Rock & Roll Birthdays

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1943 Christine McVie, English rock vocalist (Fleetwood Mac-Got A Hold on Me), born in Bouth, England

 

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1948 Walter Egan, American rock vocalist (Not Shy, Fundamental Roll), born in NYC, New York

 

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1950 Eric Carr [Paul Charles Caravello], American rock drummer (Kiss), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1991)

 

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• 1952 Liz Mitchell, Jamaican-British rock vocalist (Boney M), born in Clarendon, Jamaica

 

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1952 Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass guitar player (Iron Butterfly), born in Youngstown, Ohio (d. 1995)

 

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1965 Robin Wilson, American rocker (Gin Blossoms), born in Detroit, Michigan

 

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1978 Mélanie De Biasio, Belgian jazz singer (A Stomach Is Burning), born in Charleroi, Belgium

 

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1967 John Petrucci, American guitar player (Dream Theater)

 

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1942 Roger [Jim] McGuinn, American musician (the Byrds), born in Chicago, Illinois

 

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1962 Rhonda Vincent, American bluegrass singer, born in Kirksville, Missouri

 

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1912 [Woodrow Wilson] Woody Guthrie, American folk singer (This Land Is Your Land), born in Okemah, Oklahoma (d. 1967)

 

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1933 Del Reeves

 

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1923 [Joseph Rudolph] Philly Joe Jones, American jazz drummer (Miles Davis Quintet), born in Philadelphia (d. 1985)

 

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1945 Peter Lewis, rock guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape), born in Los Angeles, California

 

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1946 Linda Ronstadt, American rock/country/pop/Latin/opera singer (Different Drum; What's New?) and actress (Pirates of Penzance), born in Tucson, Arizona

 

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1947 Peter Banks [Brockbanks], British rock guitarist and singer-songwriter described as "the architect of progressive music" (Yes, the Syn, Flash), born in Chipping Barnet, London (d. 2013)

 

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1947 [Roger Kynard] Roky Erickson, American musician (The 13th Floor Elevators), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2019)

 

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1952 Larken Collins, rocker (Rossington-Collins Band)