May 09
1935 ● Nole Floyd “Nokie” Edwards → The Ventures, solo
1937 ● David Prater. Jr. → Sam & Dave
1937 ● Sonny Curtis → Buddy Holly & The Crickets, solo, wrote “I Fought The Law”
1941 ● Peter Birrell → Freddie & The Dreamers
1942 ● Mike Millward → The Fourmost
1942 ● Tommy Roe → Bubblegum pop, “Jam Up Jelly Tight” (1969)
1943 ● Bruce Milner → Every Mother’s Son
1944 ● Richie Furay → Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Souther Hillman Furay Band
1945 ● Steve Katz → Blues Project, Blood Sweat & Tears
1949 ● Billy Joel → “Piano Man” (1973)
1950 ● Tom Petersson → Cheap Trick
1962 ● David Gahan → Depeche Mode
1962 ● Paul “P.D.” Heaton → Housemartins, Beautiful South
1964 ● Kevin Sounderson → Inner City
1965 ● Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot → Curiosity Killed The Cat
1979 ● Pierre Bouvier → Simple Plan

May 10
1899 ● Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) → Dancer, actor, vocalist
1920 ● Bert Weedon → U.K. Pop-instrumental guitarist
1935 ● Larry Williams → Early rock & roll, “Dizzy, Miss Lizzy” (1957)
1938 ● Henry Fambrough → The Spinners
1941 ● Danny Rapp → Danny & The Juniors
1946 ● Dave Mason → Traffic, solo
1946 ● Donovan Phillip Leitch → “Mellow Yellow” (1966)
1946 ● Graham Gouldman → 10cc
1947 ● John Arden “Jay” Ferguson → Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne, “Thunder Island” (1977)
1951 ● Ronald Banks → The Dramatics, “In The Rain” (1972)
1957 ● Sid Vicious (John Simon Ritchie) → Sex Pistols
1960 ● Bono (Paul Hewson) → U2, poet, activist
1962 ● Gerry Daley → China Crisis
1965 ● Chris “Krist” Novoselic → Nirvana
1967 ● Young M.C. (Marvin Young) → Rapper, “Bust A Move” (1989)
1980 ● Jason Dalyrimple → Soul For Real
1985 ● Ashley Poole → Dream

May 11
1888 ● Irving Berlin (Israel Isidore Baline) → Composer, lyricist, pianist
1938 ● Carla Bley (Borg) → 60s Free Jazz composer, keyboardist
1941 ● Eric Burdon → Animals, War
1943 ● Arnie Satin → The Dovells, “Bristol Stomp” (1961)
1943 ● Les Chardwick → Gerry & The Pacemakers
1947 ● Claude Hudson “Butch” Trucks → Allman Brothers Band
1955 ● Jonathan “J.J.” Jeczalik → Art Of Noise
1955 ● Mark Herndon → Alabama

May 12
1928 ● Burt Bacharach → Wrote 70 Top 40 U.S. hits
1942 ● Billy Swan → “I Can Help” (1974)
1942 ● Ian Dury → “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll” (1977)
1943 ● David Walker → Gary Lewis & The Playboys
1944 ● James Purify → James & Bobby Purify, “I’m Your Puppet” (1966)
1945 ● Ian McLagan → Faces/Small Faces
1945 ● Jayotis Washington → The Perusasions
1948 ● Steve Winwood → Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith, Traffic, solo
1950 ● Billy Squier → “My Kinda Lover” (1981)
1950 ● John “Jocko” Marcellino → Sha Na Na
1955 ● Kix Brooks → Brooks & Dunn, solo
1961 ● Billy Duffy → The Cult, “She Sells Sanctuary” (1985)

May 13
1938 ● John Smith → The Monotones, “The Book Of Love” (1958)
1941 ● Joe Brown → “A Picture Of You” (1962)
1941 ● Ritchie Valens (Ricardo Valenzuela Reyes) → “La Bamba” (1958)
1943 ● Mary Wells → Motown R&B, “My Guy” (1964)
1945 ● “Blue Lou” Marini → Saxophonist, Blues Brothers Band, solo
1945 ● Richard “Magic Dick” Salwitz → J. Geils Band
1947 ● Peter Overend Watts → Mott the Hoople, producer
1950 ● Danny Kirwan → Fleetwood Mac, solo
1950 ● Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Judkins) → “Superstition” (1972)
1951 ● Paul Thompson → Roxy Music, Concrete Blonde
1954 ● John Logan → “What’s Another Year” (1980)
1963 ● Julian Brookhouse → Curiosity Killed The Cat
1966 ● Darius Rucker → Hootie & The Blowfish, solo

May 14
1934 ● Mike Preston (Jack Davies) → Boxer, singer, TV/film actor
1936 ● Bobby Darin (Walden Robert Cassotto) → “Mack The Knife” (1959)
1943 ● Jack Bruce → Bluesbreakers, Manfred Mann, Cream, West Bruce & Laing
1945 ● Derek “Lek” Leckenby → Herman’s Hermits
1945 ● Gene Cornish → The Rascals, Fotomaker, solo
1947 ● Al Ciner → Three Dog Night
1950 ● Arthur Grant → Edgar Broughton Band
1952 ● David Byrne → Talking Heads, solo
1962 ● C.C. DeVille (Bruce Johannesson) → Poison
1962 ● Ian Astbury → The Cult
1966 ● Fabrice Morvan → Milli Vanilli
1966 ● Mike Inez → Alice In Chains
1969 ● Danny Wood → New Kids On The Block, solo
1973 ● Natalie Appleton → All Saints, Appleton
1973 ● Shanice (Wilson) → Motown R&B, “I Love Your Smile” (1991)

May 15
1918 ● Richard Edward “Eddy” Arnold → Top charting country singer
1937 ● Trini Lopez → Pop-rock vocals, “Lemon Tree” (1965)
1938 ● Lenny Welch → Pop vocals, “Since I Fell For You” (1963)
1942 ● Kay Toinette “K.T.” Oslin → “Come Next Monday” (1990)
1947 ● Graham Goble → Little River Band, solo
1948 ● Brian Eno → Roxy Music, solo, producer, artist
1948 ● Gary Thain → Uriah Heep
1951 ● Dennis Fredericksen → Trillium, Toto, solo, sessions
1953 ● Mike Oldfield → “Tubular Bells” (1973)
1959 ● Andrew Eldritch → Sisters Of Mercy
1970 ● Prince Be (Attrell Cordes) → P.M. Dawn

May 02
1929 ● Frederick Lincoln “Link” Wray → Rock guitar pioneer, “Rumble” (1958)
1933 ● John “Bunk” Gardner → Mothers of Invention
1936 ● Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold George Dorsey) → The “King of Romance”
1944 ● Bob Henrit → Kinks, Argent
1945 ● Goldy McJohn → Steppenwolf
1945 ● Randy Cain → Delfonics
1946 ● Lesley Gore (Goldstein) → “It’s My Party” (1963)
1948 ● Larry Gatlin → The Gatlin Brothers, solo
1950 ● Lou Gramm → Foreigner
1951 ● John Glascock → Jethro Tull
1954 ● Prescott Niles → The Knack
1955 ● Jo Callis → Human League
1985 ● Lily Allen → Brit popster, “Smile” 2006

May 03
1903 ● Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby → “White Christmas” (1942)
1919 ● Pete Seeger → The Weavers, solo
1933 ● James Brown → The “Godfather of Soul”
1934 ● Frankie Valli (Francis Castelluccio) → The Four Seasons, solo
1944 ● Peter Staples → The Troggs, “Wild Thing” (1966)
1948 ● John Richardson → The Rubettes, Shows
1950 ● Mary Hopkin → “Those Were The Days” (1968)
1951 ● Christopher Cross (Geppert) → “Sailing” (1980)
1953 ● Bruce Hall → REO Speedwagon
1959 ● David Ball → Soft Cell

May 04
1923 ● Ed Cassidy → Rising Sons, Spirit
1928 ● Maynard Ferguson → Jazz trumpeteer
1937 ● Dick Dale (Richard Anthony Monsour) → The “King of the Surf Guitar”
1941 ● David LaFlamme → It’s A Beautiful Day
1941 ● Richard Burns → The Hondells, “Little Honda” (1964)
1942 ● Nickolas Ashford → Ashford & Simpson
1943 ● Ronnie Bond (Bullis) → The Troggs, “Wild Thing” (1966)
1944 ● Peggy Santiglia → The Angels, “My Boyfriend’s Back” (1963)
1945 ● George Wadenius → Blood, Sweat & Tears
1945 ● Zal Cleminson → Alex Harvey Band
1951 ● Jackie Jackson → The Jackson 5
1959 ● Jay Aston → Bucks Fizz
1959 ● Randy Travis (Traywick) → “Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart” (1990)
1972 ● Mike Dirnt → Green Day
1979 ● Lance Bass → ‘N Sync

May 05
1937 ● Johnnie Taylor → R&B/soul, “Disco Lady” (1968)
1942 ● Tammy Wynette (Virginia W. Pugh) → “Stand By Your Man” (1968)
1945 ● Bob Seger → “Night Moves” (1976)
1950 ● Doug Gray → Marshall Tucker Band
1959 ● Ian McCulloch → Echo & The Bunnymen
1962 ● Kevin Mooney → Adam & The Ants
1964 ● Lorraine McIntosh → Deacon Blue
1981 ● Craig David → Neo-R&B, “Fill Me In” (2000)
1988 ● Adele (Adkins) → Indie pop, “Chasing Pavements” (2008)
1989 ● Chris Brown → R&B/pop, “Run It!” (2005)

May 06
1936 ● Sylvia Vanderpool Robinson → Mickey & Sylvia, “Love Is Strange” (1957)
1939 ● Herbie Cox → The Cleftones
1942 ● Colin Earl → Foghat, Mungo Jerry
1945 ● Jimmie Dale Gilmore → The Flatlanders, solo
1948 ● Bill Ward → Black Sabbath
1948 ● Mary MacGregor → “Torn Between Two Lovers” (1976)
1950 ● Robbie McIntosh → Average White Band
1960 ● John Flansburgh → They Might Be Giants
1960 ● Larry Steinbachel → Bronski Beat
1964 ● Tony Scalzo → Fastball
1967 ● Mark Bryan → Hootie & The Blowfish

May 07
1931 ● Teresa Brewer → “A Tear Fell” (1956)
1932 ● Derek Taylor → Beatles PR manager
1939 ● Jimmy Ruffin → “What Becomes Of The Broken-Hearted” (1966)
1939 ● Johnny Maestro → The Crests, Brooklyn Bridge
1943 ● Rick West → The Tremeloes
1946 ● Arcelio Garcia → Malo
1946 ● Jerry Nolan → New York Dolls, The Heartbreakers
1946 ● Ray Monette → Rare Earth, Funkadelic
1948 ● Pete Wingfield → Sessions, backing bands, producer
1949 ● Keith (James Barry Keefer) → “98.6″ (1967)
1950 ● Charles L’Empereur “Prairie” Prince → Tubes, Journey, New Cars
1956 ● Anne Dudley → Art Of Noise
1958 ● Marty Willson-Piper → The Church, solo
1961 ● Phil Campbell → Motörhead
1971 ● Eagle-Eye Cherry → “Save Tonight” (1998)

May 08
1940 ● Eric Hillard “Ricky” Nelson → “Hello Mary Lou” (1961)
1941 ● John Fred (Gourier) → (& His Playboy Band) “Judy In Disguise” (1968)
1943 ● Danny Whitten → Crazy Horse
1943 ● Paul Samwell-Smith → Yardbirds, Renaissance
1943 ● Toni Tennille → The Captain & Tennille
1944 ● Gary Glitter (Paul Francis Gadd) → “Rock & Roll, Pt. 2″ (1972)
1945 ● Keith Jarrett → Jazz pianist
1951 ● Chris Frantz → Talking Heads
1951 ● Philip Bailey → Earth, Wind & Fire
1953 ● Alex Van Halen → Van Halen
1953 ● Billy Burnette → Fleetwood Mac, solo
1964 ● Dave Rowntree → Blur
1972 ● Darren Hayes → Savage Garden
1975 ● Enrique Iglesias → Latin pop, son of Julio, “Bailamos” (1999)

Apr 25
1913 ● Earl Bostic → Jazz saxophonist
1917 ● Ella Fitzgerald → The “First Lady of Song”
1923 ● Albert King → Blues guitarist
1933 ● Jerry Leiber → Lyricist, Leiber & Stoller songwriting team
1945 ● Bjorn Ulvaeus → ABBA
1945 ● Stu Cook → Creedence Clearwater Revival
1949 ● Mike Brown (Michael Lookofsky) → The Left Banke, solo
1950 ● Steve Ferrone → Average White Band, sessions
1955 ● David Sikes → Boston, Giuffria
1958 ● Fish (Derek William Dick) → Marillion, solo
1964 ● Andy Bell → Erasure
1965 ● Eric Avery → Jane’s Addiction
1980 ● Jacob Underwood → O-Town

