Rock & Roll Birthdays

1963 Karrin Allyson, American jazz singer (Wild for You), born in Great Bend, Kansas

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1944 Bobbie Gentry [Roberta Streeter], American singer and songwriter (Ode to Billy Joe), born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi

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1943 Mike Bloomfield, American blues guitarist

1943 Richard Wright, English singer-songwriter keyboardist (d. 200

1949 Simon Kirke, British rock drummer

1953 Steve Duncan, drummer

1953 Geddy Lee, lead vocalist/bassist (Rush-Tom Sawyer), born in Toronto, Ontario

1959 John Sykes, English rock guitarist and singer (Thin Lizzy; Blue Murder), born in Reading, Berkshire,England

1936 Buddy [George] Guy, American blues guitarist (Stone Crazy), born in Lettsworth, Louisiana

1945 David Sanborn, American jazz saxophonist (David Letterman Show), born in Tampa, Florida

1946 Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, English rock bassist (Jethro Tull), born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England

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During the time of Jethro Tull's dramatic stage costumes, Hammond began to wear a black-and-white-striped suit and played a matching bass guitar; this became his trademark and a feature of the group's Thick as a Brick stage performance. . . . . . . .
Hammond burned the suit in December 1975 upon his departure from the band.[3] According to Ian Anderson's sleevenotes for the 2002 reissue of Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery, Hammond "returned to his first love, painting, and put down his bass guitar, never to play again.". . . . .

1939 John R. West, rock guitarist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring), born in Uhrichsville, Ohio

1946 Gary Lewis [Levitch], American singer (Gary Lewis & the Playboys) born in Newark, New Jersey

1947 Karl Green, English rock bassist (Herman's Hermits), born in Salford, England

1953 Hugh McDowell, British cellist (Electric Light Orchestra), born in Hampstead, London

1958 Bill Berry, American drummer (R.E.M.), born in Duluth, Minnesota

1978 Will Champion, English musician (drummer for Coldplay), born in Southampton, England

1978 Zac Brown, American musician (Zac Brown Band), born in Dahlonega, Georgia

1922 Maria Cole [née Hawkins], American jazz singer and wife of Nat King Cole, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2012)