Sam John Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an American blues guitarist and singer from Houston, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine included Hopkins at number 71 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Better known as a TV host now ("Later with..."), Jools Holland started life as a keyboard player with the band Squeeze. He is an accomplished "boogie-woogie" player as this duet with New Orleans legend Dr. John shows. Happy birthday Mr Holland. It's lead singer/ guitarist Crispian Mills birthday today. Kula Shaker are known for fusing Indian and rock music as this live performance demonstrates. Javed Ahktar is a legend in India. He is a poet, singer, songwriter, script writer and film maker. He also appeared as a judge on Indian Idol 4!. Akhtar wrote the words to this beautiful song from the film Om Shanti Om. Born on this day in 1943.This is one of his earliest pieces, The Sinking of the Titanic (1969), allows the performers to take a number of sound sources related to the sinking of the RMS Titanic and make them into a piece of music. |