Musical 'Stars' - 'Born: - this day

Chris de Burgh, (Christopher John Davison). Born 15th Oct 1948, Santa Fe Province, Argentina. Son of a British diplomat.



Chris Andrews, (Christopher Frederick Andrews) Born 15th Oct 1942, Romford, Essex, England.

 
1794 Ferdinand Schubert, Austrian organist, composer, and teacher, born in Vienna, Austria

1915 Thomas Round, British tenor (Gilbert and Sullivan For All), born in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, Engaland

1961 Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter, composer and teacher, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Blood on the Fields, a three-and-a-half hour jazz oratorio telling the story of a couple finding freedom from slavery.

1974 Peter Svensson (main songwriter/guitarist for The Cardigans) is born in Huskvarna, Sweden.


 
Oct 23th
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1953 Pauline Black
[Belinda Magnus], English ska singer - born in Romford, East London

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1959
Weird Al Yankovic

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American accordionist and parody singer-songwriter and actor -, born in Downey, California
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"Weird Al" Yankovic - Wikipedia
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Nov 24th
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1941 - Pete Best ~ The Beatles.
He was fired from the group in 1962 after playing drums as a Beatle for the previous two years in Germany and England.
Best's mother, Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Bests' house in Liverpool.
The Beatles (at the time known as the Quarrymen) played some of their first concerts at the club.

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1955 - Clem Burke
Clem Burke, American musician best known as the drummer from Blondie from 1975, shortly after the band formed, throughout the band's entire career.
Blondie scored five UK No.1 singles including the 1979 UK & US No.1 single 'Heart Of Glass' and 1978 worldwide No.1 album Parallel Lines.
He was named one of the greatest drummers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, and in a long and varied career,.
He also played with Bob Dylan, Eurythmics, Iggy Pop and the Ramones. Burke died of cancer on 7th April 2025 age 70.

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