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Today In Music History: Happy Birthday Paul Weller

Posted at 6:03 AM on May 25, 2010 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

- Songwriter Hal David ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", "Do You Know the Way to San Jose", "(They Long to Be) Close to You" is 89.
- Singer Klaus Meine of Scorpions is 62.
- Lauryn Hill is 35.


Today in:

1926 - Jazz trumpeter and innovator Miles Davis was born in Alton, Illinois. Davis died in 1991.
1965 - Kinks guitarist Dave Davies knocked himself unconscious onstage when he slammed into drummer Mick Avery's cymbal during a London concert. The Kinks had to cancel the rest of the British tour.
1996 - Singer Bradley Nowell of Sublime was found dead in his San Francisco motel room of a drug overdose. He was 28.


Birthday Highlight:

Paul Weller is 52 today. Leader of the innovative and influential late-'70s/mid-'80s Brit punk band The Jam and also the creative force behind the successful mid-late-'80s band that followed, The Style Council; Weller has also enjoy a career as an acclaimed solo artist. Born in 1958 in Surrey, England. We played a tune by The Jam this morning: "Absolute Beginners."

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