Bradley Nowell, guitarrista e vocalista dos Sublime nasceu há 55 anos...

 

Bradley James Nowell (Long Beach, 22 de fevereiro de 1968 - São Francisco, 25 de maio de 1996) foi um músico e compositor norte-americano, mais conhecido como o guitarrista e vocalista da banda de ska punk Sublime. Ele morreu de overdose de heroína em 1996 pouco antes do primeiro lançamento por uma grande gravadora de um trabalho do seu grupo, o álbum Sublime, deixando esposa e filho. 

   

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Bradley Nowell nasceu e cresceu em Long Beach, Califórnia, junto dos seus pais, Jim Nowell e Nancy Nowell, e com sua irmã Kelly. Conforme cresceu, Nowell tornou-se uma criança problemática. O seu comportamento rebelde agravou-se aos dez anos, quando os seus pais se divorciaram. Ao sair numa viagem às Ilhas Virgens, juntamente com o seu pai, Bradley passou a conhecer o reggae e, ao voltar, foi aprender a tocar guitarra. Aos 13 anos Bradley formou a sua primeira banda, 'Hogan's Heroes', juntamente com Eric Wilson, que mais tarde seria o baixista da banda Sublime. Nowell estudou na Wilson Classical High School, em Long Beach, e mais tarde frequentou a California State University, de Long Beach.

Bradley foi um músico que viria a influenciar muita gente em relação ao estilo musical e ao estilo de vida, sendo um ícone para toda a geração que partilha um gosto comum pelo skate. 

   

  
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Ian Brown faz hoje sessenta anos...!

   

Ian George Brown (Warrington, 20 February 1963) is an English singer and multi-instrumentalist. He was the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses from their formation in 1983. Following the split in 1996, he began a solo career, releasing seven studio albums, a greatest hits compilation, a remix album, an 11-disc box set titled Collection, and 19 singles. He has performed solo shows in 45 countries. He returned to singing for the Stone Roses in 2011, although this did not spell the end of his solo endeavours, releasing First World Problems through Virgin/EMI Records on 25 October 2018. 

   

Early life

Brown was born in Warrington in 1963 and grew up on Forster Street, Orford until the age of about six. His father, George, was a joiner, and his mother, Jeane, worked as a receptionist in a paper factory. He then moved with his family, including a brother (Graham) and sister (Sharon) to Sylvan Avenue in Timperley, Altrincham. He attended Park Road County Primary Infant and Junior School and then Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, leaving aged 16. In 2015 and 2017, he testified against a former teacher at Altrincham Grammar, Fred Talbot, who was found guilty of sexually abusing pupils in the 1970s.

Brown's interest in music was inspired by the punk movement, specifically the bands Sex Pistols, The Clash, and Manchester-based Slaughter & the Dogs. Brown and original Stone Roses bassist Pete Garner attended the recording of the Clash single "Bankrobber" in Manchester.

 

Music career  

The Stone Roses

Brown's music career began in 1980, playing bass guitar in a band with John Squire and Simon Wolstencroft. They eventually became the Patrol, with Andy Couzens on vocals. The band soon split up, with Brown selling his bass to buy a scooter. Brown moved to Hulme and attended Northern soul "all-nighters" across Northern England in the early 1980s as the scene faded. Around this time, Brown met soul legend Geno Washington, who told him, "You should be a star." In 1983, Brown joined the Waterfront, the band that would evolve into the Stone Roses, as co-vocalist.

The Stone Roses rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their debut album voted the best British album of all time in 2004. The band's second album, Second Coming, received a mixed reaction, and after several changes of line-up, the band split up in October 1996.

On 17 October 2011, Brown alluded to a Stone Roses reunion via text message, saying, "We are going to rule the world again. It's happening." On the following day, a reunion was announced for the band with performances planned for June 2012 in Manchester. In a press conference interview, the members of the Stone Roses have said that a new album is planned.