Apr 26
1886 ● Ma Rainey (Gertrude Pridgett) → The “Mother of the Blues”
1925 ● Jorgen Ingmann → Jorgen Ingmann & His Guitar
1938 ● Duane Eddy → Electric guitar pioneer, “Rebel Rouser” (1958)
1938 ● Maurice Williams → Zodiacs, “Stay” (1960)
1942 ● Bobby Rydell (Ridarelli) → Teen idol, “Wild One” (1960)
1943 ● Gary Wright → Spooky Tooth, solo, “Dream Weaver” (1976)
1946 ● John “Bucky” Wilkin → Ronny & The Daytonas
1946 ● Vito Balsamo → Vito & The Salutations
1960 ● Roger Taylor → Duran Duran
1961 ● Chris Mars → The Replacements
1970 ● T-Boz (Tionne Tenese Watkins) → TLC
1976 ● Jose Pasillas → Incubus

Apr 27
1932 ● Kemil Amen “Casey” Kasem → Radio DJ, American Top 40
1932 ● Maxine Brown → The Browns, solo
1947 ● Anne Peebles → “I Can’t Stand The Rain” (1973)
1947 ● Peter Ham → Badfinger
1948 ● Kate Pierson → The B-52’s
1951 ● Paul “Ace” Frehley → Kiss, solo
1959 ● Marco Pirroni → Adam And The Ants
1959 ● Sheena Easton (Sheena Shirley Orr) → “9 To 5 (Morning Train)” (1980)

Apr 28
1941 ● Ann-Margret (Olsson) → Pop vocalist, actress
1941 ● Peter Anders (Andreoli) → The Trade Winds, The Innocence
1943 ● Fantastic Johnny C. (Corley) → R&B/soul, “Boogallo Down Broadway” (1968)
1945 ● John Wolters → Dr. Hook
1952 ● Kim Gordon → Sonic Youth
1955 ● Eddie Jobson → Roxy Music, Mothers of Invention
1956 ● Jimmy Barnes → Cold Chisel, INXS
1966 ● Too Short (Todd Shaw) → West Coast rapper
1968 ● Daisy Berkowitz → Marilyn Manson
1969 ● Mica Paris (Michelle Wallen) → “My One Temptation” (1988)

Apr 29
1899 ● Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington → Jazz composer, “Take The ‘A’ Train” (1941)
1928 ● Carl Gardner → The Robins, The Coasters
1931 ● Anthony James “Lonnie” Donegan → English skiffle star, rock ‘n roll pioneer
1936 ● Albee Cracolici → The Mystics
1942 ● Klaus Voorman → Manfred Mann, Plastic Ono Band
1942 ● Vincent Poncia, Jr. → The Trade Winds, producer, songwriter
1943 ● Duane Allen → Oak Ridge Boys
1945 ● Tammi Terrell (Thomasina Winifred Montgomery) → “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (1967)
1947 ● Joel Larson → The Grass Roots
1947 ● Tommy James (Thomas Gregory Jackson) → The Shondells, solo “Draggin’ The Line” (1971)
1948 ● Michael Karoli → Can, producer
1958 ● Simon Edwards → Fairground Attraction
1968 ● Carnie Wilson → Wilson Phillips (daughter of Brian)
1969 ● Master P (Percy Miller) → Hip-hop
1973 ● Mike Hogan → The Cranberries

Apr 30
1896 ● Rev. Gary Davis → Ragtime/folk guitarist, mentor
1925 ● Johnny Horton → “The Battle of New Orleans” (1958)
1933 ● Willie Nelson → Country star, “On The Road Again” (1980)
1941 ● Johnny Farina → Santo & Johnny, “Sleepwalk” (1959)
1943 ● Bobby Vee (Robert Thomas Velline) → “Take Good Care Of My Baby” (1961)
1944 ● Richard Shoff → The Sandpipers, “Guantanamera” (1966)
1948 ● Wayne Kramer → Proto-punker, MC5, solo
1953 ● Merrill Osmond → The Osmonds
1967 ● Turbo B (Durron Maurice Bulter) → Snap!, “The Power” (1990)
1971 ● Chris “Choc” Dalyrimple → Soul For Real
1972 ● J.R. Richards → Dishwalla, “Counting Blue Cars” (1996)
1973 ● Jeff Timmons → 98 Degrees, “Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)” (2000)

May 01
1929 ● Sonny James (James Loden) → The “Southern Gentleman”
1930 ● Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) → Blues harpist, “My Babe” (1955)
1939 ● Judy Collins → “Both Sides Now” (1968)
1945 ● Mimi Farina (Baez) → Folk singer, Joan Baez’s sister
1945 ● Rita Coolidge → “(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher” (1977)
1946 ● Nick Fortuna → The Buckinghams, “Kind Of A Drag” (1967)
1954 ● Ray Parker, Jr. → “Ghostbusters” (1984)
1966 ● Johnny Colt → The Black Crowes, Brand New Immortals, Train
1967 ● Tim McGraw (Smith) → Country star, “It’s Your Love” (1997)
1968 ● D’Arcy Wretsky-Brown → Smashing Pumpkins

Apr 18
1924 ● Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown → Electric blues guitarist, “Okie Dokie Stomp” (1954)
1939 ● Glen D. Hardin → The Crickets
1941 ● Mike Vickers → Manfred Mann, film score composer
1946 ● Alexander Lee “Skip” Spence → Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane
1946 ● Lonnie Baker → Sha Na Na
1958 ● Les Pattinson → Echo & The Bunnymen
1970 ● Greg Eklund → Everclear

Apr 19
1928 ● Alexis Korner → Blues Incorporated, Rocket 88
1934 ● Dickie Goodman → Buchanan & Goodman
1942 ● Alan Price → The Animals
1943 ● Eve Graham (Evelyn Mae Beatson) → New Seekers
1946 ● Tim Curry → Singer, actor, Rocky Horror Picture Show
1947 ● Mark Volman → Turtles, Flo and Eddie, Mothers of Invention
1956 ● Rod Morgenstein → Winger

Apr 20
1929 ● Bob Braun → Pop-rock, “Till Death Do Us Part” (1962)
1939 ● Johnny Tillotson → Pop-rock, “Poetry In Motion” (1961)
1945 ● Jimmy Winston → Small Faces
1948 ● Craig Frost → Grand Funk Railroad, Silver Bullet Band
1951 ● Luther Vandross → R&B/soul producer, singer, “Stop To Love” (1986)

Apr 21
1939 ● Ernie Maresca → “Shout Shout (Knock Yourself Out)” (1962)
1947 ● Iggy Pop (James Osterberg) → The Stooges
1947 ● John Weider → The Animals, solo
1948 ● Paul Davis → Pop-rock, “I Go Crazy” (1977)
1959 ● Michael Timmins → Cowboy Junkies
1959 ● Robert Smith → Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Cure
1963 ● Johnny McElhone → Texas

Apr 22
1922 ● Charles Mingus → Jazz bassist, composer
1936 ● Glen Campbell → Country star, “Wichita Lineman” (1968)
1937 ● Bernard Alfred “Jack” Nitzsche → Producer, arranger, songwriter “The Lonely Surfer” (1963)
1950 ● Peter Frampton → Humble Pie, Frampton’s Camel, solo
1951 ● Paul Carrack → Squeeze, Ace, Roxy Music, Mike + The Mechanics
1955 ● Arthur Baker → Hip-hop producer
1966 ● Kimberley Dahme → Boston, producer
1969 ● Craig Loman → Bros
1979 ● Daniel Johns → Silverchair

Apr 23
1936 ● Roy Orbison → “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964)
1939 ● Ray Peterson → Pop-rock, “Tell Laura I Love Her” (1960)
1944 ● Sandra Dee (Alexandra Zuck) → Actress, singer, wife of Bobby Darin
1952 ● Narada Michael Walden → Mahavishnu Orchestra, solo, songwriter
1960 ● Steve Clark → Def Leppard
1964 ● Gen (Simon Matthews) → Jesus Jones
1969 ● Stan Frazier → Sugar Ray

Apr 24
1933 ● Freddie Scott → R&B/soul singer, “Are You Lonely For Me” (1966)
1940 ● George Tomsco → Tex-Mex guitar, The Fireballs, “Torquay” (1960)
1942 ● Barbra Streisand → Stage, film, pop vocalist
1945 ● Doug Clifford → Creedence Clearwater Revival
1945 ● Robert Knight → R&B/soul singer, “Everlasting Love” (1965)
1947 ● Glenn Cornick → Jethro Tull, Wild Turkey, Paris
1947 ● Hubert Ann Kelly → Hues Corporation, “Rock The Boat” (1974)
1954 ● Jack Blades → Night Ranger, Damn Yankees
1955 ● Gary Cambra → Tubes
1957 ● David J. (Haskins) → Love & Rockets
1958 ● Boris Williams → The Cure
1963 ● Billy Gould → Faith No More
1967 ● Patty Schemel → Hole
1968 ● Aaron Comess → Spin Doctors
1982 ● Kelly Clarkson → American Idol, “Since U Been Gone” (2005)

Apr 11
1943 ● Tony Victor → The Classics
1956 ● Neville Staples → Fun Boy 3
1958 ● Stuart Adamson → Big Country
1965 ● Nigel Pulsford → Bush
1966 ● Lisa Stansfield → “All Around The World” (1989)
1970 ● Delroy Pearson → 5 Star
1970 ● Dylan Keefe → Marcy Playground

Apr 12
1930 ● Carole Lindsay → Kaye Sisters
1933 ● Tiny Tim (Herbert Khaury) → “Tiptoe Through The Tulips” (1968)
1940 ● Herbie Hancock → Jazz fusion, “Chameleon” (1973)
1944 ● John Kay → Steppenwolf
1950 ● David Cassidy → Actor, singer, The Partridge Family
1951 ● Alexander Briley → Village People
1956 ● Herbert Grönemeyer → Actor, German rocker
1957 ● Vince Gill → Pure Prairie League, country star
1958 ● Will Sergeant → Echo & The Bunnymen
1962 ● Art Alexakis → Everclear
1964 ● Amy Ray → Indigo Girls
1970 ● Nicholas Lofton Hexum → 311

Apr 13
1934 ● Horace Kay → The Tams
1936 ● Richard Timothy “Rashad” Feild → The Springfields, spiritual teacher
1940 ● Lester Chambers → Chambers Brothers
1944 ● Brian Pendleton → Pretty Things
1944 ● John William “Jack” Casady → Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Hot Tuna
1945 ● Lowell George → Little Feat, solo
1946 ● Al Green (Albert Greene)→ Southern R&B, “Call Me” (1973)
1946 ● Roy Loney → Flamin’ Groovies, solo
1951 ● Max Weinberg → E Street Band, Max Weinberg 7
1951 ● Robert Peabo Bryson → R&B duets, “Tonight I Celebrate My Love” (1983)
1954 ● Jimmy Destri → Blondie
1955 ● Louis Johnson → Brothers Johnson
1957 ● Wayne Lewis → Atlantic Starr
1959 ● Kim McAuliffe → Painted Lady, Girlschool
1966 ● Marc Ford → Black Crowes, solo
1972 ● Aaron Lewis → Staind
1975 ● Lou Bega (David Lubega) → Latino, “Mambo No. 5″ (1999)

Apr 14
1935 ● Loretta Lynn (Webb) → Country star, “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (1970)
1945 ● Ritchie Blackmore → Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore’s Night
1946 ● Patrick Fairley (Fairlie) → Marmalade
1962 ● Joey Pesce → ’Til Tuesday
1969 ● Martyn Le Noble → Porno For Pyros
1974 ● DaBrat (Shawta Harris) → Urban rapper

Apr 15
1894 ● Bessie Smith → The “Empress of the Blues”
1933 ● Roy Clark → Country star, “Thank You God And Greyhound” (1970)
1939 ● Marty Wilde (Reginald Leonard Smith) → Early Brit rocker, “Bad Boy” (1959), father of Kim
1944 ● Dave Edmunds → Roots-rocker, “I Hear You Knock’” (1970)
1947 ● Stuart “Wooly” Wolstenholme → Barclay James Harvest
1966 ● Graeme Clark → Wet Wet Wet, “Love Is All Around” (1994)
1966 ● Samantha Fox → “Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)” (1987)
1968 ● Ed O’Brien → Radiohead

