May 22
Rock's greatest lyricist Bernie Taupin celebrates his 76th birthday today, Elton John's lifelong partner whose poetic words on "Tiny Dancer" and hundreds of other songs proved that the songwriter-performer split could create one of music's most successful collaborations across six decades… We remember opera's most controversial genius Richard Wagner on his birthday today in 1813, the German composer whose 'Ring Cycle' and anti-Semitism made him equally influential and problematic while his chromatic innovations influenced everyone from Mahler to film composers before his death in 1883… Alternative rock met underground hip-hop today in 2010 when Alanis Morissette married rapper Souleye, the union between the "You Oughta Know" singer and Mario John Treadway proving that 1990s angst could find happiness in an unlikely partnership that has produced three children… British rock's most literate misanthrope Morrissey was born o...
