Celebrating 3 January
Birthdays
1943 – Van Dyke Parks, composer, arranger, musician
1945 – Stephen Stills, guitarist, Buffalo Springfield; CSN&Y
1946 – John Paul Jones, bassist, Led Zeppelin
1964 – Raymond McGinley, guitarist, Teenage Fanclub
1975 – Thomas Bangalter, Daft Punk
1980 – Kurt Vile, guitarist, The War On Drugs
Died on this day
1980 – Amos Milburn, R&B pianist and singer (born 1927)
2002 – Zak Foley, bassist, EMF (born 1970)
2012 – Bob Weston, guitarist, Fleetwood Mac (born 1947)
2014 – Phil Everly, The Everly Brothers (born 1939)
2020 – Bo Winberg, guitarist, The Spotnicks (born 1939)
2021 – Gerry Marsden, Gerry and the Pacemakers (born 1942)
And on this day in...
1967 – Beach Boy Carl Wilson, having been drafted into the US military, refused to be sworn in, starting a legal process that would run until 1971
1987 – Aretha Franklin became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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