Apr 16
1924 ● Henry Mancini → Composer, conductor, “Moon River” (1961)
1929 ● Roy Hamilton → 50s R&B-pop, “Unchained Melody” (1954)
1930 ● Herbie Mann (Herbert Jay Solomon) → Jazz-pop flautist, “Hijack” (1975)
1935 ● Stanley Robert “Bobby” Vinton → Pop-rock crooner, “Blue Velvet” (1963)
1939 ● Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel O’Brien) → Pop-soul diva, “Son Of A Preacher Man” (1969)
1943 ● “Lonesome” Dave Peverett → Savoy Brown, Foghat
1945 ● Stefan Grossman → Folk-blues guitar, The Fugs, solo
1947 ● Gerry Rafferty → Stealers Wheel, solo, “Baker Street” (1978)
1947 ● Lee “The Bear” Kerslake → Uriah Heep, Blizzard of Ozz
1963 ● Jimmy Osmond → The Osmonds
1963 ● Nick Berry → Brit actor, singer, “Every Loser Wins” (1986)
1964 ● David Pirner → Soul Asylum, solo

Apr 17
1934 ● Don Kirshner → Band manager, music publisher, concert promoter
1936 ● Alexander “Pete” Graves → The Moonglows, “Sincerely” (1954)
1940 ● Billy Fury (Ronald Wycherley) → Early Brit rocker, “Halfway To Paradise”" (1961)
1942 ● Shelly Buchansky → Vito & The Salutations
1943 ● Roy Estrada → Captain Beefheart, Mothers of Invention, Little Feat
1948 ● Jan Hammer → Jazz-rock fusion, “Miami Vice Theme” (1985)
1954 ● Michael Sembello → Producer, composer, “Maniac” (1983)
1955 ● Pete Shelley (McNeish) → Buzzcocks, solo
1957 ● Afrika Bambaataa (Kevin Donovan) → Hip-hop artist, spiritual leader
1964 ● Maynard James Keenan → Tool, A Perfect Circle
1967 ● Liz Phair → Indie pop-rocker, “Supernova” (1994)
1974 ● Victoria “Posh Spice” Adams → Spice Girls

Apr 04
1915 ● Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) → Blues giant, “Baby Please Don’t Go” (1960)
1936 ● Margo Sylvia → Tune Weavers
1941 ● Major Lance → Chicago soul, “The Monkey Time” (1963)
1946 ● Dave Hill → Slade
1948 ● Berry Oakley → Allman Brothers Band
1948 ● Pick Withers → Dire Straits
1951 ● Graeme Kelling → Deacon Blue
1951 ● Peter Haycock → Climax Blues Band
1952 ● Gary Moore → Skid Row, Thin Lizzy
1962 ● Craig Adams → The Cult
1964 ● Kid (Christopher Reid) → Kid ‘N Play
1966 ● Mike Starr → Alice In Chains
1972 ● Jill Scott → R&B/soul, “A Long Walk” (2001)
1972 ● Magnus Sveningsson → The Cardigans
1973 ● Kelly Price → R&B/soul
1974 ● Andre Dalyrimple → Soul For Real, “Candy Rain” (1995)

Apr 05
1928 ● Tony Williams → The Platters
1939 ● Ronnie White → The Miracles
1941 ● Dave Swarbrick → Fairport Convention
1942 ● Allan Clarke → The Hollies
1944 ● Crispian St. Peters (Robin Peter Smith) → “The Pied Piper” (1966)
1944 ● Nicholas Caldwell → The Whispers, “And The Beat Goes On” (1980)
1950 ● Agnetha “Anna” Faltskog-Ulvaeus → ABBA
1951 ● Everett Morton → English Beat
1966 ● Mike McCready → Pearl Jam
1968 ● Paula Cole → “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone” (1996)

Apr 06
1927 ● Merle Haggard → “Mama Tried” (1968)
1944 ● John Stax → The Pretty Things
1945 ● Bob Marley → Reggae giant, “I Shot The Sheriff” (1973)
1947 ● Tony Connor → Hot Chocolate
1951 ● Ralph Cooper → Air Supply
1953 ● Christopher Franke → Tangerine Dream

Apr 07
1908 ● Percy Faith → “The Theme From A Summer Place” (1960)
1915 ● Billie Holiday (Eleanor Fagan Gough) → Jazz-blues singer
1920 ● Ravi Shankar → Sitarist, father of Norah Jones
1922 ● Ramon “Mongo” Santamaria → Latin-jazz bandleader, “Afro Blue” (1959)
1935 ● Bobby Bare → Country, “Four Strong Winds” (1964)
1937 ● Charlie Thomas → The Five Crowns, The Drifters
1938 ● Freddie Hubbard → Jazz trumpeteer
1938 ● Spencer Dryden → Jefferson Airplane, New Riders of the Purple Sage
1943 ● Mick Abrahams → Jethro Tull, Bloodwyn Pig
1946 ● Bill Kreutzmann → Grateful Dead
1947 ● Patricia Bennett → The Chiffons
1949 ● John Oates → Hall & Oates
1951 ● Bruce Gary → The Knack, “My Sharona” (1979)
1951 ● Janis Ian (Janis Eddy Fink) → “At Seventeen” (1975)

Apr 08
1941 ● J.J. Jackson (Jerome Louis Jackson) → R&B/soul, “But It’s Alright” (1966)
1942 ● Roger “Chappo” Chapman → Family, Streetwalkers
1947 ● Steve Howe → Yes, Asia
1948 ● Phil Wright → Sons And Lovers, Paper Lace
1962 ● Izzy Stradlin (Jeffrey Isbell) → Guns N’ Roses
1963 ● Julian Lennon → “Too Late For Goodbyes” (1984)
1964 ● Biz Markie (Marcel Theo Hall) → Rapper, “Just A Friend” (1989)
1975 ● Anouk Teeuwe → Dutch pop-rock, “Nobody’s Wife” (1997)

Apr 09
1932 ● Carl Perkins → King of Rockabilly, “Blue Suede Shoes” (1955)
1943 ● Terry Knight → DJ, producer, Grand Funk Railroad
1944 ● Emil Stucchio → The Classics, “Till Then” (1963)
1944 ● Gene Parsons → Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, solo
1948 ● David Allen “Chico” Ryan → Sha Na Na
1969 ● Kevin Martin → Candlebox
1987 ● Jesse McCartney → Dream Street, solo

Apr 10
1932 ● Nathaniel “Nate” Nelson → Flamingos, “I Only Have Eyes For You” (1959)
1936 ● Bobbie Smith → Spinners, “I’ll Be Around” (1972)
1947 ● Bunny Wailer (Neville O’Reilly Livingston) → The Wailers
1948 ● Fred Smith → Blondie, Television
1950 ● “Lonesome Dave” Peverett → Foghat, Savoy Brown
1957 ● Steve Gustafson → 10,000 Maniacs
1959 ● Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds) → R&B, “It’s No Crime” (1989)
1959 ● Brian Setzer → Stray Cats, Brian Setzer Orchestra
1970 ● Kenny Lattimore → R&B singer, “For You” (1997)
1970 ● Mike Mushok → Staind
1980 ● Bryce Soderberg → Lifehouse, “You And Me” (2005)
1984 ● Mandy Moore → Teen pop, “I Wanna Be With You” (2000)

Mar 28
1945 ● Charles “Chuck” Portz → The Turtles, “Happy Together” (1967)
1948 ● John Evans → Jethro Tull
1948 ● Milan Williams → Commodores, “Three Times A Lady” (1978)
1955 ● Reba McEntire → Country singer, TV actress
1967 ● James Atkin → EMF, “Unbelievable” (1990)
1986 ● Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta) → Electronic dance-pop, “Just Dance” (2008)

Mar 29
1930 ● Donny Conn (Donald Claps) → Playmates, “Beep Beep” (1958)
1943 ● Chad Allan (Allan Kowbel) → Guess Who
1943 ● Vangelis (Evangelos O. Papathanassiou) → Composer, “Chariots Of Fire” (1982)
1947 ● Bobby Kimball (Robert Toteaux) → Toto
1959 ● Perry Farrell (Bernstein) → Jane’s Addiction
1967 ● John Popper → Blues Traveler

Mar 30
1941 ● Graeme Edge → Moody Blues
1943 ● John “Jay” Traynor → Jay & The Americans
1943 ● Kenny Forssi → Love
1945 ● Eric Clapton (Eric Patrick Clapp) → Yardbirds, Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, solo
1948 ● Jim “Dandy” Mangrum → Black Oak Arkansas
1950 ● Dave Ball → Procol Harum
1962 ● MC Hammer (Stanley Kirk Burrell) → Rap star, “U Can’t Touch This” (1990)
1964 ● Tracy Chapman → Singer/songwriter, “Fast Car” (1988)
1968 ● Celine Dion → Pop singer, “Because You Loved Me” (1995)
1979 ● Norah Jones (Geethali N. J. Shankar) → Acoustic pop, “Come Away With Me” (2002)

Mar 31
1934 ● Shirley Jones → Partridge Family
1935 ● Herb Alpert → Tijauna Brass, A&M Records executive
1944 ● Michael Geoffrey “Mick” Ralphs → Mott The Hoople, Bad Company, solo
1944 ● Rod Allen (Rodney Bainbridge) → The Fortunes, “You’ve Got Your Troubles” (1965)
1946 ● G. Allan Nichol → The Turtles, “Happy Together” (1967)
1947 ● Al Goodman → The Moments, Ray, Goodman & Brown
1947 ● Jon Poulos → The Buckinghams, “Kind Of A Drag” (1967)
1948 ● Thijs Van Leer → Focus
1953 ● Sean Hopper → Huey Lewis & The News
1954 ● Tony Brock → The Babys, “Everytime I Think Of You” (1978)
1955 ● Angus Young → AC/DC
1958 ● Pat McGlynn → Bay City Rollers
1959 ● Robert Holmes → Til Tuesday, “Voices Carry” (1985)

Apr 01
1934 ● Jim Ed Brown → The Browns, “The Three Bells” (1959), solo
1939 ● Rudolph Isley → Isley Brothers
1942 ● Alan Blakely → The Tremeloes, “Silence Is Golden” (1967)
1942 ● Phil Margo → The Tokens, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” (1962)
1945 ● John Barbata → The Turtles, Jefferson Airplane
1946 ● Ronald Frederick “Ronnie” Lane → Faces/Small Faces, solo
1948 ● Jimmy Cliff (James Chambers) → Reggae superstar, “The Harder They Come” (1972)
1954 ● Jeff Porcaro → Toto
1961 ● Mark White → ABC, The Spin Doctors
1961 ● Susan Boyle → “I Dreamed A Dream” (2009)
1986 ● Hillary Scott → Lady Antebellum, “I Run To You” (2009)

Apr 02
1939 ● Marvin Gaye (Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) → R&B/soul pioneer
1942 ● Leon Russell (Claude Russell Bridges) → Songwriter, sessions, solo, “Tight Rope” (1972)
1942 ● Phil “Parrot” Castrodale → The Reflections, “(Just Like) Romeo & Juliet” (1964)
1943 ● Glen Dale (Richard Garforth) → The Fortunes, “You’ve Got Your Troubles” (1965)
1943 ● Larry Coryell → Jazz-rock pioneer, The Eleventh House, solo
1946 ● Kurt Winter → The Guess Who
1947 ● Emmylou Harris → Songwriter, country star, collaborator, solo, “Sweet Dreams” (1976)
1952 ● Dave Bronze → Procol Harum
1952 ● Leon Wilkerson → Lynyrd Skynyrd
1953 ● David Robinson → Lynyrd Skynyrd
1961 ● Keren Jane Woodward → Bananarama
1967 ● Greg Camp → Smash Mouth

Apr 03
1922 ● Doris Day (Doris Von Kappelhoff) → Actress, singer, “Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be)” (1956)
1928 ● Don Gibson → Country-pop, songwriter, “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1957)
1936 ● Jimmy McGriff → Soul-jazz organist, “The Worm” (1969)
1938 ● Jeff Barry → Brill Building songwriter, producer, wrote “Leader Of The Pack”
1941 ● Jan Berry (William J.) → Jan & Dean, “Surf City” (1963)
1942 ● Billy Joe Royal → Country-rock, “Down In The Boondocks” (1965)
1942 ● Wayne Newton → Pop-rock solo act, “Danke Schoen” (1963), Vegas showman
1943 ● Joe Vann (Joseph Canzano) → The Duprees, “You Belong To Me” (1962)
1943 ● Richard Manuel → The Band
1944 ● Barry Pritchard (Fortunes) → The Fortunes, “You’ve Got Your Troubles” (1965)
1944 ● Tony Orlando (Michael Anthony Orlando Casavitis) → AM pop star, leader of Dawn, “Knock Three Times” (1971)
1946 ● Dee Murray → Elton John band
1949 ● Richard Thompson → Fairport Convention, solo, duo with wife Linda
1951 ● Mel Schacher → ? And The Mysterians, Grand Funk Railroad
1955 ● Mick Mars (Bob Alan Deal) → Motley Crüe
1956 ● Judie Tzuke (Judith Myers) → UK pop, “Stay With Me Till Dawn” (1979)
1961 ● Eddie Murphy → Actor/singer
1968 ● Sebastian Bach (Bierk) → Skid Row
1985 ● Leona Lewis → Contemporary R&B, “Bleeding Love” (2007)

