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May 13, 1950 Stevie Wonder is born Stevland Morris in Saginaw, Michigan.More
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.
March 3, 1950 Rock singer Re Styles (of The Tubes) is born Shirley Marie MacLeod.
December 3, 1949 Nicky Stevens (Brotherhood of Man vocalist) is born Helen Thomas in Carmarthen, Wales.
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.
July 10, 1949 Greg Kihn, known for his '80s hits "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" and "Jeopardy," is born in Baltimore, Maryland.
May 9, 1949 Billy Joel is born in The Bronx, New York, raised in Hicksville on Long Island.More
December 31, 1948 Donna Summer, the "Queen of Disco," is born LaDonna Adrian Gaines in Boston, Massachusetts. She earns her new surname when a record label misprints her married name, Sommer, as Summer.
December 3, 1948 Ozzy Osbourne is born John Michael Osbourne in Birmingham, England. He forms the genre-defining heavy metal band Black Sabbath in 1968 but goes solo in 1979 when he's booted from the band. Remarkably, his solo career is even more successful, with a run of hits that includes "Crazy Train" and "Mama, I'm Coming Home."
October 28, 1948 In St. Louis, Missouri, Chuck Berry marries Themetta "Toddy" Suggs. They remain married until Berry's death in 2017.
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.
May 15, 1948 Ambient composer Brian Eno is born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.More
February 18, 1948 Keith Knudsen (drummer for The Doobie Brothers) is born in Le Mars, Iowa.
February 7, 1948 Jimmy Greenspoon (keyboardist for Three Dog Night) is born in Los Angeles, California. His mother is silent movie actress Mary O'Brian.
November 13, 1947 Toy Caldwell, the lead guitarist and primary songwriter in The Marshall Tucker Band, is born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Instead of using a pick, he strums with his thumb, giving him a distinctive tone that helps set the band apart from other Southern rockers.
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 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."
May 27, 1947 Marty Kristian of The New Seekers is born Martin Vanags in Leipzig, Germany.
January 8, 1947 David Jones is born in London. At age 18, he changes his name to David Bowie (after the Bowie knife) to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees.More
December 30, 1946 Punk rock icon Patti Smith is born in Chicago. Never all that popular (her big hit is a reworking of "Because The Night," written by Bruce Springsteen), she's one of the most influential singer-songwriter-poets of her time.More
December 25, 1946 Jimmy Buffett is born in Pascagoula, Mississippi. He's raised in Mobile, Alabama, but his true home will always be in "Margaritaville."More
November 9, 1946 Benny Mardones ("Into The Night") is born Ruben Armand Mardones in Cleveland, Ohio.
July 29, 1946 Jazz great Charlie Parker falls asleep while smoking and sets his hotel bed on fire. He is arrested after wandering through the hotel lobby wearing nothing but socks. The incident leads to a stay at the Camarillo State Hospital (a mental institution), which inspires his song "Relaxin' at Camarillo."
July 20, 1946 John Almond (of The Johnny Almond Music Machine, Mark-Almond) is born in Enfield, Middlesex, England.
November 11, 1945 Vince Martell, guitarist for Vanilla Fudge (known for their cover of "You Keep Me Hangin' On"), is born Vincent James Martellucci in New York City.
May 28, 1945 John Fogerty is born, but not on the bayou; the Creedence Clearwater Revival leader claims Berkeley, California as his birthplace.More
March 21, 1945 Rose Stone (singer, keyboardist for Sly & the Family Stone) is born Rosemary Stewart in Dallas, Texas.
February 6, 1945 Bob Marley is born Nesta Robert Marley in Jamaica. His mother is a native of Jamaica and his father an officer in the British military.More
December 27, 1944 Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones is born in Portsmouth, England. Along with lead singer Lou Gramm, he's the primary songwriter in the band, whose hits include "Juke Box Hero" and "I Want to Know What Love Is."
December 11, 1944 Brenda Lee is born Brenda Mae Tarpley in Atlanta, Georgia. Her small stature and big voice inspire the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite," which she lives up to by blowing up the charts with rockabilly bops ("Sweet Nothin's"), pop ballads ("I'm Sorry"), and Christmas tunes ("Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree") throughout the '60s.
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