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• February 4th 1975, Born on this day, Natalie Imbruglia, actress, singer

  03 février 2019

• 4 FEBRUARY 2013 Jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd (of The Blackbyrds) dies at age 80.

  03 février 2019

• 4 FEBRUARY 1975 Louis Jordan dies of a heart attack at age 66.

  03 février 2019

• June 20th 1965, The Beatles began a 14-day European tour with two performances at the Palais Des Sports in Paris, France.

  19 juin 2019

• June 20th 1924, Born on this day, Chet Atkins, guitarist, 1960 UK No.46 single 'Teensville'. Recorded over 100 albums during his career, major influence on George Harrison and Mark Knopfler. Atkins died on June 30th 2001, aged 77.

  19 juin 2019

• 20 JUNE 1942 Brian Wilson (of The Beach Boys) is born in Inglewood, California.

  19 juin 2019

• 20 JUNE 1949 Lionel Richie is born in Tuskegee, Alabama. He becomes a member of the Commodores before finding fame as a solo artist.

  19 juin 2019

• 3rd Feb 1959, 22 year old Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, aged 17, died in a crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa, the pilot of the single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza plane was also killed. Holly hired the plane after heating problems developed on his tour bus. All three were travelling to Fargo, North Dakota, for the next show on their Winter Dance Party Tour which Ho

  02 février 2019

• February 3rd 1935, Born on this day, Johnny 'guitar' Watson, American blues guitarist, singer, who had the 1976 UK No.35 single 'I Need It'. Watson died on 17th May 1996 while on tour in Yokohama, Japan. According to eyewitness reports, he collapsed mid-guitar solo. His last words were "ain't that a bitch".

  02 février 2019

• February 3rd 1968, The Beatles started work on their new single 'Lady Madonna' at Abbey Road studios in London. Recording three piano and drum takes with overdub bass, fuzz guitars, drums, and vocals.

  02 février 2019

• 10th April 1970, Doors singer Jim Morrison was dragged off stage by keyboardist Ray Manzarek during a concert in Boston, after Morrison asked the audience, ‘Would you like to see my genitals?’. Theater management quickly switched off the power. Morrison had been arrested in Miami a year earlier for « lewd and lascivious behavior » during a performance

  09 avril 2021

• April 10th 1959, Born on this day, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter Brian Setzer, guitar, vocals, The Stray Cats who spearheaded the neo-rockabilly movement of the early 1980s.

  09 avril 2021

• 2 FEBRUARY 1927 Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  01 février 2019

• February 2nd 1942, Born on this day, Graham Nash, guitarist, singer with The Hollies who he left in 1968. Became a member of Crosby Stills Nash & Young who had the 1969 UK No.17 single 'Marrakesh Express' and 1970 US No.1 album 'Deja Vu'.

  01 février 2019

• 2nd Feb 1979, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in New York City

  01 février 2019

• February 2nd 1946, Born on this day, Howard Bellamy from the Bellamy Brothers who had the 1976 US No.1 single 'Let Your Love Flow', and the 1979 UK No.3 single 'If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me'.

  01 février 2019

• February 1st 1948, Born on this day, Rick James, US singer who scored the 1981 US No.3 album 'Street Songs', and the 1981 US No 16 single 'Super Freak part 1'. James was found dead at his Los Angeles home on 6th August 2004.

  31 janvier 2019

• 1st February 1937, Born on this day, American singer, songwriter Don Everly, from The Everly Brothers

  31 janvier 2019

• Ray "Eye Patch" Sawyer (born February 1, 1937, Chickasaw, Alabama, United States) a singer best known as a vocalist with the 1970s' rock band, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show

  31 janvier 2019

• 1 FEBRUARY 1968 Lisa Marie Presley is born in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the first and only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley.

  31 janvier 2019

• 1 FEBRUARY 1965James Brown records "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" at the Arthur Smith Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is Brown's first recording to feature Jimmy Nolen on guitar, who would become known for his distinctive "chicken scratch" lead guitar playing.

  31 janvier 2019

• June 19th 1973, Edgar Winter's US No.1 hit 'Frankenstein' was awarded a Gold record. Winter named the song because of how many cuts and patches were contained in the original studio tape.

  18 juin 2019

• Happy birthday Charles Douglas "Charlie" Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield.

  30 janvier 2019

• January 31st 2017, English singer, bassist, and songwriter John Wetton died in his sleep at his home in Bournemouth, Dorset, UK from colon cancer

  30 janvier 2019

• Happy birthday to a great rock musician Matthew David "Matt" Cameron (born November 28, 1962) an American musician who serves as the drummer for the American rock bands Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

  28 novembre 2019