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FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS

Born ~ February 1st
1979: Valentin Elizalde (popular Mexican singer)*25.Nov.2006.
1975: Big Boi/Antwan André Patton
(US rap artist;Outkast)
1971: Ron Welty (drums; Offspring)
1969: Patrick Wilson (drums; Weezer)
1968: Lisa Marie Presley (US singer, daughter of Elvis Presley, former wife of Michael Jackson)
1957: Dennis Brown (Jamaican reggae singer)*01.July.1999
1953: Rick James (US singer)*6.Aug.2004
1951: Fran Christina (US drummer; The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1951: Rich Williams (guitarist, Kansas/freelance)
1950: Mike Campbell (singer, guitarist, producer;Tom Petty's Heartbreakers/solo)
1939: Claude Francois (French pop singer)*11.
March.1978
1939: Joe Sample (keyboards; Modern Jazz Sextet/Jazz Crusaders)
1938: Jimmy Carl Black/James Inkanish (drums; Frank Zappa/Farrell & Black Band/Muffin Men)
1937: Don Everly (guitar/vocals, Everly Brothers)
1937: Ray Sawyer (vocals; Dr. Hook &the Medicine Show)
1934:
Bob Shane/Robert Castle Schoen (singer; Kingston Trio)
1922: Renata Tebaldi (Italian international soprano singer)
*19.12.2004.
1877: Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Composer)*
13.March.1946

February 2nd (Groundhog Day!)
1983: Alex Westaway (UK guitarist, vocalist; Fightstar).
1978: Eden Espinosa (American singer and stage actress).
1977: Heather Martin (American gospel singer; Virtue).
1977: Shakira/Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (Colombian singer, songwriter)
1975: Billy Mohler (bassist; Jay Hodgson Group,/Jimmy Chamberlin Complex)
1972: Dana International/Yaron 'Sharon' Cohen (Israeli singer).
1971: Ben Mize (drums; Counting Crows)
1966: Robert DeLeo (bass; Stone Temple Pilots/Talkshow/Army of Anyone).
1964: Charlie Heather (drums; Levellers)

1963: Eva Cassidy (US singer, guitar, producer)*02.11.1996
1954: Hansi Hinterseer (Austrian singer, actor, entertainer).
1949: Ross Valory (bassist; Steve Miller Band, Journey)
1948: Alan McKay (guitar; Earth Wind and Fire)
1947: Peter Lucia (drums; Tommy James and Shondells)
1946: Howard Bellamy (vocals; Bellamy Brothers)
1945: Ronnie Goodson (trumpet; Playboy Band)
1943: Peter Macbeth (bassist; The Foundations).
1942: Graham Nash (guitar/vocals, The Hollies, Crosby Stills Nash & Young)
1942: Bob Day/Bernard Colin Day (UK singer; Allisons)
1940: Alan Caddy (guitarist; Tornados/Billy Fury's Band)*16.Aug.2000
1938/9: Gene MacLellan (Canadian composer, singer)*19.Jan.1995.
1934: Clyde "Skip" Battin (bassist; Skip & Flip/Flying Burrito Brothers/Byrds)*06.July.2003
1926: David Whitfield (UK singer)*16.Jan.1980
1997: Burton Lane (American composer and lyricist)*05.Jan.1997.
1901: Jascha Heifetz (Russian violinist)*10.Dec.1987.

February 3rd
1993: Mishon (US R&B singer)
1990: Sean Kingston/
Kisean Anderson (US Reggae, hip-hop artist).
1969: John Spence (R&B singer; No Doubt)*21.Dec.1987
1965: Nick Hawkins (guitar, Big Audio Dynamite/Bad)*10.Oct.2005
1959: Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst (keyboards, drums; The Cure)
1956: Lee Renaldo (guitar; Sonic Youth/Ciccone Youth)
1949: Arthur Kane (bass; New York Dolls)*13.July.2004
1947: Dave Davies (vocals, keyboards, harmonica, guitarist; The Kinks)
1947: Melanie/Melanie Safka (singer, songwriter)
1946: Stan Webb (guitar, vocals; Chicken Shack/solo)
1943: Neil Bogart (American record executive)*08.May.1982.
1943: Eric Haydock (bass, The Hollies/own band)
1943: Dennis Edwards (singer; The Temptations)
1940: Angelo D'Aleo (vocals first tenor; Dion And The Belmonts)
1939: Johnny Bristol (singer/songwriter)*21.
March.2004
1937: Bobby Durham (American jazz drummer; many of the greats)*01.July.2008.
1935: Johnny 'guitar' Watson (US
virtuoso blues guitarist, singer)*17.May.1996.
1928: Frankie Vaughan (UK singer, actor)*17.Sep.1999

1915: Bill Miller (pianist, conductor, producter; 46 yrs with Frank Sinatra)*11.July.2006

February 4th
1976: Cam'ron/Cameron Giles (rap artist)
1975: Natalie Imbruglia (Australian actress, singer)
1975: Rick Burch (bassist; Jimmy Eat World)
1968: Steve Queralt (bassist; Ride)
1962: Clint Black (country singer, harmonica, guitar)
1960: Tim Booth (vocals, James)
1952: Jerry Shirley (drums, Humble Pie/Fastway)
1951: Phil Ehart (drums; White Clover/Kansas)
1950: James Dunn (vocals; Stylistics)
1948: Alice Cooper/Vincent Furnier (goth rock singer, The King Of Goth)
1947: Mary Ann Ganser (vocals; Shangri-Las)
1947: Margie Ganser (vocals; Shangri-Las)
1944: Florence LaRue (vocals; Fifth Dimension/Jazz a' LaRue)
1941: John Steel (drums; The Animals/sessionist/freelance)

1931
: Clarence "Tater" Tate (fiddle player, bassist; Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys/freelance)*17.Oct.2007.

February 5th
1969: Bobby Brown (singer; New Edition/solo)
1968: Chris Barron (vocals; Spin Doctors)
1964: Duff McKagan (bass; Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver)
1964: Sally Still (bass; Furniture)
1960: Paul Jones (bassist; Catatonia)
1952: Daniel Balavoine (French singer and songwriter)*14.Jan.1986.
1948: David Denny (guitar; Abracadabra/Steve Miller Band)
1948: Nigel Tufnell (lead guitar; Spinal Tap)
1944: J.R. Cobb (guitar; sessionist/Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1944: Al Kooper (vocals, keyboards, guitar; The Blues Project/Blood Sweat & Tears)
1943: Chuck Winfield (trumpet; Blood Sweat & Tears)
1942: Cory Wells (singer; Three Dog Knight)
1941: Barrett Strong (US singer, songwriter; Motown artist)
1935: Alex Harvey (vocals, guitar; Stone The Crows/Tear Gas/Alex Harvey Band)
*04.02.1982.

