Cat Stevens was born as Steven Demetre Georgiou on July 21, 1948 in London.
In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, Stevens had many hits as a singer-songwriter. Among his biggest hits were “Wild World,” “Father and Son,” “Peace Train,” “Morning Has Broken,” “The First Cut Is The Deepest,” & “Moon Shadow.””
“Moon Shadow”

“Wild World”

In […]

I almost missed it as the day is nearly over (at least here on the East coast) but today is Michael Jackson’s 50th birthday. He was born on July 18, 1958. Some interesting perspective; he’s more than 3 years older than Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama.
I won’t go through the whole Michael Jackson biography […]

It was 40 years ago today that The Beatles animated feature film Yellow Submarine premiered at The London Pavilion. The Beatles themselves had very little to do with the film (other than the music of course.) They made a cameo appearance at the very end of the movie but they did not voice their characters. […]

The Beatles worked on two new George Harrison penned songs in Abbey Road studios on June 16th of 1969. Those two songs would end up on the album Abbey Road released later that year.
Those two songs? “Something” & “Here Comes The Sun.”
“Something”
This video features the girlfriends/wives of each of The Beatles at the time. […]

Folk legend Woody Guthrie’s son Arlo Guthrie was born in Coney Island on July 10th of 1947.
His most famous song is the 18 minute long “Alice’s Restaurant” which was released on his album of the same name in 1967. The song was adapted into a movie also titled Alice’s Restaurant in 1969.
The song […]

“Rock Around The Clock” by Bill Haley & His Comets became the first rock n roll single to hit the top of the charts in the US on July 9th of 1955.

39 years ago today The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in London’s Hyde Park as a tribute to former band member Brian Jones who had died just two days earlier at the age of 27, making him one of the first members of a very sad “club” of famous musicians who died at age […]

George Michael was born as Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in 1963. I have a hard time imagining he would have had the success that he had if he had kept his birth name.
He first hit it big with Wham! in the early 1980s. They had UK hits with songs like “Young Guns (Go For It!)” […]

2 days after fellow ’60s bass playing songwriting genius Paul McCartney turned 66, Brian Wilson does as well.
Wilson was born on June 20, 1942.
He wrote almost all of The Beach Boys songs, and certainly all of their greatest songs. (And no, 1988’s #1 hit “Kokomo” is not among their greatest songs.)
Incredibly enough, “Kokomo” went […]

Paul McCartney was born 66 years ago today on June 18, 1942.
McCartney was one half of the most successful songwriting team in popular music history (Lennon/McCartney) and when combining his Beatles songs with his solo (and Wings) output he is considered to be the biggest selling songwriter of all time (according to Guinness.) His […]