1937 Country star Waylon Jennings - whom we all know as the narrator on The Dukes of Hazzard - is born in Littlefield, Texas.

1947 Vangelis, the Greek synth wizard, is born in Valos, Greece.

1949 Air Supply's Russell Hitchcock is born in Melbourne, Australia.

1950 Noddy Holder of Slade is born a day after the band's bassist in Walsall, England.

1954 Garry Roberts of the Boomtown Rats is born on this date.

1957 Brad Gillis, singer and guitarist with Night Ranger, is born.

1958 Neil Arthur of the group Blancmange is born on this date.

1963 Scott Rockenfield, drummer of the group Queensryche, is born on this date.

1987 Hipgnosis designer Storm Thorgerson photographs the cover of Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason in Saunton Sands, England. He has 30 helpers move 800 rented beds onto the beach to shoot the album cover.

1989 Public Enemy boot their choreographer and minister of information, Professor Griff, after he shares his anti-Semitic views with a reporter.

1992 Bruce Springsteen begins his first world tour without the E Street Band in Stockholm.