May 13
Soul's greatest living genius Stevie Wonder celebrates his 76th birthday today, the child prodigy whose journey from "Fingertips" to 'Songs in the Key of Life' proved that blindness couldn't limit musical vision while his social consciousness made him popular music's most important voice across six decades… Country-rock's most unexpected crossover voice Darius Rucker turns 60 today, the Hootie & the Blowfish frontman whose transformation from 1990s alternative rock to Nashville star proved that Southern Black musicians could find acceptance in country music despite the genre's racial barriers… The Boss made his biggest romantic mistake today in 1985 when Bruce Springsteen married actress Julianne Phillips, beginning the marriage that would end in divorce four years later after his affair with E Street Band member Patti Scialfa destroyed this doomed union… The Beatles lost their first photographer on this day in 2020 when Astri...
