Musical birthdays today include bluesman Lonnie Brooks (80), jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith (75), Big Brother & the Holding Company led guitarist Sam Andrew (72), Keith Richards (70), ex-Santana lead singer Alex Ligertwood (67). former BeBop Deluxe guitarist Bill Nelson (65), French chansonnier Laurent Voulzy (65), ex-Cars lead guitarist Elliot Easton (60), Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker (55), former White Lion drummer Greg D'Angelo (50), Alejandro Sanz (45), rapper DMX (43), Fear Factor drummer Raymond Herrera (41), and Christina Aguilera (33).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for hymn composer Charles Wesley, born on this day in 1707... for composer & pianist Edward MacDowell, born in 1860... for empresario and former Animals bassist Chas Chandler, who would have been 75... for ex-Ozzy Osbourne drummer Randy Castillo, who would have been 63... for violin maker Antonio Stradivari, who died on this date in 1737... and for singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl, who left us today in 2000 at the age of 41 as the result of a boating accident.
Also on December 18: Pyotr Tchaikovsky's 'The Nutcracker Suite' premieres in St. Petersburg (1892)... The Tokens start a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' (1961)... A day after arriving at Heathrow Airport, Bob Dylan plays his first UK gig ever at London's Troubador Club (1962)... Tara Browne is killed when driving at high speed in his Lotus Elan after it collides with a parked lorry in South Kensington, London... A close friend of Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, his death was immortalized in The Beatles’s song ‘A Day In The Life’ after John Lennon read a report on the coroner's verdict into Browne's death (1966)... Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5, the group's debut album, is released (1969)... Jerry Lee Lewis and his wife Myra, whom he married when she was 13, are officially divorced, as 'The Killer' prepares to marry 29-year old Karen Elizabeth Gunn Pate... Sly and the Family Stone to the top of the Billboard album chart with There's a Riot Goin' on (1971)... In Durango, Mexico, Bob Dylan begins filming his role as 'Alias' in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1972)... The Spice Girls unveil their waxwork look-alikes at Madame Tussaud's, London. Each model cost £35,000 to make (1999)... James Brown and Loretta Lynn are honoured for their contributions to American culture. The pair are invited to a gala attended by President George W Bush at the Kennedy Arts Center in Washington, DC (2003).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for hymn composer Charles Wesley, born on this day in 1707... for composer & pianist Edward MacDowell, born in 1860... for empresario and former Animals bassist Chas Chandler, who would have been 75... for ex-Ozzy Osbourne drummer Randy Castillo, who would have been 63... for violin maker Antonio Stradivari, who died on this date in 1737... and for singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl, who left us today in 2000 at the age of 41 as the result of a boating accident.
Also on December 18: Pyotr Tchaikovsky's 'The Nutcracker Suite' premieres in St. Petersburg (1892)... The Tokens start a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' (1961)... A day after arriving at Heathrow Airport, Bob Dylan plays his first UK gig ever at London's Troubador Club (1962)... Tara Browne is killed when driving at high speed in his Lotus Elan after it collides with a parked lorry in South Kensington, London... A close friend of Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, his death was immortalized in The Beatles’s song ‘A Day In The Life’ after John Lennon read a report on the coroner's verdict into Browne's death (1966)... Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5, the group's debut album, is released (1969)... Jerry Lee Lewis and his wife Myra, whom he married when she was 13, are officially divorced, as 'The Killer' prepares to marry 29-year old Karen Elizabeth Gunn Pate... Sly and the Family Stone to the top of the Billboard album chart with There's a Riot Goin' on (1971)... In Durango, Mexico, Bob Dylan begins filming his role as 'Alias' in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1972)... The Spice Girls unveil their waxwork look-alikes at Madame Tussaud's, London. Each model cost £35,000 to make (1999)... James Brown and Loretta Lynn are honoured for their contributions to American culture. The pair are invited to a gala attended by President George W Bush at the Kennedy Arts Center in Washington, DC (2003).
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