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May 13, 1950 Stevie Wonder is born Stevland Morris in Saginaw, Michigan.More
May 12, 1950 Rocker Billy Squier is born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. His breakout year is 1981, when the new network MTV plays his hits "The Stroke" and "In The Dark."
May 7, 1950 Drummer Prairie Prince (of The Tubes, Journey, New Cars) is born Charles Lempriere Prince in Charlotte, North Carolina.
May 6, 1950 Robbie McIntosh (drummer for The Average White Band) is born in Dundee, Scotland.
May 3, 1950 Mary Hopkin is born in Pontardawe, Wales. She signs with The Beatles' Apple Records in 1968 after a winning performance on the UK TV competition show Opportunity Knocks, and releases her first single, "Those Were The Days," later that year.
May 2, 1950 Foreigner lead singer Lou Gramm is born Louis Andrew Grammatico in Rochester, New York. He and guitarist Mick Jones, the main songwriters in the group, are inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013.
April 25, 1950 Steve Ferrone (drummer for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Average White Band) is born in Brighton, England.
April 4, 1950 Rock drummer Phillip "Pip" Pyle (of Gong, Hatfield and the North, and National Health) is born in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England.
March 21, 1950 Roger Hodgson of Supertramp is born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. He writes and sings many of their hits, including "The Logical Song" and "Dreamer," but in 1983 he leaves the group after a falling out with Rick Davies and never returns.
March 20, 1950 Drummer Carl Palmer is born in Birmingham, England. At age 20, he gets the gig with Greg Lake and Keith Emerson, who choose him over Mitch Mitchell for their band Emerson, Lake & Palmer.More
March 10, 1950 Ted McKenna (drummer for The Sensational Alex Harvey Band) is born in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
February 20, 1950 Walter Becker, co-founder of Steely Dan, is born in Queens, New York City. He meets bandmate and songwriting partner Donald Fagen while attending Bard College.
February 17, 1950 Rickey Medlocke, Lynyrd Skynyrd member and frontman of the band Blackfoot, is born in Jacksonville, Florida. He is inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
February 6, 1950 Natalie Cole is born in Los Angeles, California, to crooner Nat King Cole and former Duke Ellington Orchestra singer Maria Hawkins Cole.
February 1, 1950 Mike Campbell, lead guitarist for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, is born in Panama City, Florida. He's Petty's main songwriting collaborator, and he also works with Don Henley, co-writing and playing guitar on "The Boys of Summer" and "The Heart Of The Matter."
January 21, 1950 Billy Ocean is born Leslie Sebastian Charles in Trinidad and Tobago. At age 10 he moves to London with his family. He first charts in 1976 with "Love Really Hurts Without You," but he really breaks through with "Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)" in 1984, kicking off a run of hits that includes "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" and "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going."
January 16, 1950 Damo Suzuki (lead singer of the German band Can) is born Kenji Suzuki in Japan.
January 14, 1950 The Andrews Sisters' "I Can Dream, Can't I?" hits #1.
January 13, 1950 Jinx Dawson, practitioner of the dark arts and frontwoman of the metal band Coven, is born in Indianapolis, Indiana.More
January 7, 1950 Gene Autry's "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," based on a children's book written in 1939, hits #1 on the Billboard singles chart.
January 2, 1950 Sam Phillips opens the Memphis Recording Service, which he later renames Sun Studio. Among the artists to record there is Elvis Presley, who gets his start recording with Phillips.
January 1, 1950 Morgan Fisher (keyboardist for Mott The Hoople) is born Stephen Morgan Fisher in Mayfair, London, England.
December 23, 1949 Adrian Belew is born Robert Steven Belew in Covington, Kentucky. The guitarist plays with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, King Crimson, Paul Simon, Nine Inch Nails, Primus, and William Shatner.
December 22, 1949 The twins Maurice and Robin Gibb are born in Douglas, Isle Of Man, and raised in Manchester, England. They join older brother Barry to form the Bee Gees.
December 3, 1949 Nicky Stevens (Brotherhood of Man vocalist) is born Helen Thomas in Carmarthen, Wales.
November 28, 1949 Paul Shaffer is born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. The multi-instrumentalist finds fame as a bandleader on the Late Show with David Letterman.
November 21, 1949 Drummer Randy Zehringer, brother of The McCoys' guitarist Rick Derringer, is born in Celina, Ohio.
November 14, 1949 Styx guitarist James Young is born in the Chicago suburb of Western Springs, Illinois.
November 13, 1949 Rocker Terry Reid is born in Huntingdon, England. Known for '60s songs like "Better By Far" and The Hollies' "A Man With No Expression," which he wrote with Graham Nash (later recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young as "Horses Through A Rainstorm").
November 8, 1949 Bonnie Raitt is born in Burbank, California. She becomes a headline act in the '70s but ebbs in the '80s until a remarkable resurgence with her 1989 album Nick Of Time, which wins four Grammy Awards and goes to #1 in America.
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