Rock & Roll Birthdays

1947 Steve Howe, English progressive rock guitarist (Yes - "Roundabout"; Asia - "Heat Of The Moment"), born in London, England

• 1932 Carl Perkins, American rockabilly singer and songwriter ("Blue Suede Shoes"; "Honey Don't"), born in Jackson, Tennessee (d. 199

• 1947 Bunny Wailer [Neville O'Riley Livingston], Jamaican vocalist and percussionist (The Wailers with Bob Marley), born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 2021)

Wailer was born Neville O'Riley Livingston on 10 April 1947 in Kingston.[6] He spent his earliest years in the village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish. It was there that he first met Bob Marley, and the two young boys befriended each other quickly.[7] The boys both came from single-parent families; Livingston was brought up by his father, Marley by his mother.[8][9] Later, Wailer's father Thaddeus "Thaddy Shut" Livingston lived with Marley's mother Cedella Booker in Trenchtown and had a daughter with her named Pearl Livingston.[9] Peter Tosh had a son, Andrew Tosh, with Wailer's sister Shirley, making Andrew his nephew.[10]

• 1957 Steve Gustafson, American bass guitarist (10,000 Maniacs), born in Seville, Spain

1971 Oliver Riedel, German bassist

1987 Joss Stone [Joscelyn Stoker], English singer-songwriter (The Soul Sessions), born in Dover, Kent
https://www.onthisday.com/people/joss-stone

1944 John Kay

perhaps my all time favorite clip

• 1944 Jack Casady, American rock bassist (Hot Tuna; Jefferson Airplane -"Volunteers"; "White Rabbit"), born in Washington, D.C.

• 1945 Lowell George, American rock vocalist and guitarist (Little Feat - "Willin'"; "Dixie Chicken"), born in Hollywood, California (d. 1979)