100 weeks on the UK chart. Ashcroft had the 2000 solo UK No.3 single ‘A Song For The Lovers’, and the 2000 UK No.1 album Alone With Everybody.

1967
Harry Connick Jr, singer, actor, (1991 UK No.32 single ‘It Had To Be You, Recipe For Love’).

1966
Gregory Kane, Hue and Cry, (1987 UK No.6 single ‘Labour Of Love’). 2000 UK No.1 album ‘Play’).

1965
Moby, (Richard Hall), producer, vocalist, 1991 UK No.10 single ‘Go’. His album ‘Play’ was the biggest selling UK indie album of 2000, spending 81 weeks on the chart and going platinum in over 20 countries. Moby is a descendent of ‘Moby Dick’ author Herman Melville.

1958
Mick Talbot, Keyboards, Style Council, (1983 UK No.3 single ‘Long Hot Summer’ plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles). Merton Parkers, (1979 UK No.40 single ‘You Need Wheels).

1957
Jon Moss, drums, Culture Club, (1983 UK No.1 & 1984 US No.1 single ‘Karma Chameleon’ plus seven other UK top 10 singles).

1953
Tommy Shaw, guitar, Styx, (1979 US No.1 & 1980 UK No.6 single ‘Babe’).

1948
John Martyn, (Iain David McGeachy), singer, songwriter, guitarist, who had the 1973 album ‘Solid Air’. Martyn died in hospital on 30th Jan 2009 in Ireland at the age of 60. The folk, blues and funk artist was widely regarded as one of the most soulful and innovative singer-songwriters of his generation and had been cited as an influence by artists as varied as U2, Portishead and Eric Clapton.

1947
Richard Jaeger, percussionist, Worked with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, The Pointer Sisters. He died on 27th August 2000.

1946
Dennis Tufano, lead singer with American Sunshine pop group The Buckinghams who had the 1967 US No.1 single ‘Kind Of A Drag’ and became one of the top selling US acts of 1967.

1943
American guitarist and singer, Jack Ely, best known for singing the Kingsmen’s version of ‘Louie Louie’. For a while, the record was banned by a handful of US radio stations because of its indecipherable lyrics, which were rumored to contain some naughty words. Even the F.B.I. investigated the song, but finally concluded that they could find nothing wrong. Ely died on 27th April 2015.

1943
American percussionist and musicologist Mickey Hart, best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. In 1991, Hart produced the album Planet Drum, which remained at No.1 on the Billboard World Music chart for 26 weeks, and received the first ever Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.

1940
Bernie Dwyer, 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’.

1925
Pop songwriter Alan Bergman is born in Brooklyn, New York. Along with wife Marilyn Bergman, he writes “The Theme From the Summer Of ’42” and “The Way We Were,” plus country hits “All His Children” and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”. He died on January 8, 2022.