February 6th
1966: Rick Astley (UK singer)
1963: Dave Rotheray (guitar, Beautiful South)
1962: Axl Rose/William Bruce Rose (vocals; Guns N' Roses)
1962: Richie McDonald (guitar, vocals, songwriter; Lonestar)
1950: Natalie Cole (singer)
1949: Mike Batt (UK songwriter, producer)
1947: Alan Jones (saxophone player; Amen Corner)

1945: Bob Marley (singer/songwriter/guitarist)*11 May 1981
1944: Willie Tee/Wilson Turbinton (American singer, songwriter;The Wild Magnolias)*11.Sept.2007
.
1943: Georgeanna Marie Tillman (US singer with the Marvelettes, Motown)*06.Jan.1980.
1943: Fabian/Fabiano Anthony Forte (singer, actor, entertainer)
1942: John London/John Carl Kuehne (session bass player; Monkees)*12.Feb.2000
1941: Dave Berry/David Holgate Grundy (UK singer; Cruisers)
1916: Bill Doggett (US pianist; own band)*13.Nov.1996

February 7th
1975: Wes Borland (guitar; Limp Bizkit/Black Light Burns/From First to Last)
1974: Danny Goffey (drums; Supergrass)
1962: Garth Brooks (US country singer)
1962: David Bryan (keyboards, Bon Jovi)
1960: Steve Bronski (keyboards; Bronski Beat)
1959: Brian Travers (saxophone; UB40)
1957:
Richard Cook (British jazz writer and critic)*25.Aug.2007.
1949: Alan Lancaster (bass; Status Quo/Party Boys and the Bombers)
1949: Stoney Browder (piano; Kid Creole And The Coconuts)
1948: Jimmy Greenspoon (organ, keyboards; Three Dog Night)
1966: Bobby Hendricks (Sth African sax player; own band. NOT the Drifter's Bobby)*1999
1934: Earl King/Earl Silas Johnson (New Orleans blues guitar virtuoso, songwriter)*17.Apr.2003
1934: King Curtis (saxophone; sessionist/The Kingpins)*14.Aug.1971

February 8th
1977: Dave "Phoenix" Ferrel (bassist, Linkin Park)
1974: Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (member of the French house music duo Daft Punk)
1971: Will Turpin (bass, percussion; Collective Soul)
1968: Tjinder Singh (guitar; Cornershop)
1962: Ken McCluskey (vocals, harmonica; Bluebells)

1961: Sam Llanas (vocals, acoustic guitar; the BoDeans)
1961: Vince Neil (vocals, harmonica; Mötley Crüe/solo/freelance)

1948: Dan Seals (singer, guitar; England Dan & John Ford Coley)
1946: Adolfo 'Fito' De La Parra (Mexican drums, Canned Heat)
1946: Paul Wheatbread (drummer; Gary Puckett and the Union Gap)
1942: Terry Melcher/Terry Day (singer/songwriter/producer; Rip Chords/Doris Day)*19.Nov.2004
1943: Creed Bratton (lead guitar, songwriter; Grass Roots)
1941: Tom Rush (US guitar/singer)
1929: Floyd Dixon (American R&B pianist)*26.July.2006
1903: Greta Keller (Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress)*11.11.1977

February 9th
1968: Alejandra Guzmán (Latin Grammy Award–winning Mexican rock singer and actress).
1966: Rachel Bolan (bass, Skid Row/Prunella Scales)
1963: Travis Tritt (guitar, singer)
1960: Holly Johnson (vocals, Frankie Goes To Hollywood/own record label Pleasuredome)
1955: Jimmy Pursey (singer, lyricist; Sham 69)
1951: Dennis Thomas (saxophone; Kool & The Gang)
1947: Joe Ely (country singer, guitarist/Linda Ronstadt's band)
1947: Major Harris (singer, guitar; Delfonics/solo)
1942: Carole King (singer, songwriter, pianist)
1940: Brian Bennett OBE (UK drummer, composer, pianist; Wildcats, Shadows, Cliff Richard, own orchestra)
1939: Barry Mann (US singer, songwriter)
1910: Herbert LeRoy "Peanuts" Holland (Trumpet/Vocals)*07.Feb.1979

February 10th
1981: The Reverend Tholomew Plague/James Owen Sullivan (US drummer; Avenged Sevenfold).
1977: Rosanna Tavarez
(singer, reporter, TV prestenter; Eden's Crush)

1962: Cliff Burton (bass; Metallica)*27.Sept.1986
1960: Robbie Nevil (singer/songwriter/guitarist; solo/sessionist/freelance)
1946: Clifford Thomas Ward (singer, songwriter)*18.Dec.2001
1949: Nigel Olsson (drummer; Elton John band, sessionist, freelance).
1944: Rufus L. Reid (bassist; top studio musician)

1943: Ral Donner (US singer; successful Elvis sound-alike)*06.Apr.1984
1940: Jimmy Merchant (tenor singer; Frankie Lymon And Teenagers)
1937: Ed Polcer (Cornet, Dixieland & Chicago jazzman)
1939: Roberta Flack (US rhythm & blues singer, songwriter)
1933: Don Wilson (rhythm guitar, Ventures)
1932: "Sir" Roland P. Hanna (jazz pianist)*13.Nov.2002
1929: Jerry Goldsmith
(pianist, musical creator/director, composer;films & TV)*21.Jul.2004
1914: Larry Adler (harmonica virtuoso)*06.Aug.2001
1909: William Henry "Chick" Webb (drummer, Chick Webb Band)*16.Jun.1939
1900: Lou Breese (trumpet, banjo; Jazzman)*??.Jan.1969

February 11th
1981: Kelly Rowland (singer; Destiny's Child)
1979: Brandy/Brandy Norwood (rhythm & blues singer)
1977: Michael Kenji "Mike" Shinoda (guitar, vocals, Linkin Park/Fort Minor)
1974: D'Angelo/Michael Eugene Archer (soul singer, pianist, songwriter)
1970: Fredrik Thordendal (Swedish lead guitarist; Meshuggah).
1969: Andrew "Shovell" Lovell (vocals, percussion; M People)
1962: Sheryl Crow (US singer, songwriter)
1953: Alan Rubin/Mr Fabulous(trumpet,flugelhorn,piccolo tr, Blues Brothers/Saturday Night Band)
1953: Neil Henderson (bassist, vocals; Middle Of The Road)
1950: Rochelle Fleming (lead singer; First Choice)
1947: Derek Shulman (multi-instrument; Gentle Giant/president O.M.A. Records)
1946: Ray Lake (UK bassist, vocals; The Real Thing)
1941: Sergio Mendes (Brazilian composer/piano/singer)
1940: Bobby
"Boris" Pickett (singer, songwriter, writer; the Crypt-Kickers)*25.April.2007
1939: Gerry Goffin (US lyricist, songwriter with Carol King)
1935: Gene Vincent/Vincent Eugene Craddock (US rock n roll singer)*12.
Oct.1971
1926
: John Wallowitch (US composer, songwriter , cabaret performer)*15.Aug.2007.
1914: Matt Dennis (singer, songwriter;Tommy Dorsey)*21.
Jun.2002
1882: John Mills Sr. (vocals, Miller Brothers)*????

February 12th
1981: Lisa Hannigan (Irish singer with Damien Rice)
1970: Jim Creeggan (bassist; Barenaked Ladies)
1968: Chynna Phillips (singer; Wilson Phillips)

1966: Gary "Gaz" Whelan (drums, Happy Mondays)
1959: Neil Conti (drummer; Prefab Sprout/sessionist)

1958: Les "Fruitbat" Carter (guitarist; Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine)
1958: Grant McLennan (bass, vocals, songwriter, Go-Betweens/solo)*06.05.2006
1952: Michael McDonald (American R&B/soul singer; Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers/solo).
1951: Vincent James (UK singer; male band Sweet Sensation)
1950: Steve Hackett (guitar, songwriter; Genesis/freelance/solo)
1949: Stanley "Goober" Knight (guitar; Black Oak Arkansas)
1945: Joe Schermie (bass; Three Dog Night)*26.March.2002
1939: Ray Manzarek (keyboards, The Doors)
1942: Rick Frank (drummer; jazz musician)
1915: Lorne Greene (Canadian singer/actor)*11.Sept.1987
1914: Gordon Lee "Tex" Beneke (US saxophonist, singer, bandleader; Glenn Miller Orch)*30.May.2000.

