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• 22 AUGUST 2011 Nick Ashford, half of the husband-and-wife songwriting/production team Ashford & Simpson, dies of complications from throat cancer at age 70.

  21 août 2019

• 22 AUGUST 1917 Bluesman John Lee Hooker is born in Coahoma County, Mississippi.

  21 août 2019

• 22 AUGUST 2016 Legendary jazz harmonicist Toots Thielemans dies in Brussels, Belgium, at age 94.

  21 août 2019

• Vet Stone (born Vaetta Stewart; May 2, 1950, Vallejo, California) is an African-American soul singer.

  01 mai 2021

• 21 AUGUST 1952 Rock bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes (of Deep Purple) is born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England. He has a brief stint as Black Sabbath's frontman in the mid-'80s.

  20 août 2019

• August 21st 1938, Born on this day, Kenny Rogers

  20 août 2019

• 21 AUGUST 1928 Jazz trumpeter Art Farmer is born in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

  20 août 2019

• August 21st 1904, Born on this day, Count Basie, bandleader. Worked with Frank Sinatra as well as his own Count Basie band. He died on 26th April 1984.

  20 août 2019

• Happy birthday John Raymond Goadsby (born May 2, 1945), known as Goldy McJohn, is a Canadian keyboard player best known as the original keyboardist for rock group Steppenwolf.

  01 mai 2021

• Happy birthday to Robert Plant, born on 20th Aug 1948, singer with Led Zeppelin

  19 août 2019

• August 20th 1942, Born on this day, Isaac Hayes

  19 août 2019

• August 20th 1952, Born on this day, Doug Fieger, The Knack, (1979 US No.1 & UK No.6 single 'My Sharona'). Died of cancer on 14th Feb 201

  19 août 2019

• Happy birthday to Ginger Baker, born on 19th Aug 1939, drummer with Cream

  18 août 2019

• August 19th 1951, Born on this day, John Deacon, bass, Queen.

  18 août 2019

• 8 DECEMBER 1966 Sinead O'Connor is born in Glenageary, County Dublin, Ireland.

  08 décembre 2019

• December 8th 1968, Singer and guitarist Graham Nash left The Hollies and started work with David Crosby and Stephen Stills who went on to form Crosby Stills and Nash

  08 décembre 2019

• August 17th 1974, Eric Clapton started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘461 Ocean Boulevard’, a No.3 hit in the UK. The house featured on the album cover is 461 Ocean Boulevard in the town of Golden Beach, Florida near Miami where Clapton lived while making the album.

  16 août 2019

• 17th Aug 1969, The final day of the 3 day Woodstock Festival took place at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York. Acts who appeared included Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, Sha Na Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, The Band, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

  16 août 2019

• May 1st 1954, Born on this day, American guitarist, singer-songwriter Ray Parker Jr. who had the 1984 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘Ghostbusters’.

  30 avril 2021

• May 1st 1967, 32 year old Elvis Presley married 21 year old Priscilla Beaulieu, a girl he first met in 1959 when she was just 14 years old. When Elvis got out of the army in 1960, Beaulieu moved into the singer’s Graceland mansion with her family’s blessing.

  30 avril 2021

• June 8th 1944, Born on this day, Boz Scaggs, US singer, member of The Marksmen with Steve Miller, The Wigs, solo, (1976 US No.3 single ‘Lowdown’, 1977 US No.11 and UK No.13 single ‘Lido Shuffle’).

  07 juin 2021

• 16 AUGUST 2018 Aretha Franklin dies after a long battle with pancreatic cancer at age 76.

  15 août 2019

• August 16th 1945, Born on this day, Kevin Ayers, singer, songwriter, and founder member of Soft Machine, who had the 1970 UK No.18 album, 'Third'. Ayers who was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement died on 18th February 2013.

  15 août 2019

• Happy Birthday Charles Thomas "Tom" Johnston (born August 15, 1948) is an American musician. He is a guitarist and vocalist, known principally as a founder, guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter for the rock group The Doobie Brothers.

  14 août 2019

• August 15th 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience played a one night only show at The Fifth Dimension club, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The club is now demolished.

  14 août 2019