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Rock Birthdays
Posted: 04 Jul 2005, 22:23
by lazarus corporation
rockdate diary - another pointless waste of time - find out which rock stars you share your birthday with.
me:
Edwin Starr
Billy Ocean
Wendy James (Transvision Vamp)
Emma Bunton (Spice Girls)
and
Benny Hill
Posted: 04 Jul 2005, 22:26
by Brideoffrankenstein
Gene Krupa (jazz drummer)
Earl Hooker (blues singer/guitarist)
Captain Beefheart (Don van Vliet) (….. and His Magic Band)
Pete Waterman (record producer)
Ronnie Van Zandt (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Martha Davis (The Motels)
Melvyn Gale (ELO)
Pete Trenavas (Marillion)
Lisa Velez (Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam)
Posted: 04 Jul 2005, 22:31
by scotty
Louis Armstrong and Bill Withers,not bad,
at least it's not Benny Hill!
Posted: 04 Jul 2005, 22:42
by ruffers
1898 Scott Joplin (ragtime pianist/composer)
1928 Michael Holliday (Story of My Life)
1941 Donald 'Duck' Dunn (Booker T. and the MGs)
1942 Billy Connolly (D.I.V.O.R.C.E.)
1943 Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band)
1955 Clement Burke (Blondie)
1958 Carmel (Bad Day)
1962 John Squire (Stone Roses)
Well I've heard of 2 of them, although I'm not sure Billy Connolly really hacks it as a rock star...
Posted: 04 Jul 2005, 23:06
by aims
1941 Tony Sylvester (Main Ingredient)
1943 Dino Valenti (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1945 Kevin Godley (10CC)
1949 David Hope (Kansas)
1951 John 'Cougar' Mellencamp (American Fool)
1953 Tico Torres (Bon Jovi)
1968 Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
1968 Toni Braxton
Yay, I got Thom Yorke!
A little more goffickly however, I was born on the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's death
Posted: 04 Jul 2005, 23:57
by nick the stripper
Births
1913 Earl Bostic (US sax player)
1918 Ella Fitzgerald (jazz singer)
1923 Albert King (US blues guitarist)
1933 Jerry Leiber (half of Leiber and Stoller writing team)
1945 Bjorn Ulvaeus (Abba)
1945 Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1950 Steve Perrone (Average White Band)
1964 Andy Bell (Erasure)
I share a birthday with Bjorn Ulvaeus.
...she's the blond one, right?
Posted: 04 Jul 2005, 23:59
by smiscandlon
nick the stripper wrote:she's the blond one, right?
I hate to disappoint you, but...
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 00:05
by Delilah
smiscandlon wrote:nick the stripper wrote:she's the blond one, right?
I hate to disappoint you, but...
I am sure Nick doesn't mind! He's kind of blond too!
By the way, speaking of Bjorn:
can you see some similarities?
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 00:10
by nick the stripper
SON OF A BITCH!
It wasn't even the good looking one out of the two men.
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 00:14
by Delilah
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 01:19
by eastmidswhizzkid
the only ones i've heard of are dave coverdale(whitesnake),which i already knew(but never boasted) about;and JoanJett.(which sort of makes up for dave coverdale)
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 02:38
by Andrew S
Me:
1944 Bobby Colombi (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1947 Peter Criss (original drummer, Kiss)
1957 Anita Baker
1958 Billy Bragg
1966 Chris Robinson (The Black Crowes)
Only others that I know of are Geoffrey Howe, Bo Derek and Uri Geller.
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 07:33
by Dark
1987 Pet Shop Boys: 'Always on My Mind' UK 45
1915 Edith Piaf (Milord)
1940 Phil Ochs (There But For Fortune)
1941 Maurice White (Earth, Wind and Fire)
1944 Alvin Lee (Ten Years After)
1944 Zal Yanosky (Lovin' Spoonful)
1945 John McEven (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1947 Peter Criss (Crisscoula) (Kiss)
1957 Anita Baker
1966 Chris Robinson (Black Crowes)
1958 Limahl (Kajagoogoo)
However:
1965 Drummer Keith Moon collapses at Who gig at Ricky Tick Club in Windsor
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 07:43
by Thea
13th September:
1941 David Clayton-Thomas (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1944 Peter Cetera (Chicago)
1950 Randy Jones (Village People)
1952 Don Was
1954 Steve Kilbey (The Church)
1961 Dave Mustaince (Megadeth)
1965 Zak Starkey (Son of Ringo Starr)
1977 Fiona Apple
I share a birthday with one of Was not Was... How f**king cool is that?!
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 07:49
by smiscandlon
d00mw0lf wrote:I share a birthday with one of Was not Was... How f**king cool is that?!
