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December 22, 1948 Rick Nielsen (lead guitarist for Cheap Trick) is born in Elmhurst, Illinois.
December 20, 1948 Alan Parsons (of The Alan Parsons Project) is born in London, England. He starts his music career as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios, where he engineers Paul McCartney's Wild Life and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
December 13, 1948 "Skunk" Baxter, best known for playing guitar with The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, is born Jeffrey Allen Baxter in Washington, D.C.
December 13, 1948 David "Davy" O'List (of Roxy Music, The Nice) is born in Chiswick, West London, England.
December 6, 1948 The CBS television show Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts debuts. Plenty of up-and-coming talents appear on the variety program, including Patsy Cline and Tony Bennett.
December 6, 1948 Lyricist Linda Creed is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her compositions include "Betcha by Golly, Wow!" and "The Greatest Love of All."
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."
November 27, 1948 Dave Winthrop (sax player and flautist for Supertramp) is born.
November 26, 1948 Gayle McCormick (lead singer for Smith) is born in St. Louis, Missouri. Smith was known for the 1969 hit cover of the Shirelles' "Baby It's You."
November 21, 1948 Leroy "Lonnie" Jordan (percussionist, keyboardist, vocalist for War) is born in San Diego, California.
November 21, 1948 John "Rabbit" Bundrick (keyboardist for Free) is born in Houston, Texas.
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 In St. Louis, Missouri, Chuck Berry marries Themetta "Toddy" Suggs. They remain married until Berry's death in 2017.
October 24, 1948 Dale "Buffin" Griffin (drummer for Mott The Hoople) is born Terence Dale Griffin in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England.
October 12, 1948 Rick Parfitt (vocalist/guitarist for Status Quo) is born in Woking, Surrey, England.
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 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 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."
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.
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 Elliot Lurie (lead guitarist, vocalist for Looking Glass) is born in Brooklyn, New York.
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