Born on May 12
1978 Alex Ebert, lead singer of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, is born in Los Angeles. His mother is the actress Lisa Richards, who had a regular role on the soap opera Dark Shadows and appeared on episodes of Fantasy Island and Chips.
1962 Bad Religion founder Brett Gurewitz is born in Los Angeles, California.
1961 Billy Duffy (guitarist for The Cult) is born in Hulme, Manchester, England.
1959 Ray Gillen (of Black Sabbath, Badlands) is born in New York City, but raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.
1955 Kix Brooks (of Brooks & Dunn) is born Leon Eric Brooks in Shreveport, Louisiana.
1950 Rocker Billy Squier is born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. His breakout year is 1981, when the new network MTV plays his hits "The Stroke" and "In The Dark."
1950 John "Jocko" Marcellino (of Sha Na Na) is born in Quincy, Massachusetts.
1948 Steve Winwood (of Traffic, Blind Faith and The Spencer Davis Group) is born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England.
1945 Ian McLagan (keyboardist for The Small Faces, The Faces) is born in Hounslow, Middlesex, England.
1944 R&B singer James Purify (of James & Bobby Purify) is born in Pensacola, Florida.
1942 Country singer Billy Swan is born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
1942 Ian Dury (Kilburn and the High-Roads, Ian Dury & the Blockheads) is born in England.
1940 Motown songwriter Norman Whitfield is born in Harlem, New York City.
1929 Burt Bacharach is born in Kansas City, Missouri.More
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