Mar 21
1902 ● Eddie James “Son” House, Jr. → Delta blues slide guitarist
1943 ● Victor Anthony “Vivian” Stanshall → Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
1945 ● Rosemary Stone → Sly & The Family Stone
1946 ● Ray Dorset → Mungo Jerry, “In The Summertime” (1970)
1949 ● Eddie Money (Edward Joseph Mahoney) → “Two Tickets To Paradise” (1977)
1950 ● Roger Hodgson → Supertramp
1951 ● Conrad Lozano → Los Lobos
1951 ● Russell Thompkins, Jr. → Stylistics
1967 ● Jonas “Joker” Berggren → Ace Of Base
1967 ● Sean Dickson → Soup Dragons
1968 ● Andrew Copeland → Sister Hazel

Mar 22
1941 ● Jeremy Clyde → Chad & Jeremy
1943 ● George Benson → Jazz/R&B guitarist, “Breezin’” (1976)
1943 ● Keith Relf → Yardbirds
1947 ● Harry Vanda → Easybeats, Flash And The Pan
1947 ● Patrick Olive → Hot Chocolate, “You Sexy Thing” (1975)
1948 ● Randy Jo Hobbs → The McCoys, “Hang On Sloopy” (1965)
1957 ● Stephanie Mills → Disco diva, “Never Knew Love Like This Before” (1980)

Mar 23
1949 ● Ric Ocasek (Richard Otcasek) → The Cars, solo
1950 ● Phil Lanzon → Uriah Heep
1953 ● Chaka Khan (Yvette Marie Stevens) → Rufus, solo, “I Feel For You” (1984)
1966 ● Marti Pellow (Mark McLachlan) → Wet Wet Wet, “Love Is All Around” (1994)
1968 ● Damon Albarn → Blur

Mar 24
1937 ● Billy Stewart → R&B/jazz singer, “Summertime” (1966)
1947 ● Mike Kellie → Spooky Tooth
1948 ● Lee Oskar → War, solo
1951 ● Dougie Thomson → Supertramp
1960 ● Nena (Gabriele Susanne Kerner) → “99 Luftballons” (1984)
1970 ● Pasemaster Mase (Vincent Mason, Jr.) → De La Soul
1970 ● Sharon Corr → The Corrs

Mar 25
1934 ● Johnny Burnette → “You’re Sixteen” (1960)
1938 ● Hoyt Axton → Country songwriter, actor, “Boney Fingers” (1974)
1942 ● Aretha Franklin → R&B super-diva, “Respect” (1967)
1947 ● Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight) → “Candle In The Wind 1997″ (1997)
1948 ● Michael Stanley (Gee) → Michael Stanley Band, “Lover” (1980)
1949 ● Nick Lowe → Brinsley Schwarz, solo, producer
1960 ● Steve Norman → Spandau Ballet, “True” (1983)
1975 ● Melanie Blatt → All Saints

Mar 26
1917 ● Rufus Thomas → R&B/soul, “Do The Funky Chicken” (1970)
1936 ● Fred Parris → The Five Satins, “In The Still Of The Night” (1956)
1944 ● Diana Ross (Diane Earle) → The Supremes, solo
1948 ● Richard Tandy → Electric Light Orchestra
1948 ● Steven Tyler (Steven Victor Tallarico) → Aerosmith
1949 ● Fran Sheehan → Boston
1950 ● Teddy Pendergrass → Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, solo
1953 ● Billy Lyall → Bay City Rollers, Pilot, Alan Parsons Project
1968 ● James Iha → Smashing Pumpkins
1968 ● Kenny Chesney → Country star, “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” (1999)
1975 ● Juvenile (Terius Grey) → Gangsta rapper, “Slow Motion” (2003)
1981 ● Jay Sean (Kamaljit Singh Jhooti) → Urban R&B, “Down” (2009)

Mar 27
1950 ● Tony Banks → Genesis
1954 ● Walt Stocker → The Babys, Air Supply
1959 ● Andrew Farris → INXS
1962 ● Derrick McKenzie → Jamiroquai
1965 ● Johnny April → Staind
1970 ● Brendan Hill → Blues Traveler
1970 ● Mariah Carey → Pop diva, “Fantasy” (1995)
1975 ● Fergie (Stacy Ferguson) → Wild Orchid, Black Eyed Peas, solo

Mar 14
1931 ● Phil Phillips (John Phillip Baptiste) → R&B singer, “Sea Of Love” (1959)
1933 ● Quincy Jones → Bandleader, producer, songwriter
1943 ● Jim Pons → Turtles, Mothers Of Invention
1945 ● Walter Parazaider → Chicago
1969 ● Michael Bland → Session drummer, Prince, Soul Asylum
1970 ● Kristian Bush → Sugarland
1983 ● Jordan Taylor Hanson → Hanson

Mar 15
1912 ● Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins → Blues guitarist, “Mojo Hand” (1960)
1932 ● Arif Mardin → Atlantic Records producer
1940 ● Phil Lesh → Grateful Dead
1941 ● Mike Love → Beach Boys
1942 ● Jerry Jeff Walker (Ronald Clyde Crosby) → C&W singer, “Mr. Bojangles” (1968)
1944 ● David Costell → Gary Lewis & The Playboys
1944 ● Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart) → Sly & The Family Stone
1946 ● Howard Scott → War
1947 ● Ry Cooder → Country-folk-blues-rock guitarist, Rising Sons, sessions, solo
1953 ● Preston Hubbard→ Roomful Of Blues, Fabulous Thunderbirds
1955 ● Etterlene “Bunny” DeBarge → DeBarge
1955 ● Dee Snider → Twisted Sister, solo
1962 ● Steve Coy → Dead Or Alive
1962 ● Terence Trent D’Arby (Howard) → “Wishing Well” (1988)
1963 ● Brett Michaels → Poison
1964 ● Rockwell (Kenneth Gordy) → “Somebody’s Watching Me” (1984)
1968 ● Mark McGrath → Sugar Ray
1972 ● Mark Hoppus → Blink-182
1975 ● will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) → Black Eyed Peas
1977 ● DJ Joseph Hahn → Linkin Park

Mar 16
1948 ● Michael Bruce → Alice Cooper band, solo
1954 ● Nancy Wilson → Heart
1959 ● Flavor Flav (William Jonathan Drayton, Jr.) → Public Enemy
1963 ● Stuart Kerr → Texas

Mar 17
1919 ● Nat “King” Cole (Nathaniel Coles) → “Unforgettable” (1954)
1937 ● Adam Wade → R&B/pop vocalist, “Take Good Care Of Her” (1961)
1939 ● Clarence Collins → Little Anthony & The Imperials
1940 ● Vito Picone→ The Elegants, “Little Star” (1958)
1941 ● Paul Lorin Kantner → Jefferson Airplane/Starship, KBC Band, solo
1944 ● John B. Sebastian → Lovin’ Spoonful
1946 ● Harold Brown → War
1948 ● Fran Byrne → Ace
1951 ● Scott Gorham → Thin Lizzy
1959 ● Mike Lindup → Level 42
1967 ● Billy Corgan → Smashing Pumpkins
1972 ● Melissa Auf der Maur → Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, solo

Mar 18
1938 ● Charley Pride → Country star, “I’d Rather Love You” (1971)
1941 ● Wilson Pickett → “In The Midnight Hour” (1968)
1947 ● Brian James “B.J.” Wilson → The Paramounts, Procul Harum
1950 ● John Hartman → Doobie Brothers
1959 ● Irene Cara (Irene T. Escalera) → “Flashdance…What A Feelin’” (1983)
1963 ● Jeff LeBar → Cinderella
1963 ● Vanessa Williams → R&B/pop vocalist, “Save The Best For Last” (1991)
1966 ● Jerry Cantrell → Alice In Chains
1967 ● Robert Harrison → Cotton Mather
1970 ● Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens) → Rapper, “U.N.I.T.Y.” (1993)
1974 ● Stuart Zender → Jamiroquai
1977 ● Devin Lima → LFO

Mar 19
1942 ● Robin Luke → Early rock ‘n roller, “Susie Darlin’” (1958)
1946 ● Paul Atkinson → The Zombies
1946 ● Ruth Pointer → Pointer Sisters
1951 ● Derek Longmuir → Bay City Rollers
1953 ● Ricky Wilson → The B-52′s

Mar 20
1937 ● Jerry Reed (Jerry Reed Hubbard) → Actor, country singer/guitarist, solo, sessions
1950 ● Carl Palmer → Atomic Rooster, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Asia
1951 ● Jimmie Vaughan → Fabulous Thunderbirds, solo (Stevie Ray‘s brother)
1961 ● Slim Jim Phantom (James McDowell) → Stray Cats
1976 ● Chester Bennington → Linkin Park

The blue-eyed soul of Young Americans followed Bowie’s late-60s start as a pop and music hall performer, the hard rock of The Man Who Sold The World (1970) and the glam-rock of Ziggy Stardust in the early 70s. But plastic soul was short-lived. Within a year, Station to Station moved him to an avant-pop mode, and 1977’s Low transitioned further into an electronic, synth-pop sound.

Young Americans had a #1 single in “Fame” (co-written by John Lennon, who also provided backing vocals) and a lesser hit with the title track. The album itself made it into the Top 10 in both the U.S. and U.K. It’s available on Amazon and iTunes. Check the Playlist Vault for my interpretation of Bowie’s 25 best songs.

Mar 07
1943 ● Chris Taylor White → Zombies
1945 ● Arthur Lee (Arthur Porter Taylor) → Love
1946 ● Matthew Fisher → Procol Harum
1946 ● Peter Wolf (Blankfield) → J. Geils Band
1962 ● Taylor Dayne (Leslie Wunderman) → “Love Will Lead You Back” (1990)
1967 ● Randy Guss → Toad The Wet Sprocket

Mar 08
1942 ● Ralph Ellis → Swinging Blue Jeans
1944 ● Keef Hartley → John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Keef Hartley Band
1945 ● George Michael “Micky” Dolenz, Jr. → The Monkees
1946 ● Carole Bayer Sager → Songwriter, co-wrote “Nobody Does It Better”
1946 ● Randy Meisner → Poco, Eagles, solo
1947 ● Andrew Semple → Fortunes
1947 ● Michael Allsup → Three Dog Night
1948 ● Little Peggy March (Margaret Battavio) → “I Will Follow Him” (1964)
1948 ● Mel Galley → Deep Purple, Whitesnake
1949 ● Dave Lambert → The Strawbs
1954 ● Cheryl Baker (Rita Maria Crudgington) → Bucks Fizz
1957 ● Clive Burr → Iron Maiden
1958 ● Gary Numan (Webb) → New Wave synth-pop, “Cars” (1979)
1964 ● Peter “Ped” Gill → Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Motorhead
1964 ● Salt (Cheryl James) → Salt-N-Pepa
1968 ● Shawn Mullins → Folk/pop singer, “Lullaby” (1998)
1978 ● Kameelah Williams → R&B dance/pop band 702

Mar 09
1933 ● Lloyd Price → “Stagger Lee” (1958)
1936 ● Mickey Gilley → Country singer
1942 ● John Cale → Velvet Underground, solo
1942 ● Mark Lindsay → Paul Revere & The Raiders
1944 ● Gary Leeds → Walker Brothers
1944 ● Trevor Burton → The Move
1945 ● Robin Trower → Procol Harum, solo
1948 ● Jeffrey Osborne → L.T.D., solo – “On The Wings Of Love” (1982)
1948 ● Jimmie Fadden → Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1951 ● Frank Rodriguez → ? and The Mysterians
1958 ● Martin Fry → ABC
1968 ● Robert Sledge → Ben Folds Five
1980 ● Chingy (Howard Bailey, Jr.) → Rapper, “Right Thurr” (2003
1987 ● Bow Wow (Shad Gregory Moss) → Rapper, “Beware Of Dog” (2000)

