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Natalie Merchant - born on this day in 1963 in New York
that would make her 52
from my favorite 10000 Maniacs album, 1987's In My Tribe
and my favorite song of the band
an emotional ditty about child abuse
great live performance where Natalie speaks of its source
[video=youtube;sDPwhHlqaNE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDPwhHlqaNE[/video]
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1958: Simon Le Bon
that would make him 57 I guess...
lead vocals for 1980s UK New Wave band Duran Duran...
had a string of massive hits over a period of five years in the early/mid 1980s...
they have just released their latest album and continue to tour throughout the world
heres my favourite of theirs...
[video=youtube;3M0hogZyRyU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M0hogZyRyU[/video]
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
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Kenneth "K. K." Downing, Jr was born on this day in 1951, somewhere in the UK. He is the Grammy Award winning guitarist and songwriter from Judas Priest and was with from their inception in 1970, to 2011.
This track from Sad Wings of Destiny, is not typical of their oeuvre, being mainly a ballad, but there are bits which will no doubt appease the committed metalheads (such as CH seems to be turning into of late. Lol!!)
[video=youtube;GjMizl3qQGE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjMizl3qQGE[/video]
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Music Head Wrote:got them headphones
I'm back in the saddle
my first cordless
working great so far
Great - glad someone obliged!
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1941: Hank B Marvin
that would make him 74 years young today...
one of rock and rolls early guitar heroes and a huge influence on as many guitarists(mainly English I guess)
over the decades as Duane Eddy, Chuck Berry, Keith Richards and Carl Perkins were...
member of Cliff Richard's band The Shadows.
the Shadows also had a hell of a lot of instrumental hits on the UK charts in the 1960s
including five #1 hits between 1960 and 1962.
Hank now lives right here on the outskirts of Perth in a rural suburb called Brigadoon...
how do I know where he lives???...because I did the internal carpentry in his house during
construction many years ago(well,about 25 years ago I guess)...
he is a genuinely nice guy from what I saw of him and when he spoke.
heres one of my favourite tracks from his band The Shadows...
BTW, Hank is the guitarist who is wearing glasses(spectacles)
[video=youtube;ALMsBEHYzDY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALMsBEHYzDY[/video]
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1972: Brad Paisley
An American country music singer and songwriter. Starting with his 1999 debut album, Who Needs Pictures, he has released 10 studio albums and a Christmas compilation on the Arista Nashville label, with all of his albums certified Gold or higher by the RIAA. He has scored 32 Top 10 singles on the U.S. Billboard Country Airplay chart, 19 of which have reached #1. He set a new record in 2009 for most consecutive singles (ten) reaching the top spot on that chart.
[video=youtube;4tjg5c7Wo4g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tjg5c7Wo4g[/video]
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thanks for joining in Dorothy
nice recap on Brad
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^Yup! I second that.
Ben Harper was born on this day in 1969, Pomona, California. He is a versatile and eclectic artist â he plays a host of instruments and sings, and embraces a variety of styles â blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock/alt rock being just some of them, and sometimes all on the same album which is kinda discombobulating, but never boring!
Whatever he does musically, he seems to bring passion, which is seldom a bad thing. His maternal grandparents had a music store, The Folk Music Center and Museum, which was apparently frequented by Leonard Cohen and David Lindley, the latter of whom has had a profound influence on his work, and who appears on a couple of his albums. Harper has won three Grammy Awards and is noted for his guitar skills.
From Burn to Shine, because I have it ⦠somewhere!
[video=youtube;beP06k8r4_0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beP06k8r4_0[/video]
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Charlie Daniels - born on this day in 1936 in New York
that would make him 79
Grand Ole Opry in 2008
his first hit, from 1973
sweet! watch that vinyl spin
[video=youtube;952h-AJ3Bcg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=952h-AJ3Bcg[/video]
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1944: DENNY LAINE:
that makes him 71....
founding member of Moody Blues and their vocalist in the mid 1960s...
went on to become a founding member of Wings with Paul and Linda McCartney...
its was his departure from Wings citing Paul's drug habits that brought down the band in 1980...
here's one of my all time favourite singles....
[video=youtube;FmYo0ZRpOgo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmYo0ZRpOgo[/video]
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
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