Curated category
English rock guitarists
- 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…
- Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney wrote his first song, "I Lost My Little Girl", on a £15 Framus Zenith acoustic guitar he had traded for a nickel-plated trumpet his father…
- Cat StevensCat Stevens sold more than 100 million records before he walked away from pop music entirely. Born Steven Demetre Georgiou on the 21st of July 1948, in the…
- George HarrisonGeorge Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool, on the 25th of February 1943, in a terraced house on a cul-de-sac with an outdoor toilet…
- Ronnie WoodRonnie Wood was born on the 1st of June 1947 in the London Borough of Hillingdon, into a family of English river barge operators known as bargees, or…
- Eric ClaptonEric Patrick Clapton was born on the 30th of March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, to a sixteen-year-old mother and a Canadian soldier who had already shipped back…
- 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.
- Sean LennonSean Lennon was born on the 9th of October 1975, at Weill Cornell Medical Center in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, sharing a birthday with his…
- Julian LennonJulian Lennon was born John Charles Julian Lennon on the 8th of April 1963 at Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool, carrying a name almost nobody calls him…
- Tony SheridanTony Sheridan was born Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity on the 21st of May 1940 in Norwich, Norfolk, and he holds a distinction that even most devoted…