April 10
Alternative rock's most eccentric chronicler Mark Oliver Everett, known simply as "E," celebrates his 63rd birthday today, the Eels frontman whose darkly comic songs about family tragedy and mental illness proved that deeply personal pain could create strangely beautiful pop music… The Beatles suffered their first fatal loss on this day in 1962 when original bassist Stuart Sutcliffe died at 21 from a cerebral hemorrhage in Hamburg, ending the life of John Lennon's best friend who had left the band to pursue painting before a brain aneurysm claimed him… Dance music mourned a one-hit wonder today in 2003 when Little Eva died at 59 in North Carolina, ending the life of the babysitter-turned-singer whose "The Loco-Motion" became one of the early 1960s' most infectious hits despite her never replicating that success… British art-rock's most reclusive genius Kate Bush received her CBE for services to music from the Queen today in 2013 at ...
