musical birthdays

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Andy Summers
Born: December 31, 1942
English guitarist who was a member of the rock band the Police. Summers has
recorded solo albums, collaborated with other musicians, composed film scores,
and exhibited his photography in galleries.


Paul Westerberg
Born: December 31, 1959
Paul Harold Westerberg is an American musician, best known as the lead singer,
guitarist, and songwriter for the Replacements. Following the breakup of the
Replacements, Westerberg launched a solo career that saw him release three
albums on major record labels.

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Grandmaster Flash
Born: January 01, 1958
American hip hop recording artist and DJ. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing,
cutting, scratching and mixing. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop act to be honored.

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happy belated b-days!


Stephen Stills
Born: January 03, 1945
American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work
with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Stills's solo career and
bands have combined sales of over 35 million albums. Stills was ranked number
28 in Rolling Stone's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and
number 47 in the 2011 list. He became the first person to be inducted twice on
the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. According to Neil Young,
"Stephen is a genius."


John Paul Jones
Born: January 03, 1946
John Richard Baldwin, better known by his stage name John Paul Jones, is
an English musician, composer, and record producer who was the bassist
and keyboardist for the rock band Led Zeppelin. Prior to forming the band
with Jimmy Page in 1968, he was a session musician and arranger...He was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 as a member of Led
Zeppelin.

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Michael Stipe
Born: January 04, 1960
American singer-songwriter and the lead singer of the alternative rock band
R.E.M. from their formation in 1980 until their dissolution in 2011.

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Iris Dement
Born: January 05, 1961
American two-time Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter.
DeMent's musical style includes elements of folk, country and
gospel.

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Kathy Valentine
Born: January 07, 1959
American musician (guitar and bass) and songwriter. She made music history
as a member of the Go-Go's, the first all-female band to have a #1 album in
the U.S. She has maintained a career in music through songwriting, recording,
performing and touring as well as additional academic and creative pursuits.

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the king's birthday today. he would've been 89. i don't usually post a b-day of someone who's dead but i'm making an exception for elvis--because he's the king.

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Jimmy Page
Born: January 09, 1944
English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international
success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin...Page is
widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of
all time. Rolling Stone magazine has described Page as "the pontiff of power
riffing" and ranked him number three in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists
of All Time", behind Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.

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Donald Fagen
Born: January 10, 1948
American musician best known as the co-founder, lead singer and keyboardist
of the band Steely Dan, formed in the early 70s. He has also released four al-
bums as a solo artist, and in 2001 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame.

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Tony Kaye
Born: January 11, 1945
Anthony John Selvidge, known professionally as Tony Kaye, is an English key-
boardist, best known as a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
Born into a musical family, Kaye was classically trained and intended to be-
come a concert pianist before he developed an interest in jazz and contemp-
orary rock and pop music...From 1968 to 1971, Kaye was a member of Yes
and played on their first three albums...He returned to Yes in 1983 for their
most commercially successful period before he left in 1994...In 2017, Kaye
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes.

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Wayne Coyne
Born: January 13, 1961
American musician. He is the lead singer, occasional backing vocalist, guitarist,
theremin player and songwriter for the band the Flaming Lips.

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Dave Grohl
Born: January 14, 1969
David Eric Grohl is an American musician. He is the founder of the rock band
Foo Fighters, for which he is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal song-
writer. Prior to forming Foo Fighters, he was the drummer of Nirvana

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Ronnie Milsap
Born: January 16, 1943
Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and pianist. He was
one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s
and 1980s. Nearly completely blind from birth, he became one of the most
successful and versatile country "crossover" singers of his time, appealing to
both country and pop music markets with hit songs that incorporated pop,
R&B, and rock and roll elements...He is credited with six Grammy Awards
and 35 number-one country hits, third to George Strait and Conway Twitty.
He was selected for induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014.

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Steve Earle
Born: January 17, 1955
Stephen Fain Earle is an American country and folk singer-songwriter...Earle's
breakthrough album was the 1986 debut album Guitar Town; the eponymous
lead single peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country chart. Since then,
he has released 20 more studio albums and received three Grammy awards each
for Best Contemporary Folk Album; he has four additional nominations in the same
category.

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Jonathan Davis
Born: January 18, 1971
American singer and musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist and frontman of the nu
metal band Korn.

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Dolly Parton
Born: January 19, 1946
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, business-
woman, humanitarian, and entertainer, known primarily for her work in
country music...She has had 25 songs reach no. 1 on the Billboard country
music charts, a record for a female artist (tied with Reba McEntire). She has
44 career Top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110
career-charted singles over the past 40 years. She has garnered 11 Grammy
Awards and 50 nominations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award; ten
Country Music Association Awards, including Entertainer of the Year...In 1999,
Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has composed
over 3,000 songs, including "I Will Always Love You" (a two-time U.S. country
chart-topper, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston), "Jolene",
"Coat of Many Colors", and "9 to 5". She is also in a select group to have received
at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards,
and Emmy Awards.

