Life is what happens when you are making other plans~ John Lennon
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind~Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right~ Martin Luther King Jr.


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