Mar 10
1903 ● Bix Beiderbecke → Jazz pianist
1940 ● Dean Torrence → Jan & Dean
1947 ● Tom Scholz → Boston
1950 ● Ted McKenna → Sensational Alex Harvey Band
1962 ● Gary Clark → Danny Wilson, “Mary’s Prayer” (1987)
1963 ● Jeff Ament → Pearl Jam
1964 ● Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) → Pop/dance/hip hop, “Seven Seconds” (1994)
1964 ● Patrick Kane → Hue & Cry
1966 ● Edie Brickell → Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
1967 ● Susie Q (Susan Banfield) → Cookie Crew
1971 ● Timbaland (Timothy Zachery Moseley) → Rapper, producer
1977 ● Robin Thicke → “Lost Without U” (2007)
1983 ● Carrie Underwood → “Wasted” (2007)

Mar 11
1944 ● Ric Rothwell → Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
1945 ● Harvey Mandel → Canned Heat, Rolling Stones, solo
1947 ● Mark Stein→ Vanilla Fudge
1948 ● George Kooymans → Golden Earring
1950 ● Bobby McFerrin → “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” (1988)
1955 ● Catherina “Nina” Hagen → “New York New York” (1983)
1957 ● Cheryl Lynn → Disco diva, “Got To Be Real” (1978)
1961 ● Bruce Watson → Big Country
1961 ● Mike Percy → Dead Or Alive
1968 ● Lisa Loeb → “Stay” (1994)
1969 ● Pete Droge→ “If You Don’t Love Me (I’ll Kill Myself)” (1994)
1979 ● Benji Madden (Benjamin Levi Combs) → Good Charlotte
1979 ● Joel Madden (Joel Reuben Combs) → Good Charlotte

Mar 12
1940 ● Al Jarreau → “Breakin’ Away” (1981)
1942 ● Brian O’Hara → The Fourmost
1942 ● Larry Kaye (Kassman) → Quotations
1942 ● Paul Kantner → Jefferson Airplane/Starship
1946 ● Liza Minnelli → “Cabaret” (1972)
1948 ● James Taylor → “You’ve Got A Friend” (1971)
1948 ● Les Holyrod → Barclay James Harvest
1949 ● Bill Payne → Little Feat
1949 ● Mike Gibbins → Badfinger
1957 ● Marlon Jackson → Jackson 5
1957 ● Steve Harris → Iron Maiden
1969 ● Graham Coxon → Blur, solo

Mar 13
1933 ● Mike Stoller → Songwriter, Lieber & Stoller
1939 ● Neil Sedaka → “Calendar Girl” (1961)
1940 ● Daniel Bennie → The Reflections
1949 ● Donald York → Sha Na Na
1959 ● Ronnie Rogers → T’Pau
1960 ● Adam Clayton → U2
1972 ● Common (Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr.) → Rapper

Feb 28
1939 ● John Fahey → Folk guitarist (Rolling Stone #35), Takoma Records owner
1940 ● Joe South (Souter) → Singer/songwriter, “Games People Play” (1968)
1940 ● Marty Sanders → Jay & The Americans
1942 ● Brian Jones → Rolling Stones
1943 ● Barbara Acklin → Pop-soul vocalist, “Love Makes A Woman” (1968)
1952 ● Eddie “Kingfish” Manion → Asbury Jukes, Seeger Sessions Band
1957 ● Cindy Wilson → B-52′s
1957 ● Ian Stanley → Tears For Fears
1957 ● Phil Gould → Level 42
1967 ● Marcus Lillington → Breathe, “Hands To Heaven” (1988)
1969 ● Pat Monahan → Train, solo

Feb 29
1904 ● Jimmy Dorsey → Swing era Big Band leader
1940 ● Gretchen Christopher → The Fleetwoods, “Come Softly To Me” (1959)
1976 ● Ja Rule (Jeffrey Atkins) → Rapper, “Put It On Me” (2000)

Mar 01
1927 ● Harry Belafonte (Belafonete) → “Banana Boat Song” (1956)
1934 ● Jim Edward Brown → The Browns
1939 ● Warren Davis → The Monotones, “(Who Wrote) The Book Of Love” (1958)
1942 ● Jerry Fisher → Blood, Sweat & Tears
1944 ● Mike D’Abo → Manfred Mann, solo
1944 ● Roger Daltrey → The Who, solo
1946 ● Tony Ashton → Ashton, Gardner & Dyke
1947 ● Burning Spear (Winston Rodney) → Reggae artist, Rastafarian preacher
1958 ● Nik Kershaw → “Wouldn’t It Be Good” (1983)

Mar 02
1938 ● Lawrence Payton → The Four Tops
1942 ● Lou Reed (Lewis Allen Rabinowitz) → Velvet Underground, solo
1943 ● George Benson → Jazz/R&B guitarist, “Breezin’” (1976)
1948 ● Rory Gallagher → Blues-rock guitarist
1950 ● Karen Carpenter → The Carpenters
1955 ● Dale Bozzio (Consalvi) → Missing Persons
1955 ● Jay Osmond → The Osmonds
1956 ● John Cowsill → The Cowsills
1956 ● Mark Evans → AC/DC
1962 ● Jon Bon Jovi (John Fancis Bongiovi) → Bon Jovi, solo
1977 ● Chris Martin → Coldplay

Mar 03
1923 ● Arthel L. “Doc” Watson → Folk/country/bluegrass guitarist
1928 ● Dave Dudley (Pedruska) → “Six Days On The Road” (1963)
1938 ● Willie Chambers → Chambers Brothers, “Time Has Come Today” (1968)
1942 ● Mike Pender (Prendergast) → The Searchers
1944 ● Jance Garfat → Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
1947 ● Derek “Blue” Weaver → The Strawbs, Mott the Hoople, Bee Gees, sessions
1947 ● Jennifer Warnes → “Right Time Of The Night” (1977)
1950 ● Re Styles → The Tubes
1953 ● Ricky Helton Wilson → B-52′s
1953 ● Robyn Hitchcock → The Soft Boys, solo
1966 ● Tone-Loc (Anthony T. Smith) → Rapper, “Wild Thing” (1989)
1969 ● John Bigham → Fishbone
1977 ● Ronan Keating → Boyzone

Mar 04
1932 ● Miriam Makeba → South African folk-pop singer
1944 ● Bobby Womack → “It’s All Over Now” (1974)
1946 ● Red Stripe (David Gittens) → Flying Pickets, “Only You” (1983)
1948 ● Chris Squire → Yes
1948 ● Shakin’ Stevens (Michael Barrett) → “This Ole House” (1981)
1951 ● Chris Rea → “Fool (If You Think It’s Over)” (1978)
1953 ● Emilio Estefan, Jr. → Miami Sound Machine
1955 ● Boon Gould → Level 42
1963 ● Jason Newsted → Metallica
1966 ● Patrick Hannan → The Sundays
1967 ● Evan Dando → Lemonheads
1971 ● Fergal Lawlor → The Cranberries

Mar 05
1933 ● Tommy Tucker (Robert Higginbotham) → “High-Heeled Sneakers” (1964)
1947 ● Eddie Hodges → “I’m Gonna Knock On Your Door” (1961)
1948 ● Eddy Grant → “Electric Avenue” (1983)
1952 ● Alan Clark → Dire Straits
1956 ● Teena Marie (Mary Christine Brockert) → “Lovergirl” (1984)
1958 ● Andy Gibb → Bee Gees
1962 ● Craig & Charlie Reid → The Proclaimers
1970 ● John Frusciante → Red Hot Chili Peppers

Mar 06
1893 ● Walter “Furry” Lewis → Blues guitarist/singer
1937 ● Doug Dillard → The Dillards
1944 ● Mary Wilson → The Supremes, solo
1945 ● Hugh Grundy → Zombies
1946 ● David Gilmour → Pink Floyd
1947 ● Kiki Dee (Pauline Matthews) → “I’ve Got The Music In Me” (1974)
1977 ● Bubba Sparxxx (Warren Mathis) → Rapper, “Ugly” (2001)

Feb 21
1933 ● Nina Simone (Eunice Kathleen Waymon) → “I Put A Spell On You” (1965)
1943 ● David Geffen → Geffen Records
1946 ● Paul Newton → Uriah Heep
1949 ● Jerry Harrison → Talking Heads
1951 ● Vince Welnick → The Tubes, Grateful Dead
1956 ● Lester Hunt → Climax Blues Band
1958 ● Mary-Chapin Carpenter → Folk/country-rock, “I Feel Lucky” (1992)
1961 ● Rankin’ Roger (Charlery) → English Beat, General Public
1970 ● Eric Wilson → Sublime
1986 ● Charlotte Church (Reed) → Classical crossover singer

Feb 22
1936 ● Ernie K-Doe (Ernest Kador, Jr.) → New Orleans R&B, “Mother-In-Law” (1961)
1938 ● Bobby Hendricks → Five Crowns, Swallows, Drifters
1944 ● Mick Green → Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
1945 ● Oliver (William Oliver Swofford) → “Good Morning Starshine” (1969)

Feb 23
1944 ● Johnny Winter → Blues-rock guitarist (Rolling Stone #74)
1944 ● Mike Maxfield → Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas
1946 ● Rusty Young → Buffalo Springfield, Poco
1949 ● Terry “Tex” Comer → Ace
1950 ● Steve Priest → Sweet
1952 ● Brad Whitford → Aerosmith
1955 ● Howard Jones → “What Is Love” (1984)
1955 ● Zeke Manyika → Orange Juice
1958 ● David Sylvian (David Alan Batt) → Japan
1962 ● Michael Wilton → Queensryche
1971 ● Jett Beres → Sister Hazel
1973 ● Lars Olaf “Lasse” Johansson → Cardigans

Feb 24
1941 ● Joanie Sommers (Drost) → Pop vocalist, “Johnny Get Angry” (1962)
1942 ● Paul Jones (Paul Pond) → Manfred Mann
1905 ● George Harrison → Beatles, solo
1944 ● Nicky Hopkins → Quicksilver Messenger Service, session pianist
1947 ● Lonnie Turner → Steve Miller Band
1947 ● Rupert Holmes → “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” (1979)
1948 ● Dennis Waterman → UK actor/singer, “I Could Be So Good For You” (1980)
1962 ● Michelle Shocked (Karen Michelle Johnston) → “If Love Was A Train” (1988)

Feb 25
1932 ● Faron Young → “Four In The Morning” (1971)
1942 ● Roy Michaels → Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys
1946 ● Elkie Brooks (Elaine Bookbinder) → “Pearl’s A Singer” (1977)
1947 ● David Stensen → The Grass Roots
1957 ● Dennis Diken → The Smithereens
1957 ● Stuart “Woody” Wood → Bay City Rollers
1905 ● Mike Peters → The Alarm
1973 ● Justin Jeffre → 98 Degrees
1976 ● Daniel Powter → “Bad Day” (2005

Feb 26
1928 ● Antoine “Fats” Domino → “Blueberry Hill” (1956)
1930 ● Carl Cicchetti → The Playmates, “Beep Beep” (1958)
1932 ● Johnny Cash →
1943 ● Paul Cotton → Poco
1945 ● Bob “The Bear” Hite → Canned Heat
1905 ● Mitch Ryder (William Levise, Jr.) → The Detroit Wheels, solo
1947 ● Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich) → “Puppet on a String” (1967)
1950 ● Jonathan Cain → Journey, Babys, Bad English
1953 ● Michael Bolton (Bolotin) → Blackjack, solo
1961 ● John Jon (Jonathan Hellyer) → Bronski Beat
1971 ● Erykah Badu → “On & On” (1997)

Feb 27
1927 ● Guy Mitchell (Albert Cernick) → “Heartaches By The Number” (1959)
1950 ● Robert Balderrama → ? and the Mysterians
1951 ● Steve Harley (Stephen Nice) → Cockney Rebel, solo, “Ballerina (Prima Donna)” (1983)
1954 ● Neil Schon → Santana, Journey
1955 ● Garry Christian → The Christians
1957 ● Adrian Smith → Iron Maiden
1957 ● Johnny Van Zant → Lynyrd Skynyrd
1960 ● Paul Humphreys → Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
1964 ● Ewen Vernal → Deacon Blue
1971 ● Chilli (Rozonda Ocelean Thomas) → TLC
1972 ● Jeremy Dean → Nine Days
1981 ● Josh Groban → Pop singer, “The Prayer” (2001)

