Celebrating 2 December
Birthdays
1941 – Tom McGuinness, guitarist, Manfred Mann
1942 – Ted Bluechel Jr, drummer, The Association
1960 – Rick Savage, bassist, Def Leppard
1960 – Sydney Youngblood, funk singer
1968 – Nate Mendel, bassist, Foo Fighters
1971 – Donna Matthews, guitarist, Elastica
1978 – Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer/songwriter
1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, bassist, Muse
1981 – Britney Spears, singer
1986 – Tal Wilkenfeld, Australian bassist
1991 – Charlie Puth, US singer/songwriter
Died on this day
1982 – David Blue, folk singer-songwriter (born 1941)
2001 – Valerie Jones, The Jones Girls (born 1956)
2006 – Dave Mount, drummer, Mud (born 1947)
2006 – Mariska Veres, singer, Shocking Blue (born 1947)
2008 – Odetta, US singer and civil rights activist (born 1930)
2009 – Eric Woolfson, co-creator Alan Parsons Project (born 1945)
2013 – Junior Murvin, Jamaican reggae musician (born c1946)
2014 – Bobby Keys, saxophonist, Rolling Stones (born 1943)
And on this day in...
1983 – MTV aired the video of Michael Jackson's Thriller for the first time