Celebrating 23 January
Birthdays
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1950 – Bill Cunningham, bassist, The Box Tops
1953 – Robin Zander, guitarist, Cheap Trick
1954 – Richard Finch, bassist, KC and the Sunshine Band
1959 – Earl Falconer, bassist, UB40
1964 – Jonatha Brooke, American singer-songwriter
1974 – Kita (Sampsa Astala), drummer, Lordi
1975 – Nick Harmer, bassist, Death Cab for Cutie
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Died on this day
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1978 – Terry Kath, guitarist, Chicago (born 1946)
1990 – Allen Collins, guitarist, Lynyrd Skynyrd (born 1942)
1995 – Bill Horton, The Silhouettes (born 1929)
1998 – Johnny Funches, singer, The Dells (born 1935)
2007 – Disco D (Dave Shayman), hip-hop producer (born 1980)
2016 – Jimmy Bain, bassist, Rainbow; Dio (born 1947)
2017 – Bobby Freeman, R&B singer (born 1940)
2018 – Hugh Masakela, South African trumpeter (born 1939)
2021 – Tom Stevens, bassist, Long Ryders (born 1956)
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And on this day in...
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1971 – George Harrison became the first Beatle to have a solo Number 1 single in the UK - My Sweet Lord (later judged to be a subconscious plagiarisation of The Chiffons' He's So Fine)
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