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November 5, 1948 Don McDougall (guitarist for The Guess Who) is born in Canada.
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 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 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 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 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 Ron Blair, original bassist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, is born in San Diego, California. Blair has two stints with the band - from 1976 to 1982, and from 2002 until Petty's death in 2017.
September 12, 1948 Giving up her job at the Tupelo Garment Company in Mississippi, Gladys Presley and her husband Vernon move to Memphis with their son, Elvis.
September 9, 1948 Pamela Des Barres, perhaps the most famous groupie of all time, is born. She boasts liaisons with Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger and Keith Moon, and even joins a band made up of groupies, The GTO's, in 1969. In 2013 she starts her own fashion label: "Groupie Couture."
August 31, 1948 Guitarist Rudolf Schenker (founder of Scorpions) is born in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany.
August 26, 1948 Motown songwriter Valerie Simpson (half of the Ashford & Simpson team) is born in The Bronx, New York.
August 22, 1948 Guitarist David Marks is born in New Castle, Washington. When he is 7, his family moves to Hawthorne, California across the street from the Wilson family, which forms The Beach Boys. Marks joins the band in 1961, but is replaced two years later by Al Jardine.
August 20, 1948 Robert Plant is born in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. Best known at Led Zeppelin's lead singer, he wins the Album of the Year Grammy for Raising Sand, his 2007 collaboration with Alison Krauss.
August 19, 1948 Country/pop singer Susan Jacks (of The Poppy Family) is born Susan Pesklevits in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
August 11, 1948 Bill Hurd (pianist/organist for the Rubettes) is born in East Ham, East London, England.
July 24, 1948 Drummer Kim Berly, of The Stampeders, is born Kimball Meyer in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada.
July 19, 1948 Keith Godchaux (keyboardist for Grateful Dead throughout the '70s) is born in Seattle, Washington, but will grow up in Concord, California.
July 17, 1948 Ron Asheton (guitarist, bassist for The Stooges) is born in Washington, D.C.
July 15, 1948 Thomas Delmer Pyle is born in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1974, under the name Artimus Pyle, he joins the band Lynyrd Skynyrd. His musical career with Skynyrd earns him induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.
July 1, 1948 John Ford (multi-instrumentalist of The Strawbs) is born in Fulham, London, England.
June 29, 1948 Twin brothers Derv and Lincoln Gordon of The Equals are born in Jamaica.
June 24, 1948 Patrick Moraz (keyboardist for Yes, The Moody Blues) is born in Morges, Switzerland.
June 22, 1948 Todd Rundgren is born outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the '70s, he becomes a top solo artist and one of the most celebrated producers in music, with Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell his biggest commercial success.
June 11, 1948 Rock drummer Skip Alan (of The Pretty Things, Them) is born in England.
June 1, 1948 The Chicago-based blues musician Sonny Boy Williamson is murdered during a robbery at age 34. A different musician based in the South who has been imiating him continues to use the name and becomes the best known Sonny Boy Williamson after writing songs like "One Way Out" and "Help Me" that are widely recorded.
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