Hoje é preciso ouvir uma bateria...

Brad Wilk, baterista dos Rage Against the Machine, nasceu há 58 anos

Brad Wilk (Portland, Oregon, September 5, 1968) is an American drummer. He is best known as a member of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine (1991–2000, 2007–2011, 2019–present), Audioslave (2001–2007, 2017), and Prophets of Rage (2016–2019).

Wilk started his career as a drummer for Greta in 1990, and helped co-found Rage Against the Machine with Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha in August 1991. Following that band's breakup in October 2000, Wilk, Morello, Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford and Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell formed the supergroup Audioslave, which broke up in 2007. From 2016 to 2019, he played in the band Prophets of Rage, with Commerford, Morello, Chuck D, B-Real and DJ Lord. He has played with Rage Against the Machine since their reunion.

Wilk has also performed drums on English metal band Black Sabbath's final album 13, released in June 2013. He briefly played with Pearl Jam shortly after the release of their debut album Ten and had previously been in the band Indian Style with Eddie Vedder.

   

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James Bay faz hoje trinta e seis anos

    

James Bay (Hitchin, Hertfordshire, 4 September 1990) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. In 2014, he released his single "Hold Back the River", which has been certified platinum, before releasing his debut studio album Chaos and the Calm (2015). The album went to number one in the UK and number 15 in the US. In February 2015, Bay received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award. At the 2016 Brit Awards he received the award for Best British Male Solo Artist. Bay also received three nominations at the 2016 Grammy Awards, for Best New Artist, Best Rock Album, and Best Rock Song. In May 2018, he released his second studio album, Electric Light. 

 

    

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Perry Bamonte nasceu há 66 anos...

 

Perry Archangelo Bamonte (London, 3 September 1960 - 24 December 2025) was an English musician and artist, best known as a guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure from 1990 to 2005, and again from 2022 to 2025. He was also the bassist for Love Amongst Ruin. 

 

Biography

Bamonte was born in London, England. His older brother Daryl worked as a tour manager for The Cure and Depeche Mode, and via this connection Perry joined the Cure's road crew in 1984. He eventually became the guitar tech and personal assistant for group leader Robert Smith. Already a guitarist, during this period Bamonte was taught to play piano and keyboards by Smith's sister Janet. When keyboardist Roger O'Donnell left the Cure in 1990, Bamonte was promoted to a full member of the band, playing both keyboards and guitar regularly, as well as six-string bass and percussion occasionally.

Bamonte's first album with the Cure was Wish in 1992, and he remained with the band for their next three albums. Due to the departure of guitarist Porl Thompson and the return of Roger O'Donnell during this period, Bamonte's duties for the band shifted to a stronger focus on guitar and less on keyboards. In 2005, Bamonte and O'Donnell were dismissed by Smith, who reportedly wanted to reinvent the band as a three-piece. Despite the abrupt dismissal and the lack of an official statement describing the reason, Bamonte and Smith remained on amicable terms.

Bamonte kept a low profile for several years, devoting his time to fly fishing and a career as an illustrator. He regularly contributed content and illustrations for the magazine Fly Culture. He lived in Devon with his wife Donna, who rehabilitated and retrained racehorses. They also ran a retirement home for elderly horses.

In 2012 he joined the supergroup Love Amongst Ruin as bassist and appeared on their 2015 album Lose Your Way. In 2019, Bamonte was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cure. In a move that had not been previously announced, Bamonte rejoined the Cure in 2022 for their extensive Shows of a Lost World tour. He performed in around 400 shows during his stint with the Cure.

Bamonte died after a short illness at home in the southwest of England, on 24 December 2025, at the age of 65. He is survived by his wife Donna.

 

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Spencer Smith, ex-baterista dos Panic! at the Disco, comemora hoje 39 anos

  

Spencer James Smith (Denver, Colorado, September 2, 1987) is an American talent agent and former musician and songwriter. He is best known as a co-founding member and the former drummer of the rock band Panic! at the Disco. He recorded four studio albums with the band: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005), Pretty. Odd. (2008), Vices & Virtues (2011), and Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! (2013). The band's debut album went triple platinum and charted at No. 13 on the US Billboard 200, spearheaded by the hit single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", which peaked at No. 7 in the Billboard Hot 100.

After recording four albums with the band, he announced his departure from Panic! on April 2, 2015 via the band's official website, citing a need to settle his drug issues. As of February 7, 2018, Smith works as an official manager and talent finder at DCD2 Records.

   

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Amy Macdonald - 39 anos

 

Amy Macdonald (Bishopbriggs, 25 de agosto de 1987) é uma cantora e compositora escocesa.

O seu álbum de estreia, This Is the Life, foi lançado em 30 de julho de 2007 e até a data já vendeu mais de 1.200.000 exemplares por todo o mundo. O primeiro single, "Poison Prince", foi lançado em 7 de maio de 2007. Ela já participou de vários festivais de música, tais como Festival de Glastonbury, Hyde Park Calling, T in the Park, V Festival e no Festival do Sudoeste em Portugal. Amy assinou um contrato com a gravadora Vertigo, a mesma que representa os The Killers e Razorlight.

