Born Today In Music, September 28th

1987
US singer, actress, Hilary Duff, star of Lizzie McGuire TV show. She had the 2003 US No.1 album ‘Metamorphosis’ and 2005 US No.1 album ‘Most Wanted’.

1984
Melody Thornton, singer, The Pussycat Dolls, (2005, US No.2 & UK No.1 with their debut single ‘Don’t Cha’ featuring Busta Rhymes). The Pussycat Dolls became only the fourth ever girl band to enter the UK charts at No.1 with their debut single. (The other’s being the Spice Girls, B*Witched and Girls Aloud).

1982
American musician, singer, songwriter, Annie Clark, known as St. Vincent. She began her music career as a member of the Polyphonic Spree. In 2012, she released Love This Giant, an album made in collaboration with David Byrne. She won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album with Daddy’s Home in 2022.

1977
US rapper, Young Jeezy, (Jay Jenkins) who had the 2006 US No.1 album ‘The Inspiration’. Jeezy is credited, along with fellow Atlanta-based rappers T.I. and Gucci Mane, for helping to pioneer and popularize trap music with a mainstream audience.

1966
Kenny Wilson, (Ginger Fish), drummer with American rock band Marilyn Manson who had the 1998 US No.1 album, Mechanical Animals.

1962
Peter Hooton, vocalist of Liverpool-based group The Farm who had the 1990 UK No.4 single ‘All Together Now’.

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1960
Jennifer Rush, singer, (1985 UK No.1 single ‘The Power Of Love’).

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1954
Dokken guitarist George Lynch is born in Spokane, Washington, but is raised in Auburn, California.

1953
Keni Burke (of The Five Stairsteps) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1953
Jim Diamond, singer, songwriter, (solo UK No.1 single ‘I Should Have Know Better’), PHD, (1982 UK No.3 single ‘I Won’t Let You Down’). He died on 8 October 2015.

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1952
Andy Ward from British rock band Marillion who had the 1985 UK No.2 single ‘Kayleigh’. The band achieved eight Top Ten UK albums between 1983 and 1994, including a No.1 album in 1985 with Misplaced Childhood.

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1950
Paul Burgess, drums, 10cc, (1975 UK No.1 & US No.2 single ‘I’m Not In Love’, plus 10 other UK Top 30 hits including two No.1’s).

1948
Danny Weis, American guitarist, best known as a founding member of both Iron Butterfly and Rhinoceros, as well as co-writer of Rhinoceros’s only charting single, Apricot Brandy. He was also a member of The Rascals and played lead guitar on Lou Reed’s Sally Can’t Dance album.

1947
Peter Hope Evans, Medicine Head, (1973 UK No.3 single ‘One And One Is One’).

1946
Helen Shapiro, UK Singer, (1961 UK No.1 single ‘Walking Back To Happiness’).

1943
Nick Nicholas, from Canadian-American rock band Steppenwolf who had the 1969 US No.2 hit single ‘Born To Be Wild’ which is sometimes described as the first heavy metal song.

1938
Ben E King, (Benjmin Earl Nelson), soul and R&B singer with The Drifters who had the 1960 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘Save The Last Dance For Me’, and the 1987 UK No.1 solo single ‘Stand By Me’, (first released in 1961). King died at the Hackensack University Medical Center on April 30, 2015, at the age of 76.

1930
Country singer Tommy Collins is born in Bethany, Oklahoma. A forerunner of the Bakersfield sound, he penned “If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’),” later a #1 hit for George Strait. Died on March 14, 2000.

1901
Ed Sullivan, TV host, The Ed Sullivan Singers and Orchestra. Introduced The Beatles and other UK acts to America via his Ed Sullivan TV show. The Beatles appearance on February 9th 1964 is considered a milestone in American pop culture; the broadcast drew an estimated 73 million viewers. Sullivan died on 13th October 1974.

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