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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Frank on August 07, 2012, 02:04:47 AM
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From a debate on another forum, thought we should try it here - what was the Number One Single on the day you were born?
http://www.everyhit.com/dates/
July 22nd 1967 for me, that was The Beatles, All You Need Is Love. That's what I get for being born in the Summer of love.
The site says I share a birthday with George Clinton and Don Henley. I also know I share a birthday with Danny Glover (yay!) and Bonnie Langford (ugh)
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i was expecting something rather pants - being born in 1980. but i can cope with this
David Bowie - "Ashes To Ashes"
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The Pipes & Drums & Military Band of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - "Amazing Grace"
hmmmm...
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2nd may 1982, apparently joan jett, I love rock n roll.
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Disappointingly, Art Garfunkel's "I Only Have Eyes For You" but, in happier news, I share my birthday with Hank Marvin and Ben Harper which pleases me.
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I know mine without even looking. Bay City Rollers with "Bye Bye Baby".
Great. :lol:
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I know mine without even looking. Bay City Rollers with "Bye Bye Baby".
Great. :lol:
me too! i know i have the same birthday as Ayrton Senna and Gary Oldman.
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Bit unimpressed with mine tbh!!
The Number 1 single was: Paul Young - "Wherever I Lay My Heart (That's My Home)"
The Number 1 album was: Yazoo - "You And Me Both"
Born on 25th Jul:
1942 - Bruce Woodley ( vocalist, The Seekers )
1943 - Jim McCarty ( drummer, The Yardbirds )
1946 - Jose Chepito Areas ( percussionist, Santana )
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The Number 1 single was:
Cilla Black - "You're My World" :|
The Number 1 album was:
Rolling Stones - "Rolling Stones" (that's better! :D )
People who share my birthday are pretty boring too:
1936 - Tommy Devito ( guitarist, vocalist, The Four Seasons )
1944 - Robin Box ( White Plains ) :?
1948 - Nick Drake
1959 - Mark Debarge ( of US family group Debarge )
1963 - Paula Abdul
Nick Drake is, of course, cool - but long deceased. :(
I know I also have the same birthday as Brian "Head" Welch, the Korn guitarist who went loopy and got religion. And I was born on exactly the same day as our esteemed Mayor, Boris Johnson.....
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I guess compared to some other dates, the music for me isn't too bad. 10/05/88 had U2's Desire, and Bon Jovi's New Jersey in the top spots.
I'm relatively happy with the people I share my DOB with, just a few are Brian Johnson from AC/DC, Steve Miller, Bob Geldof, Bernie Mac, hockey players Mario Lemieux and Patrick Roy.
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On 22nd Sep 1978 ...
The Number 1 single was:
10cc - "Dreadlock Holiday"
Born on 22nd Sep:
1949 - David Coverdale ( vocalist, Deep Purple / Whitesnake )
1957 - Nick Cave ( vocalist, The Birthday Party / Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds )
1971 - Chesney Hawkes
1982 - Billie ( Billie Piper )
Not a bad haul of people to share a birthday with. :)
I now have 'I don't like cricket, I love it' stuck in my head.
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I already knew mine, Frank Ifield's "Wayward Wind" (and Cliff and The Shadows "Summer Holiday" was the album).
Didn't know this lot though:
1927 - Harry Belafonte Cool!
1944 - Roger Daltry ( vocalist, The Who ) Also Cool!
1946 - Tony Ashton ( vocalist, keyboard player, Ashton Gardner & Dyke ) OK
1958 - Nik Kershaw Oh Dear
1962 - Peter Stephenson ( of The Shamen ) Who?
And just a few short hours later it would have been even cooler:
1943 - Lou Reed ( real name; Louis Firbank. Vocalist; solo and with Velvet Underground ) Cool
1948 - Rory Gallagher ( guitarist, solo and in Taste; deceased ) WAY COOL
1950 - Karen Carpenter ( vocalist, drummer, The Carpenters; deceased ) WAY COOL
1962 - Jon Bon Jovi ( real name John Francis Bongiovi; vocalist; Bon Jovi ) OK
1977 - Chris Martin ( lead vocals, keyboards, Coldplay ) Can't win em all I guess...
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On 10th Apr 1988 ...
