Sly Stone — the man, the legend — was born on this day, March 15th, in 1944. “Stand” is my favorite Sly and the Family Stone song. In fact, I dare you to name a better song than this one. I don’t think it can be done. Happy Birthday Sly, we love your awesome music!
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Happy Birthday, Chris Squire!
Chris Squire Circa 1978; What a Badass.
Yes’ bassist Chris Squire was born on this day, March 4th, in 1948. Squire was always one of my favorite bass players, along with the late John Entwistle, and Dennis Dunaway from the original Alice Cooper band, whose innovation on the bass is just insane. Happy Birthday, Chris!
Happy Heavenly Birthday, George Harrison
1943 – 2001 (Photo By Gail)
George Harrison, my favorite Beatle, would have been 66 today, having been born on February 25th, in 1943. I still miss him. Cheers George!
Happy 61st Birthday, Alice Cooper
Dennis, Gail, Alice and Neal in 2003
Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Vincent Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with 1971’s monster hit “I’m Eighteen” from the album Love it to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single “School’s Out” in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.
Furnier’s solo career as Alice Cooper, adopting the band’s name as his own name, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. The man formerly known as Vincent Furnier turns 61 years old today!
Happy 65th Birthday, Jimmy Page!
Led Zeppelin!!
Wow, I’m glad I didn’t sleep through this one. Today, guitarist Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin – the greatest hard rock band ever in the Universe of all time and second only in my heart to The Beatles – turns 65, having been born on January 9th in 1944! Jimmy, I want to let you know that you still rock and I forgive you for letting P Diddy do that awful, horrifying thing he did to your song, “Kashmir” on Saturday Night Live that time, because I understand now that it probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Or maybe you needed the money. I remember when I interviewed your former band mate John Paul Jones several years ago. I asked him how “Rock & Roll” came to be licensed to a Cadillac car commercial and he was like, “Well, they didn’t get it for free!” It’s okay, Jimmy; I’m over it.