Feb 14
1931 ● Phyllis McGuire → McGuire Sisters
1937 ● Samuel Gene “Magic Sam” Maghett → Chicago blues, “Feelin’ Good (We’re Gonna Boogie)” (1963)
1943 ● Eric Andersen → Greenwich Village folk, “Thirsty Boots” (1966)
1945 ● Vic Briggs → The Animals
1946 ● Doug Simril → Boz Scaggs Band
1947 ● Tim Buckley → Folk-rock singer/songwriter
1950 ● Roger Fisher → Heart, Alias
1951 ● Kenny Hyslop → The Skids, Simple Minds
1972 ● Rob Thomas → Matchbox Twenty, solo

Feb 15
1941 ● Brian Holland → Motown songwriter (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
1944 ● Denny Zager → Zager & Evans, “In The Year 2525″ (1969)
1944 ● Michael Charles “Mick” Avory → Kinks
1945 ● John Helliwell → Supertramp
1947 ● David Brown → Allman Brothers Band, Santana
1951 ● Melissa Manchester → “Midnight Blue” (1975)
1959 ● Alistair “Ali” Campbell → UB40
1960 ● Mikey Craig → Culture Club
1976 ● Brandon Boyd → Incubus

Feb 16
1916 ● Bill Doggett → “Honky Tonk” (1956)
1927 ● Bobby Lewis → “Tossin’ And Turnin’” (1961)
1935 ● Sonny Bono (Salvatore Phillip Bono) → Sonny & Cher, “I Got You Babe” (1965)
1949 ● Lyn Paul → New Seekers, “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing” (1971)
1956 ● James Ingram → “I Don’t Have The Heart” (1990)
1958 ● Ice-T (Tracy Morrow) → “I’m Your Pusher” (1988)
1961 ● Andy Taylor → Duran Duran
1962 ● Tony Kylie → Blow Monkeys

Feb 17
1902 ● Orvill “Hoppy” Jones → The Ink Spots
1922 ● Tommy Edwards → “It’s All In The Game” (1958)
1939 ● John Leyton → UK teen idol, “Johnny Remember Me” (1961)
1941 ● Gene Pitney → “(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance” (1962)
1947 ● Dodie Stevens (Geraldine Ann Pasquale) → “Pink Shoe Laces” (1959)
1950 ● Rickey Medlocke → Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynyrd
1966 ● Melissa Brooke-Bellard → Voice Of The Beehive
1972 ● Billie Joe Armstrong → Green Day

Feb 18
1933 ● Yoko Ono (Lennon) →
1941 ● Herman Santiago → Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
1941 ● Irma Thomas → “Ruler Of My Heart” (1963)
1947 ● Dennis De Young → Styx, solo
1948 ● Keith Knudsen → Doobie Brothers
1952 ● Judy Kay “Juice” Newton → “Angel Of The Morning” (1981)
1953 ● Derek Pellicci → Little River Band
1953 ● Robbie Bachman → Bachman-Turner Overdrive
1954 ● John Travolta → Saturday Night Fever, Grease
1965 ● Dr. Dre (Andre Romell Young) → “Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang” (1993)

Feb 19
1936 ● Bob Engemann → The Lettermen
1940 ● William “Smokey” Robinson → The Miracles, solo, songwriter, producer
1942 ● Lenny Citrin → Vito & The Salutations
1943 ● Lou Christie (Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco) → “Lightnin’ Strikes” (1965)
1948 ● Tony Iommi → Black Sabbath
1949 ● Eddie Hardin → Spencer Davis Group
1956 ● Dave Wakeling → General Public, English Beat, solo
1957 ● Falco (Johann Hölzel) → “Rock Me Amadeus” (1986)
1960 ● Prince Markie Dee (Mark Morales) → Fat Boys
1960 ● William “Holly” Johnson → Frankie Goes To Hollywood
1963 ● Seal (Seal Henry Samuel) → “Kiss From A Rose” (1996)

Feb 20
1898 ● Jimmy Yancey → Boogie-woogie pianist (Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, 1986)
1925 ● Robert Altman → Film producer/director, co-wrote “Theme From M.A.S.H.”
1937 ● David Ackles → “Candy Man” (1970)
1937 ● Nancy Wilson → “How Glad I Am” (1964)
1940 ● Barbara Ellis → Fleetwoods
1941 ● Buffy Sainte-Marie → “Universal Soldier” (1964)
1944 ● Lew Soloff → Blood, Sweat & Tears, sessions
1945 ● Alan Hull → Lindisfarne
1946 ● John “Jerome” Geils, Jr. → J. Geils Band
1950 ● Walter Becker → Steely Dan
1954 ● Jon Brant → Cheap Trick
1963 ● Ian Brown → Stone Roses
1975 ● Brian Littrell → Backstreet Boys
1985 ● Julia Volkova → t.A.T.u.
1988 ● Rihanna (Robyn Rihanna Fenty) → “Pon De Replay” (2005)

Today, we performed for the first time at a school named Madras Middle School.  We performed actually with our big sis April Lane for their Black History Program and we were very honored to do so.  It was a GREAT experience and so different than performing at open mics, clubs, etc. where we normally perform.  It was so cool to see that the students there really enjoyed our performance, and not only them, but their teachers loved it as well!  After our performance, we were able to meet in the school’s media center with some of the students and the great feedback that we got about our performance just motivated us 10X over to keep doing what we’re doing in trying to make music that will impact the world.  We also promised them that we’d come back to perform once we become super big lol.  We will we will!

On a side note, we are still working on the Lanes Mixtape: ‘I Feel Ya Girl, But…’  We’ll be releasing the first song VERY SOON called ‘In-Check!!’

And don’t forget that we will have some upcoming BIG NEWS that we can’t wait to share with you all!

Peace

Jan 31
1906 ● Roosevelt Sykes → Boogie-blues piano player
1921 ● Mario Lanza (Alfredo Arnold Cocozza) → Opera tenor, actor, singer “Be My Love” (1950)
1928 ● Harold “Chuck” Willis → “C.C. Rider” (1957)
1940 ● Sandy Yaguda → Jay & The Americans
1946 ● Terry Kath → Chicago
1951 ● Harry Wayne “K.C.” Casey → KC & The Sunshine Band
1951 ● Phil Manzannera (Targett-Adams) → Roxy Music
1956 ● Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) → Sex Pistols
1961 ● Lloyd Cole → Commotions
1966 ● Al Doughty (Alan Jaworski) → Jesus Jones
1967 ● Jason Cooper → The Cure
1981 ● Justin Timberlake → *NSYNC

Feb 01
1937 ● Don Everly → Everly Brothers
1937 ● Ray Sawyer → Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
1938 ● Jimmy Carl Black (James Inkanish) → Mothers of Invention
1948 ● Rick James (James Ambrose Johnson) → “Super Freak” (1981)
1950 ● Mike Campbell → Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
1951 ● Fran Christina → Fabulous Thunderbirds
1951 ● Rich Williams → Kansas
1964 ● Jani Lane (John Kennedy Oswald) → Warrant
1968 ● Lisa Marie Presley → Only child of Elvis
1969 ● Patrick Wilson → Weezer
1975 ● Big Boi (Antwan Andre Patton) → Outkast

Feb 02
1927 ● Stan Getz → Jazz saxaphonist
1934 ● Clyde “Skip” Battin → Byrds, Flying Burrito Bros., New Riders Of The Purple Sage
1940 ● Alan Caddy → Tornados
1942 ● Graham Nash → Hollies, Crosby Stills Nash & Young
1948 ● Alan McKay → Earth Wind & Fire
1949 ● Ross Valory → Steve Miller Band, Journey
1963 ● Eva Cassidy → “Over The Rainbow” (1992)
1966 ● Robert DeLeo → Stone Temple Pilots
1971 ● Ben Mize → Counting Crows
1975 ● Billy Mohler → The Calling
1977 ● Shakira Isabell Mebarak Ripoll → “Hips Don’t Lie” (2006)

Feb 03
1928 ● Frankie Vaughan (Frank Abelson) → “Green Door” (1956)
1935 ● Johnny “Guitar” Watson → “Space Guitar” (1954)
1940 ● Angelo d’Aleo → Dion & The Belmonts
1943 ● Dennis Edwards → Temptations
1943 ● Eric Haydock → Hollies
1943 ● Shawn Phillips → “Lost Horizon” (1973)
1947 ● Dave Davies → The Kinks
1947 ● Melanie (Melanie Safka) → “Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)” (1970)
1949 ● Arthur Kane → New York Dolls
1956 ● Lee Renaldo → Sonic Youth
1959 ● Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst → The Cure
1990 ● Sean Kingston (Kisean Jamal Anderson) → “Beautiful Girls” (2007)

Feb 04
1941 ● John Steel → Animals
1944 ● Florence LaRue → The 5th Dimension
1948 ● Alice Cooper (Vincent Damon Furnier) →
1951 ● Phil Ehart → Kansas
1952 ● Jerry Shirley → Humble Pie
1962 ● Clint Black → “Killin’ Time” (1989)
1975 ● Natalie Imbruglia → “Torn” (1997)
1975 ● Rick Burch → Jimmy Eat World
1976 ● Cam’ron (Cameron Giles) → “Oh Boy” (2002)

Feb 05
1919 ● Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt) → Actor, singer
1923 ● Claude King → “Wolverton Mountain” (1962)
1935 ● Alex Harvey → Sensational Alex Harvey Band
1941 ● Barrett Strong → “Money (That’s What I Want)” (1962), Motown writer/producer
1942 ● Corey Wells → Three Dog Night
1943 ● Charles “Chuck” Winfield → Blood, Sweat & Tears
1943 ● Sven Johannson → Tangerine Dream
1944 ● Al Kooper → Blues Project, Blood Sweat & Tears, sessions, producer
1944 ● J.R. Cobb → Atlanta Rhythm Section
1964 ● Michael “Duff” McKagan → Guns N’ Roses
1968 ● Chris Barron → Spin Doctors
1969 ● Bobby Brown → “My Perogative” (1988)

Feb 06
1941 ● Dave Berry (David Holgate Grundy) → “The Crying Game” (1964)
1943 ● Fabian (Fabiano Forte Bonaparte) → “Tiger” (1964)
1945 ● Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley → Reggae giant
1950 ● Mike Batt → “Summertime City” (1975)
1950 ● Stephanie Natalie Maria Cole → “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” (1975)
1962 ● Axl Rose (William Bruce Rose Bailey) → Guns N’ Roses
1966 ● Rick Astley → “Never Gonna Give You Up” (1987)

Jan 24
1936 ● Doug Kershaw → Country fiddler, “Louisiana Man” (1961)
1939 ● Ray Stevens (Harold Ray Ragsdale) → “Everything Is Beautiful” (1970)
1941 ● Aaron Neville → Neville Brothers
1941 ● Neil Diamond → “The Jewish Elvis”
1947 ● Warren Zevon → “Werewolves Of London” (1978)
1949 ● John Belushi → Blues Brothers
1953 ● Matthew Wilder (Weiner) → “Break My Stride” (1983)
1958 ● Julian Miles “Jools” Holland → Squeeze

Jan 25
1938 ● Etta James (Jamesetta Hawkins) → “Tell Mama” (1967)
1950 ● Michael Cotton → The Tubes
1954 ● Richard Finch → KC & The Sunshine Band
1956 ● Andy Cox → English Beat, Fine Young Cannibals
1958 ● Gary Tibbs → Roxy Music, Vibrators
1962 ● Peter Coyle → Lotus Eaters
1963 ● Carl Fysh → Brother Beyond
1971 ● China Kantner → Daughter of Grace Slick and Paul Kantner
1981 ● Alicia Keys (Alicia Auguello Cook) → “Fallin’” (2001)

Jan 26
1934 ● Huey “Piano” Smith → “Rockin’ Pneumonia” (1957)
1945 ● Ashley “Tyger” Hutchings → Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span
1946 ● Deon Jackson → “Love Makes The World Go ‘Round” (1966)
1948 ● Laurence Gordon “Corky” Laing → Mountain, West Bruce & Laing
1949 ● Derek Holt → Climax Blues Band
1951 ● Andy Hummell → Big Star
1951 ● David Briggs → Little River Band
1953 ● Lucinda Williams → “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road” (1998)
1957 ● Edward Van Halen → Van Halen
1958 ● Anita Baker → “Sweet Love” (1986)
1958 ● Norman Hassan → UB40
1963 ● Andrew Ridgeley → Wham!
1963 ● Jazzie B. (Trevor Beresford Romeo) → Soul II Soul
1966 ● Pim Jones → Hipsway
1970 ● Kirk Franklin → Contemporary gospel
1972 ● Ya Kid K (Manuela Barbara Kamosi Moaso Djogi) → Technotronic