The Number 1 single was:
The Pet Shop Boys - "Heart" Not a Fan :(
The Number 1 album was:
Various artist compilation (EMI/Virgin) - "Now That's What I Call Music 11" Meh
Born on 10th Apr:
1940 - Ricky Valance
1947 - Bunny Wailer ( a founding member of The Wailers, Bob Marley's band ) Awesome
1959 - Babyface ( US singer, producer, and songwriter; real name: Kenneth Edmonds )
1959 - Kenneth Edmonds ( better known as Babyface )
1959 - Katrina Leskanich ( vocalist in Katrina And The Waves ) Go GB :D
1959 - Brian Setzer ( guitarist, vocalist, The Stray Cats )Cool
1960 - Afrika Bambaataa ( seminal Bronx DJ)Schweet
1964 - Alan 'Reni' Wren ( drummer, The Stone Roses )Not a big Stone Roses Fan
1979 - Sophie Ellis Bextor ( vocalist; solo and lead with Theaudience )
1981 - Elizabeth Margaret ( vocalist, Atomic Kitten )
1984 - Mandy Moore ( US teen dance-pop singer )
I also share the exact same birthday with Haley Joel Osment, so at least i wasn't the most annoying person born that day :lol:
Non-music wise, Omar Sharif and Max Von Sydow 8)
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On 27th Nov 1988 ...
The Number 1 single was:
Robin Beck - "First Time"
The Number 1 album was:
Various artist compilation (EMI/Virgin) - "Now That's What I Call Music 13"
Born on 27th Nov:
1942 - Jimi Hendrix ( full name James Marshall Hendrix; guitarist, vocalist; deceased )
I think I win on the sharing birthday front :P Never even heard of the single.
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On 2nd Sep 1985 ...
The Number 1 single was:
David Bowie & Mick Jagger - "Dancing In The Street"
The Number 1 album was:
Various artist compilation (Virgin/EMI) - "Now, That's What I Call Music 5" (BOOOOO!)
Born on 2nd Sep:
1939 - Bobby Purify ( of James & Bobby Purify )
1957 - Steve Porcaro ( Keyboard / synthesizer player, Toto )
1969 - Cedric Hailey ( aka K-Ci; vocalist; solo and with Jodeci )
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single: Eurythmics 'there must be an angel'
and Bruce Springsteen Born in the US (of) A,
I also share the same birthday as SLASH! which has made my day
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I'm not even going to say what mine is. Its just way too embarrassing :evil:.
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1958 - Nik Kershaw Oh Dear
You surprise me, Andy - I've always thought Nik Kershaw is a decent songwriter/guitarist who "accidentally" became a pop star for his 15 minutes.
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The Number 1 single was:
Cilla Black - "You're My World" :|
Sorry Philly, that generated some involuntary laughter.
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Not unreasonable, Ian.
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Dear God...
The Number 1 single was:
Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - "It's My Party"
The Number 1 album was:
Shakin' Stevens - "Shaky"
Born on 8th Nov:
1946 - Roy Wood ( guitarist, lead vocalist, The Move / Wizzard )
1947 - Minnie Ripperton ( deceased )
1949 - Bonnie Raitt
1954 - Rickie Lee Jones
1957 - Porl Thompson ( guitarist, The Cure )
Good ol' Shaky.
At least it wasn't Cilla Black.
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Is Cilla Black better or worse than Bonnie Langford?
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1958 - Nik Kershaw Oh Dear
You surprise me, Andy - I've always thought Nik Kershaw is a decent songwriter/guitarist who "accidentally" became a pop star for his 15 minutes.
I would have said the very same thing a few weeks back, not having listened to him for years. But I recently saw some old BBC performances of his, and that has obviously coloured my current thinking :lol:
The music was still the same, not quite as appealing to me as I remember, but he does seem to have suffered more on the "oh dear, 80s" looks-front than some others might. (It might be because he wasn't happy having to look like that at the time? Who knows...)
And, Cilla Black, the young, singing one... oooo.... I'd have been very happy to have found her on my birthday list.
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And, Cilla Black, the young, singing one... oooo.... I'd have been very happy to have found her on my birthday list.
Surely you jest? :?
(Frank, I think Cilla Black vs. Bonnie Langford is impossible to call....)
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On 1st Jun 1956 ...
