Celebrating 4 February
Birthdays
1941 – John Steel, drummer, The Animals
1943 – Jimmy Johnson, guitarist, Muscle Shoals session player
1944 – Florence LaRue, lead singer, The 5th Dimension
1948 – Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier), singer, Alice Cooper
1950 – James Dunn, singer, The Stylistics
1950 – Phil Ehart, drummer, Kansas
1952 – Jerry Shirley, drummer, Humble Pie
1960 – Tim Booth, singer, James
1962 – Clint Black, country singer/songwriter
1963 – Noodles (Kevin Wasserman), guitarist, The Offspring
1968 – Steve Queralt, bassist, Ride
1975 – Natalie Imbruglia, singer, actress
1982 – Kimberly Wyatt, singer, Pussycat Dolls
Died on this day
1975 – Louis Jordan, "The King of the Jukebox" (born 1908)
1982 – Alex Harvey, of his own Sensational band (born 1935)
1983 – Karen Carpenter, The Carpenters (born 1950)
1984 – Paul Gardiner, bassist, Tubeway Army (born 1958)
2009 – Lux Interior (E.L. Purkhiser), singer, The Cramps (born 1946)
2009 – Steve Dullaghan, bassist, The Primitives (born 1966)
2013 – Reg Presley, singer, The Troggs (born 1941)
2016 – Maurice White, singer, Earth, Wind and Fire (born 1941)
And on this day in...
2017 – Black Sabbath played their last-ever gig, at the NEC in Birmingham (where else?)