Celebrating 9 November
Birthdays
1937 – Roger McGough, poet, The Scaffold
1943 – Lee Graziano, drummer, The American Breed
1944 – Phil May, vocalist, The Pretty Things
1948 – Alan Gratzer, drummer, REO Speedwagon
1948 – Joe Bouchard, bassist, Blue Öyster Cult
1954 – Dennis Stratton, guitarist, Praying Mantis, Iron Maiden
1960 – Demetra Plakas, drummer, L7
1969 – Sandra Denton, Pepa in Salt-n-Pepa
1970 – Brad Terrance Jordan (Scarface) US rapper
1977 – Mark Andrews (SisQó), US R&B singer/songwriter
1984 – Delta Goodrem, Australian singer, actress
Died on this day
2008 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (born 1932)
And on this day in...
1961 – Brian Epstein saw The Beatles playing live for the first time, at a lunchtime session at The Cavern in Liverpool
1966 – John Lennon met Yoko Ono for the first time, at the Indica Gallery in London
1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine was published in San Francisco
1968 – Led Zeppelin played their first ever London show, at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
1969 – Simon and Garfunkel record Bridge Over Troubled Water