The Number 1 single was:
Ronnie Hilton - "No Other Love"
The Number 1 album was:
Nothing - "The album chart did not begin until the end of July 1956"
Born on 1st Jun:
1934 - Pat Boone
1947 - Ronnie Wood ( guitarist, Small Faces )
1950 - Tom Robinson ( vocalist, guitarist, keyboard player; solo and with The Tom Robinson Band )
1960 - Simon Gallup ( bassist, The Cure )
1968 - Jason Donovan ( vocalist and actor )
1974 - Alanis Morissette ( vocalist )
to laugh or cry, that is the question? :(
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And, Cilla Black, the young, singing one... oooo.... I'd have been very happy to have found her on my birthday list.
Surely you jest? :?
Sadly, no :lol:
I had a big crush on her in the days of the Cilla Black Show.
The slightly, er, brasher lady that did Blind Date and all... no thanks.
Mind you, I also liked Des O'Connor :lol:
(But remember this was back when they were singers with their own TV show, rather than game-show and chat-show hosts like they ended up being.)
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I can just about remember the Cilla Black and Des O'Connor shows - but only in the sense that I remember them existing, I can't recall any of the actual content.
But I never liked either of them as singers! In recent years, I like Des as a host/personality, but I think Cilla is a right old cow!
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Mines very electro-pop:
The Number 1 single was:
Tubeway Army - "Are Friends Electric?" (a track which I moderately like)
The Number 1 album was:
Electric Light Orchestra - "Discovery" (an album I am unlikely to buy, though I like their later track "Ticket to the Moon")
I share a birthday with Woody Guthrie.
All not too bad.
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The Number 1 album was:
Electric Light Orchestra - "Discovery" (an album I am unlikely to buy, though I like their later track "Ticket to the Moon")
Haven't really mentioned this before, but in my early teens I was a massive ELO fan. Their mid-'70s albums, especially A New World Record and the (huge-selling) Out Of The Blue were really good.
Discovery was the one which started to put me off - it seemed over-produced (in retrospect, so were the earlier albums! :lol: ), there were some dud songs and it was revealed that the string section generally didn't play on the records, instead being replaced by (horror of horrors) synthesisers. I was not impressed.
And then I discovered Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow....
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I am finding this thread very depressing. Many of the songs that were No 1 when you were born seem like they were out not that long ago to me- which makes me feel very old.
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I am finding this thread very depressing. Many of the songs that were No 1 when you were born seem like they were out not that long ago to me- which makes me feel very old.
On the other hand, think how incredibly ancient Cilla must be if she was No. 1 on the day Boris Johnson was born!
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I share mine with Paul Kossoff - but not the same year. Frank Sinatra was number one when I was born - the penalties of being an old buggar.
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For extra fun, google "died" and your birthday. By the laws of reincarnation that's who you were in a previous life.
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December 20th, 1967, which is incidentally the day after John Wheeler coined the term "black hole".
Beatles were number one with Hello Goodbye (it was a good year for them).
Share birthdays with amongst others Bill "Tiger" O'Reilly (one for the cricket fans. I've actually visited the town where he was born, which shows real dedication if you care to look it up on the map), and Uri Geller.
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*Beatles birthday high five*
I've actually visited the town where he was born
I loked on the map and I can only assume you got hopelessly lost or crashed there in a light aircraft.
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For extra fun, google "died" and your birthday. By the laws of reincarnation that's who you were in a previous life.
I couldn't find anyone interesting who died that day, but I did learn that the last episode of The Twilight Zone was broadcast on the day I was born.
So maybe that's why I've always liked the show? I've just recently bought the first four seasons on Blu-ray.
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The Number 1 single was: Mud - "Oh Boy"
The Number 1 album was: Bay City Rollers - "Once Upon A Star"
1966 - Johnny Colt ( bassist, The Black Crowes )
1970 - Bernard Butler ( guitarist; solo and with Suede / McAlmont & Butler )
Even though the Number 1 was shyte (but chart music is nearly always bollocks anyway), I share my birthday with Bernard Butler who is well cool in my book, great guitarist.
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*Beatles birthday high five*
I've actually visited the town where he was born
I loked on the map and I can only assume you got hopelessly lost or crashed there in a light aircraft.
Actually White Cliffs is a very interesting place to visit, and thoroughly recommended.
I only found out that Bill O'Reilly was born there after I arrived. They even have a cricket oval named after him!