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Paul Stanley
Born: January 20, 1952
American musician, singer, songwriter and painter best known for being the
rhythm guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Kiss.

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Cat Power
Born: January 21, 1972
American singer-songwriter, musician, occasional actress, and model. Cat
Power was originally the name of Marshall's first band, but has become her
stage name as a solo artist.

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Steve Perry
Born: January 22, 1949
American singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer of the
rock band Journey during their most commercially successful periods from
1977 to 1987, and again from 1995 to 1998...Perry's singing voice has gar-
nered acclaim from prominent musical peers and publications; he has been
dubbed "The Voice", a moniker originally coined by Jon Bon Jovi. Ranked no.
76 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", Perry was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey on April 7, 2017.

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Anita Pointer
Born: January 23, 1948
American R&B/Soul singer–songwriter, best known as a founding
member of the Grammy Award–winning vocal group The Pointer
Sisters.

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Neil Diamond
Born: January 24, 1941
Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional
actor. He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of
the best-selling musicians of all time...Diamond was inducted into the Song-
writers Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011,
and he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2011,
he was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors, and he received the Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.

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Alicia Keys
Born: January 25, 1981
American singer and songwriter. A classically-trained pianist, Keys was com-
posing songs by age 12 and was signed at 15 years old by Columbia Records.
After disputes with the label, she signed with Arista Records, and later re-
leased her debut album, Songs in A Minor, with J Records in 2001. The album
was critically and commercially successful, producing her first Billboard Hot
100 number-one single "Fallin'" and selling over 16 million copies worldwide.
The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002.

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Lucinda Williams
Born: January 26, 1953
Lucinda Gayle Williams is an American rock, folk and country music singer,
songwriter and musician...Williams ranked No. 97 on VH1's 100 Greatest
Women in Rock & Roll in 1998, and was named "America's best songwriter"
by Time magazine in 2002. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked her as the 79th
greatest songwriter of all time. In 2017, she received the Berklee College
of Music Honorary Doctor of Music Degree, and ranked No. 91 on Rolling Stone's
100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time. In 2020, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
ranked No. 97, and Lucinda Williams ranked No. 426, on Rolling Stone's 500
Greatest Albums of All Time.

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G E Smith
Born: January 27, 1952
American guitarist. He was the lead guitarist for the duo Hall & Oates during
the band's heyday from 1979 to 1985. He then served as the musical director
of the sketch-comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1995, where he
was the leader of the Saturday Night Live Band...Smith has performed and re-
corded with many artists, including Hall & Oates, Tina Turner, and David Bowie.
He played guitar in Roger Waters' The Wall Live tour, and was lead guitarist in
Bob Dylan's touring band 1988 to 1990. Smith also served as musical director of
Dylan's The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration at Madison Square Garden on
October 16, 1992.

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Andrew Loog Oldham
Born: January 29, 1944
English record producer, talent manager, impresario
and author. He was manager and producer of The
Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1967, and was noted for
his flamboyant style.

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Phil Collins
Born: January 30, 1951
English drummer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer,
and actor. He was the drummer and then the singer of the rock band Genesis,
and is also a solo artist. Between 1982 and 1989, Collins scored three UK and
seven US number-one singles in his solo career. When his work with Genesis,
his work with other artists, as well as his solo career is totalled, he had more
US Top 40 singles than any other artist during the 1980s.

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John Lydon
Born: January 31, 1956
English singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead singer of
the late-1970s British punk band the Sex Pistols, which lasted from 1975 until
1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s.

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Mike Campbell
Born: February 01, 1950
Michael Wayne Campbell is an American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.
Campbell was a member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and co-wrote many
of the band's hits with Petty, including "Refugee", "Here Comes My Girl", "You Got
Lucky", and "Runnin' Down a Dream". His work outside the group includes composing
and playing on the Don Henley hit "The Boys of Summer".

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Graham Nash
Born: February 02, 1942
English singer-songwriter and musician. Nash is known for his light tenor voice
and for his songwriting contributions as a member of the English pop/rock
group the Hollies and the folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash...He was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills &
Nash in 1997 and as a member of the Hollies in 2010.

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Al Kooper
Born: February 05, 1944
Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt) is an American songwriter, record
producer and musician, known for organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears, although
he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity. Throughout
much of the 1960s and 1970s he was a prolific studio musician, playing organ
on the Bob Dylan song "Like a Rolling Stone", French horn and piano on the Roll-
ing Stones song "You Can't Always Get What You Want", and lead guitar on Rita
Coolidge's "The Lady's Not for Sale", among many other appearances...In the
1970s Kooper was a successful manager and producer, notably recording Lynyrd
Skynyrd's first three albums.