February 13th
1976: Leslie Feist/Feist (Canadian singer-songwriter; solo/Broken Social Scene).
1976:
Saint Thomas/Thomas Hansen (Norwegian alt-country singer, guitarist)*05.Sept.2007
1974: Robbie Williams
(UK vocalist; Take That/solo)
1971: Sonia/Sonia Rutstein (vocalist; Disappear Fear/solo)
1968: Chynna Phillips (US singer; Wilson Phillip Group/solo)
1966: Freedom Williams (rap artist; C&C Music Factory)
1962: Rob Ellis (drummer, multi musician with PJ Harvey)
1961: Les Warner (drummer; The Cult/freelance/sessionist)
1961: Henry Rollins/Henry Garfield (singer, actor; Black Flag/Rollins Band)
1958: Mark Fox (percussion, Haircut 100)
1957: Tony Butler (bassist; Big Country)
1956: Peter Hook (bass, vocals, producer; Joy Division/New Order)
1952: Ed Gagliardi (bass; Foreigner/Spy)
1950: Roger Christian (UK multi-musician, vocals; The Christians).
1950: Peter Gabriel (vocals, songwriter; Genesis & solo)
1948: Rod Dees (bass; Showaddywaddy)
1945: Roy Dyke (drummer; Ashton Gardner & Dyke/Badger)
1944: Rebop Kwaku Baah (
Nigerian-Swedish percussion; Traffic/Ginger Baker/Wings/freelance)*12.Jan.1983.
1942: Peter Tork (vocals, bass, guitar, banjo; Monkees/Peter Tork Project/Shoe Suede Blues)
1927: Buck Hill (saxophone, jazz musian; guest/SteepleChase/Muse)
1923: Gene Ames (US singer; Ames Brothers)*04.April.1997.
1920: Boudleaux Bryant (international pop & country songwriter)*26.June.1987
1919: Tennessee Ernie Ford (US baritone singer, TV presenter)
*17.10.1991

February 14th
1983: Rhydian Roberts (Welsh singer; second place in UK X Factor 2007).
1972: Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas
(lead vocals; Matchbox 20/solo)

1962: Mike Milliner (vocals; The Pasadenas).
1962: David Milliner (vocals; The Pasadenas).

1951: Kenny Hyslop (Scottish drummer, tutor; Slik/Simple Mind)
1950: Roger Fisher (bass, electric guitar; Heart/Alias/Clever Bastard/solo)
1948: Wally Tax (Dutch vocalist, songwriter, composer; Outsiders/Tax Free/solo)*10.Apr.2005
1947: Tim Buckley (US singer, songwriter)*29.June.1975.
1946: Doug Simril (drummer; Steve Miller Band/Boz Scraggs Band/freelance)
1945: Vic Briggs (guitar, arranger, piano; Animals/Dusty Springfield's The Echoes)
1943: Maceo Parker (saxophonist; The J.B.'s/Parliament/Funkadelic/Bootsy's Rubber Band)
1922: Murray “the K” Kaufman (New York disc jockey)*21.Feb.1982

February 15th
1976: Brandon Boyd (vocals; Incubus).
1976: Ronnie Vannucci (US drummer; The Killers).
1960: Mikey Craig (bass; Culture Club).
1959: Ali Campbell (vocals, guitar; UB40).
1951: Norman Watt-Roy (bassist; Blockheads/Wilko Johnson Band).
1951: Melissa Manchester (US singer, songwriter, keyboards; freelance).
1948: Dill Dennink (Dutch guitarist, flute, banjo; The Tee Set)
1947: David Brown (bass; Santana)*09.April.2000
1945: John Helliwell (sax, keyboards; Supertramp).
1944: Mick Avory (drums; The Kinks).
1943: Denny Zager (singer; Zager and Evans).
1941: Brian Holland (producer, songwriter; Holland-Dozier-Holland/Motown).
1942: Glyn Johns (recording engineer, record producer, guitar; The Presidents, IBC Studio).

1905: Harold Arlen (US composer of popular music; Over The Rainbow and others)*23.April.1986.
1893: Walter Donaldson (prolific United States popular songwriter)*15.July.1947
.

February 16th
1980: Longineu W. Parsons (drummer; Yellowcard)
1967: Gerald Simpson (record producer, keyboards, DJ; 808 State).
1967: Damon Reece (drums; Spiritualized/Lupine Howl)
1965: Dave Lombardo (drums; Slayer/freelance).
1962: David Milliner (vocals; Pasadena's).
1962: John Balance (
UK vocals, lyrics, chants, synthetics; Coil)*13.Nov.2004.
1961: Andy Taylor (guitar, Duran Duran/Power Station).
1958: Ice-T/Tracy Morrow (rapper)
1956: James Ingram (US singer, keyboards; Revelation Funk/solo)
1953: Acklee King (conga; Jr. Walker's Allstars)
1949: Lynn Paul/Lynda Susan Belcher (singer; New Seekers)
1939: Czeslaw Niemen (64) Polish rock singer, songwriter, multi-musician)*17.Jan.2004.
1935: Sonny Bono (singer; Sonny & Cher/solo)*5.Jan.1998
1934: Harold Kalin (singer; Kalin Twins)*23.Aug.2005
1934: Herbert Kalin (singer; Kalin Twins)*21.July.2006
1931: Otis Blackwell (American songwriter, singer, pianist)*06.May.2002.

February 17th
1975: Wish Bone/Charles Scruggs (American rapper; Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1975: Harisu/Lee Kyung-eun
(South Korean singer, model, actress)
1974: Bryan White
(US country singer)
1974: Kaoru
(Japanese guitarist; Dir en grey/La:Sadie's/Charm)
1972: Taylor Hawkins
(drummer, Foo Fighters)

1972: Billie Joe Armstrong (guitarist, vocalist; Green Day)
1971: Martyn Bennett (Scottish musician; bagpipes, fiddle, whistle, piano)*30.Jan.2005.
1970: Timothy Mahon
ey (guitar; 311)
1967: Chanté Moore (US rhythm & blues singer)
1966: Quorthon/Ace Börje Forsberg (Swedish bassist, songwriter; Bathory)*07.June.2004
1966: Melissa Brooke-Bellard (US singer; Voice Of The Beehive)
1962:
David Richard McComb (Australian singer, guitarist, songwriter; The Triffids)*02.Feb.1999
1957: Loreena McKennitt (Canadian folk singer, harpist, pianist)
1952: Bruce Ruffin/Bernardo Constantine Valderama(singer, Dragonaires/Techniques/solo)
1949: Fred Frith (keyboards, violin, guitar, bass; freelance)
1941: Gene Pitney (US singer)*05.
Apr.2006
1939: John Leyton (UK singer, actor; solo/Solid Gold Rock 'n' Roll Show)
1933: Bobby Lewis (rock 'n' roll - R&B singer)
1922: Tommy Edwards (vocalist, pianist, composer)*22
.Oct.1969
1905: Orwill "Hoppy" Jones (bass singer, cello player; Ink Spots)*18.Oct.1944

February 18th
1983: Juelz Santana (US rapper)
1981: Buddy Nielsen
(American singer; Senses Fail)
1980: Regina Spektor
(Russian born singer, songwriter)
1977: Sean Watkins
(US guitarist, songwriter)
1970: Raine Maida (Canadian singer, guitar; Our Lady Peace)
1970: Jez Williams
(guitar; Doves).
1970: Andy Williams (drums, vocals; Dove)
.
1969: Jason Sutter (US drummer; Smash Mouth, American Hi-Fi)
1968: Tommy Scott (vocals, songwriter; Space)
1965: Dr. Dre/Andre Young (rap artist; NWA)
1961: Jasper Stainthorpe (bass; Then Jerico, session)
1961: Brian James (guitar; The Damned)
1958: Gary C. "Gar" Samuelson (drummer; Megadeth/Fatal Opera)*14.July.1999
1956: Ted Gärdestad (Swedish singer, songwriter)*22.June.1997
1954: John Travolta (actor, singer, director)
1953: Robin Bachman (drummer - Bachman Turner Overdrive)
1953: Derek Pellicci (drummer; Little River Band)
1952: Randy Crawford (US female singer; Crusaders/solo)
1952: Juice Newton/Judy Kay Newton (country singer, guitar)
1948: Keith Knudsen (drummer; Doobie Brothers)
1947: Dennis DeYoung (keyboards - STYX/solo)
1945: Jimmy Jewel (Saxophone; Gallagher & Lyle, solo, session)
1941: Herman Santiago (singer, songwriter; Premiers/Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers)
1939: Bobby Hart (singer, producer, organ, bass; Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart)
1933: Yoko Ono (singer, poet, composer, John Lennon's wife)

