ARCTIC MONKEYS Mastermind ALEX TURNER Who Turns 40 Today Names The Song He Loved As A Kid
6 January 2026
Alex Turner was born in Sheffield (UK) on
6 January 1986. Happy 40 to the main
artcic monkey.
The Coffee Song
happy birthday
SYD BARRETT – Legendary PINK FLOYD Co-Founder Would Have Celebrated His 80th Birthday Today
6 January 2026
Pink Floyd‘s co-founder and main songwriter/vocalist SYD BARRETT,
real name Roger Keith Barrett) was born on 6 January 1946.
Happy 80 to the visionary musician whose promising career
was torpedoed by drug abuse and mental problems.
He co-wrote/recorded the first two Floyd albums – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
and A Saucerful Of Secrets – and released two solo LPs in 1970, The Madcap Laughs
and Barrett. He passed away on 7 July 2006, aged 60.
PINK FLOYD
.
SOLO
Happy 80 To JOHN PAUL JONES
3 January 2026
Promo photo
Bassist and keyboardist JOHN PAUL JONES who formed legendary rock band
Led Zeppelin back in 1968, along with guitarist Jimmy Page, was born named
John Richard Baldwin on 3 January 1946 in Kent, Engeland.
Happy 80 to a musical architect, whose contributions
to Led Zep‘s work and success was instrumental.
When the band called it a day in 1980 following the death of drummer John Bonham started to work with countless other artists such as Queens Of The Stone Age‘s frontman Josh Homme, Peter Gabriel, Foo Fighter Dave Grohl, Lenny Kravitz, Cinderella, The Mission,
La Fura dels Baus, the Harp Consort, Brian Eno, Seasick Steve, and the Butthole Surfers.
Happy 80 To LEMMY
Happy 85 FRANK ZAPPA
Phenomenal multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter FRANK ZAPPA
was born on 21 December 1940 in Baltimore. He would have celebrated his
85th birthday today.
Zappa Magazines.
CIRCUS Magazine – 1967
ROLLING STONE – 1968
CREEM – 1974
CASHBOX – 1982
KEYBOARD Magazine – 1987
Zappa passed away on 4 December 1993 due to cancer. R.I.P.
HAPPY 70 To THE CLASH Bass Hero PAUL SIMONON
15 December 2025
The iconic photo taken by Pennie Smith in New York, 1979
Paul Gustave Simonon was born on 15 December 1955.
Happy 70 to the cool-as-hell bass casanova of the last
band in town, The Clash.
To celebrate, here’s the first song Simonon, who grew
up in Brixton, wrote for the band. His pumping reggae
bass money-maker Guns Of Brixton, from the classic
double LP ‘London Calling‘.
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you’ll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton
On top: the iconic photo taken by Pennie Smith in New York, 1979.
Talking Head TINA WEYMOUTH Who Celebrates Her 75th Birthday Today Names The Perfect Song
22 November 2025
Credits: Far Out Magazine / CC-BY-SA
Tina was born Martina Michèle Weymouth, on 22 November 1950 in Colorado, CA.
Happy 75 to the glorious, former Talking Head and Tom Tom Club bassist.
Perfect choice.
Happy 60 To BJÖRK
21 November 2025
Front cover debut album
BJÖRK was born named Björk Guðmundsdóttir
in Reykjavík, Iceland on 21 November 1965.
Happy 60 to a unique artist who started her career with
alt pop-rock band The Sugarcubes (1986-1992 / 3 albums).
In 1993 her first solo LP Debut came out. So far she made/released
10 longlayers with Fossora from 2022 as her most recent one.
She has sold more than 40 million albums. Over the years, she focused on connecting
her music with remarkable visual performances on stage and for her records’ artwork.
She also played in a couple of movies.
THE SUGARCUBES
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Happy 75 To GRAHAM PARKER – One Of The Greatest Rock & Soul Voices Ever
18 November 2025
British prolific songsmith and terrific voice
GRAHAM PARKER was born in Hackney,
London on 18 November 1970.
Happy 75 to one of the greatest rock
and soul voices ever (to my ears).
He played in a couple of pub bands before forming his group
The Rumour with whom he recorded/released 6 albums with their
5-star masterpiece Squeezing Out Sparks that came out in 1978.
Later on Parker played solo, released records with different
backing bands and reunited the Rumour from 1992 to 1995.
His most recent longplayer is Last Chance To Do The Twist,
released in 2023.
Let’s do his 1977 classic
THE NEW YORK SHUFFLE
to start the birthday party.
And do the New York shuffle, baby New York scuffle,
Going to stay awake all night
Do the New York shuffle, baby New York scuffle,
Get yourself uptight, get uptight
HAPPY 80 To NEIL YOUNG, The Rock Icon Who Keeps On Rockin’ In The Free World
12 November 2025
Living rock legend NEIL YOUNG was born on 12 November 1945 in Toronto, Canada.
Happy 80 to the imperishable, iconic singer-songwriter. He has released about
a thousand albums since 1963. He worked solo, regularly recorded with his pals
Crazy Horse, and played with three other memorable voices: Crosby, Stills, & Nash and Buffalo Springfield, a long time ago.
On his newest album, Talkin’ To The Trees, released last
June, he’s assisted by his new band The Chrome Hearts
.
In between, he keeps on coming up with old stuff from his
inexhaustible Archives, which seem to be inexhaustible.
And he still performs live.
Keep on rockin’ in the free world, Neil.