On 2 December 2011, Ian Brown and John Squire performed together live for the first time since 1995. They joined Mick Jones from The Clash, The Farm, and Pete Wylie at the Manchester Ritz in a concert in aid of the Justice for Hillsborough campaign. They performed "Elizabeth My Dear" as a duo before being joined by Mick Jones and The Farm for renditions of the Clash's "Bankrobber" and "Armagideon Time", with Ian Brown taking on lead vocals for the three songs.

The Stone Roses reunited in 2011 and went on a reunion tour in 2012. They continued to tour until 2017 when the band disbanded for a second time. 

   

Solo career

After a break from music in Morocco, Brown established his solo career with the debut solo single "My Star", which was released in the UK on 12 January 1998. The debut album Unfinished Monkey Business followed on 2 February 1998. The album was produced and financed by Brown and featured ex-Roses members Mani, Nigel Ipinson, Aziz Ibrahim, and Robbie Maddix. The album sold over 300,000 copies.

Brown toured in summer 1998 with a band that included Aziz Ibrahim (guitar), Inder "Goldfinger" Matharu (tabla/percussion), Simon Moore (drums), and Sylvan Richardson (bass), including performances at the Glastonbury Festival and the V Festival. Brown was arrested after a flight back from his live show in Paris and later sentenced to four months in prison for using threatening behaviour towards an airline stewardess and captain, a charge he denied, causing his tour to be rescheduled. His bandmate Aziz Ibrahim condemned the sentence, saying that Brown was "just being cheeky". He had threatened to cut off the hands of the stewardess and hammered on the cockpit door, as the plane came in to land. A few weeks before, he had threatened a magazine critic, who had given his album a one-star review, to a "good kicking".

While in Strangeways Prison, Brown wrote the lyrics for "Free My Way", "So Many Soldiers", and "Set My Baby Free". He was released on parole after two months.

His second album, Golden Greats, was released by Polydor Records in 1999. It featured more electronic instrumentation and earned critical acclaim. For his third studio album, Music of the Spheres, Brown sought outside production help for the first time, hiring the services of songwriter and producer Dave McCracken, who would go on to become a regular collaborator. He toured the US for the first time as a solo artist in support of the album.

Brown's fourth solo album, Solarized, was released in the UK on 13 September 2004 and was the first to be released under the revived Polydor imprint Fiction Records. When his new Fiction A&R Jim Chancellor was asked in HitQuarters what contribution he makes to Brown's records, he said, "There's not as much to do. Ian is very much the master of his own records."

Since the break-up of the Stone Roses in 1996, Brown has released six solo albums and fourteen UK Top 40 singles. He has sold out seven UK tours and appeared three times at the Glastonbury Festival, including headlining the Other Stage in 2005. He has appeared five times at V Festival since 1998, along with regular appearances at T in the Park and Oxegen festivals, and played the Move festival in 2002 at Old Trafford Cricket Ground as well as two tours of Australia in 2006 and 2008. 

At the 2006 NME awards, Brown was presented with the "Godlike Genius" award and in 2007, was given the Q "Legend" Award.

In September 2007, Brown released his fifth studio album, The World Is Yours. The album represented a more political approach in his music, particularly the anti-war track "Illegal Attacks", which featured Sinéad O'Connor. The album also featured former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, Paul Ryder of Happy Mondays, and Steve Jones and Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols.

My Way, his sixth solo album, was released in September 2009. It was recorded at London's Battery Studios with producer Dave McCracken; the first single, "Stellify", was released 21 September 2009. Brown played Manchester Arena for the 3rd time in December 2009 and in 2010, made his 3rd appearance in Moscow and 2nd in Beijing, China. Since turning solo in 1998, Brown has played shows in 45 countries.

Brown has collaborated several times with UNKLE, appearing on "Be There" in 1999 and on "Reign" on the 2003 album Never, Never, Land, which was also released as a single.

On 25 October 2018, he released his first solo material in nine years with the single "First World Problems". His seventh studio album, Ripples, was then released on 1 February 2019.

On 18 September 2020, Brown announced the release of new song "Little Seed, Big Tree" through his Twitter account. The song appears to refer to the COVID-19 pandemic, and express anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine sentiment. Brown later complained that it was taken off Spotify. A Spotify spokesman stated that the platform "prohibits content on the platform which promotes dangerous false, deceptive, or misleading content about COVID-19".