February 19th
1986: Maria Mena (Norwegian singer)
1986: Judith Bingham
(US singer, songwriter)
1985: Haylie Duff
(American singer, actress)
1983: Vitas/Vitalii Vladasovich Grachyov
(Russian singer)
1983: Mika Nakashima
(Japanese singer, actress)
1979: Mariska/Anna Maria Rahikainen
(Finnish rapper)
1978: Immortal Technique/Felipe Coronel
(American rapper)
1965: Kate Radley
(keyboards; Spiritualized)
1963: Seal/Sealhenry Samuel (UK solo singer)
1958: William Galison (jazz guitarist, harmonica player)
1957: Falco/Johann Hölzl
(Austrian singer, bassist; Drahdiwaberl's/solo)
1956: Dave Wakeling (vocals, guitar; The Beat, General Public)
1950: Andy Powell (guitar, vocals; Wishbone Ash)
1949: Eddie Hardin (keyboards; Spencer Davis Group)
1948: Tony Iommi (guitar; Black Sabbath)
1948: Mark Andes (Bass; Canned Heat/ Spirit/Firefall/Heart)
1946: Pierre Van Den Linden (drums; Focus)
1943: Lou Christie (US singer)
1940: Smokey Robinson/William Robinson (singer, songwriter, producer; Miracles)
1940: Bobby Rogers (singer, songriter; Miracles)
1939: Bobby Hart (songwriter best known for The Monkees songs; Boyce & Hart)
1936: Sam Myers (US vocals, drums, harmonica, songwriter)*17
.July.2006
1924: Lee Marvin (actor, singer)*
29.Aug.1987

February 20th
1988: Rihanna/Robyn Rihanna Fenty (Barbadian musician)
1985: Julia Volkova
(Russian singer; t.A.T.u.)

1981: Chris Thile (American mandolinist)
1976: Ed Graham (drums; Darkness)
1975: Brian Littrell (singer; Backstreet Boys)
1972: K-OS/Kheaven Brereton (Canadian singer, piano, guitar; rapper)
1972: Neil Primrose (Scottish drummer; Travis)
1966: Kurt Cobain (singer, guitar; Nirvana)*05.Apr.1994
1963: Ian Brown (vocals, Stone Roses)
1960: Kee Marcello/Kjell Hilding Lövbom (Swedish guitarist; Easy Action/Europe/K2/solo).
1960: Robert Boustead (bass - King Kurt)
1960: Mark Reilly (UK vocalist; Matt Bianco)
1954: Bryan Gregory (US founding member, guitarist; The Cramps)*10.Jan.2001.
1954: Jon Brant (bass, 12-string bass; Cheap Trick/freelance)
1951: Randy California/Randy Craig Wolfe (guitar, singer, writer; Spirit)*03.Jan.1997
1950: Tony Howard Wilson (UK owner of Factory Records, radio & TV presenter)*10.Aug.2007.
1950: Walter Becker (bass, guitar, vocals; Steely Dan)
1946: Sandy Duncan (US singer and actress)
1946: Jerome Geils (guitar; The J. Geils Band)
1945: Alan Hull (guitarist, keyboards, singer, songwriter; Lindisfarne)*17.Nov.1995
1944: Lew Soloff (trumpet; Blood, Sweat & Tears/freelance)
1943:
Carlos/Jean Chrysostome Dolto (French chart hitting singer)*17.Jan.2008.
1942: Charlie Gillett (British radio DJ)
1941: Buffy Sainte-Marie (Canadian folk singer, songwriter)
1940: Barbara Ellis (singer; Fleetwoods)
1937: Nancy Wilson (US jazz and vocal singer)
1927: Ibrahim Ferrer (Cuban singer)*06.Aug.2005
1923: Bill Grundy (UK TV presenter & host)*9.Feb.1993
1874:
Mary Garden (Scottish soprano operatic singer)*03.Jan.1967.

February 21st
1986: Charlotte Church (UK singer)
1973: Tad Kinchla (bassist, Blues Traveler).
1969: Eric Wilson (bass; Sublime/Long Beach Dub Allstars)
1969: James Dean Bradfield (guitar, vocals; Manic Street Preachers)
1967: Michael Ward (guitar; Wallflowers)
1962: Mark Arm (vocals, guitar, organ; Bloodloss, Monkeywrench, Green River, Mudhoney)
1959: Mike Pickering (singer, DJ; M People)
1958: Mary Chapin-Carpenter
(US country singer)
1956: Lester Hunt (guitar, bass, keyboards; Climax Blues Band).
1952: Jean-Jacques Burnel (bass, vocals; Stranglers)
1951: Vince Welnick (US keyboardist;
Tubes/Grateful Dead/Missing Man Formation)*02.Jun.2006
1949: Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar; Talking Heads)
1946: Paul Newton (bass; Uriah Heep)
1943: David Geffen (record label boss /Asylum Records)
1893: Andres Segovia (Spanish classical guitarist)*02.June.1987.

February 22nd
1974: James Blunt (singer, guitarist, songwriter)
1973: Scott "Flip" Phillips (drummer, multi-musician;Alter Bridge, Creed).
1968:
Nasrat Parsa (Afghani singer)*08.May.2005.
1966: Scott Lerner (bassist; freelace)
1963: Rob Lambert (saxophone; Roman Holliday)
1963: Ranking Roger/Roger Charlery (
vocals; General Public/The English Beat)
1961: Akira Takasaki (Japanese guitarist; Lazy/Loudness).
1953: Nigel Planer (UK actor, singer)

1953: Graham Lewis (bass; Cupol/Wire)
1953: John B. "Sparko" Sparks (bass; Dr Feelgood)
1945: Oliver/William Oliver Swofford (US pop singer)*12.Feb.2000.
1943: Louise Lopez (singer, songwriter)
1943: Mick Green/Michael Greenbaum (guitarist; Rollins Band/The Dakotas/The Pirates)
1938: Bobby Hendricks (tenor vocals; The Drifters)
1936: Ernie K Doe Jr (New Orlean's R&B singer)*05.July.2001
1923: Norman "Hurricane" Smith (UK singer, record engineer, record producer)*03.March.2008.
1913:
George Holmes "Buddy" Tate (US jazz saxophone player)*10.Feb.2001.

February 23th
1979: D-Roc/Deongelo Holmes (US crunk hip-hop artist; Ying Yang Twins).
1973: Lasse Johansson
(keyboards; The Cardigans)
1971: Jeff Beres (bass; Sister Hazel)
1963: Robert Collins (keyboards; Charlatans UK)
1962: Michael Wilton (guitar; Queensrÿche)
1958: David Sylvian/David Alan Batt (vocals, solo; Japan)
1955: Zeke Manyika (drums; Orange Juice)
1955: Howard Jones (UK singer, songwriter, keyboards, synthesizer, piano)
1952: Brad Whitford (guitar; Aerosmith)
1950: Steve Priest (guitar; Sweet)
1949: Terry "Tex" Comer (UK bassist; Ace).
1946: Rusty Young (pedal steel, slide guitar, guitar; The Ides of March/Poco)
1944: Johnny Winter (guitar, slide guitar, vocals)
1944: Mike Maxfield (UK lead guitarist; Dakotas)

1927:
Régine Crespin (French operatic soprano)*05.July.2007

February 24th
1974: Chad Hugo (saxophonist, pianist, guitarist, production, writer; Neptunes/N*E*R*D)
1962: Michelle Shocked/Michelle Johnston (US singer/songwriter)

1959: Colin Farley (bass; Cutting Crew).
1948: Dennis Waterman (actor, writer, singer)
1944: Nicky Hopkins (session piano player, keyboards)*06.Sept.1994
1947: Rupert Holmes (writer, producer, singer, session musician)
1947: Lonnie Turner (bass; Steve Miller Band/freelance)
*1943: George Harrison (guitar, singer; Beatles/solo) *official note *29.Nov.2001
1942: Paul Jones/Paul Pond (singer, harmonica, radio presenter; Manfred Mann)
1932: Michel Legrand (French pianist, arranger, conductor, composer, films).

