Celebrating 7 December
Birthdays
1949 – Tom Waits, US singer/songwriter
1954 – Mike Nolan, singer, Bucks Fizz
1958 – Tim Butler, bassist, Psychedelic Furs
1961 – Rob Downes, guitarist, Then Jerico
1963 – Barbara Weathers, singer, Atlantic Starr
1963 – Claudia Brücken, singer, Propaganda
1965 – Brian Futter, guitarist, Catherine Wheel
1969 – James Francis Brown, English composer
1973 – Damien Rice, Irish singer/songwriter
1974 – Nicole Appleton, singer, All Saints
1979 – Sara Bareilles, singer/songwriter
1986 – Jonathan Benjamin Gill, singer, JLS
1987 – Aaron Carter, US singer
Died on this day
1977 – Dr Peter Carl Goldmark, invented the LP (born 1906)
2016 – Greg Lake, bassist, ELP, King Crimson (born 1947)
And on this day in...
1967 – The Beatles' Apple store opened in Baker Street, London. Shambolic from the beginning, it was put out of its misery some seven months later.