Rock & Roll Birthdays

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• 1944 Robert Lamm, American rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now), born in NYC, New York

 

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• 1947 Sammy Hagar, American rock vocalist (I Can't Drive 55), born in Salinas, California

 

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• 1948 John Ford Coley, American musician (England Dan & John Ford Coley), born in Dallas, Texas

 

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• 1947 Sammy Hagar, American rock vocalist (I Can't Drive 55), born in Salinas, California

 

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I knew you would find the good stuff. The first 4 or 5 choices on YT were not songs I would listen to.

 

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I knew you would find the good stuff. The first 4 or 5 choices on YT were not songs I would listen to.

Sammy Hagar is the only rocker I can think of that didn't become ridiculous as he moved into his 60s, and then 70s. Put his picture in the dictionary beside 'genuine' and 'cool'.

 

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• 1930 Robert Parker, American saxophonist and soul singer (Barefootin'), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2020)

 

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• 1945 Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake), born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

 

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• 1946 Justin Hayward, English vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin), born in Swindon, Wiltshire England

 

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• 1946 Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth), born in Dunfermline, Scotland

 

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1974 Natalie Maines, American country musician (The Chicks, formerly known as Dixie Chicks), born in Lubbock, Texas

 

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• 1925 Mickey Baker, American guitar player ("Love is strange"), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2012)

From wiki wiki:
Baker was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His mother was black, and his father, whom he never met, was believed to be white.[2]
In 1936, at the age of 11, Baker was put into an orphanage. He ran away frequently, and had to be retrieved by the staff from St. Louis, New York City, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. Eventually the orphanage quit looking for him, and at the age of 16 he stayed in New York City. He found work as a laborer and then a dishwasher. But after hanging out in the pool halls of 26th Street, he gave up work to become a full-time pool shark.
At 19, Baker decided to make a change in his life. He went back to dishwashing, and was determined to become a jazz musician. The trumpet was his first choice for an instrument, but with only $14 saved up, he could not find a pawnshop with anything but guitars for that price.[3]

 

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• 1935 Barry McGuire, American singer (Eve of Destruction), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 

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• 1942 Don Stevenson, American rock drummer (Moby Grape), born in Seattle, Washington

 

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• 1943 Charles Frederick "C.F." Turner, Canadian rock bassist and songwriter (Bachman-Turner Overdrive - "Let It Ride"), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba

 

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• 1947 Bob Weir, American guitarist and singer (Grateful Dead - "I Need A Miracle", "Sugar Magnolia"; RatDog: Dead & Company), born in San Francisco, California

 

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• 1952 Cordell "Boogie" Mosson, American funk-rock bassist (Parliament-Funkadelic collective), born in Plainfield, New Jersey (d. 2013)

 

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• 1962 Flea [Michael Balzary], Australian-American bassist (Red Hot Chili Peppers), actor, and educator (Silverlake Conservatory of Music), 1962 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

 

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Did not realize Bobbie and John shared a b-day. Nor that there is 30 years difference in their ages.

• 1977 John Mayer, American guitarist and singer-songwriter ("Your Body Is A Wonderland"; "Waiting For The World To Change'), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut

 

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• 1923 Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (The Wrecking Crew), born in Muskogee, Oklahoma (d. 2004)