Not very?
Only joking.
Woodwork squeaks and out come the freaks .
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 07:50
by hallucienate
1927 Johnny Horton (Battle of New Orleans)
1933 Willie Nelson (country singer)
1943 Bobby Vee (Take Good Care Of My Baby)
1953 Merrill Osmond (Osmonds)
Willie Nelson! but I knew that already.
*wanders off singing On The Road Again*
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 10:00
by markfiend
March 28
No. 1
1963 Shadows: Foot Tapper UK 45
1970 Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water UK 45
1981 Shakin' Stevens: This Ole House UK 45
1981 Blondie: Rapture US 45
1987 Mel and Kim : Respectable UK 45
1998 Celine Dion : Let's Talk About Love : UK LP
Births
1937 Dean Webb (Dillards)
1941 Charlie McCoy (Area Code 615)
1942 Neil Kinnock (vice president of Gene Vincent Fan Club)
1948 John Evan (Jethro Tull)
1955 Reba McEntire
1962 Geo Grimes (Danny Wilson)
1967 James Atkins (EMF)
1969 Salt (Cheryl James)(Salt'n'Pepa)
Deaths
1974 Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup (writer of That's Alright)
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 10:23
by nick the stripper
markfiend wrote:March 28
Deaths
1974 Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup (writer of That's Alright)
The bloke who played the original Mark Fowler in Eastenders died the exact day I was born...
...that was ment immodestly but then I realised what I was boasting about. Your dead guy is better than my dead guy.
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 17:30
by The Pope
Births
1915` Al Hibbler (Unchained Melody)
1931 Eydie Gorme (Blame It on The Bossa Nova)
1942 Barbara George (I Know)
1945 Kevin Ayres (Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes)
1945 Gary Loizza (Bend Me Shape Me)
1953 James Taylor (Kool and the Gang)
1957 Tim Farriss (INXS)
1958 Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone)
1960 Chris Pedersen (Camper Van Beethoven)
Deaths
1938 Robert Johnson (blues musician)
1977 Elvis Presley
I have Madonna and Elvis on my side...I'm so destined to be a rockstar
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 18:12
by radiojamaica
No. 1 :
1992 Iron Maiden : Fear of the Dark : UK LP
1998 Mariah Carey : My All : US single
Births
1918 Bumps Blackwell (Founder of Specialty Label)
1921 Humphrey Lyttleton (UK jazz trumpeter/broadcaster)
1934 Robert Moog (synthesizer)
1967 Junior Waite (Musical Youth)
1967 Phil Selway (Radiohead)
1974 Jewel
... and they forgot about Belgiums biggest 'Romancier' Guido Belcanto!!!!
Deaths
1963 Elmore James (blues performer)
...and Ian Curtis was burried that day in 1980...
Miscellany
1964 Beach Boys release I Get Around in the US
1969 The Who's rock-opera album Tommy is released
1970 Grateful Dead play their first UK date at the Hollywood Music Festival in Newcastle
1977 Jefferson Airplane are barred from giving a free concert at Golden Gate Park when San Francisco authorities pass a resolution banning electronic instruments. Group later write We Built this City about the ban.
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 18:22
by Izzy HaveMercy
"1965 George Harrison has his tonsils removed at University College Hospital, London. "
This was enough to close the page.
IZ.
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 18:29
by timsinister
Nothing on that sight can cancel out the fact that I share a birthday with that gormless idiot Carrey.
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 19:30
by Obviousman
radiojamaica wrote:... and they forgot about Belgiums biggest 'Romancier' Guido Belcanto!!!!
My co-birthday people:
1929 Lee Hazelwood (producer, Duane Eddy)
1946 Bon Scott (AC/DC)
1953 Kate Garner (Haysi Fantasi)
1954 Debbie Sledge (Sister Sledge)
1956 Marc Almond (Tainted Love)
1959 Jim Kerr (Simple Minds)
1964 Courtney Love
1971 Kelvin Grant (Musical Youth)
Yikes, courtney
...
Misc:
1954 Frank Sinatra makes solo debut on UK chart with 'Young at Heart'
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 21:30
by Black Alice
Humph
Don't share a birthday with anyone good, no-one "good" died on my birthday ........
.....oh, great - Kurt Cobain lapsed into a coma in Rome in 1994 on my birthday (lovely
).
But who knew that Slades "Come on Hear the Noise" was
actually spelt "
Cum on Hear the Noize"
(Silly girl with a dirty mind - thats me
)
Posted: 05 Jul 2005, 23:31
by eastmidswhizzkid
sorry to be pedantic but it's "cum on
feel the noize"