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August 22, 1947 Singer Donna Jean Godchaux, the only female member of the Grateful Dead, is born in Florence, Alabama. Born Donna Jean Thatcher, she marries keyboard player Keith Godchaux, who also joins the Dead, in 1970.
August 17, 1947 Rock/soul musician Gary Talley (of The Box Tops and Big Star) is born in Memphis, Tennessee.
August 10, 1947 Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson is born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Safe to say he's the biggest rock star whose primary instrument is flute, as heard on classics like "Aqualung" and "Bungle In The Jungle."
August 7, 1947 Jazz historian, occasional songwriter and the future first wife of Larry Coryell, Julie Nathanson, is born in Manhattan, New York.
August 5, 1947 Guitarist/vocalist Rick Derringer (of the Edgar Winter Group and The McCoys) is born in Fort Recovery, Ohio.
August 5, 1947 Greg Leskiw (guitarist for The Guess Who) is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
July 24, 1947 Drummer Alan Whitehead, of Marmalade, is born in Oswestry, Shropshire, England.
July 23, 1947 David Essex is born David Albert Cook in London. Known in America for his hit "Rock On," he is far more successful in the UK, where he lands 19 Top 40 hits and acts in a number of big musicals, including the London production of Evita.
July 15, 1947 Guitarist Peter Banks, a founding member of Yes who is with the band until 1970, is born Peter William Brockbanks in Chipping Barnet, North London, England.
July 8, 1947 New Mexico's Roswell Daily Record reports an alien aircraft has crashed near a local ranch with the headline "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer In Roswell Region." In the coming decades, extraterrestrials and flying saucers invade several songs, including David Bowie's "Starman," Megadeth's "Hangar 18," and Radiohead's "Subterranean Homesick Alien."More
July 7, 1947 David Hodo (Village People construction worker) is born in Palo Alto, California.
July 3, 1947 Actress/singer Betty Buckley, Tony Award-winner for her role as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of Cats, is born in Big Spring, Texas.
June 24, 1947 Mick Fleetwood (drummer for Fleetwood Mac) is born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, though he'll grow up in locales around the world due to his father's career as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot.
June 22, 1947 Howard Kaylan (lead singer of The Turtles, Flo & Eddie) is born Howard Kaplan in the Bronx, New York.
June 17, 1947 Paul Young, singer with Sad Café and Mike + the Mechanics, is born in Manchester, England. Not to be confused with the Paul Young who sang "Everytime You Go Away."
June 14, 1947 Barry Melton (original lead guitarist for Country Joe & The Fish, Dinosaurs) is born in Brooklyn, New York.
June 11, 1947 Glenn Leonard of The Temptations is born in Washington, DC.
June 9, 1947 Mick Box (lead guitarist for Uriah Heep) is born in Walthamstow, East London, England.
June 3, 1947 Dave Alexander (original bassist for The Stooges) is born in Whitmore Lake, Michigan, and will be raised in nearby Ann Arbor.
June 1, 1947 Guitarist Ron Wood is born in London. He goes on to join The Faces and The Rolling Stones.
May 27, 1947 Marty Kristian of The New Seekers is born Martin Vanags in Leipzig, Germany.
May 24, 1947 Cynthia "Plaster" Caster, an artist known for her plaster casts of celebrities' genitalia and breasts, is born Cynthia Albritton in Chicago, Illinois. Her work inspires the 2001 documentary Plaster Caster.
May 16, 1947 '60s singer Barbara Lee (of The Chiffons) is born in The Bronx, New York.
May 15, 1947 Graeham Goble, guitarist and harmony vocalist of Little River Band, is born in Adelaide, Australia. He writes the band's biggest hit, "Reminiscing."
May 10, 1947 Rocker Jay Ferguson (Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne) is born John Arden Ferguson in Burbank, California. As a composer, he will create the theme to NBC-TV's The Office.
April 21, 1947 Alan Warner (lead guitarist for The Foundations) is born in Paddington, West London, England.
April 21, 1947 Iggy Pop is born James Newell Osterberg Jr. in Muskegon, Michigan. As a solo artist and with his band The Stooges, he literally bleeds on stage, often rolling shirtless in broken glass. His most POP-ular songs are "The Passenger" and "Lust For Life," both released in 1977.
April 16, 1947 Rock singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty (of Stealers Wheel) is born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
April 16, 1947 Rock drummer Lee Kerslake (of Uriah Heep, Blizzard of Ozz) is born in Winton, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.
April 15, 1947 Mike Chapman is born in Queensland, Australia. After moving to England and teaming up with Nicky Chinn, he becomes a top songwriter and producer, responsible for the hits "Devil Gate Drive," "Ballroom Blitz" and "A Touch Too Much." After moving to America in 1975, his hits continue with "Kiss You All Over" and "Love Is A Battlefield."
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