13 декабря
Сегодня родились:
1940, Tony Gomez, The Foundations, (1967 UK No.1 single 'Baby Now That I've Found You'. 1969 US Hit single 'Build Me Up A Buttercup'.)
1945, Robert Martinez, ? & The Mysterians, (1966 US No. 1 & UK Hit single '96 Tears'). '96 Tears' was a UK hit for The Stranglers in 1990.
1948, Andy Peebles, UK radio DJ. The last person to interview John Lennon.
1948, Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter, гитарист, Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, (1973 US Hit single 'Reeling In The Years').
1948, Ted Nugent, гитарист, The Amboy Dukes, (1968 single, 'Journey To The Centre Of The Mind'). Solo, (1977 single 'Cat Scratch Fever'). Damn Yankees, (1990 album 'Damn Yankies').
1949, Tom Verlaine, гитарист и вокалист, Television, (1977 single and album 'Marquee Moon').
1948, Davy O'List, гитарист, The Nice, (1968 UK Hit single 'America'), Roxy Music, (1972 UK Hit single 'Virginia Plain' plus 15 other UK Top 40 singles).
1953, Berton Averre, гитарист, The Knack, (1979 US No.1 & UK Hit single 'My Sharona').
1967, Jamie Foxx, (born Eric Marlon Bishop). американский актёр, певец и пианист, (2005 US No.1 and UK Hit single ‘Gold Digger’ with Kanye West, 2006 US No.1 & UK No.9 album ‘Unpredictable’). Academy Award winner in 2005 for his performance of musician Ray Charles in Ray.
1970, Daniel Patrick, бас-гитарист, гитарист и клавишник, Nine Inch Nails, Tapeworm, Killing Joke, Methods of Mayhem.
1974, Nick McCarthy, гитарист, Franz Ferdinand, (winners of the 2004 Mercury Music Prize for their self-titled debut album).
1975, Tom Delonge, вокалист, гитарист, продюсер, Blink 182, (2000 UK Hit single 'All The Small Things' 2001 US No.1 album 'Take Off Your...').
1981, Amy Lynn Lee, певица, Evanescence, (2003 UK No.1 & US Hit single ‘Bring Me To Life’, 2003 UK No.1 & US No.3 album ‘Fallen’).
Ушли из жизни:
2002: Zal Yanovsky (The Lovin' Spoonful)