Happy belated 60th (how has he ever managed it?) birthday to Shane MacGowan, Pogues frontman and lyrical genius. This one's about drinking, surprise surprise
Singer for Motown Legends The Temptations, David Ruffin, was born on this day in Whynot, Mississippi in 1941...
Happy 41st Birthday to Singer, Songwriter and Guitarist for Indie band, Hard-Fi, Richard Archer, who was born on this day in Staines in 1977...
Happy 77th Birthday to Country/Pop singer Bobby Goldsboro who was born in Marianna, Florida on this day in 1941..
I was a big fan of Paul Young. I had a customer who drinks with him and he kindly got me a signed photo two years ago, however that’s not my favourite story about him. I’m 1991 or 92, I stopped at Leicester services on the M1. It happened to be Comic Relief Day. As I walked in, there was a bloke leaning against the wall by the loos wearing a pair of comic glasses and a red nose, so as to slightly disguise him. I asked him if he was who I thought he was and he replied asking who I thought he was. I said that he looked like Paul Young with a red nose and funny glasses. I asked if he would wait there as I actually had his first solo album on cassette in my car and if I ran to st it would he sign it. He duly did. By the time I returned he was then stood with his band who he had been waiting for by the loos and told them they had to wait for this bloke to come back to sign the cassette. He duly signed it and then went on his way. Made my day. * a cassette was a tool for the playing of music, for the younger listeners wondering.
That’s good, so every time you go away you can take a piece of him with you? Sorry, couldn’t help it.
Just listening to this lady’s new single “Dancing” and thinking that I know someone who’d fancy a slow dance with her, eh, Fats?
Today is the birthdate of an eclectic bunch of distictive vocalists... Firstly, Psychedilic Rock, Soul and Blues Singer, Janis Joplin was born on this day in Port Arthur, Texas in 1943...
Happy 55th Birthday to Caron Wheeler, Lead Singer of Soul II Soul who was born in Acton on this day in 1963...
Happy 72nd Birthday to Country Legend, Dolly Parton who was born in Sevier County, Tennessee on this day in 1946..
And finally the late Phil Everly, the younger sibling of the great Everly Brothers was born on this day in 1939...