Aphex Twin was born on August 18, 1971

Richard David James was born on August 18th of 1971 in Ireland. James has released a number of electronic albums under the name Aphex Twin. He has also used other names for his music such as AFX.

Aphex Twin Albums:

1992: Analogue Bubblebath III
1993: Selected Ambient Works 85-92
1994: Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2
1995: I Care Because You Do
1996: Richard D. James Album
2001: Drukqs

As you can see above after releasing an album once a year for 5 years from '92 to '96. Aphex Twin has released just 1 album in the last 10 years but he has released EPs and a series of singles (Analord 1 through 11 in 2005) during this period.

Some of the most creative (and disturbing) videos ever made have been for Aphex Twin songs:

"Come To Daddy"



"Windowlicker"



"Rubber Johnny"



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Paul McCartney annnouces the formation of Wings on August 3, 1971

Paul McCartney annouced the formation of Wings on August 3rd of 1971. The first Wings lineup was McCartney and his wife Linda, drummer Denny Seiwell, and guitarist/songwriter/singer Denny Laine (formerly of the Moody Blues.)

Wings released the following seven studio albums in 1970s:

1971 - Wild Life
1973 - Red Rose Speedway
1973 - Band on the Run
1975 - Venus and Mars
1976 - Wings at the Speed of Sound
1978 - London Town
1979 - Back to the Egg

Wings was disbanded in 1981 as McCartney went back to his solo career that he began in 1970 with his first solo album; the self titled McCartney.

One of Wing's live concert staples was their version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" from that solo debut. In fact it was the live Wings version of this song that was featured on the 1976 Wings live album Wings over America that became a hit single in 1977.

Wings - "Maybe I'm Amazed" - live in 1976:

James Taylor's "You've Got A Friend" Hit #1 In The US On July 31, 1971

James Taylor's cover of Carole King's "You've Got A Friend" hit #1 on the US singles charts on July 31st of 1971.

In this video James Taylor is playing "You've Got A Friend" live with Carole King on piano in 1971:



Carole King, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, and Shania Twain take turns with the vocal lead in this performance of "You've Got A Friend":

Matthew Good was born on June 29, 1971

Matthew Good was born on June 29th of 1971 in Canada.

He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band who had success during the 1990s. Their biggest hit being the song "Apparitions."

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Mark Wahlberg was born June 5, 1971

Mark Wahlberg was born on June 5th of 1971 making him 36 years old today.

Wahlberg is best known as an Academy Award nominated actor now but in the early 90s he was a rapper known as "Marky Mark" and he had a #1 1991 hit single with a song called "Good Vibrations" (nothing in common with the Beach Boys classic other than the name.)

Wahlberg first became known as Donnie Wahlberg's little brother. Donnie Wahlberg was a member of the hugely successful boy band The New Kids on the Block and Mark Wahlberg was originally supposed to be a member of the group but he declined deciding he didn't like the clean cut pop image they were going for. Joe McIntyre replaced him in the New Kids lineup.

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The Allman Brothers Band records At Filmore East on March 13, 1971

36 years ago today, March 13th, The Allman Brothers Band finished recording the live album At Filmore East. The recording for the album was actually spread over two days: March 12th & March 13th, 1971.

In 2003 At Filmore East was ranked as the 49th greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine and it is generally regarded as one of the greatest live albums in the history of rock music.

Famed producer Tom Dowd produced the album and he condensed the running time of some songs and sometimes even merged multiple performances onto one track.

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