Do you share your birthday with a famous musician?

Not aware of anyone. But I do share a birthday with James Coburn who is on the cover of Band On The Run.

I think that's as close as I get.

 

Marc Bolan.

 

Leonard Cohen

 

And my dad.

 

Same day, different years:
Sly Stone
Mike Love
Bret Michaels
wil.i.am
Dee Snider
Ry Cooder

Not a musician, but the most significant:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

Nuno Bettencourt

and Matthew and Gunnar Nelson

 

Bryan & Ryan Adams + Ike Turner.

Oh, Art Garfunkel & Gram Parsons too.

 

Stan Getz!

 

Steve Perry
Sam Cooke
Malcolm McLaren

 

Born....................
Pete Best
Bev Bevan
Lee Michaels
Clem Burke
Donald "Duck" Dunn
Scott Joplin

Died.................
Freddie Mercury

 

Bob Dylan

 

Joseph "Run" Simmons
Yanni

 

Yoko

 

Maybe to 10 on a good day

 

Apparently not, although I do appear to share it with a number of "YouTube stars" although I'd prefer to boast that I share a birthday (9 March) with the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.

And if that's not an excuse to post this great Public Service Broadcasting track, I don't know what is…

 

As Robbie Robertson famously asked in The Last Waltz:

“Who?......Joni Mitchell.”

 

David Cassidy : /

 

Dan Fogelberg

Don Ho

George Shearing

Jimmy McCracklin

James Morrison

 

Paul Westerberg (The Replacements - vocals/guitar)
Andy Summer (The Police- guitar)
Scott Ian (Anthrax - guitar/vocals)
Tom Hamilton (Aerosmith - bass)
Donna Summer

and...

JOHN DENVER

 

George Shearing
Benny Bailey
Don Ho
Dave "Baby" Cortez
Dan Fogelberg

The Berlin Wall was "closed" the day I arrived

and Alfred Hitchcock and I share the date...though his artistry is more relegated to cinema...

 

The one in ZZ Top without an awesome beard and the Van Zant brother who didn't front Skynyrd.

Johnny Neel of the Allman Brothers Band as well but he's probably not famous enough to qualify (although he is a fine musician).

Had I been born four and a half hours earlier, I'd share my birthday with Howlin' Wolf.

I looked into getting my birth date changed but it's far too much of a hassle.

 

George Thorogood

 

Bill Bruford
Paul DiAnno
Trant Reznor
Page McConnell

 

Prince

 

Roger Daltrey, Harry Belafonte, Glenn Miller, and drum roll....Justin Bieber.