Amy Macdonald começou a tocar guitarra acústica aos 15 anos. As suas maiores influências são Travis e The Libertines.

 

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Dean DeLeo, guitarrista dos Stone Temple Pilots, nasceu há 65 anos

Dean DeLeo (New Jersey, August 23, 1961) is an American guitarist known for his work with rock band Stone Temple Pilots. DeLeo is also known for his role in the short-lived bands Talk Show and Army of Anyone. He is the older brother of Robert DeLeo, who plays bass for Stone Temple Pilots.

DeLeo's playing has received strong critical acclaim over the years. Stone Temple Pilots' second album, Purple, released in 1994, was ranked at #73 on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All-time list.

 

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Matt Johnson, vocalista dos The The, comemora hoje sessenta e cinco anos...!

   

Matt Johnson (London, 15 August 1961) is an English singer-songwriter best known as the vocalist and only constant member of his band The The. He is also a film soundtrack composer (Cineola), publisher (Fifty First State Press), broadcaster (Radio Cineola), and conservationist/local activist. 

   

  

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Hoje é um bom dia para ouvir The The...!

Lee Mavers nasceu há sessenta e quatro anos

Lee Anthony Mavers (Liverpool, 2 August 1962) is an English musician. Mavers was the songwriter, singer and rhythm guitarist in The La's and is best known for the hit "There She Goes" from October 1990.

Mavers was originally the bassist for the Liverpool group Neuklon circa 1980 to 1984.

Mavers is a passionate supporter of Everton Football Club and regularly attends Goodison Park.

He is the older brother of actor Gary Mavers and Neil Mavers, who was the drummer for The La's. 

 

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Hoje é preciso ouvir uma banda chamada The La's...

Saudades de Sinéad O'Connor...

Sinéad O'Connor morreu há três anos...

  

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (Dublin, 8 de dezembro de 1966 - Dublin, 26 de julho de 2023) foi uma cantora e compositora irlandesa.

Em 2017, O'Connor mudou de nome para Magda Davitt. No ano seguinte, converteu-se ao islamismo, mudando uma vez mais de nome, desta vez para Shuhada' Sadaqat. Todavia, continuava a gravar músicas e apresentar-se com o seu nome de nascimento.

   

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Martin Gore, dos Depeche Mode, celebra hoje sessenta e cinco anos...!

   

Martin Lee Gore (Dagenham, London, England, 23 July 1961) is an English songwriter, singer, guitarist and keyboardist, and also producer, remixer and DJ. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode and has written the majority of their songs. His work now spans over three decades. Gore's best-known compositions include hits such as "Personal Jesus", "Enjoy the Silence", "I Feel You", "People Are People", "Everything Counts", "Shake the Disease" and "Never Let Me Down Again".

In addition to composing music and writing lyrics for Depeche Mode songs, he has also been lead vocalist on several, and usually solo (some examples are, "Somebody", "A Question of Lust" and "Home"), as evidenced by most of the Depeche Mode concerts, and has been a backing vocalist on many others.

 

 

In 1999 he received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for "International Achievement", the Moog Innovation Award "for his many contributions to the exploration of sound in popular music" in 2019, and became a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member in late 2020 with fellow Depeche Mode members, Andrew Fletcher and Dave Gahan.
     

 
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É preciso ouvir hoje a banda de Martin Gore...

Jack White - cinquenta e um anos

John Anthony Gillis (Detroit, 9 de julho de 1975), também conhecido como Jack White, Jack III White ou Jack White III é um músico, cantor e produtor musical de rock vencedor de três Grammy Awards. Foi considerado o 70º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone. Em 2001 fundou a sua própria gravadora de discos, a Third Man Records.

 

Com ascendentes polacos, escoceses e canadianos, John Anthony Gillis, filho de Teresa e Gorman Gillis, era o mais novo de dez filhos (seis irmãos e três irmãs) vivendo num bairro de classe média-baixa em Detroit, Michigan, numa família católica. O pai e a mãe dele trabalhavam na Arquidiocese de Detroit, como superintendente de manutenção do prédio e secretária no escritório do Cardeal, respetivamente. White eventualmente tornou -se menino de coro, o que acabou dando-lhe um papel no filme de 1987, O Mistério do Rosário Negro (The Rosary Murders), principalmente filmado na paróquia Holy Redeemer, no sudoeste de Detroit. White, em criança, era fã de música clássica. Ele frequentou a Cass Technical High School em Detroit.

Ele começou a tocar um instrumento, bateria, aos seis anos. Quando adolescente, White já escutava blues e rock dos anos 60 que iriam influencia-lo bastante nos The White Stripes, sendo Son House e Blind Willie McTell os seus músicos favoritos de blues. Ele e seu amigo de infância, Dominic Suchyta, escutavam álbuns no sótão de White nos fins de semana e começaram a gravar covers num gravador de rolo. White era descrito, nesse tempo, sendo "um rapaz com cabelo curto e suspensórios". Ele já mencionou em várias entrevistas que a música "Grinnin' In Your Face", de Son House, é sua música favorita de todos os tempos.

