Celebrating 5 January
Birthdays
1940 – Athol Guy, bassist, The Seekers
1941 – Grady Thomas, Funkadelic; Parliament
1949 – George Brown, drummer, Kool and the Gang
1950 – Chris Stein, guitarist, Blondie
1951 – Biff Byford, vocalist, Saxon
1960 – Phil Thornalley, producer, bassist , The Cure
1963 – Grant Young, drummer, Soul Asylum
1966 – Kate Schellenbach, drummer, Luscious Jackson
1969 – Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner), singer
1970 – Jeffrey Jey, lead singer, Eiffel 65
1970 – Troy van Leeuwen, guitarist, Queens of the Stone Age
1976 – Matt Wachter, bassist, Angels & Airwaves
Died on this day
1976 – Mal Evans, Beatles roadie/bodyguard (born 1935)
1979 – Charles Mingus, jazz bassist (born 1922)
1998 – Sonny Bono, singer, Sonny & Cher (born 1935)
1998 – Ken Forssi, bassist, Love (born 1943)
2006 – Alex St. Clair, guitarist, Captain Beefheart (born 1941)
2004 – John Guerin, drummer, Frank Zappa (born 1939)
2010 – Willie Mitchell, trumpeter (born 1928)
2016 – Nicholas Caldwell, singer, The Whispers (born 1944)
2019 – Eric Haydock, bassist, The Hollies (born 1943)
And on this day in...
1973 – Bruce Springsteen released his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
1979 – Prince made his live debut in Minneapolis