February 25th
1973: Justin Jeffre (vocals; 98 Degrees)
1971: Daniel Powter (Canadian singer, songwriter)
1959: Mike Peters (lead singer; The Alarm)
1957: Dennis Diken (drums - The Smithereens)
1957: Woody/Stuart John Wood (guitar; Bay City Rollers/producer of Celtic music)
1947:
David Stensen (bass; Grass Roots)
1945: Elkie Brooks (UK singer)
*1943: George Harrison (guitar; Beatles) *preferred note *29.Nov.2001
1942: Roy Michaels (bassist; Cat Mother & the All Night News Boys)
1932: Faron Young (country singer, songwriter, actor)*10.12.1996.
1877: Erich Moritz von Hornbostel (Austrian ethnomusicologist)*28.11.1935.
1873: Enrico Caruso (opera singer/actor)*02.08.1921.

February 26th
1971: Erykah Badu/Erica Wright (US female R&B singer)
1969: Timothy Brown (bass; Boo Radleys)
1961: John Jon/John Foster (vocals; Bronski Beat)
1960: Jeremy "Jaz" Coleman (singer, keyboards; Anne Dudley-Jaz Coleman, Killing Joke)
1960: Steve Grant (drums - Tight Fit)
1953: Michael Bolton (US singer)
1950: Jonathan Cain (keyboards, vocals; Journey/the Babys/Bad English/solo)
1947: Sandie Shaw (UK singer)
1945: Bob "The Bear" Hite (lead vocals, harmonica; Canned Heat)*05.Apr.1981
1945: Mitch Ryder/William Levise Jr (singer; The Detroit Wheels)
1943: Paul Cotton (guitar; Poco)
1937: Hagood Hardy (Canadian composer, pianist, vibraphonist)*01.Jan.1997.
1932: Johnny Cash (singer, guitar)*12.Sept.2003
1928: Antoine "Fats" Domino (singer, pianist, bandleader, songwriter)
1925: James Moody (tenor-alto Sax, Flute, composer; Dizzie Gillespie/The Wake/freelance)
1916: Jackie Gleason (US singer, actor, TV host)*24.June.1987.

February 27th
1981: Josh Groban (US singer)
1973: Peter Andre/Peter James Andrea (Anglo-Greece Cypriot singer)
1972: Jeremy Dean (keyboard; Nine Days)
1971:
Chilli/Rozonda Thomas (US R&B singer; TLC).
1965: David Boulter (keyboards, percussion; Tindersticks).
1964: Derek McKenzie (member of the electronic band Shamen)
1964: Ewan Vernal (Scottish bassist; Deacon Blue)
1960: Paul David Humphreys (synthesisers; Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)
1959: Akira Jimbo (Japanese drummer; Casiopea/solo/guest).
1958: Nancy Spungen (girlfriend of Sex Pistol's Sid Vicious)*12.10.
1978
1957: Adrian Smith (guitar; Iron Maiden)
1955:
Garry Christian (lead vocals, The Christians)
1954: Neal Schon (guitar; Journey/Santana/Bad English/freelance)
1951: Steve Harley (singer, synthesizer; Cockney Rebel)
1950: Robert Balderrama (guitar; Question Mark & The Mysterians)
1948: Eddie Gray (guitarist; Tommy James & Shondells)

1923: Dexter "Long Tall Dexter" Gordon
(US saxophone virtuoso)*25.April.1990

1927: Guy Mitchell/Albert George Cernik (US pop singer)*01.
July.1999
1909: Harrison Verrett (banjo, guitar, piano; New Orleans Jazzman/Fats Domino)*??.Oct.1965

1888: Lotter Lehmann (soprano opera & actress singer)*26.Aug.1976

February 28th
1972: Danny McCormack (bass, vocals, The Yo-Yos/Wildhearts/solo)
1969: Patrick "Pat" Monahan (singer, percussion, saxophone; Train)
1967: Marcus Lillington (guitarist; Breathe)
1957: Paul Delph (US singer, songwriter, producer, engineer, studio musician)*21.May.1996.
1957: Cindy Wilson (singer; The B-52's)
1957: Ian Stanley (keyboards, writer, producer; Tears For Fears)
1957: Phil Gould (drummer; Level 42)
1952: Eddie Manion (bari sax; Sthside Johnny-Asbury Jukes/freelance/Seeger Sessions Band)
1945: Ronnie Rosman (keyboards; Shondells)
1942: Brian Jones (guitar, multi-musician; founder/leader of the Rolling Stones)
*03.July.1969
1941: Marty Sanders (singer; Jay and the Americans/solo)
1940: Joe South/Joe Souter (US singer, songwriter, guitar; freelance/solo)

1939: Tommy Tune (International director, choreographer, dancer)
1927:
Don Helms (American steel guitarist; Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys group)*11.Aug.2008.

February 29th
1976: Ja Rule
/Jeffrey Atkins (US rapper)
1972: Dave Williams (US singer; Drowning Pool)*14.Aug.2002
1964: Martin France (jazz drummer; Loose Tubes/sessionist)
1960: Ian McKenzie Anderson (UK DJ, producer, composer)
1948: Richie Cole (alto saxophonist; The Alto Madness Orchestra)
1940: Gretchen Christopher (singer; The Fleetwoods)
1940: Paul Rutherford (UK avante-garde jazz trombonist;
Iskra 1912/freelance)*05.Aug.2007.
1904: Jimmy Dorsey (Sax, clarinet, trumpet; band co-leader/big band leader)
*12.June.1957

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February 1st
1971: Harry Roy (71) UK singer, swing clarinetist, bandleader; best remembered for having led a popular swing band in England and throughout portions of the British Empire during the 1930s ().
1981: Geirr Tveitt (72)
One of Norway's most prolific composers. A talented pianist, Tveitt won considerable acclaim in continental Europe and elsewhere performing his own compositions.
()
1986:
Dick James/Reginald Leon Isaac Vapnick (65) UK music publisher and the founder of the DJM record label and recording studios, as well as (with Brian Epstein) The Beatles' publisher Northern Songs. In his early days he was a part-time singer with The Stargazers (heart attack).
1989: Paul Robi (57) Lead singer of The Platters (pancreatic cancer)
2002: Hildegard Knef (76) German actress, singer, writer; enjoyed much success as a singer of German chansons, which she often co-wrote. The song she is mostly remembered for is "Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen"/"It shall rain red roses for me". (breast cancer).

