May 21

Remembering Fats Waller, born on this day in 1904

 

Today in 2013, Trevor Bolder (David Bowie's Spiders From Mars) died from cancer at the age of 62.

 

Leo Sayer was born today in 1948

 

Today in 1981, Bob Marley was buried in St. Ann's, Jamaica with state honors

 

Marvin Gaye’s ‘What's Going On’ was released today in 1971

 

Today in 1972, Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. was born in Brooklyn, NY

 

In a story about Rickie Lee Jones that appeared on this day in 1979, Time Magazine coined the nickname “the Duchess of Coolsville”