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Born on this day ... - Ruby - 26-11-2016

John McVie was born on this day in 1945, in London, England. He is the Mac in Fleetwood.

A bass player, he started out invited to play with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, a huge vote of confidence for an aspiring muso, but he ultimately got fired for drunkenness and a couple of years down the line, an alcohol induced seizure gave him a big enough fright for him to have been sober ever since.

In the meantime, he followed the also-fired-by-John-Mayall Peter Green, and married Christine Perfect who had been with Chicken Shack and who ended up as a major contributor to Fleetwood Mac’s success despite the fact that all of their personal relationships were … well …. uumm - interesting!

Along with the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and eleven albums later, Fleetwood Mac went on to achieve great things with a line-up not even remotely resembling the original incarnation; it was Peter Green who had started it all - he had been instrumental in recruiting both Mick Fleetwood and John McVie and in fact it was he who coined the FM title.

They hit the bigtime with Rumours and this track was written by the whole lot of ‘em, including John whose songwriting credits are rare! It’s a classic …

[video=youtube;nKGuaN0Nt1c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKGuaN0Nt1c[/video]


Born on this day ... - Inna Selez - 30-11-2016

Steven Hiroyuki "Steve" Aoki was born November 30, 1977. He is an American electro house DJ and record producer. For today Steve is one of the richest and famous DJs in music industry. Released 3 studio albums, fourth is planned for 2017. In 2007, he was named Best Party Rocker DJ by BPM Magazine, Best DJ of the Year by Paper Magazine, and Best Set of the Season at the Ibiza Awards. Several years later, in 2012, he was named #15 in the Top 100 DJs in DJ Magazine, and was named America's #2 Best DJ. Also in 2012, he won an EDM Effect Woodie Award by MTVu, and the following year he was nominated for his first Grammy.
One of the last remixes out yesterday.

[video=youtube;zCajaMVf_A8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCajaMVf_A8[/video]


Born on this day ... - Inna Selez - 02-12-2016

It's Britney bitch 35th birthday! Stay safe-stay sober!

[video=youtube;2RRY3OVqtwc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RRY3OVqtwc[/video]


Born on this day ... - Inna Selez - 02-12-2016

Also happy birthday Nelly Furtado! (She is 3 years older than Britney, but looks better IMHO).

[video=youtube;_ly4gCvb9RM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ly4gCvb9RM[/video]


Born on this day ... - Inna Selez - 05-12-2016

During the weekend 2 cool guys celebrated their Bdays.


John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne was born 3 December 1948. I think everybody knows who he is.

[video=youtube;LCCiwPEdEpg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCCiwPEdEpg[/video]


Born on this day ... - Inna Selez - 05-12-2016

4 December 1973 in Rotterdam was born Dutch trance DJ, record producer and remixer Ferry Corsten. gelukkige verjaardag!!!

[video=youtube;2O4ccHgfcl8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O4ccHgfcl8[/video]


Born on this day ... - Inna Selez - 08-12-2016

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was born December 8 in 1943. He was an American singer, songwriter, and poet, best remembered as the lead singer of The Doors. As a result of his lyrics, personality, performances, and the dramatic circumstances surrounding his life and death, Morrison is regarded by critics and fans as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock music history.

[video=youtube;k9o78-f2mIM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9o78-f2mIM[/video]


Born on this day ... - Ruby - 09-12-2016

Joshua Bell was born on this day in 1967, in Bloomington, Indiana. When he was four years old, his mother found him trying to emulate the sounds of the music she was playing on the piano by stretching elastic bands over the handles of his dresser drawers and plucking them. After that, he was very sensibly packed off to a tutor and given lessons on an especially sized violin; he debuted at Carnegie Hall at the age of 17.

He is a lyrical and virtuoso violinist and conductor and the dedicated owner of a 300 year old Stradivarius known as the Gibson ex Huberman which he begged borrowed and traded things in order to own; he had held it and played once before when it was with its previous owner, and had fallen in love with the instrument whose fate seemed likely to be that of languishing in a wealthy industrialist’s private collection. He finally managed to acquire it for just shy of 4 million dollars and it is well taken care of by luthier Emmanuel Gradoux-Matt. Bell was the soloist on the award winning soundtrack to the fantastic move, The Red Violin, but the Gibson ex Huberman has almost as chequered a history and is the subject of its own documentary, The Return of the Violin, having been twice stolen and recovered in its lifetime to date!

In 2007, Joshua Bell took part in a very interesting social experiment which was set up by the Washington Post as follows, from Wiki …

“In an experiment initiated by The Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten, Bell donned a baseball cap and played as an incognito busker at the Metro subway station L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C. on January 12, 2007. The experiment was videotaped on hidden camera; of the 1,097 people who passed by, only seven stopped to listen to him, and only one recognized him. For his nearly 45-minute performance, Bell collected $32.17 from 27 passersby (excluding $20 from the passerby who recognized him). Three days before, he earned considerably more playing the same repertoire at a concert. Weingarten won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his article on the experiment. The Washington Post posted the video on YouTube and a feature-length documentary, Find Your Way: A Busker's Documentary, chronicled Bell's experience.”

Here’s a clip … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw

From The Red Violin … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slCBWnH8Nms

From Ladies in Lavender … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Ru6aaipLI

And nominated for an Oscar, he performs on this song with Scarlett Johansson … it’s from the soundtrack of the award winning documentary on climate change, Chasing Ice … written by J Ralph ...

[video=youtube;qB4UEQzUmWc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4UEQzUmWc[/video]


Born on this day ... - bob_32_116 - 11-12-2016

Happy birthday Kirk Douglas - 100 years old today!


Born on this day ... - Ruby - 11-12-2016

^^Indeed! Quite remarkable.
Happy Birthday Kirk Douglas!!