In September 2022 he made the first appearance of a UK tour, with a sold-out performance in Leeds. His use of a backing tracks in place of a live band was met with a negative reaction by some attendees.

 

Film and television

Brown had a cameo role in the 2004 film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as a wizard magically stirring his drink while reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time at the Leaky Cauldron. In 2010, Brown had a cameo role as a police officer in Shane Meadow's series This is England '86 based on the film of This is England.

 

Personal life

Brown was married to Fabiola Quiroz, a model from Mexico. They divorced in 2011. He has three children, one with Quiroz, the other two from a previous relationship.

Brown is a lifelong supporter of Manchester United and is a season ticket holder. For the 2005–06 season, Brown was the shirt sponsor of London Commercial Division football team Chiswick Homefields, the players wearing an "IB – The Greatest" logo on their chests.  

  

Legal issues

In February 1998, Brown was arrested and sentenced to four months in jail for threatening a British Airways attendant on a flight to Manchester from Paris. He spent only two months in jail. In June 2005, Brown was arrested in San Francisco after an altercation with a fan who tackled Brown on stage. However, no charges were pressed against Brown. In 2011, Brown was given a driving ban following three speeding violations. He was fined over £1,900. 

 

Views

During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Brown promoted conspiracy theories and misinformation about the pandemic, and criticised lockdowns, the use of masks and the COVID-19 vaccine. In July 2021, Brown received a 2-week Twitter ban for posting false claims that the vaccine was not effective. He pulled out of a festival headline slot as he disagreed with its vaccine passport for entry policy, calling it the "new nazi normal". His anti-lockdown song "Little Seed, Big Tree", which featured lyrics alluding to conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccine, was taken down from Spotify.

      

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Wendy James, a vocalista dos Transvision Vamp, faz hoje 57 anos

 

Wendy James (London, 21 January 1966) is an English singer-songwriter most notable for her work with the pop band Transvision Vamp.

  

Transvision Vamp

James was adopted soon after birth, and left home at the age of sixteen, moving to the English seaside resort town of Brighton. There she met Nick Christian Sayer, who became her boyfriend and musical collaborator. Sayer and James moved to London, where they teamed up with friends Dave Parsons, Tex Axile and Pol Burton, with whom they formed the pop-punk band, Transvision Vamp. James was the lead singer and focal point of the group, and attracted media attention with her sexually charged and rebellious image.

The band was signed by MCA in December 1986 and released a cover version of the Holly and the Italians song "Tell That Girl to Shut Up" in late 1987. Months later the follow-up single "I Want Your Love", with its pop/punk crossover appeal, entered the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart. The band went on to release the hit album Pop Art in October. 1989 was the band's most successful year, with the number 3 hit single "Baby I Don't Care" and hit album Velveteen which entered the UK Albums Chart at number one and was a hit worldwide. The next two singles, "I Want Your Love" and "Baby I Don't Care", respectively reached number five and number three in the UK singles charts.

Solo career

When the decision had been made for Transvision Vamp to split, James wrote to Elvis Costello asking for his guidance. In response Costello, collaborating with his then wife Cait O'Riordan on some songs, wrote a full album's worth of material for James. These songs made up the tracks on her 1993 solo album Now Ain't the Time for Your Tears. Produced by Chris Kimsey, it reached No. 43 in the UK Albums Chart in March 1993. However the album failed to sell in significant numbers, and James "dropped from the music scene". She signed to One Little Indian and recorded an album entitled Lies in Chinatown, which was not released.

  

Solo career and Racine

When the decision had been made for Transvision Vamp to split, James wrote to Elvis Costello asking for his guidance. In response Costello, collaborating with his then wife Cait O'Riordan on some songs, wrote a full album's worth of material for James. These songs made up the tracks on her 1993 solo album Now Ain't the Time for Your Tears. Produced by Chris Kimsey, it reached No. 43 in the UK Albums Chart in March 1993. However the album failed to sell in significant numbers, and James "dropped from the music scene". She signed to One Little Indian and began work on an album entitled Lies in Chinatown, which was not completed.