February 2
1594: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (67)
Italian composer, organist; the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a vast influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony.(died in Rome of pleurisy).
1979: Sid Vicious/John Simon Ritchie (21)
bass player, Sex Pistols. He had been partying in a New York flat to celebrate his release on $50,000 (£29,412) bail pending his trial for the murder of his former girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, the previous October. Guests said that Sid had taken heroin at midnight. (heroin overdose, possible suicide).
1999: David Richard McComb, (February 17, 1962 – February 2, 1999) was an Australian rock musician. He was the singer-songwriter of a prominent Australian post-punk band, The Triffids.
2002: Paul Baloff (41) Frontman and founder of the thrash metal band Exodus, also sang in several other ands such as Heathen, Hirax and Piranha.(stroke).
2007: Joe Hunter (79) pianist
, keyboard player; Motown's first Funk Brother and first band leader, 3 time Grammy winner (died at his Detroit apartment, cause of death is not yet known, it is thought to be related to longtime diabetes, it seems he was trying to take some medicine when he died)
2007: Billy Henderson (67) Singer with the Spinners (complications from diabetes)
2007: Eric von Schmidt (75) American folk/blues singer-songwriter; In 1997, he won a Grammy Award for his work on a compilation album entitled Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1-3. (suffered a stroke in August 2006, and died seven months later)

February 3
1959: Buddy Holly (22)
US singer, guitarist, songwriter, Crickets (died in a crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa. The plane single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza was hired after his tour bus developed heating problems while travelling to Fargo, North Dakota, for the next show on their Winter Dance Party Tour which Holly had set - covering 24 cities in three weeks, to make money after the break-up of his band, The Crickets, in '58)

1959: The Big Bopper/Jiles Perry (28) US singer, DJ, songwriter (Buddy Holly plane crash)
1959: Ritchie Valens (17) US singer, (Buddy Holly plane crash)
1967: Joe Meek (37) UK record producer; a pioneering British record producer and songwriter acknowledged as one of the world's first and most imaginative independent producers. (he shot his landlady Violet Shenton and then shot himself at his flat in London)
1973: Andy Razaf (77) African American composer, poet, and lyricist; at seventy-six years of age, Andy Razaf, the most prolific black lyricist of twentieth century popular music, was finally recognized by his Tin Pan Alley peers in the songwriters Hall of Fame (heart problems)
1975: Umm Kulthum (70) Egyptian singer, known as the Star of the East, more than three decades after her death, she is still recognized as one of Egypt's most famous and distinguished singers of the 20th century (Her funeral was attended by over 4 million mourners, one of the largest gatherings in history and descended into pandemonium when the crowd seized control of her coffin and carried it to a mosque that they considered her favorite, before later releasing it for burial).
1992: Junior Cook/Herman Cook (57) tenor Sax; in addition to many appearances as a sideman, Junior Cook recorded as a leader for Jazzland, Catalyst, Muse, and SteepleChase ()

February 4
1944: Yvette Guilbert (79)
French music-hall singer and actress; She was a favorite subject of artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who made many portraits and caricatures of Guilbert and dedicated his second album of sketches to her. In 1932 she was awarded the Legion of Honor as the Ambassadress of French Song (?).
1975: Louis Jordan (66)
Jazz, R & B saxophonist, singer, songwriter with his own band his Tympany Five ()
1982: Alex Harvey (46) Scottish singer, Stone The Crows/Tear Gas/Alex Harvey Big Soul Band. (heart attack while waiting for a ferry in Zeebrugen, Belgium, the day before his 47th birthday)
1983: Karen Carpenter (32) Singer, drummer and song writer in the duo The Carpenters (cardiac arrest from the effects anorexia nervosa)
1984: Paul Gardiner (35) Bass, founding member of Gary Numan's Tubeway Army (heroin overdose)
1987: Liberace/Wladziu Valentino Liberace (67) US pianist, singer, TV presenter; he appeared as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 16. He began giving concerts in flamboyant costumes with ornate pianos and candelabra, and though he occasionally performed with symphony orchestras, he built his career playing primarily popular music. (complications related to AIDS)
1989: Trevor Lucas (45) Australian guitarist, singer; Fairport Convention/Fotheringay/freelance. An influential folk artist, a member of Fairport Convention and one of the founders of Fotheringay. He mainly performed as a guitarist and vocalist but also produced many albums and wrote for the film industry toward the end of his career.(died of a heart attack in his sleep)
1995: David Alexander () was a Welsh singer and entertainer (heart attack).
1999: Gwen Guthrie (48) American singer/songwriter, backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Madonna among others, who wrote songs made famous by Ben E. King and Roberta Flack. (cancer)
2000: Doris Coley (58) Singer, Shirelles (breast cancer)
2000: Joachim-Ernst Berendt (77) German journalist, music critic, music producer ()


February
5
1968: Luckeyeth Roberts (80)
US jazz/ragtime/blues composer and pianist; was playing piano and acting professionally with traveling African American minstrel shows in his childhood. He settled in New York City about 1910 and became one of the leading pianists in Harlem, and started publishing some of his original rags.
1976: Rudy Pompilli (51)
saxophone, clarenet with Bill Haley & His Comets and freelanced; worked with the Ralph Marterie Orchestra prior to joining the Comets, scoring a hit with their version of "Crazy Man, Crazy" too (lung cancer)

1980: Donald "Chubby" Anthony (54) American fiddler ()

February 6
1973: Nick Stabulas (43) US drummer; jazz man ()
1976: Vince Guaraldi (47)
jazz pianist, composer, songwriter, bandleader (heart attack)
1981: Hugo Montenegro (55)
Composer of film soundtracks., conductor/arranger for several of the label's artists (emphysema )
1989: King Tubby/Osbourne Ruddock (48) Reggae producer; Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s. His innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the role of record producer to a creative height previously only reserved for composers and musicians (shot and killed by unknown persons outside his home in Duhaney Park, upon returning from a session at his Waterhouse studio)
.
1998: Carl Wilson (51) singer and guitarist with the Beach Boys; took over as lead singer in 1965 and part running the band in 1966, fully in 1970and went solo in 1970. He is widely regarded to have had one of the finest voices in rock and his voice appears as a backing vocal on many recordings by groups and solo singers.(lung cancer)
1998: Falco/ Johann (Hans) Hölzel (40) Austrian rock singer, singer and rock bass player in Drahdiwaberl (Falco died of severe head injuries received following a collision with a bus in his Mitsubishi Pajero near the resort of Puerto Plata, in the Dominican Republic)

2005: Sonny Day (80) accordion playing; an original member of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain, a frequent performer on the Grand Ole Opry, also performed & recorded with Minnie Pearl, Patsy Cline, Tanya Tucker and Vince Gill. (bone cancer)
2007: Frankie Laine
/Francesco Paolo LoVecchio (93) was one of the most successful US singers of the 20th century. Often billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr. Rhythm, Old Leather Lungs, and Old Man Jazz (died of a heart failure following hip replacement surgery at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego)

February
7
1894: Adolphe Sax (79)
Belgium inventor of the saxhorn, saxtrombas and the saxophone; the saxophones made his reputation, and secured him a job teaching at the Paris Conservatoire
1979: Herbert LeRoy "Peanuts" Holland (68)
Jazz trumpeter, vocals, sessionist; he was aslo a member of Coleman Hawkins' orchestra, Fletcher Henderson's Big Band, Charlie Barnet Band, Don Redman's big band ()
1985: Matt Monro/ Terence Parsons (55)
UK ballad singer (liver cancer)
1999: Bobby Troup (70)US jazz, swing blues pianist, singer, composer, actor ()
1999: Robert Williams (81) US songwriter ()
2000: Big Punisher/Christopher Rios (28) Rapper; he was a huge man, his weight reportedly varying between 450 and 700 pounds.(heart attack)

2000: Robin Scott (79) launched the UK BBC Radio 1 station in 1967.
2000: Dave Peverett (56) Lead singer with both the Savoy Brown and Foghat bands (pneumonia and complications from kidney cancer)

2001: Dale Evans/Frances Octavia Smith (88) singer, songwriter, actress and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers ()
2003: Malcolm Roberts (58) actor, solo
and stage musicals singer (heart attack)

February 8
1973: Max Yasgur (53)
the owner of a dairy farm in Bethel, New York on which the Woodstock Festival was held in August 1969 (heart attack).

