Remembering Syd Barrett
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett was born January 6, 1946 somewhere in England. Young Roger enjoyed writing, drawing, whistling and smelling his...
On This Day
Happy Birthday Jeff Lynne
Jeffrey Leroy Lynne was born December 30, 1947 somewhere in England. There is no record of Jeff’s life so we...
Happy Birthday Patti Smith
Patricia Lee Smith was born December 30, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois. Her Parents, were Beverly Smith, a jazz singer turned...
Happy Birthday Edgar Winter
Edgar Holland Winter was born December 28, 1946 in Beaumont, Texas. Edgar and his brother Johnny developed albinism after an...
Happy Birthday Jimmy Buffett
James William Buffett was born December 25, 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Young James was born a trust fund baby and...
Remembering Lemmy
Ian Fraser Kilmister was born December 24, 1945 somewhere in England. As a boy, young Ian showed an interest in...
Happy Birthday Eddie Vedder
Sir Edward Louis Severson III was born December 23, 1964 in Evanston, Illinois. His parents divorced in 1965, when Vedder...
Happy Birthday Rick Nielsen
Richard Alan Nielsen was born December 22, 1948 in Elmhurst, Illinois. Nielsen was born into a musical family, with both parents...
Remembering Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was born December 21, 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland. Frank was the eldest of four children. He was...
Happy Birthday Peter Criss
George Peter John Criscuola was born December 20, 1945 in Brooklyn, NY. Peter, was the oldest of fifteen children of...
Happy Birthday Keith Richards
Keith Richards was born December 18, 1943 somewhere in England. According to Keith’s brother Claude, “Keith was a very funny...
Happy Birthday Billy Gibbons
William Frederick Gibbons was born December 16, 1949 in Houston, Texas. His father Euell was an outdoorsman and early health...
Happy Birthday Paul Simonon
Paul Gustave Simonon was born December 15, 1955 somewhere in England. His father, Gustave was an artist and his mother,...
Happy Birthday Jeff Skunk Baxter
Jeffrey Allen Baxter was born December 13, 1948 in Washington D.C - Jeff graduated from the Taft School in 1967...
Happy Birthday Ted Nugent
Theodore Anthony Nugent was born December 13, 1948 in Redford Michigan. Little Ted became enamored with guns when at age...
Happy Birthday Dickey Betts
Forrest Richard Betts was born December 12, 1943 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Betts grew up in a musical family...
Remembering Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra was born December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, NJ, the only child of Italian immigrants, Luigi and Maria...
Happy Birthday Jakob Dylan
Jakob Luke Dylan was born December 9, 1969 in New York City. The youngest of 5 children, Jakob grew up...
Remembering Jim Morrison
James Douglas Morrison was born December 8, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida, to Clara Virginia and Lt. George Stephen Morrison. George...
Happy Birthday Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waits was born December 7, 1949 in Pomona California. He described having a "very middle-class" upbringing and "a...
Remembering Randy Rhoads
Randall William Rhoads was born December 6, 1956 in Santa Monica, California. He and his siblings were raised by his...
Remembering Dave Brubeck
David Warren Brubeck was born December 6, 1920 in California. Intending to work with his father on their ranch, Brubeck...
Happy Birthday Jay-Z
Shawn Corey Carter was born December 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York. After their father, Jimmy Carter, abandoned the family,...
Happy Birthday Ozzy
John Michael Osbourne was born December 3, 1948 somewhere in England. Ozzy was a huge Beatles fan and credits their...
Happy Birthday Tal Wilkenfeld
Tal Wilkenfeld was born December 2, 1986 in Sydney, Australia. However, we are questioning those dates. We launched a full...
Remembering Jaco Pastorius
John Francis Anthony Pastorius III was born December 1, 1951 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Oakland Park near...
Happy Birthday Billy Idol
William Michael Albert Broad was born November 30, 1955 somewhere in England. In 1958, when he was two years old,...
Remembering Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall Hendrix (aka Johnny Allen Hendrix, sometimes referred to as Jimmy Jim James) was born November 27, 1942 in...
Happy Birthday Joe Walsh
Joseph Fidler Walsh was born November 20, 1947 in Wichita, Kansas. Fidler!? Yes his middle name is Fidler because his...
Happy Birthday Kirk Hammett
Kirk Lee Hammett was born November 18, 1962 in San Francisco, California. His parents were both transgendered. His mother was...
