CHARLIE WATTS, the coolest drummer ever in rock history passed away
a year ago today. He was 80. The quiet Stone with the poker face joined
the band in 1963 and played on every album of the band.
Rest in peace, legend.
Great personality, great musician, great interview.
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His hilarious quote after 25 years of Rolling Stones.
Singer/actress OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN was born in Cambridge, England 73 years ago. Tonight she lost her battle with breast cancer. She died on her Ranch in Southern California
Her husband John Easterling broke the news on her Instagram account.
John Anthony Genzale was born 70 years ago today in Queens, New York. His mother was of Italian descent, and his father was of Italian, Russian-Jewish, and German-Jewish ancestry.
Before he joined (1971) the New York Dolls, the coolest glam and glitter gang in rock ‘n roll history, he had a couple bands of his own. He was a fanatic fan of Keith Richards. He copied his guitar style and his poses, while his sister styled his hair like Keef.
After 2 albums Johnny left to jump on the punk train and
formed The Heartbreakers with Richard Hell, who left soon.
Eventually, he started a solo career. He assembled a cast of ’70s punk and rock stars – Chrissie Hynde, Phil Lynott, Peter Perrett, Steve Marriott, and Pistols Paul Cook, and Steve Jones, among others – for his debut solo LP So Alone, released in 1978.
Angela Trimble aka the ultimate pin-up pop queen Debbie Harry
was born in Miami on 1 July 1945. Happy 77 to Blondie‘s first lady.
Picture this: a Sunday Girl with a Heart Of Glass always Hanging On
The Telephone, one way or another, causing Rapture when the Tide Is
High and always Dreaming of Denis who Ripped Her To Shreads. Please Call Me, Debbie, In The Flesh.
JAMES PAUL McCARTNEY was born on 18 June 1942. Happy 80 to the songsmith genius who needs no introduction whatsoever. I wonder how many people never heard of Macca. The ones who lived/live on Mars?
In those 80 years the Liverpool icon has made 12 LPs with The Beatles, 7 albums
with Wings, 18 solo and several collaborative records. Lots of Hard Day Night work.
For this occasion, my wake-up song is this smoking live
version of his heaviest rock song ever HELTER SKELTER.
Susan Janet Ballion, best known of course as SIOUXSIE SIOUX
the voice and face of her band The Banshees was born on
27 May 1957 in London.
Happy 65 to the Goth queen of punk. One of the most
charismatic and drop-dead gorgeous rock stars ever.
With The Banshees she recorded/released 11 studio albums.
With her husband Budgie, she made two LPs under the moniker
of The Creatures. And in 2007 she released her only criminally
underrated, solo longplayer Mantaray.
Widely know for being a prominent member, along with her ex-husband Thurston Moore of prodigious noise-addictsSonic Youth (1981–2011 / 15 LPs).
After the band’s split the blonde heroine played with several short-lived groups
(Free Kitten, Body/Head, Glitterbust) before canning her first ace solo album No Home Record three years ago. It was Turn Up The Volume‘s numero uno longplayer of 2019.
Three great Kim moments to celebrate her birthday…
The one and only real Punkfather was born James Newell Osterberg Jr
aka IGGY POP on 21 April 1947 in Muskegon, Michigan. He started moving,
falling, standing up, going totally nuts, and yelling like a madman in 1960.
He canned 5 albums with The Stooges and 18 solo LPs (so far). For the past few
years, he was a guest on countless tracks of other artists. I wonder sometimes how
all these (former) junkies and 24-hour party animals survive and still kickin’ hard.
Anyway…
Happy 75 to the passenger!
The dog is getting older but he still has the heart of a young party animal.
Here’s the living legend still going berserk off and on stage!