Celebrating 4 April
Birthdays
1932 – Clive Davis, founder, Arista Records
1946 – Dave Hill, guitarist, Slade
1948 – Pick Withers, drummer, Dire Straits
1962 – Craig Adams, bassist, The Mission
1963 – David Gavurin, guitarist, The Sundays
1968 – Mark Yates, guitarist, Terrorvision
1972 – Magnus Sveningsson, bassist, The Cardigans
1972 – Jill Scott, singer/songwriter
1973 – Kelly Price, R&B singer/songwriter
1975 – Philip Jimenez, multi-instrumentalist, Wheatus
1978 – Lemar (Lemar Obika), singer/songwriter
1980 – Johnny Borrell, guitarist, Razorlight
Died on this day
2004 – Gito Baloi, bassist, Tananas (born 1964)
2020 – Patrick Francfort, drummer, Gibson Brothers (born 1957)
And on this day in...
2008 – Procol Harum's Gary Brooker won back full royalty rights to A Whiter Shade Of Pale, overturning a 2006 court decision that made
Matthew Fisher a co-writer. However, Fisher managed to overturn this by appealing to the House of Lords, and winning, in 2009.