James formed a band named Racine in 2004. The group released two albums, Number One and Racine 2.

Racine broke up in December 2008, prior to shutting down their official website. The members of the band went on to join other bands and none of them worked on James' next album.

James announced on her MySpace blog that she had been working on an album entitled I Came Here to Blow Minds, which was recorded in Paris in 2009 and mixed in Australia later that year.^[11] Finally, a release date of 19 October 2010 (for digital release) was posted on James' official Facebook page in August 2010. One track from the album had already been made available for download on RCRD LBL. since May 2009.

James released an album, The Price of the Ticket on 19 February 2016.

In October 2019, James was touring as "The Wendy James Band" in support of the Psychedelic Furs, promoting a new album, Queen High Straight. 

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Andy Rourke, baixista dos The Smiths, faz hoje 59 anos

       

Andrew Michael Rourke (Manchester, 17 January 1964) is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the Smiths. He is known for his melodic approach to bass playing.

    

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Kirsty MacColl morreu há 22 anos...

     

Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was an English singer and songwriter. She wrote and recorded several pop hits between the early 1980s and the 1990s. In addition, she sang on hit recordings produced by her then-husband Steve Lillywhite, notably on tracks by The Smiths and The Pogues.

At the age of 41, MacColl died after being hit by a boat in Mexico.

Early career

Kirsty MacColl was the daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl and dancer Jean Newlove. She and her brother, Hamish MacColl, grew up with their mother in Croydon, where Kirsty attended Park Hill Primary School, Monks Hill High School and John Newnham High School, making appearances in school plays. At the time of her birth, her father had been in a relationship with folk singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Peggy Seeger since 1956 (a relationship that would continue until his death in 1989), and already had a son with her.

She came to notice when Chiswick Records released an EP by local punk rock band the Drug Addix with MacColl on backing vocals under the pseudonym Mandy Doubt (1978). Stiff Records executives were not impressed with the band, but liked her and subsequently signed her to a solo deal.

  

Debut single

Her debut solo single "They Don't Know", released in 1979, peaked at number two on the Music Week airplay chart. However, a distributors' strike prevented copies of the single getting into record stores, and the single consequently failed to appear on the UK Singles Chart.

MacColl recorded a follow-up single, "You Caught Me Out", but felt she lacked Stiff's full backing, and left the label shortly before the song was to be released. The single was pulled, and only a few "white label" promo copies of the single are known to exist.

MacColl moved to Polydor Records in 1981. She had a UK number 14 hit with "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis", taken from her critically acclaimed debut album Desperate Character. In 1983, Polydor dropped her just as she had completed recording the songs for a planned second album (to be called Real) which used more synthesizers and had new wave-styled tracks. She returned to Stiff, where pop singles such as "Terry" and "He's On the Beach" were unsuccessful but a cover of Billy Bragg's "A New England" in 1985 got to number 7 in the UK charts. This included two extra verses specially written for her by Bragg. Also around this time, MacColl wrote and performed the theme song "London Girls" for Channel 4's short-lived sitcom Dream Stuffing (1984).

In the United States, MacColl was probably most recognisable as the writer of "They Don't Know". Tracey Ullman's version, reached #2 in the UK in 1983 and #8 in the United States in early 1984; Ullman's video for the song featured a cameo by Paul McCartney near the end. MacColl also sang back-up on the track, providing the "Baay-byy" as the range was too high for Ullman to reach. It was also played over the closing credits of Ullman's HBO show Tracey Takes On... in 1996. Ullman also recorded three more of MacColl's songs, "You Broke My Heart In 17 Places" and "You Caught Me Out", as the title tracks of her first and second albums respectively, and "Terry" which was released as a single in 1985.

