February Birthdays

Since it's February, time to say Happy Birthday

Vince Neil

-Birth name: Vincent Neil Wharton

-DOB: 2/8/1961

-Where: Los Angeles, California

-He's a strong supporter of childhood cancer research because his daughter Skylar died of stomach cancer

Tony Iommi

-Birth name: Anthony Frank Iommi

-DOB: 2/14/1948

-Where: Aston, Birmingham, England

-After a brief stint in Jethro Tull, he decided Black Sabbath should be more disciplined like them. So he took on the task of making sure Black Sabbath did things on time and such

Paul Wight

-Birth name: Paul Randall Wight Jr.

-DOB: 2/8/1972

-Where: Aiken, South Carolina

-Initially, when he joined WCW, he was promoted as the long lost son of Andre the Giant

Rod Smallwood

-Birth name: Roderick Charles Smallwood

-DOB: 2/17/1950

-Where: Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England

-He managed a band called Cockney Rebel, then Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel before giving up music management all together and sitting for exams to become a lawyer. When someone handed him a cassette of a fledgling band called Iron Maiden, he strongly reconsidered music management

Adrian Smith

-Birth name: Adrian Frederick Smith

-DOB: 2/27/1957

-Where: Hackney, London, England

-He quit the band at one point to form a solo career, but returned in 2000 with former vocalist Bruce Dickinson

Matt Groening

-Birth name: Matthew Abram Groening

-DOB: 2/15/1954

-Where: Portland, Oregon

-Matt considers himself to be most like Comic Book Guy, a sarcastic, slightly heavyset sarcastic owner of a comic book shop called the Android's Dungeon on The Simpsons

Alice Cooper

-Birth name: Vincent Damon Furnier

-DOB: 2/4/1948

-Where: Detroit, Michigan

-He is considered the pioneer of wild or macabre items on stage in rock concerts

Alan Rickman

-Birth name: Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman

-DOB: 2/21/1946

-Where: Hammersmith, London, England

-DOD: 1/14/2016

-Where: London, England (pancreatic cancer)

-He and Rima Horton were in a relationship since 1965, but married in 2012 in a private ceremony in New York

Steve Irwin

-Birth name: Stephen Robert Irwin

-DOB: 2/22/1962

-Where: Essendon, Victoria, Australia

-DOD: 9/4/2006

-Where: Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia

-In January 2004, he was almost charged with child endangerment when he was doing a crocodile demonstration at the Queensland Zoo while holding his son Robert and feeding a 13 foot crocodile. Both Terri and Steve made it well known that their children were going to be "croc savvy" before long

George Harrison

-DOB: 2/25/1943

-Where: Liverpool, England

-DOD: 11/29/2001

-Where: Los Angeles, California

-The address listed on his death certificate was falsified so his place of death wouldn't become a Beatles shrine by fans

Rachel Bolan

-Birth name: James Richard Southworth

-DOB: 2/9/1994

-Where: Toms River, New Jersey

-He was a member of various punk bands before joining Skid Row

Henry Rollins

-Birth name: Henry Lawrence Garfield

-DOB: 2/131/1961

-Where: Washington, D.C.

-He is strongly against most if not all electronic-based music such as Moby and Nine Inch Nails

Rickey Medlocke

-DOB: 2/17/1950

-Where: Jacksonville, Florida

-He has Lakota Sioux and Cherokee Indian heritage and as a result, was inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame in 2008

Billie Joe Armstrong

-DOB: 2/17/1972

-Where: Oakland, California

-Green Day's most popular song, "Wake Me Up When September Ends", which usually ends up as a mean meme on the internet, was written as a tribute to Billie's father, who died on Sept. 10, 1982 of esophageal cancer

Johnny Van Zandt

-Birth name: John Roy Van Zandt

-DOB: 2/27/1959

-Where: Jacksonville, Florida

-He's been the front man for Lynyrd Skynyrd since 1987