Em 2005, no programa 60 Minutes, White disse para Mike Wallace que a sua vida poderia ter sido diferente. "Eu seria aceite num seminário em Wisconsin, e eu iria tornar-me padre, mas no último segundo eu pensei, 'eu vou para uma escola pública.' Eu tinha acabado de comprar um novo amplificador e eu não sabia se eu podia leva-lo para o seminário." Aos 15 anos, White começou um programa de aprendizagem de estufagem com um amigo da família, Brian Muldoon. White credita Muldoon, expondo-o ao punk rock, tocando com Muldoon como uma banda: "Muldoon tocava bateria, então eu tinha que tocar guitarra." Eles gravaram um álbum, Makers of High Grade Suites, como The Upholsterers. White começou um negócio sozinho, Third Man Upholstery. O slogan do seu negócio era "A sua mobília não está morta" e a mistura de cores era amarelo e preto - incluindo uma carrinha amarela, um uniforme amarelo e preto e uma prancheta amarela. Embora à Third Man Upholstery nunca faltasse trabalho, White disse que era não lucrativo, por causa da sua complacência sobre dinheiro e as suas práticas, que eram consideradas pouco  profissionais, inclusive fazer as contas com lápis e escrever poesia no interior do mobiliário. Não muito depois, White teve o seu primeiro show profissional, como baterista da banda de Detroit Goober & The Peas. Também tocou noutras bandas locais e fez shows sozinho.

  

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Mark Sandman, vocalista dos Morphine, morreu há vinte e sete anos...

                                                   

Mark Sandman (Newton, 24 de setembro de 1952 - Palestrina, 3 de julho de 1999) foi um músico dos Estados Unidos. Fundou a banda de blues Treat Her Right, que lançou três discos: Treat Her Right (1986), Tied To The Tracks (1989) e What's Good For You (1991).

Inovou ao criar a banda Morphine, que fazia uma fusão vitoriosa de rock e jazz. Formada apenas por baixo, sax e bateria, além da intervenção eventual de alguns outros instrumentos, a música do grupo servia de base para que Sandman, com sua voz aveludada, cantasse as suas belas poesias.

Mark veio a falecer, em 1999, durante um show na Itália, vítima de um ataque cardíaco fulminante.
      

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Should I Stay or Should I Go...!

Mick Jones, guitarrista dos The Clash, nasceu há setenta e um anos

Michael Geoffrey Jones (Wandsworth, London, 26 June 1955) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the co-founder of the Clash, and as that group's guitarist until 1983. In 1984, he formed Big Audio Dynamite with Don Letts. Jones has played with the band Carbon/Silicon along with Tony James (formerly of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik) since 2002 and was part of the Gorillaz live band for a world tour in 2010–2011. In late 2011, Jones collaborated with Pete Wylie and members of the Farm to form the Justice Tonight Band. 

   

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Gordon Moakes, músico dos Bloc Party, nasceu há cinquenta anos...!

Gordon Peter Moakes (Newport Pagnell, 22 June 1976) is an English musician, best known as the bassist of rock band Young Legionnaire and former member of indie rock band Bloc Party. 

   

Bloc Party

Moakes became a member of Bloc Party after responding to an advertisement placed in the NME music magazine by Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack, who were seeking a bassist. Although not originally a bassist, Moakes was the only player the band auditioned who was able to play the bassline for a song that Okereke and Lissack had presented.  In 2002, Moakes, Lissack, and Okereke formed the first incarnation of Bloc Party – then known as The Angel Range – and played shows across London. Moakes also ran and updated the band's website at the time.

Moakes shared co-writing credits with Okereke on some of the band's earlier lyrics. In the early days of the band, he contributed lyrics mostly to the band's more political songs, and he composed the song "Diet". Moakes added new instruments to his repertoire on Bloc Party's second and third albums, A Weekend in the City and Intimacy respectively. He played drums on "Sunday", electronic drums on "Ares", glockenspiel on "Waiting for the 7.18" and "SRXT" and a microKORG synthesizer on "Flux". His voice can be heard in many of the band's songs, often in contrast with Okereke's lead vocals.

Moakes remixed the band's song "Talons" from their album Intimacy. It was featured as a part of the single download as well as appearing as the B-side to its vinyl release.

In 2015, Moakes confirmed that he had left the band to focus on Young Legionnaire. He was replaced by Justin Harris later in the year. Moakes resided in Austin, Texas for several years but currently resides in London, England with his wife and children.

 

Other works

Moakes worked with yourcodenameis:milo on the track "Wait a Minute" from the album Print Is Dead Vol 1. "Wait a Minute" was released on a limited edition 7" single on 4 October 2006. Moakes designed the cover art.

In December 2009, Moakes, Paul Mullen (vocalist and guitarist of The Automatic) and William Bowerman (drummer of La Roux) worked in the studio together on a new side project, with Bloc Party on hiatus and both The Automatic and La Roux inactive over the Christmas break. In January 2010, the group were revealed to be named Young Legionnaire and were set to play their first show at the end of January in London.

        
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