Chart re-emergence

When Stiff went bankrupt in 1986, MacColl was left unable to record in her own right, as no record company bought her contract from the Official Receiver. However, she had regular session work as a backing vocalist, and she frequently sang on records produced or engineered by her husband, Steve Lillywhite, including tracks for Robert Plant, The Smiths, Alison Moyet, Shriekback, Simple Minds, Talking Heads, Big Country, Anni-Frid Lyngstad (of ABBA), and The Wonder Stuff among others. She appeared in the videos "Welcome to the Cheap Seats" for The Wonder Stuff and "(Nothing But) Flowers" for Talking Heads (along with ex-The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr).

MacColl re-emerged in the British charts in December 1987, reaching Number 2 with The Pogues on "Fairytale of New York", a duet with Shane MacGowan. This led to her accompanying The Pogues on their British and European tour in 1988, an experience which she said helped her temporarily overcome her stage fright. In March 1989, MacColl sang backing vocals on the Happy Mondays' Hallelujah EP.

After the contract issue was resolved, MacColl returned to recording as a solo artist and received critical acclaim upon the release of Kite (LP) in 1989. The album was widely praised by critics, and featured collaborations with David Gilmour and Johnny Marr. MacColl's lyrics addressed life in Margaret Thatcher's Britain on "Free World", ridiculed the vapidity of fame in "Fifteen Minutes", and addressed the vagaries of love in "Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim!" Although Kite contained many original compositions, MacColl's biggest chart success from the album was the cover of The Kinks' song "Days", which gave her a UK Top 20 hit in July 1989. A bonus track on the CD version of Kite was a cover of the Smiths song "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby".

During this time, MacColl was also featured on the British sketch comedy French and Saunders, appearing as herself, singing songs including "15 Minutes" and "Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sunny Jim!" (from Kite), "Still Life" (the B-side of the "Days" single), "Girls On Bikes" (a reworking of B-side "Am I Right?") and, with comedy duo Raw Sex, the Frank and Nancy Sinatra hit "Somethin' Stupid". She continued to write and record, releasing the album Electric Landlady (coined by Johnny Marr, a play on the Jimi Hendrix album title Electric Ladyland), including her most successful chart hit in North America, "Walking Down Madison" (co-written with Marr and a Top 30 hit in the UK), in 1991. Despite the song's U.S. chart success, Landlady was not a hit for Virgin Records, and in 1992, when Virgin was sold to EMI, MacColl was dropped from the label.

Later work

She released Titanic Days, informed by her failing marriage with Lillywhite, in 1993, but ZTT Records had agreed only to release the album as a "one-off" and declined to sign her to a contract. In 1995, she released two new singles on Virgin, "Caroline" and a cover of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" (a duet with Evan Dando), together with the "best of" compilation Galore.

Galore became MacColl's only album to reach the top 10 in the UK Albums Chart, but neither of the new singles, nor a re-released "Days", made the Top 40. MacColl did not record again for several years; her frustration with the music business was exacerbated by a lengthy case of writer's block. MacColl herself admitted that she was ready to give up her music career and become an English teacher in South America.

In 1998, the album What Do Pretty Girls Do? was released, containing BBC Radio 1 live sessions (featuring Billy Bragg on two songs) that were broadcast between 1989 and 1995.

After several trips to Cuba and Brazil, MacColl recorded the world music-inspired (particularly Cuban and other Latin American forms) Tropical Brainstorm, which was released in 2000 to critical acclaim. It included the song "In These Shoes?", which garnered airplay in the U.S., was covered by Bette Midler and featured in the HBO show Sex and the City. After MacColl's death it was adopted by Catherine Tate as the theme tune for her BBC TV show and featured on the soundtrack to British film Kinky Boots.

TV work

MacColl featured regularly in the third series of the French and Saunders Show, a comedy show on the BBC. Unlike other guests on the show, she was not part of any of the sketches but sang her songs whilst performing as in a music video. She also made regular appearances on Jools Holland's TV shows, also on the BBC, singing during the 1995 Hootenanny a rendition of "Miss Otis Regrets" with the Pipes and Drums of the Irish Guards.

MacColl appeared in the 1991 Channel 4 historic musical fantasy The Ghosts of Oxford Street as Kitty Fisher, performing "Fairytale of New York" opposite Shane MacGowan as the Duke of York.