1990: Del Shannon (55) US singer, guitarist; one of the early greats in rock 'n' Roll (while working on a comeback album with Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra, Shannon fatally shot himself in the head with a .22 calibre rifle. His wife thought his death might have been related to his recent use of the prescription drug, Prozac)
2002: Bob Wooler (76) resident DJ and booker at Liverpool's Cavern Club
2002: Nick Brignola (65) Jazz saxophonist; he occasionally doubled on other instruments. Woody Herman's orchestra/solo/guest/bandleader, owner of the Priam Label (cancer)
2003: Malcolm Roberts (57) singer songwriter (heart attack)
2005: Jimmy Smith (77) Hammond jazz organist; he ruled the Hammond organ in the '50s and '60s, revolutionizing the instrument, showing it could be creatively used in a jazz context and popularized in the process.()
2005: Keith Knudson (56) Drummer, Doobie Brothers (pneumonia)

2006: Elton Dean (60) UK saxophone player with Long John Baldry's band Bluesology; the bands pianist took Dean and Baldrey's first names, turning Reg Dwight into Elton John. He also played with the Keith Tippett Sextet, Soft Machine and many others (heart and liver disease).

February 9
1966: Sophie Tucker/Sonia Kalish (82) Czarist Russian singer, pianist, comedian; one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first third of the 20th century. Her comic style is credited with influencing later female entertainers, including Mae West, Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr, and most notably Bette Midler who has included "Soph" as one of her many stage characters. (lung cancer).
1967: Percy Faith (67)
Canadian band-leader, conductor; one of the most popular easy listening recording artists of the '50s and '60s, his most remembered recordings are Delicado (1952), song from the Moulin Rouge (1953) and Theme from A Summer Place (1960), which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1961.()
1981: Bill Haley (55) US singer, Bill Haley and his Comets; he was there before the Presleys, Hollys and Berrys, playing rock & roll before it even had a name (found dead, fully clothed on his bed at his home in Harlington, died from a heart attack)

1993: Bill Grundy (69) TV broadcaster, He presented the famous Sex Pistols 'filth & fury' interview when the band swore on live UK TV (heart attack)
1997: Jack Owens/L. F. Nelson (92) Mississippi blues singer and guitarist

1997: Brian Connolly (52) uk singer, frontman; Sweet, New Sweet, solo. Thee face of glam rock, Brian was one of rock’s great performers and despite numerous health problems, including fourteen heart attacks in one day, continued to play right up to his death. (kidney and liver failure).
2005: Tyrone Davis (67) US singer; one of the fathers of "Chicago Soul", with a career spanning more than four decades, selling over 25 million records.(suffered a stroke in September 2004, it sent him into a coma from which he did not recover).

February 10
1975: Dave Alexander (27)
bass player with Iggy Pop and Stooges (Pneumonia).
1988:
Don Patterson (48) Organist; Sonny Stitt's Band/freelance (liver failure)
2001:
George Holmes "Buddy" Tate (87) US jazz saxophonist; player with Terence "T" Holder, Andy Kirk, and Nat Towles, before joining Count Basie Orchestra in 1939, After which played with Lucky Millinder; Milt Buckner Hot Lips Page; ex-Basie singer Jimmy Rushing; led a group with Bobby Rosengarden at the Rainbow Room; co-led a band with saxophonist Paul Quinichette at New York’s West End Cafe; was house bandleader at Celebrity Club, New York City, as well as having his own quintet (cancer) b. Feb 22nd 1913.

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February 12
1976: Sal Mineo (37)
singer, actor (he was brutally stabbed on the streets of West Hollywood)
2000: John London/John Carl Kuehne (58)
Bass sessionist; stand-in on the Monkees set for Michael Nesmith ()
2000: Screamin Jay Hawkins (76) US blues singer, boxing champion at 16, married nine times, spent 2 years in jail, was temporary blinded by one of his flaming props on stage in 1976, and fathered over 75 children (He died following surgery to treat an aneurysm while in Paris, France)
2000: Oliver/William Oliver Swofford (54) US singer; his soaring baritone was the perfect vehicle for his hit "Good Morning Starshine", from the pop-rock musical Hair and his #2 hit "Jean", the theme from the Oscar-winning film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. (cancer). b. Feb 22nd 1945
2005: Jewel "Sammi" Smith (61)
US country singer (died at home in Oklahoma City after a long illness)
2007: Jimmy Campbell (63) singer and songwriter; was member of Merseybeat groups The Kirkbys, The 23rd Turnoff, Rockin' Horse as well as releasing three solo albums.(?)

February 13
1993: Patrick Waite (23)
bass, founder member of Musical Youth (hereditary heart condition)
1997: Michael Menson (30) rebel MC (brain haemorrhage sustained in a racist attack, torched by three men)

2001: David "Panama" Francis (82) US drummer, jazz, rock n roll, freelance/sessions. Played with all the jazz greats. As R&B and rock n roll went mainstream he became even more sought after, playing on a vast amount of chart hits ().
2002: Waylon Jennings (64) country singer / songwriter, played bass with Buddy Holly. (died in his sleep of diabetic complications)

February 14

1959: Warren "Baby" Dodds (60) American jazz drummer; gained his reputation as a top young drummer in New Orleans, then worked on Mississippi River steamship bands with young Louis Armstrong. He moved to California in 1921 to work with Joe "King" Oliver there, and followed Oliver to Chicago, which became his base of operations.(?)
1989: Vincent Crane (45)
keyboardist, The Crazy world of Arthur Brown /Atomic Rooster / Dexy's Midnight Runners (died of an overdose of painkillers after a brave fight against manic-depression)

1999: Buddy Knox (65) US singer, guitarist; the first artist of the rock & roll era to write and record his own number one hit, 1957's million-selling classic "Party Doll", a pioneer of the Lone Star State rockabilly sound that would later earn the name "Tex-Mex," (lung cancer)
2002: Mick Tucker (54) drummer, Sweet (leukaemia).

February 15
1946: Louis "Putney" Dandridge (44) US bandleader, jazz pianist, vocalist; began his career performing in 1918 as a pianist in the a revue entitled the Drake and Walker Show ().
1965: Nat King Cole (45)
US singer; his rich, husky voice and careful enunciation, and the warmth, intimacy, and good humor of his approach to singing, allowed him to succeed with both ballads and novelties such that he scored over 100 pop chart singles and more than two dozen chart albums over a period of 20 years, enough to rank him behind only Sinatra as the most successful pop singer of his generation. His earlier fans were a little disappointed at his transition from jazz to pop.(lung cancer)
1968: Little Walter/ Marion Walter Jacobs (37) US blues singer & harmonica player. Said to be the first harmonica player to amplify his harp giving it a distorted echoing sound (died from injuries incurred in a street fight)
1981: Mike Bloomfield (37) guitarist, composer; Electric Flag / session player / guest (accidental drug overdose)
1995: Bob Stinson (36) founding member and lead guitarist with The Replacements and Static Taxi (he did not die of a drug overdose, as is frequently reported, but rather his body simply wore out after years of alcohol and drug abuse)

February 16
1957: Josef Hofmann (81)
Polish-American virtuoso pianist, composer; especially popular in Russia where he gave 21 consecutive concerts in St. Petersburg, not repeating a single piece. In all, he played 255 different works during that marathon. He made some of the earliest recordings in history of classical music for Thomas Edison. These have been lost, but some cylinders he made in Russia a few years later have recently been discovered. Off the subject but his invention of pneumatic shock absorbers for cars and planes earned him a fortune in the early twentieth century (?).
1996: Brownie McGhee (80)
blues artist; vocals, kazoo, piano, guitar; well known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry. He gave a memorable performance as ill-fated blues-singer Toots Sweet in the supernatural thriller 'Angel Heart' ()
2004: Doris Troy/ Doris Higginsen (67) US soul, R&B singer, solo/backup/songwriter/musicals; apart from her solo career, she sang backup vocals for manyy British rock groups, most notably the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd (emphysema)

