Everything has been written and said about this man, it's enough to say that he is the only musician and songwriter to have been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature.. 77...Bob Dylan [Robert Zimmerman], American singer-songwriter (Blowin' in Wind, The Times They Are a-Changin') and cultural icon, born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1941... My favourite Dylan song from my favourite Dylan album...
Ska pioneer Prince Buster was born Cecil Bustamente Campbell in Orange Street, Jamaica in 1938. (d) 2016... He earned his nickname for his boxing prowess...
This one is for Jasper... 71...Albert Bouchard (drummer for Blue Oyster Cult) was born in Watertown, New York in 1947...
49...Rich Robinson (guitarist, co-songwriter for The Black Crowes) was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1969...
74...Patti LaBelle, [Holt], singer (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1944...
absolutely hate The Human League - 1986 I think it was when they released We're only human - when my girlfriend thought it would be a good idea to cheat on me. Still, she lives alone with 7 cats now, c'est la vie!
Not, strictly speaking, a relationship break up song, but any excuse to play this gem (and the one which made me think about “how long” my ex had been planning to squeeze as much dosh out of me as she could ....
Bertrand Russell, John Lennon, Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello and Alan Bleasdale...these were the people that I was reading, listening to and watching in my formative years that influenced the way I thought and helped to make me the free thinking liberal, left leaning humanist I am now. I can add this artist to that cherished list too... 60...Paul Weller (singer,songwriter and guitarist, for The Jam, The Style Council) was born in Woking, Surrey in 1958...
This song and Kate Bush's Army Dreamers were both out around about the time that my schoolmate was killed by "friendly fire" in NI in 1980. He had turned 18 just two days previously and had only joined up a month before...RIP Gerald Hardy 1962-1980....
A truly eclectic bunch of music birthdays today... First up is a man that was heavily involved in the two albums that made me fall in love with music, Ziggy Stardust (in Short) and Transformer... Mick Ronson, who became David Bowie's guitarist (he referred to him as "his Jeff Beck)", was born in Hull in 1946 (d) 1993...