Death

In 2000, following her participation in the presentation of a radio programme for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Cuba, MacColl took a holiday in Cozumel, Mexico, with her sons and her partner, musician James Knight. On 18 December 2000 she and her sons went diving at the Chankanaab reef, part of the National Marine Park of Cozumel, in a designated diving area that watercraft were restricted from entering. With the group was a local veteran divemaster, Iván Díaz. As the group were surfacing from a dive a powerboat moving at high speed entered the restricted area. MacColl saw the boat coming before her sons did; Louis (then 13) was not in its path, but Jamie (then 15) was, she was able to push him out of the way (he sustained minor head and rib injuries) but in doing so she was struck by the boat and died instantly. MacColl's body was repatriated back across the Atlantic Ocean to the United Kingdom, and was cremated after a humanist funeral at Mortlake Crematorium in South-West London.

The powerboat involved in the collision was controlled by Guillermo González Nova, multimillionaire president of the Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain, who was on board with members of his family. The boat was owned by Carlos González Nova, brother and founder of the chain. One employee of Guillermo González Nova, boathand José Cen Yam, stated that he was in control of the boat at the time of the incident. Eyewitnesses said that Cen Yam was not at the controls and that the boat was travelling much faster than the speed of one knot that González Nova said.

Cen Yam was found guilty of culpable homicide and was sentenced to 2 years 10 months in prison. He was allowed under Mexican law to pay a punitive fine of 1,034 pesos (about €63, £61 or US$90) in lieu of the prison sentence. He was also ordered to pay approximately US$2,150 in restitution to MacColl's family, an amount based on his wages. People who said they spoke to Cen Yam after the killing said he received money for taking the blame.

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Sinéad O'Connor faz hoje cinquenta e seis anos

  

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (Dublin, 8 de dezembro de 1966) é uma cantora 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, continua a gravar músicas e apresentar-se com o seu nome de nascimento.

   

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Steven Severin - 67 anos

      

Steven Severin é o nome artístico do baixista e compositor Steven John Bailey, nascido a 25 de setembro de 1955, em Londres. Ele integrou o famoso grupo de fãs dos Sex Pistols, o "Bromley Contingent", e é um dos membros fundadores dos Siouxsie And The Banshees. Antes de adotar como pseudónimo o nome "Steven Severin", que em muitos locais aparece também como "Steve Severin", (onde "Severin" é uma referência a canção "Venus In Furs", dos Velvet Underground), ele adotou outros como Steve Havoc e Steve Spunker.

   

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O músico Nuno Bettencourt faz hoje 56 anos

   

Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt (Praia da Vitória, Terceira, Açores, 20 de setembro de 1966) é um virtuoso guitarrista português, membro da banda Extreme, que ficou famoso pelos seus solos extremamente técnicos, sendo a sua maneira de tocar muito influenciada por Eddie Van Halen.

   

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Morten Harket, o vocalista dos A-Ha, faz hoje 63 anos

       

Morten Harket (Kongsberg, 14 de setembro de 1959) é o ex-vocalista da banda norueguesa A-Ha. É uma das maiores vozes dos últimos tempos e fez grande sucesso com os A-Ha. Foi eleito a melhor voz do ano de 1986.

      

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James Bay faz hoje trinta e dois anos

    

James Bay (born 4 September 1990, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England) 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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Spencer Smith, ex-baterista dos Panic! at the Disco, faz hoje 35 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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Matt Johnson, vocalista dos The The, faz hoje sessenta e um 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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Lee Mavers nasceu há sessenta 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. 

 

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Martin Gore, dos Depeche Mode, faz hoje sessenta e um 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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Jack White - 47 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. Ele também tocou em outras bandas locais e fez shows sozinho.

  

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Hoje é dia de recordar os Morphine...

Mark Sandman, o vocalista dos Morphine, morreu há vinte e três 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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Gordon Moakes, dos Bloc Party, faz hoje 46 anos

Gordon Peter Moakes (Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes, England, 22 June 1976) is an English multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist for English indie rock band Bloc Party

     
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