1991
DeMario DeWayne White Jr. known professionally as Moneybagg Yo, American rapper. His fourth album, A Gangsta’s Pain, released in April 2021 became his first chart-topping album on the US chart.
1983
Will Farquarson, bass and guitar with Bastille who won a Brit award and had a No.1 U.K. album with Bad Blood.
1982
Billie, UK singer, actress, (1998 UK No.1 single ‘Because We Want To’). Once married to former Radio 1, Virgin radio DJ and TV presenter Chris Evans.
1975
Mystikal, (Michael Tyler), US rapper, (2001 US No.1 & UK No.7 single ‘Stutter’).
1965
Adam Cairns, guitar, vocals with alternative metal band from Northern Ireland Therapy? who had the 1993 UK No.9 single ‘Screamager’.
1958
Joan Jett, American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer. Founding member of The Runaways and with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts scored the 1982 US No.1 & UK No.4 single ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’. She is also known as the Godmother of Punk.
1957
Nick Cave, Australian singer, songwriter, who had the 1995 UK No.11 single with Kylie Minogue, ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’. Cave fronted the Birthday Party, one of the most extreme and confrontational post-punk bands of the early 1980s. In 2006, he formed the garage rock band Grinderman.
1957
Peter Jones, Public Image Ltd, (1983 UK No.5 single ‘This Is Not A Love Song’).
1956
Debby Boone, US singer. Daughter of 50s singer Pat Boone. Ten weeks at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘You Light Up My Life’, in 1977. The longest stay at the top of the charts since Guy Mitchell’s ‘Singing The Blues. A No.48 in the UK.
1956
American musician Rhett Forrester best known as the lead singer for New York-based band Riot from 1981 until 1984. Forrester was shot and killed at a Northwest Atlanta intersection after he refused to give up his vehicle in an attempted carjacking, he was 37 years old.
1953
Richard Fairbrass, singer, Right Said Fred, (1991 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘I’m Too Sexy’, 1993 UK No.1 album ‘Up’).
1952
Mark Panker, Guitar, American Music Club, (1993 album ‘Mercury’).
1951
David Coverdale, English rock singer with Whitesnake who scored the 1987 US No.1 & UK No.9 single ‘Here I Go Again’). Coverdale was the lead singer of Deep Purple from late 1973 to 15 March 1976.
1943
Toni Basil, US singer actress and dancer, (1982 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘Mickey’). Basil worked as David Bowie’s choreographer on his Diamond Dogs tour in 1974 and on his Glass Spider tour of 1987.
1942
English musician Mike Patto who was primarily notable as lead singer for Spooky Tooth and Boxer. He first became vocalist and frontman for The Bo Street Runners, who won a TV band competition Ready Steady Win during 1964. Patto died of throat cancer on 4 March 1979 aged 36.
1922
American singer Raymond Edwards from The Silhouettes. The doo wop/R&B groups single ‘Get A Job’ was a No.1 hit on the Billboard R&B singles chart and pop singles chart in 1958. The doo-wop revival group Sha Na Na derived their name from the song’s lyrics. ‘Get A Job’ is included in the soundtracks of the film American Graffiti, Trading Places and Stand By Me. Edwards died on March 4th 1997.
