Born Today In Music

1988
Danish-Irish singer, songwriter Lukas Forchhammer, the lead vocalist for 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.

1975
Guitarist Stokes Nielson is born. He becomes a founding member of The Lost Trailers, a five-man Atlanta band that nets its first hit with 2008’s “Holler Back”.

1967
American singer Ricky Bell, from American R&B group New Edition who had the 1983 UK No.1 single ‘Candy Girl’, and Bell Biv DeVoe who had the 1990 US No.3 single ‘Do Me!’.

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1966
Mike Heaton, drummer, from English alternative rock band Embrace, who had the 2006 UK No. 2 single ‘Natures Law’, the 2006 UK No.1 album This New Day and two other UK No.1 albums.

1966
Ian Spice, Breathe, (1988 UK No.4 single ‘Hands To Heaven’).

1966
Nigel Clarke from English power pop rock trio Dodgy who had the 1996 UK No.4 single ‘Good Enough’.

1962
Joanne Catherall, singer with The Human League. Formed in Sheffield, England in 1977 the group attained widespread commercial success with their third album Dare in 1981. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US No.1 hit ‘Don’t You Want Me’.

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1962
Richard Walmsley, Beatmasters, 1988 UK No.5 single ‘Rock Da House’).

1961
Martin Beedle, drummer, with English rock band Cutting Crew, who scored the 1987 US No.1 & 1986 UK No.4 single ‘I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight’.

1955
Keith Morris (frontman for Black Flag and Circle Jerks) is born in Hermosa Beach, California.

1953
Banjo player/songwriter Carl Jackson is born in Louisville, Mississippi. He authors Vince Gill’s “No Future In The Past,” Glen Campbell’s “(Love Always) Letter To Home” and Pam Tillis’ “Put Yourself In My Place.” Jackson plays on hits by Blake Shelton, Dolly Parton and Brad Paisley

1952
Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin), bassist, Ramones, 1977 UK No.22 single ‘Sheena Is A Punk Rocker’). He died of a drug overdose 5th June 2002. Dee Dee is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, not far from the cenotaph of his former Ramones’ bandmate, Johnny Ramone.

1950
American drummer Michael Hossack who as a member of The Doobie Brothers between 1971 and 1973, playing on several of the band’s best-known hits, including ‘Listen to the Music’ and ‘China Grove’. Hossack died of cancer on 12 March 2012 at his home in Dubois, Wyoming at the age of 65.

1949
Kerry Livgren, songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist for Kansas, is born in Topeka, Kansas.

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1946
Alan King, Ace, (1974 UK No.20 single ‘How Long’).

1941
Priscilla Mitchell is born in Marietta, Georgia. She joins Roy Drusky on the 1965 hit “Yes, Mr. Peters.” While married to Jerry Reed, she performs as a background singer under the name Priscilla Hubbard on records by Jim Reeves and Waylon Jennings

1939
Frankie Avalon, (1959 US No.1 & UK No.16 single ‘Venus’). On his twenty-first birthday, Frankie Avalon was given $600,000 (£330,000) that he earned as a minor from such hits as his 1959 US No.1 single ‘Venus’.

1933
Jimmie Rodgers is born in Camas, Washington. Given the same name as The Singing Brakeman, who died four months earlier, Rodgers hits the Top 10 in pop and country during the late 1950s with “Honeycomb” and “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”. Rodgers died from kidney disease on January 18, 2021, at the age of 87.

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