Jan 27
1918 ● Elmore James → Blues slide guitarist/songwriter
1919 ● David Seville (Rosdom Sipan “Ross” Bagdasarian) → Creator of Alvin & The Chipmunks
1930 ● Bobby “Blue” Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) → “Stormy Monday Blues” (1962)
1931 ● Rudy Mauger → The Crew Cuts
1944 ● Kevin Coyne → “Marlene” (1973)
1945 ● Nick Mason → Pink Floyd
1946 ● Kim Gardner → Ashton, Gardner & Dyke
1947 ● Nedra Talley → Ronettes
1951 ● Brian Downey → Thin Lizzy
1951 ● Seth Justman → J. Geils Band
1955 ● Richard Young → Kentucky Headhunters
1961 ● Gillian Gilbert → New Order
1961 ● Margo Timmins → Cowboy Junkies
1961 ● Martin Degville → Sigue Sigue Sputnik
1964 ● Miguel John “Migi” Drummond → Curiosity Killed The Cat
1968 ● Mike Patton → Faith No More
1970 ● Mark Trojanowski → Sister Hazel

Jan 28
1929 ● Bernard Stanley “Acker” Bilk → “Stranger On The Shore” (1962)
1936 ● Jack Scott (Giovanni Dominico Scafone, Jr.) → “Burning Bridges” (1960)
1943 ● Dick Taylor → Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things
1944 ● Brian “Chambers” Keenan → Chambers Brothers, Manfred Mann
1946 ● Rick Allen → Box Tops
1959 ● Dave Sharp → The Alarm
1962 ● Leslie “Sam” Phillips → “Holding On To The Earth” (1989)
1963 ● Dan Spitz → Anthrax
1968 ● DJ Muggs (Lawrence Muggerud) → Cypress Hill
1968 ● Rakim (William Michael Griffin, Jr.) → Rapper
1968 ● Sarah McLachlan → “Adia” (1998)
1977 ● Joey Fatone → *NSYNC
1977 ● Raphael “Tweety” Brown → Next
1980 ● Nick Carter → Backstreet Boys

Jan 29
1933 ● Alexandre “Sacha” Distel → “The Good Life” (1965)
1943 ● Kenneth “Tony” Blackburn → “So Much Love” (1969)
1947 ● David Byron (David Garrick) → Uriah Heep, solo
1952 ● Tommy Ramone (Tom Erdelyl) → The Ramones
1953 ● Louie Perez → Los Lobos, Latin Playboys
1959 ● Johnny Spampinato → NRBQ
1961 ● Eddie Jackson → Queensryche
1962 ● Marcus Vere → Living In A Box
1964 ● Roddy Frame → Aztec Camera
1981 ● Jonny Lang (Jon Gordon Langseth, Jr.) → Blues guitarist

Jan 30
1928 ● Ruth Brown (Ruth Alston Weston) → “Teardrops In My Eyes” (1950)
1941 ● Joe Terranova → Danny & The Juniors, “At The Hop” (1958)
1942 ● Marty Balin (Martyn Jere Buchwald) → Jefferson Airplane/Starship, solo
1947 ● Steve Marriott → Small Faces, Humble Pie, solo
1951 ● Marv Ross → Quarterflash
1951 ● Phil Collins → Genesis, solo
1952 ● Steve Bartek → Strawberry Alarm Clock, Oingo Boingo
1959 ● Jody Watley → Shalamar, solo (“The Queen of Cool”)

Jan 17
1943 ● Chris Montez (Montanez) → “Let’s Dance” (1962)
1944 ● Francoise Hardy → French pop singer
1945 ● William “Poogie” Hart → Delfonics, The Three Tenors of Soul
1948 ● Michael Kevin “Mick” Taylor → Bluesbreakers, Rolling Stones
1955 ● Steve Earle → “Guitar Town” (1986)
1956 ● Paul Young → “Everytime You Go Away” (1985)
1957 ● John Crawford → Berlin, “Take My Breath Away” (1986)
1959 ● Susanna Hoffs → Bangles
1971 ● Kid Rock (Robert James Ritchie) →

Jan 18
1941 ● David Ruffin → Temptations
1941 ● Bobby Goldsboro → “Honey” (1968)
1943 ● Dave Greenslade → Thunderbird, Colosseum, Greenslade
1944 ● “Legs” Larry Smith → Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band
1953 ● Brett Hudson → Hudson Brothers
1957 ● Tom Bailey → Thompson Twins
1970 ● DJ Quik (David Martin Blake) → DJ, producer
1971 ● Jonathan Davis → Korn
1983 ● Samantha Mumba → Irish singer/songwriter

Jan 19
1939 ● Phil Everly → Everly Brothers
1941 ● Joe Butler → The Lovin’ Spoonful
1942 ● Michael Crawford (Dumble-Smith) → “I Dreamed A Dream” (1987)
1943 ● Janis Lynn Joplin →
1944 ● Michelle Ann Marie “Shelley” Fabares → “Johnny Angel” (1962)
1945 ● Rod Evans → Deep Purple
1946 ● Dolly Parton →
1949 ● Robert Palmer → “Addicted to Love” (1986)
1951 ● Dewey Bunnell → America
1954 ● Francis Buchholz → Scorpions
1957 ● Mickey Virtue → UB40
1963 ● Caron Wheeler → Soul II Soul
1969 ● Trey Lorenz (Lloyd Smith) → “I’ll Be There” (1992)
1971 ● John Wozniak → Marcy Playground

Jan 20
1889 ● Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) → “Goodnight Irene” (1934)
1924 ● Otis Dewey “Slim” Whitman, Jr. → “Rose Marie” (1955)
1933 ● Ron Townson → Fifth Dimension
1942 ● William Powell → O’Jays
1945 ● Eric Stewart → Mindbenders, 10cc
1946 ● Malcolm McLaren → Manager, Sex Pistols and New York Dolls
1947 ● George Grantham → Poco
1948 ● Melvin Pritchard → Barclay James Harvest
1952 ● Paul Stanley (Stanley Harvey Eisen) → Kiss
1952 ● Ian Hill → Judas Priest
1954 ● Michael Anthony (Sobolewski) → Van Halen
1979 ● Rob Bourdon → Linkin Park

Jan 21
1924 ● Alfred Hawthorne “Benny” Hill → English singer/comedian
1938 ● Wolfman Jack (Robert Weston Smith) → Rock ‘n Roll DJ
1941 ● Richie Havens → “Here Comes The Sun” (1971)
1941 ● Placido Domingo → Opera performer
1942 ● Edwin Starr → War
1942 ● Scott “Mac” Davis → “Forever Lovers” (1976)
1945 ● Chris Britton → The Troggs
1947 ● Pye Hastings → Caravan
1948 ● Peter Kircher → Status Quo
1950 ● Billy Ocean (Leslie Sebastian Charles) → “Caribbean Queen” (1984)
1956 ● Rob Brill → Berlin, “Take My Breath Away” (1986)
1965 ● Jam Master Jay (Jason William Mizell) → Run-DMC
1966 ● Wendy James → Transvision Vamp
1976 ● Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton → Spice Girls
1979 ● Nokio (Tamir Ruffin) → Dru Hill

Jan 22
1931 ● Sam Cooke → “You Send Me” (1957)
1940 ● Addie “Mickie” Harris → Shirelles
1949 ● Nigel Pegrum → Small Faces, Uriah Heep, Steeleye Span
1949 ● Steve Perry (Stephen Ray Pereira) → Journey, solo
1952 ● Teddy Gentry → Alabama
1960 ● Michael Hutchence → INXS
1965 ● Andrew Roachford → Roachford
1965 ● Steve Adler → Guns N’ Roses
1965 ● “D.J. Jazzy Jeff” Townes → D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1981 ● Willa Ford (Amanda Lee Williford) → “I Wanna Be Bad” (2001)

Jan 23
1944 ● Jerry Lawson → Persuasions
1948 ● Anita Pointer → Pointer Sisters
1950 ● Pat Simmons → Doobie Brothers
1950 ● Bill Cunningham → Box Tops
1950 ● Danny Federici → E Street Band
1953 ● Robin Zander → Cheap Trick
1955 ● Reggie Calloway → Midnight Star, Calloway
1955 ● Earl Falconer → UB40

So we wanted to give you an update. We are in the studio working on putting out a HOT R&B Mixtape entitled ‘I Feel Ya Girl, But…’It’s coming along great but we are trying to do it before we start working on our original music (which is a GREAT problem to have btw, never too much opportunity lol)!  We believe you deserve our greatest work each time we release something so we won’t rush.

Pretty soon, we’ll be working with some AMAZING producers and I can’t let you know who at the moment, but you will know soon enough. But yeah, so we are going to get as much out to you as soon we can! Thanks for the support and we’ll keep you updated.

Peace

Lanes

Jan 10
1912 ● Woodrow Wilson “Buddy” Johnson → R&B pianist/songwriter/bandleader
1917 ● Jerry Wexler → Atlantic Records executive/producer
1927 ● Johnny Ray → “Cry” (1951)
1935 ● Ronnie “Mr. Dynamo” Hawkins → The Hawks, “Forty Days” (1959)
1939 ● Scott McKenzie (Philip Blondheim) → “San Francisco” (1967)
1943 ● Jim Croce → “Time in a Bottle” (1973)
1945 ● Rod Stewart → Jeff Beck Group, Small Faces, solo
1946 ● Aynsley Dunbar → John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Jefferson Starship
1946 ● Bob Lang → The Mindbenders
1946 ● Neal Smith → Alice Cooper band
1948 ● Cyril Neville → Neville Brothers
1948 ● Donald Fagen → Steely Dan
1953 ● Pat Benatar (Patricia Andrzejewski) → “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” (1979)
1955 ● Michael Schenker → Scorpions, UFO
1956 ● Shawn Colvin → “New Folk” singer/songwriter
1959 ● Curt Kirkwood → Meat Puppets
1964 ● Brad Roberts → Crash Test Dummies
1965 ● Nathan Moore → Brother Beyond
1973 ● Aerle Taree → Arrested Development
1979 ● Chris Smith → Kriss Kross

Jan 11
1895 ● Laurens Hammond → Hammond organ inventor
1924 ● Slim Harpo (James Moore) → “Rainin’ In My Heart” (1961)
1942 ● Clarence Clemons → E Street Band, solo “You’re A Friend Of Mine” (1985)
1943 ● Tony Kaye → Yes
1946 ● Naomi Judd → Country singer
1949 ● Frederick “Denny” Greene → Sha Na Na
1958 ● Vicki Peterson → Bangles
1968 ● Tom Dumont → No Doubt
1971 ● Mary J Blige →
1971 ● Tom Rowlands → Chemical Brothers

Jan 12
1904 ● Mississippi Fred McDowell → Blues performer
1930 ● Glenn Yarbrough → Limeliters, solo
1936 ● Charlie Gracie (Charles Graci) → “Butterfly” (1957)
1939 ● William Lee Golden → Oak Ridge Boys
1941 ● Long John Baldry → UK blues singer
1945 ● Maggie Bell → Stone The Crows, solo
1946 ● Cynthia Robinson → Sly & The Family Stone
1951 ● Chris Bell → Big Star
1954 ● Felipe Rose → Village People
1959 ● Per Gessle → Roxette
1960 ● Charlie Gillingham → Counting Crows
1965 ● Mark Moore → Starlight Express
1966 ● Rob Zombie (Robert Cummings) → White Zombie
1968 ● Raekwon (Corey Woods) → Wu-Tang Clan
1974 ● Melanie Chisholm → Spice Girls “Sporty Spice”

Jan 13
1930 ● Bobby Lester → Moonglows
1948 ● John Lees → Barclay James Harvest
1954 ● Trevor Rabin → Yes, solo, sessions
1955 ● Fred White → Earth, Wind & Fire
1961 ● Graham “Suggs” McPherson → Madness
1970 ● Zach de la Rocha → Rage Against The Machine

Jan 14
1936 ● Clarence Carter → “Slip Away” (1968)
1938 ● Alain Toussaint → New Orleans R&B songwriter/performer/producer
1938 ● John Allan “Jack” Jones → “Wives And Lovers” (1963)
1948 ● Joseph Henry “T Bone” Burnett → Producer, session guitarist, solo artist
1948 ● Tim Harris → Foundations
1959 ● Chas Smash (Cathal Smyth aka Carl Smyth) → Madness
1959 ● Geoff Tate → Queensryche
1961 ● Mike Tramp → White Lion
1962 ● Patricia Morrison → Sisters of Mercy
1965 ● Slick Rick (Richard Walters) → Rapper
1967 ● Steve Bowman → Counting Crows
1968 ● LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) → Hip-hop artist
1969 ● Dave Grohl → Nirvana, Foo Fighters
1981 ● Pitbull (Armando Christian Perez) → Southern rap (crunk) artist
1982 ● Caleb Followill → Kings Of Leon

