Anita Pointer was born on January 23rd of 1948 in Oakland, California. Anita joined her younger sisters Bonnie & June to form The Pointer Sisters in 1969. Her old sister Ruth joined the group in 1972. Bonnie left the group in 1977. The three remaining Pointer Sisters (Anita, June, & Ruth) had great commercial success [...]

Ronnie Van Zant was born on January 15th of 1948 in Jacksonville, Florida. He is best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd. His younger brothers Donnie Van Zant & Johnny Van Zant are also rock singers (Donnie with .38 Special & Johnny as the current lead singer of Lynyrd [...]

Kenneth “Kenny” Loggins was born on January 7th of 1948 in Alhambra, California. Loggins first became well known as one half of the Loggins & Messina duo with Jim Messina making up the other half. Their first album together was 1971′s Sittin’ In which was originally going to be a Kenny Loggins solo album. Messina [...]

Alan Parsons was born on December 20th of 1948 in London, England. Parsons began his career in music as an audio engineer at Abbey Road Studios in 1967 at just 18 years of age. He was involved in recording of The Beatles final album, 1969′s Abbey Road. He he received a Grammy Award nomination for [...]

“Ozzy” Osbourne was born as John Michael Osbourne on December 3rd of 1948 in England. He first became famous as the lead singer for the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Their second album, 1970′s Paranoid, hit the top of the UK charts (and #12 in the US) it has gone on to sell over 4 [...]

Johnny Ramone was born as John William Cummings on October 8, 1948 in Long Island, New York. He’s most well known as the guitarist for the very influential punk rock band The Ramones. Some consider The Ramones to be the very first punk rock band. They were formed in 1974 in Queens, New York. As [...]

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” [...]

Glenn Frey is best known for his work with the Eagles and of course “The Heat Is On” (Video Included.)