May 15
Ambient music's founding architect Brian Eno was born on this day in 1948, the former Roxy Music synthesizer wizard whose production work with U2, Talking Heads, and David Bowie proved equally influential to his own pioneering electronic soundscapes across five decades of innovation… Country music lost its First Lady today in 2003 when June Carter Cash died at 73 in Nashville, ending the life of Johnny Cash's second wife whose "Ring of Fire" co-write and steadying influence kept the Man in Black grounded before her death hastened his own demise four months later… Progressive rock's one-man orchestra Mike Oldfield celebrates his 73rd birthday today, the British multi-instrumentalist whose 'Tubular Bells' became an unlikely phenomenon after its use in 'The Exorcist' proved that 50-minute instrumental epics could achieve commercial success… We remember the 27 Club's most obscure member Gary Thain on his birthday today in 1948, th...
