Rock & Roll Birthdays

  • 1967 Adam Schlesinger, American rock musician (Fountains Of Wayne) and songwriter (That Thing You Do), born in New York City (d. 2020)
 
  • 1957 Lyle Lovett, American singer-songwriter (Joshua Judges Ruth; The Road To Ensenada), actor (The Player; The Bridge), and Tecas Cowboy Hall of Fame member,born in Houston, Texas


 
  • 1961 (Kathryn Dawn) "k.d." lang, Canadian Juno and Grammy Award-winning country-pop singer-songwriter (Constant Craving), born in Consort, Alberta
 
  • 1946 Gram Parsons [Cecil Ingram Connor III], American country-rock singer-songwriter (Byrds - Sweethearts of the Rodeo; Flying Burrito Brothers; "Grievous Angel"), born in Winter Haven, Florida (d. 1973)
 
Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss), born in Portland, Oregon

Thomas Cunningham Thayer was born on November 7, 1960, in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Beaverton, Oregon.

Before Thayer was in Kiss he was in a local Portland Band called Black 'n Blue that had success in the 80's.

 
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