December 23

 

Happy birthday Eddie Vedder who is celebrating his 60^th birthday today...

 

Mountain guitarist Leslie West died on this day in 2020 of cardiac arrest at the age of 75...

 

Adrian Belew (King Crimson) was born today in 1949...

 

Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) was born on this day in 1940...

 

Folk singer Tim Hardin was born on this day in 1941...

 

Jazz trumpeter and bad boy Chet Baker was born on this day in 1929...

 

Today in 1977, Cat Stevens formally changed his name to Yusef Islam