07/23/2025
July 23rd Born on this Day in History of Music
Bill Lee (1928), Cleveland Duncan - The Penguins (1935), Madeline Bell - Blue Mink (1942), Tony Joe White (1943), Dino Danelli - The Young Rascals (1945), Jim Price - session musician and producer (The Rolling Stones, Delaney & Bonnie, Eric Clapton etc. (1945), Keith Ferguson - The Fabulous Thunderbirds (1946), Andy Mackay - Roxy Music (1946), David Essex (1947), Tony Joe White (1947), John Hall - Orleans (1948), Blair Thornton - Bachman Turner Overdrive (1950), Janis Siegel - Manhattan Transfer (1952), Chris Pinnick - Chicago (1953)Renee Diggs of Starpoint (1954), Dennis Greaves - Nine Below Zero (1957), Merlina DeFranco of The DeFranco Family (1957), Martin Gore - Depeche Mode (1961), Nick Menza - Megadeth (1964), Tim Kellett - Simply Red (1964), Rob Dickinson - Catherine Wheel (1965), Slash - Velvet Revolver / Guns N' Roses (1965), Kem (1967), Sam Watters - Color Me Bad (1970), Alison Krauss (1971), Chad Gracey - Live (1971) Fran Healy - Travis (1973), Michelle Williams - Destiny's Child (1980), Steve 'Stevo32' Jocz, drummer with Sum 41 (1980), Matthew Murphy - The Wombats (1984)
Chart News
1955 Slim Whitman at No.1 on the UK chart with 'Rose Marie.'
1964 The Beatles at No.1 on the UK chart with 'A Hard Days Night'
1966 Frank Sinatra at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Strangers In The Night'.
1969 The Rolling Stones at No.1 on the UK chart with 'H***y Tonk Women'
1973 Maureen McGovern at No.1 in Australia with ‘The Morning After’
1977 Barry Manilow at No.1 on the US chart'Looks Like We Made It'
1983 Paul Young at No.1 on the UK chart with 'Wherever I Lay My Hat, (That's My Home.)'
1983 Yazoo at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'You And Me Both'
1983 The Police went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Synchronicity'
1988 After forty-nine weeks on the US album chart, 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard went to the No.1 position.
1988 Richard Marx at No.1 on the US chart with 'Hold On To The Nights'
2000 *NSYNC at No.1 on the US chart with 'It's Gonna Be Me.'
2000 The Corrs at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'In Blue'.
2006 Razorlight at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Razorlight.'
2006 McFly at No.1 on the UK chart with 'Please Please'
2011 The Wanted at No.1 on the UK chart with ‘Glad You Came’
2015 Little Mix at No.1 on the UK chart with ‘Black Magic’
Gig news
1977 Who drummer Keith Moon joined Led Zeppelin on stage during a gig at The Forum, Inglewood, Los Angeles playing a duet with Zeppelin drummer John Bonham before taking to the microphone and attempting to sing.
1983 The Police played at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois
Music News
1979 Keith Godchaux keyboard player with the Grateful Dead died after being involved in a car accident aged 32
1980 Cliff Richard received his OBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace
1996 Rob Collins, keyboard player with The Charlatans died in a car crash, aged 29
2011 Amy Winehouse died