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Music History Events: Births

November 16, 1948 "Thunder and Lightning" (1972) singer Chi Coltrane is born in Racine, Wisconsin.

November 9, 1948 Blue Öyster Cult bass player Albert Bouchard is born in Watertown, New York.

November 9, 1948 Alan Gratzer (drummer for REO Speedwagon) is born in Syracuse, New York.

November 6, 1948 Glenn Frey is born in Detroit, Michigan. After moving to Los Angeles, he forms the Eagles with Don Henley, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner.

November 5, 1948 Don McDougall (guitarist for The Guess Who) is born in Canada.

November 5, 1948 Peter Hammill (lead vocalist for Van Der Graaf Generator) is born in Ealing, London, England.

November 3, 1948 Lulu is born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The singer finds international fame with the title songs to the films To Sir With Love and The Man With the Golden Gun.

October 28, 1948 Telma Hopkins (of Tony Orlando & Dawn) is born in Louisville, Kentucky. Also a popular actress, her best-known role is Rachel Crawford on the '90s sitcom Family Matters.

October 28, 1948 Rickie Lee Reynolds (guitarist for Black Oak Arkansas) is born in Manilan, Arkansas.

October 24, 1948 Dale "Buffin" Griffin (drummer for Mott The Hoople) is born Terence Dale Griffin in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England.

October 24, 1948 Twin pop singers Paul and Barry Ryan are born with the surname Sapherson in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

October 19, 1948 Patrick Simmons (of The Doobie Brothers) is born in Aberdeen, Washington.

October 15, 1948 Pop/rock singer Chris de Burgh is born Christopher John Davison in Venado Tuerto, Argentina.

October 14, 1948 R&B singer Marcia Barrett (of Boney M.) is born in St Catherine, Jamaica.

October 13, 1948 John Ford Coley, folk rock/country singer and instrumentalist, is born in Dallas, Texas.

October 12, 1948 Rick Parfitt (vocalist/guitarist for Status Quo) is born in Woking, Surrey, England.

October 10, 1948 Cyril Neville (percussionist/vocalist for The Neville Brothers) is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

October 9, 1948 Jackson Browne is born Clyde Jackson Browne in Heidelberg, Germany, where his American serviceman father is stationed. After doing time in the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and as a staff songwriter, he releases his first album in 1972, the same year the Eagles land their first hit with "Take It Easy," co-written by Browne.

October 8, 1948 John Cummings is born in Long Island, New York. A founding member of the Ramones, he becomes "Johnny Ramone."

October 5, 1948 Lucius "Tawl" Ross (rhythm guitarist for Funkadelic) is born in Wagram, North Carolina.

October 1, 1948 Brownsville Station frontman Michael "Cub" Koda is born in Detroit, Michigan. He writes the group's 1973 hit "Smokin' in the Boy's Room," which is later covered by Motley Crue.

September 29, 1948 Guitarist Mike Pinera (of Iron Butterfly) is born in Tampa, Florida.

September 29, 1948 Mark Farner (lead singer/guitarist for Grand Funk) is born in Flint, Michigan.

September 26, 1948 Olivia Newton-John is born in Cambridge, England. She is raised in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

September 26, 1948 Stuart Tosh (drummer for The Alan Parsons Project) is born in Aberdeen, Scotland.

September 20, 1948 The fraternal twin brothers Chuck and John Panozzo are born in Chicago. Along with James Young, Dennis DeYoung and John Curulewski, they form the band Styx, where they are the rhythm section, Chuck on bass and John on drums.

September 16, 1948 Rock drummer Kenney Jones (of The Small Faces and The Who) is born in Whitechapel, East London, England.

September 16, 1948 Ron Blair (original bassist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is born in San Diego, California.

September 3, 1948 Donald Brewer (drummer and co-lead singer for Grand Funk Railroad) is born in Flint, Michigan.

August 31, 1948 Guitarist Rudolf Schenker (founder of Scorpions) is born in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany.