Pick a Day

Born on December 17

1972 Craig "DJ Homicide" Bullock (of Sugar Ray) is born in Pasadena, California.

1961 Sarah Dallin (of Bananarama) is born in Bristol, England.

1958 Mike Mills (bassist, keyboardist for R.E.M.) is born in Orange County, California. He meets future bandmate Bill Berry when he moves to Macon, Georgia, at age 10.

1951 Wanda Hutchinson (of The Emotions) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1950 Carlton "Carlie" Barrett (drummer for The Wailers) is born in Kingston, Jamaica.

1949 Paul Rodgers, lead singer and lyricist of Free and Bad Company, is born in Middlesbrough, England.

1948 Jim Bonfanti (drummer for The Raspberries) is born in Windber, Pennsylvania.

1942 Paul Butterfield (of Paul Butterfield Blues Band) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1941 Dave Dee (of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich) is born David John Harman in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He is one of the first police cadets on scene at Eddie Cochran's fatal car accident and learns to play the guitar on Cochran's impounded Gretsch.

1939 Eddie Kendricks (of The Temptations) is born in Union Springs, Alabama. Kendricks' famous falsetto takes the lead on "The Way You Do The Things You Do" and "Just My Imagination."

1937 Art Neville, keyboard player with The Neville Brothers, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1936 Tommy Steele is born Thomas William Hicks in Bermondsey, London, England.

1933 Country singer Nat Stuckey is born in Cass County, Texas.

1910 Jazz bandleader Sy Oliver is born in Battle Creek, Michigan.