Do you share your birthday with a famous musician?

BB King.

 

No.

 

Me too!

 

Sade - same year, too.

She turned 61 today.

 

Nuno Bettencourt and Chuck Panozzo apparently...

 

I went to Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience on my birthday a few years ago at the Greek Theater (L.A.) and heard him announce that it was his late famous Dad's birthday as well.

 

Belinda Carlisle of the GoGos!

 

Cat Stevens. Other Notables from July 21 include Don Knotts, Robin Williams, and Earnest Hemingway.

 

May 21
The Notorious B.I.G. (a/k/a Biggie Smalls)
Ronald Isley (Isley Brothers)
Leo Sayer

The very first Dylan bio I ever read (a 1966 quickie paperback called Folk-Rock: The Bob Dylan Story) showed his DOB as May 21, 1941. I was on cloud nine until I found out it was actually 3 days later.

 

Almost forgot Fats Waller, who made some of his recordings in Camden, NJ — just a couple miles from where I'm sitting.

 

Mickey Hart: Grateful Dead Drummer... and a whole lot more... very interesting dude, just looking through his Wikipedia page

 

Interestingly enough, I share a birthday with two of my fave icons: Bryan Ferry and John Foxx. We'll not count Pat Benatar...

 

Peter Garrett From Midnight Oil and Dusty Springfield

 

Happy Birthday, in case no one else picked up on it.

 

John Lennon

 

Billy Corgan
Kurt Russell
Nat King Cole
Grimes

 

Ray Manzarek

 

Tina Turner and John McVie.

 

Jaco... and I play bass too.

 

Danny Bonaduce LMAO!

 

Captain Beefheart and Gene Krupa. It is only right that I both have music in my collection by them and appreciate highly what they did for us, musically. For years I believed it was Chuck Berry too but that was from a book that stated it erroneously and I've never seen that anywhere since. Yes, it would have been even cooler, but...

If I were to mention that Martin Luther King's birthday was also on the same day as the two 'real' ones, then some of you here will likely have it worked out that this was Wednesday gone.

 

Huey Lewis, Nardwuar the Human Serviette and RZA, in ascending order of how pleased I am about it.

 

Not a really big name musician... but Tina Weymouth (bass guitarist of Talking Heads)- Nov 22nd

 

Today's paper reveals that I share a birthday (give or take 15 years or so) with Andy Fairweather-Low. Seems reasonable as I may get Wide Eyed & Legless at some pint.....