Birthdays
1945 Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine)
1951 William Nelson (Funkadelic)
1954 Shawn Murray (Mink DeVille)
1959 Dave Sharp (The Alarm)
1968 DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill)
1968 Sarah McLachlan
News
1990 Sandra “Puma” Jones, American reggae singer with Black Uhuru between 1979-1986, died of breast cancer age 36.
2016 Both Paul Kantner and Signe Toly Anderson of Jefferson Airplane passed away on this day in 2016. They were both 74-years-old.
2023 Tom Verlaine, American rock guitarist, songwriter and vocalist for Television, died aged 73.
Album releases
1985 Coil – Scatology