Sunday, December 6, 2020

December Birthdays

 Since it's December, time to say Happy Birthday! And to also end the year and move on to 2021!

Stevie Young

-Birth name: Stephen Crawford Young Jr.

-DOB: 12/11/1956

-Where: Glasgow, Scotland

-He joined the band in 2014, to record Rock or Bust

Rick Savage

-Birth name: Richard Savage

-DOB: 12/2/1960

-Where: Sheffield, England

-Suffered with a bout of Bell's Palsy in January 1994, but has later regained most of the feeling in the right side of his face

Richard Hammond

-Birth name: Richard Mark Hammond

-DOB: 12/19/1969

-Where: Solihull, West Midlands, England

-He debuted on Top Gear UK in 2002

Cliff Williams

-Birth name: Clifford Williams

-DOB: 12/14/1949

-Where: Romford, United Kingdom

-He retired from AC/DC in 2016 after suffering with a terrible bout of vertigo, but has since returned to the band

Maggie Smith

-Birth name: Margaret Natalie Smith

-DOB: 12/28/1934

-Where: Ilford, Essex, England

-Underwent chemotherapy for breast cancer while filming Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince

Phil Collen

-Birth name: Phillip Kenneth Collen

-DOB: 12/8/1957

-Where: Hackney, London, England

-He is good friends with Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith and former vocalist Paul Di'Anno because he grew up in the same area of London as they did

Denzel Washington

-Birth name: Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.

-DOB: 12/28/1954

-Where: Mount Vernon, New York

-His mother Lennis is from Georgia and is a beautician while his father Denzel Washington Sr. is a Pentecostal minister from Virginia

Ozzy Osbourne

-Birth name: John Michael Osbourne

-DOB: 12/3/1948

-Where: Aston, Birmingham, England

-After his dad died in 1977, he spent several times in the hospital for depression

Lemmy Kilmister

-Birth name: Ian Fraser Kilmister

-DOB: 12/24/1945

-Where: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England

-DOD: 12/28/2015

-Where: Los Angeles, California (prostate cancer, congestive heart failure, cardiac arrythmia)

-Claimed it was a dream to record a song with Janet Jackson

Dave Murray

-Birth name: David Michael Murray

-DOB: 12/23/1956

-Where: Edmunton, London, England

-Other than bassist/founding member Steve Harris, Dave Murray is the only one to appear on every album Iron Maiden has released

Keith Richards

-DOB: 12/18/1943

-Where: Dartford, Kent, England

-Met Mick Jagger in the early 1960s at a train station