Tuesday, December 5, 2017

December birthdays

Since it's December, time to say Happy Birthday

Ozzy Osbourne
-Birth name: John Michael Osbourne
-DOB: 12/3/1948
-Where: Aston, Birmingham, England
-The first band he joined was Rare Breed, where he first met Geezer Butler, who had originally played guitar before switching to bass
Phil Collen
-Birth name: Phillip Kenneth Collen
-DOB: 12/8/1957
-Where: London, England
-The only member of Def Leppard besides guitarist Vivian Campbell who doesn't hail from Sheffield
Simon Helberg
-Birth name: Simon Maxwell Helberg
-DOB: 12/9/1980
-Where: Los Angeles, California
-His paternal grandparents were Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust
Cliff Williams
-Birth name: Clifford Williams
-DOB: 12/14/1949
-Where: Romford, Essex, England
-In 1977, he replaced original AC/DC bassist Mark Evans
Stevie Young
-Birth name: Stephen Crawford Young
-DOB: 12/11/1956
-Where: Glasgow, Scotland
-He replaced his uncle, Malcolm Young, in September 2014 due to his dementia diagnosis
Rick Savage
-Birth name: Richard Savage
-DOB: 12/2/1960
-Where: Sheffield, England
-In January 1994, he suffered from a short bout of Bell's Palsy. He was able to regain most of the feeling in the right side of his face later on. So if you notice in interviews why it seems he is talking out of the left side of his mouth, that's why!
Richard Hammond
-Birth name: Richard Mark Hammond
-DOB: 12/19/1969
-Where: Solihull, West Midlands, England
-On one episode of Top Gear, James May and Jeremy Clarkson kept saying Richard was American because they said he owns a Ford Mustang, a Dodge Charger, he likes to put cheese on everything
Dave Murray
-Birth name: David Michael Murray
-DOB: 12/23/1956
-Where: Edmunton, London, England
-Other than Steve Harris, Dave Murray has been in the band the longest
Lemmy Kilmister
-Birth name: Ian Fraser Kilmister
-DOB: 12/24/1945
-Where: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
-DOD: 12/28/2015
-Where: Los Angeles, California (prostate cancer, cardiac arrhythmia, congestive heart failure)
-He was known for his habit of wearing mostly or all black clothes, his gravelly voice, his handlebar mustache/muttonchops and his lyrics, which were usually critical of religion
Lucy Liu
-Birth name: Lucy Alexis Liu
-DOB: 12/2/1968
-Where: Queens, New York
-Her mother, Cecilia, is a biochemist from Beijing while her father Tom, is a civil engineer from Shanghai

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