Musical birthdays today include operatic soprano Dame Gwyneth Jones (77), rocker Johnny Rivers (71), Joni Mitchell (70), John 'Jellybean' Benitez (56), Kiss guitarist Tommy Thayer (53), former Salt-N-Pepa rapper Sandra Denton (49), Hothouse Flowers keyboardist Liam
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Maonlai (49), Texas lead singer Sharleen Spiteri (46), classical pianist Hélène
Grimaud (44), Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck (42), Hellogoodbye lead singer Forrest Kline (30), Pussy Riot performance artist Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (24), and Ella Yelich-O'Connor AKA Lorde (17).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for trumpeter Al Hirt, who would have been 91 today... for operatic soprano Joan Sutherland, who would have been 87... for soul singer Dee Clark, who would have been 75... for country singer-songwriter Stephen Bruton, who would have been 64... and for R&B singer Carter Cornelius, who left us today in 1991.
Also on November 7: The Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest choral society in the US, is founded in the Massachusetts town of the same name (1786)... Frank Sinatra marries his second wife, actress Ava Gardner. The couple separate in 1953 and divorce in 1957 (1951)... Eddie Cochran enters the top 40 in the US and Britain with 'Summertime Blues', his first hit (1958)... The Beatles travel to Ireland and make their only two appearances ever in the country, playing two shows at the Adelphi Cinema in Dublin. The group also meet up with screenwriter Alun Owen, who has been appointed to write the screenplay for The Beatles' first (as yet untitled) motion picture. Owen will spend three days with The Beatles observing their hectic lifestyle (1963)... Reginald Dwight (AKA Elton John) and his song writing partner Bernie Taupin sign with DJM Music Publishers Their signatures have to be witnessed by their parents because they are both under 21 years of age. Taupin answered an advertisement for a lyric writer placed in the New Musical Express ~ the pair have since collaborated on over 30 albums (1967)... The Rolling Stones kick off their 6th North American tour at the University of Northern Colorado at Fort Collins, CO. Also on the bill are Ike and Tina Turner, Chuck Berry and BB King (1969)... Hall and Oates are at no. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Private Eyes' (1981)... Rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin quits Guns N’ Roses and is replaced by guitarist Gilby Clarke. Stradlin cites as his reasons a combination of Axl Rose's personal behaviour and the difficulties of being around Slash, Matt Sorum and Duff McKagan owing to his new-found sobriety (1991)... Eminem hits no. 1 on the UK signles chart with 'Just Lose It' (2004).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for trumpeter Al Hirt, who would have been 91 today... for operatic soprano Joan Sutherland, who would have been 87... for soul singer Dee Clark, who would have been 75... for country singer-songwriter Stephen Bruton, who would have been 64... and for R&B singer Carter Cornelius, who left us today in 1991.
Also on November 7: The Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest choral society in the US, is founded in the Massachusetts town of the same name (1786)... Frank Sinatra marries his second wife, actress Ava Gardner. The couple separate in 1953 and divorce in 1957 (1951)... Eddie Cochran enters the top 40 in the US and Britain with 'Summertime Blues', his first hit (1958)... The Beatles travel to Ireland and make their only two appearances ever in the country, playing two shows at the Adelphi Cinema in Dublin. The group also meet up with screenwriter Alun Owen, who has been appointed to write the screenplay for The Beatles' first (as yet untitled) motion picture. Owen will spend three days with The Beatles observing their hectic lifestyle (1963)... Reginald Dwight (AKA Elton John) and his song writing partner Bernie Taupin sign with DJM Music Publishers Their signatures have to be witnessed by their parents because they are both under 21 years of age. Taupin answered an advertisement for a lyric writer placed in the New Musical Express ~ the pair have since collaborated on over 30 albums (1967)... The Rolling Stones kick off their 6th North American tour at the University of Northern Colorado at Fort Collins, CO. Also on the bill are Ike and Tina Turner, Chuck Berry and BB King (1969)... Hall and Oates are at no. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Private Eyes' (1981)... Rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin quits Guns N’ Roses and is replaced by guitarist Gilby Clarke. Stradlin cites as his reasons a combination of Axl Rose's personal behaviour and the difficulties of being around Slash, Matt Sorum and Duff McKagan owing to his new-found sobriety (1991)... Eminem hits no. 1 on the UK signles chart with 'Just Lose It' (2004).
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