January 17

Former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor is 72 today

 

Paul Young is 65 today

 

Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles) is 62 today

 

Songwriter, manager, publisher and music executive Don Kirshner died of heart failure on this day in 2011

 

Gram Parsons’ “Grievous Angel” was released today in 1974

 

Today is the anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” in 1975