Rock & Roll Birthdays

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• 1947 Pete Ham, Welsh rock vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It), born in Swansea, Wales

 

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• 1948 Kate Pierson, American vocalist and guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack), born in Weehawken, New Jersey

 

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• 1951 Paul "Ace" Frehley, American heavy metal guitarist (Kiss; Frehley's Comet), born in The Bronx, New York

 

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• 1967 Tommy Smith, Scottish jazz musician, born in Edinburgh, Scotland

 

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@Amos Otis

 

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• 1947 Pete Ham, Welsh rock vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It), born in Swansea, Wales

Do you know how Pete Ham died? And then bassist Tom Evans a few years later? The story of Badfinger is tragic. They had 5 big hits, but barely saw a crown in earnings. An a$$hole manager ruined them.

 

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Do you know how Pete Ham died? And then bassist Tom Evans a few years later? The story of Badfinger is tragic. They had 5 big hits, but barely saw a crown in earnings. An a$$hole manager ruined them.

I didn't know any of that. It happened a lot early on. Bluesmen was always getting ripped off.

The Dead worked for several years for almost nothing. This came of their ordeal. Now it is a popular funeral song for Deadheads, and it was about their manager ripping them off.

 

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1899Duke Ellington, American bandleader, composer and pianist (Take the A Train), born in Washington, District of Columbia (d. 1974)

 

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1933 Willie Nelson, American country singer (On the Road Again), born in Abbott, Texas

 

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You can't hang a man for killing a woman that's trying to steal your horse.

 

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This if one of my faves.

 

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• 1929 Link Wray, American rock guitarist, born in Dunn, North Carolina (d. 2005)

 

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• 1931 Richard "Groove" Holmes, American jazz musician (Misty), born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 1991)

 

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• 1933 Bunk Gardner, American musician (Mothers Of Invention), born in Cleveland Ohio

 

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• 1944 Bob Henrit, English pop drummer (Argent - Hold Your Head Up; Kinks), born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England