May 11
British Invasion's grittiest voice Eric Burdon celebrates his 85th birthday today, the Animals frontman whose blues shouting on "House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" made him one of rock's most authentic interpreters of African-American music across six decades… Reggae lost its greatest prophet on this day in 1981 when Bob Marley died at 36 from melanoma that had spread to his lungs and brain, ending the career of the Jamaican musician whose Rastafarian message and "One Love" made him the third world's most important musical voice… We remember the Allman Brothers' second drummer Butch Trucks on his birthday today in 1947, the timekeeper whose dual percussion work with Jaimoe created the polyrhythmic foundation for Southern rock's most improvisational band before his suicide in 2017 ended five decades of groove… Rod Stewart's superstardom arrived today in 1971 with the release of 'Every ...