Jan 15
1909 ● Gene Krupa → Jazz drummer
1930 ● Earl Hooker → Blues singer/guitarist
1941 ● Captain Beefheart (Don van Vliet) →
1942 ● Edward Bivins → The Manhattans
1945 ● Joan Johnson → Dixie Cups
1947 ● Pete Waterman → Record producer
1948 ● Ronnie Van Zant → Lynyrd Skynyrd
1951 ● Martha Davis → The Motels
1952 ● Melvyn Gale → Electric Light Orchestra
1953 ● Boris Blank → Yello
1959 ● Pete Trenavas → Marillion
1967 ● Lisa Velez → Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam

Jan 16
1937 ● Bob Bogle → The Ventures
1939 ● Ray Phillips → Nashville Teens
1942 ● Barbara Lynn (Ozen) → “You’ll Lose A Good Thing” (1962)
1942 ● William Francis → Dr. Hook & The Medecine Show
1944 ● Jim Stafford → “Spiders & Snakes” (1974)
1944 ● Ronnie Milsap → “Any Day Now” (1982)
1948 ● John Carpenter → Film producer/director, composer
1950 ● Damo Suzuki → Can, solo
1959 ● Sade (Helen Folasade Adu) → “Smooth Operator” (1984)
1962 ● Paul Webb → Talk Talk
1966 ● Maxine Jones → En Vogue

Favourite Movie Actress
Sandra Bullock

Favourite Male Artist
Keith Urban

Favourite Female Artist
Taylor Swift

Favourite Action Star
Hugh Jackman

Favourite Country Artist
Carrie Underwood

Favourite Comedic Star
Jim Carrey

Favourite Breakout Music Artist
Lady Gaga

Favourite Breakout Movie Actress
Miley Cyrus

Favourite Rock Band
Paramore

Favourite Breakout Movie Actor
Taylor Lautner

Favourite Music Collaboration
Run This Town (Jay Z, Rihanna and Kanye West)

Favourite Onscreen Team
Twilight Saga

Favourite R&B Artist
Mariah Carey

Favourite Independent Film
Inglourious Basterds

Favourite Pop Artist
Lady Gaga

Favourite Comedy Movie
The Proposal

Favourite Movie
Twilight

Favourite New TV Drama
The Vampire Diaries

Favourite New TV Comedy
Glee

Favourite TV Drama
House

Favourite Animal Show
Dog Whisperer

Favourite TV Comedy
The Big Bang Theory

Favourite TV Drama Actor
Hugh Laurie

Favourite TV Drama Actress
Katherine Heigl

Favourite Web Celeb
Ashton Kutcher

Favourite Family Movie
Up

Favourite Franchise:
The Twilight Saga

Favourite Talk Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Favourite TV Comedy Actor
Steve Carell

Favourite TV Comedy Actress
Alyson Hannigan

Favourite TV Obsession
True Blood

Favourite Competition Show
American Idol

Favourite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show
Supernatural

Favourite Hip-Hop Artist
Eminem

Jan 03
1926 ● George Martin → Beatles (and others) producer
1941 ● Van Dyke Parks → Singer, sessionman, lyricist (co-wrote “Heroes And Villains”)
1945 ● Philip Goodhand-Tait → UK singer/songwriter
1945 ● Stephen Arthur Stills → Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash, solo
1946 ● John Paul Jones → Led Zeppelin

Jan 04
1944 ● Volker Hemback → Tangerine Dream
1946 ● Arthur Conley → “Sweet Soul Music” (1967)
1956 ● Bernard Sumner (Albrecht, Dicken) → Joy Division, New Order
1957 ● Patty Loveless (Patricia Lee Ramey) → “Chains” (1990)
1960 ● Michael Stipe → R.E.M.
1962 ● Martin Macaloon → Prefab Sprout
1962 ● Robin Guthrie → Cocteau Twins
1965 ● Beth Gibbons → Portishead
1965 ● David Glasper → Breathe
1966 ● Deana Carter → “Did I Shave My Legs For This?” (1995)
1967 ● Benjamine Darvill → Crash Test Dummies

Jan 05
1923 ● Sam Phillips → Founder of Sun Records
1940 ● George Malone → Monotones
1949 ● George Brown → Kool & The Gang
1950 ● Chris Stein → Blondie
1951 ● Biff Byford → Saxon
1964 ● Grant Young → Soul Asylum
1966 ● Kate Schellenbach → Luscious Jackson
1969 ● Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner) → “The Beautiful People” (1996)

Jan 06
1924 ● Earl Scruggs → Foggy Mountain Boys, solo
1929 ● Wilbert Harrison → Canned Heat
1937 ● Doris Troy → “Just One Look” (1963)
1944 ● Van McCoy → “The Hustle” (1975)
1946 ● Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett → Pink Floyd, solo
1947 ● Sandy Denny → Fairport Convention, solo
1951 ● Kim Wilson → Fabulous Thunderbirds
1953 ● Malcolm Young → AC/DC
1959 ● Kathie Sledge → Sister Sledge
1959 ● Neil Simpson → Climax Blues Band
1964 ● Mark O’Toole → Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Jan 07
1936 ● Eldee Young → Ramsey Lewis Trio
1937 ● Paul Revere (Dick) → Paul Revere & The Raiders
1938 ● Rory Storm → The Hurricanes
1939 ● Lefty Baker (Eustace Britchforth) → Spanky & Our Gang
1941 ● Jim West → Innocents, Gee Whiz
1942 ● Danny Williams→ “White On White” (1964)
1943 ● Leona Williams → Helton Family Band (Loretta Lynn)
1944 ● Mike McGrear → Scaffold
1945 ● Dave Cousins → The Strawbs
1946 ● Andy Brown → The Fortunes
1946 ● Jann Wenner → Rolling Stone magazine founder, editor
1948 ● Kenny Loggins → Loggins & Messina, solo
1959 ● Kathy Valentine → The Go-Go’s

Jan 08
1931 ● Bill Graham (Wolfgang Grajonca) → Rock promoter
1935 ● Elvis Presley →
1937 ● Shirley Bassey → “Goldfinger” (1994)
1940 ● Jerome Anthony Gourdune → Little Anthony & The Imperials
1943 ● Lee Jackson → The Nice
1943 ● Marcus Hutson → The Whispers
1946 ● Robbie Krieger → The Doors, solo
1947 ● David Bowie (David Robert Jones) →
1947 ● Terry Sylvester → The Hollies
1948 ● Paul King → Mungo Jerry, Skeleton Krew
1955 ● Mike Reno → Loverboy
1957 ● Dr. Rock → Chief Musicologist, DrRock.com
1959 ● Paul Hester → Crowded House
1964 ● Peter “Ped” Gill → Frankie Goes To Hollywood
1968 ● R. Kelly (Robert Sylvester Kelly) → “Bump N’ Grind” (1994)
1969 ● Jeff Abercrombie → Fuel
1975 ● Sean Paul (Henriques) → “Hot Gal Today” (1999)

Jan 09
1915 ● Les Paul → Guitar virtuoso, desginer
1941 ● Joan Baez →
1943 ● Dick Yount → Harper’s Bizarre
1943 ● Kenneth Kelly → The Manhattans
1944 ● Jimmy Page → Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin
1944 ● Scott Engel → Walker Brothers
1948 ● Bill Cowsill → Cowsills
1948 ● Cassie LaRue Gaines → Lynyrd Skynyrd
1948 ● Paul King → Mungo Jerry
1950 ● David Johansen → New York Dolls, solo
1950 ● Steve McRay → .38 Special
1951 ● Crystal Gayle (Brenda Gail Webb) →
1963 ● Eric Erlandson → Hole
1967 ● Carl Bell → Fuel
1967 ● Dave Matthews → Dave Matthews Band
1967 ● Steve Harwell → Smash Mouth
1978 ● A.J. McLean → Backstreet Boys

Dec 27
1931 ● William “Scotty” Moore → Elvis Presley guitarist
1940 ● Pete Brown → Co-lyricist for Cream
1941 ● Leslie Maguire → Gerry & The Pacemakers
1941 ● Mike Pinder → Moody Blues
1943 ● Peter Sinfield → King Crimson
1944 ● Michael Leslie “Mick” Jones → Foreigner
1944 ● Tracy Nelson → Mother Earth, solo
1948 ● Larry Byrom → Steppenwolf
1950 ● Terry Bozzio → Missing Persons
1952 ● David Knopfler → Dire Straits
1952 ● Karla Bonoff → Singer, songwriter “Someone To Lay Down Beside Me”
1972 ● Matt Slocum → Sixpence None The Richer

Dec 28
1903 ● Earl “Fatha” Hines → Jazz pianist
1915 ● Roebuck “Pops” Staples → Staple Singers
1932 ● Dorsey Burnette → Rockabilly singer
1938 ● Charles Neville → Joey Dee & The Starlighters, Neville Brothers
1943 ● Charles “Chas” Hodges → Chas & Dave
1946 ● Edgar Winter → Edgar Winter Group
1947 ● Dick Diamonde → The Easybeats
1950 ● Alex Chilton → Box Tops
1954 ● Rosie Vela → “Magic Smile” (1986)
1958 ● Mike McGuire → Shenandoah
1960 ● Mart Roe → Diamond Rio
1978 ● John Legend (Stephens) → Neo-soul singer/pianist/songwriter

Dec 29
1935 ● Virgil Johnson → Velvets
1941 ● Ray Thomas → Moody Blues
1942 ● Rick Danko → The Band
1942 ● Jerry Summers → The Dovells
1946 ● Marianne Faithfull → “As Tears Go By”
1947 ● Cozy Powell → Rainbow, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath
1948 ● Charlie Spinosa → John Fred & His Playboy Band
1951 ● Yvonne Elliman → “If I Can’t Have You” (1977)
1961 ● Jim Reid → The Jesus And Mary Chain
1968 ● Glen Phillips → Toad The Wet Sprocket

Dec 30
1928 ● Bo Diddley (Elias Otha Bates McDaniel) →
1931 ● Skeeter Davis (Mary Frances Penick) → “The End Of The World” (1963)
1934 ● Del Shannon (Charles Westover) → “Runaway” (1961)
1937 ● John Hartford (Harford) → Singer, songwrite, “Gentle On My Mind” (1967)
1939 ● Felix Pappalardi → Mountain
1942 ● Michael Nesmith → The Monkees
1943 ● John Denver →
1945 ● Davy Jones → The Monkees
1946 ● Patti Smith →
1947 ● Jeff Lynne → Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Traveling Wilburys
1956 ● Suzy Bogguss → Country singer, “Drive South” (1992)
1959 ● Tracey Ullman → Singer “They Don’t Know” (1983), comedienne
1969 ● Jay Kay → Jamiroquai
1978 ● Tyrese Darnell Gibson → R&B singer

Dec 31
1930 ● Odetta Holmes → Folk-blues, folk revival
1942 ● Andy Summers → The Police
1943 ● Pete Quaife → Kinks
1947 ● Burton Cummings → The Guess Who
1948 ● Donna Summer (Donna Adriene Gaines) →
1951 ● George Thorogood → The Destroyers
1951 ● Tom Hamilton → Aerosmith
1960 ● Paul Westerberg → The Replacements
1961 ● Scott Taylor → Then Jericho
1963 ● Scott Ian → Anthrax
1972 ● Joe McIntyre → New Kids On The Block

Jan 01
1942 ● Country Joe McDonald → Country Joe & The Fish
1950 ● Morgan Fisher → Mott The Hoople
1950 ● Steve Ripley → Tractors
1958 ● Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler) → The Furious Five

Jan 02
1936 ● Roger Miller → “King Of The Road” (1965)
1949 ● Michael George “Chick” Churchill → Ten Years After
1954 ● Glen Goins → Parliament, Funkadelic
1975 ● Doug Robb → Hoobastank
1981 ● Little Drummer Boy (Kelton Kessee) → Immature

So we wanted to give you all a quick update as to what we were doing.  Recently, we’ve just been performing tons each week trying to just become the best artists out, which takes practice as we are learning lol.  Things are going really well and we are gaining more and more attention, which is very exciting!

Also, today, our music is up on ITunes!!!  Just search ‘Lanes Mini LP’ and you’ll see what we’re about.  It’s exciting for us because it’s our first music that we’ve actually made available for our supporters to buy.  We hope you all do and we appreciate everyone that’s bought so far!!

We have some HUGE things coming up in this upcoming year literally starting in January! Stay tuned for more from Lanes! We’re just getting started.  We hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Year! Stay motivated chasing your dreams as we will do the same.

Thanks again to all who have supported us this past year!  We appreciate the love and we hope that you all know that we love you back!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

Lanes