Celebrating 17 February
Birthdays
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1936 – John Leyton, pop singer, actor
1966 – Melissa Brooke Belland, singer, Voice Of The Beehive
1972 – Billie Joe Armstrong, guitarist, Green Day
1976 – Svein Berge, electronic musician, Röyksopp
1981 – John Hassall, bassist, The Libertines
1981 – Paris Hilton, socialite, singer
1988 – Arin Ilejay, drummer, Avenged Sevenfold
1991 – Ed Sheeran, singer/songwriter
Died on this day
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1982 – Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist (born 1917)
2006 – Ray Barretto, Latin jazz percussionist (born 1929)
2014 – Bob Casale, guitarist/keyboardist, Devo (born 1952)
2015 – Kenneth Kelly, singer, The Manhattans (born 1941)
2023 – Kyle Jacobs, US country singer-songwriter (born 1973)
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And on this day in...
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1978 – Kate Bush (aged 19) released her debut album The Kick Inside. The first single, Wuthering Heights (mad but brilliant) was the first self-penned song by a female singer/songwriter to top the British charts.
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