February 17

1982: Thelonious Monk (64)
US jazz pianist; considered one of the most important & eccentric jazz composers of the century. One of the early practitioners of bebop during the 1940s and '50s, his complex compositions featured irregular rhythms, dissonant sounds and a quirky sense of humor.(died of a stroke)
1998: Bob Merrill (77)
Songwriter (committed suicide)
2006: William "Bill" Cowsill Jr. (58) singer, guitarist; The Cowsills (emphysema)
2006: Ray Barretto (76) Puerto Rican percussion & conga session player and member of the Fania All-Stars. 1990 he won a Grammy for the album "Ritmo en el Corazon" (multiple health complications)

February 18
1995: Bob Stinson (35)
lead guitarist, Replacements (body gave out after years of abuse)
1958: Patrick Waite (34) bassist and singer in Musical Youth (hereditary heart condition)

2003: Johnny Paycheck/Donny Young/Donald Lytle (64) country singer, guitarist (emphysema)

February 19
1998: Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones (74) country & gospel singer, banjo player; he became part of the Grand Ole Opry and was a regular cast member on the popular TV show, Hee Haw.(stroke)
1972: Lee Morgan (33)American hard bop trumpeter. (shot to death by Helen Moore following an argument between sets at Slug's, a popular New York City jazz club.)
1980: Bon Scott (33) Scottish born singer, frontman and co-lyricist of AC/DC. He started his career as drummer and occasional lead singer with an Australian band, The Spektors.(found in the passenger seat of a friend's parked car. Although there are many conspiracy theories surrounding his death, the coroner's report stated that he had "Drunk himself to death." after suffocating on his own vomit, the official cause was listed as "acute alcohol poisoning" and "death by misadventure").

February 20
2001: Ronnie Hilton/Adrian Hill (75) UK singer and radio presenter (stroke)
2003: Ty Longley (32) guitar, vocals; Great White/solo (He was the only member of Great White to die in The Station nightclub fire,, which claimed 99 other lives)
2008: Bobby Lee Trammell (74) American rockabilly singer, former Arkansas Representative. Wrote and recorded the song Shirley Lee, later covered by Ricky Nelson (?).

February 21
1976: Florence Ballard (32)
singer; The Supremes, leaving them in 1967, lost an $8 million (£4.7 million) lawsuit against Motown records and was living on welfare when she died (cardiac arrest)
1980: Jacob Miller (23) Inner Circle (car crash)
1980: Janet Vogel (37) Singer, Skyliners (suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)

1982: Murray "the K" Kaufman (60) US DJ, said to be the first DJ to play a Beatles record on US radio (cancer)
2004: Les Gray (57) uk singer, Mud (throat cancer)

February 22

1987: Andy Warhol (58)
pop artist, producer, manager of The Velvet Underground (death caused by complications after a routine gallbladder operation)
2002: Ronnie Verrell (77) drummer, Tom Jones, The Strawbs, and Phil Everly, the drum licks for Animal in The Muppet Show.

February 23
1897: Woldemar Bargiel (69)
German composer, pianist; besides teaching and composing, Bargiel served with Brahms as co-editor of the complete editions of Schumann’s and Chopin’s works ()
1966: Billy Kyle (51)
pianist; John Kirby Sextet / Louis Armstrong's All-Stars ()
1995: Mevin Franklin/David Melvin English (53)
Bass singer with the Temptations from 1961 till he fell ill in 1994. (Melvin lapsed into a diabeteic coma and died 6 days later from a brain seizure)
1996: Alan Dawson (67) jazz drummer with The Dave Brubeck Quartet /sessions / drum teacher in Boston (leukemia)
1997: Tony Williams (51) jazz drummer, played with all the greats (a heart attack after routine gall bladder surgery)
2003: Howie Epstein (47) highly noted rock bass player, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, many others (serious depression - overdose of black tar heroin while in New Mexico)

February 24
1990: Johnnie Ray (63)
US singer; considered by many people to be the forerunner of what would become rock 'n' roll and has been cited as the historical link between Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley in the development of popular music. (liver failure)
1994: Dinah Shore (77) US singer/actress; first became famous as a "girl singer" during the Big Band era, then went on to become a movie star. She was then the host of a long-running series of popular TV variety programs (cancer)
1994: Papa John Creech (76) violinist, fiddle; Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Dinosaur/Hot Tuna; this veteran of jazz and blues added a new psychedelic edge to the Airplane with his electrified violin (heart failure)
2004: Estelle Axton (85) Creator of the legendary US soul music label Stax

2008: Larry David Norman (60) American musician, singer, songwriter and producer, his recordings are noted for their Christian and social subject matter, and he is often described as the "father of Christian rock music" (heart disease).

February 25
1682: Alessandro Stradella (42) Italian composer of the middle Baroque; he was an extremely influential composer, and a ladies man (He was involved in an affair with a poorly-chosen woman, and a hired killer caught up with him at the Piazza Bianchi, Genoa, and stabbed him to death)
1936: Sam Morgan (48) US trumpeter; Sam Morgan Jazz Band ()
1993: Toy Caldwell (45) US guitar player with the Marshall Tucker Band between 1973 and 1983. He later formed the Toy Caldwell Band and released an eponymous CD in 1992; the record was later renamed Son of the South his personal friend, Charlie Daniels (died of heart disease).
2005: Edward Patten (65) US vocalist; lead singer of The Pips and Gladys Knight's cousin.(stroke)

February 26
1913: Felix Draeseke (77)
German composer of the "New German School". He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music. (He died from a stroke)
1977: Sherman Garnes (36)
bassman with Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers (died during open-heart surgery)
1989: Reunald Jones (78) American swing-style trumpeter with The Jones Boys and freelanced with many of the greats ()
1997: Ben Raleigh (86) US lyricist; wrote for the likes of Johnny Mathis, Lou Rawlsand others; co-wrote 'Scooby Doo Where Are You.' (died after setting fire to his bath robe while cooking)
2008: Buddy Miles (60) American rock and funk drummer, most known as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys from 1969 until Hendrix's death in 1970 (heart failure).

February 27
1833: Alexander Borodin (54) Russian composer;vocal/opera/chamber/symphonic (He died while attending a ball in St. Petersburg)
2008: Ivan Rebroff (76) German singer famous for singing Russian folk songs, but also performed opera, light classics and folk
; he had an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to impressive bass registers (died after a long illness).


February 28
1968: Frankie
Lymon (25) singer and frontman of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers (drug overdose)
1974: Bobby Bloom (28) Singer songwriter (fatally shot himself in the head at his Hollywood apartment)
1985: David Byron/David Garrick (38) lead singer; Uriah Heep, solo; gifted with a phenomenal vocal range, paired with an unparalleled sense of dynamics & charismatic stage presence (alcohol-related complications).
1990:
Russell Jacquet (72) American big band trumpeter; formed his own group which became the house band at the Cotton Clubb (?)
2005: Chris Curtis (63) UK drummer and singer with the 1960s pop band, The Searchers. He originated the concept behind Deep Purple and formed the band in its original incarnation of 'Roundabout'.()
2007: Billy Thorpe (60) Australian lead singer, guitarist and founder of Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs/solo; In November 1973 the Aztecs became the first rock band to play the Sydney Opera House. They were a huge influence on AC/DC among many other rock bands (heart attack.)
2008: Mike Smith (64) British rock and roll singer and keyboardist with The Dave Clark Five (died from complication of an accident in 2003. He died 11 days before he was to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Dave Clark Five).

February 29
1996: Wes Farrell (56)
songwriter, 'The Partridge Family'

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