Celebrating 20 December
Birthdays
1944 – Bobby Colomby, drummer, Blood, Sweat and Tears
1945 – Peter Criss, drummer, Kiss
1948 – Alan Parsons, founder, The Alan Parsons Project
1956 – Anita Ward, US soul singer
1957 – Billy Bragg, singer/songwriter and activist
1957 – Mike Watt, bassist, Minutemen
1966 – Chris Robinson, vocalist, The Black Crowes
1975 – Graham Hopkins, drummer, Therapy?
1980 – Chris Edwards, bassist, Kasabian
1990 – JoJo, US singer/songwriter
Died on this day
1973 – Bobby Darin, singer/songwriter (born 1936)
1999 – Hank Snow, Canadian country musician (born 1914)
2013 – David Richards, producer (born 1956)
And on this day in...
1974 – Joe Walsh officially replaced Bernie Leadon in the Eagles
2006 – Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum won his court case to be recognised as a co-writer of A Whiter Shade of Pale