Curated category
English expatriate musicians in the United States
- David BowieDavid Bowie was born David Robert Jones on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London, and he died two days after releasing his final album, on the 10th of…
- John LennonAt approximately 5:00 p.m. on the 8th of December 1980, John Lennon autographed a copy of his new album for a man named Mark David Chapman outside his New…
- M.I.A. (rapper)Mathangi Arulpragasam was born on the 18th of July 1975 in Hounslow, London, into a family that would spend the next decade running from a civil war.
- Bee GeesThe Bee Gees were the act that made Barry Gibb the only songwriter in history to have four consecutive number-one hits in the United States, breaking a…
- Ringo StarrRingo Starr was born on the 7th of July 1940 at 9 Madryn Street in Dingle, one of the oldest and poorest inner-city districts in Liverpool.
- Mick FleetwoodMichael John Kells Fleetwood arrived in the world on the 24th of June 1947 within the red clay hills of Redruth, Cornwall.
- Idris ElbaIdris Elba was born Idrissa Akuna Elba on the 6th of September 1972 in the London Borough of Hackney, the only child of a Sierra Leonean father who worked at…
- Jeff LynneJeff Lynne was born on the 30th of December 1947 in Erdington, Birmingham, a city that shaped everything about him, including an accent he never lost.
- Pete BestPete Best was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962, fired ten weeks after the group's first EMI recording session, just before the band became…
- Keith MoonKeith John Moon was born on the 23rd of August 1946, and dead by the 7th of September 1978 - a span of just 32 years that somehow contained enough chaos…