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Magical Fifty -- Musicians Who Turn 50 This Year!
Born in 1958 ^
Posted on 06/12/2008 5:21:05 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Vinny Appice, Anita Baker, Jello Biafra, Andrea Bocelli, Simon LeBon, Kate Bush, Belinda Carlisle, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shaun Cassidy, Darby Crash, Randy DeBarge, Bruce Dickinson, Thomas Dolby, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Siobhan Fahey, Neil Finn, Bela Fleck, Martin Fry, Lisa Germano, Grandmaster Flash, Jools Holland, Ice-T, Alan Jackson, Michael Jackson, Tony James, Joan Jett, Al Jourgensen, Nik Kershaw, Sammy Kershaw, Limahl, Madonna, Bird McIntyre, Mike Mills, Thurston Moore, Alannah Miles, Gary Numan, Michael Penn, Vicki Peterson, Prince, Stacey Q, Will Sergeant, Nikki Sixx, David Sylvian, Toyah, Tanya Tucker, Paul Weller, Jane Wiedlin, Jah Wobble.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 1958; 1970s; 1980s; 50; 70s; 80s; bassist; classicrock; composer; drummer; fifty; genx; guitarist; hardrock; heavymetal; music; musicians; newwave; pop; popculture; punkrock; rockroll; singer
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My "Musicians Who Turn 60" posting a few months back was such a hit, that I decided to do a 50-year-old one.
Post your favorite photos!
To: Grizzled Bear; wastedyears; qam1; RockinRight
Mnay of these musicians were favorites of ours in the 1980’s....
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:22:09 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Anita Baker. Sings like no tomorrow.Bump..
To: All
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BABE!
Belinda Carlisle
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:24:33 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRUCIE!
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:26:39 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: Earthdweller
Loved her stuff. Where is she now?
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:30:32 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: weegee; KevinB
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:31:49 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
I don’t think that Darby Crash is turning 50...
To: The KG9 Kid
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:35:16 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: The KG9 Kid
Well, yes, I see that he died in 1980. Oops!
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:36:04 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Is that your professional diagnosis, doctor? :D
To: The KG9 Kid
I was confusing him with Thomas Dolby, who also turns 50 this year.
Stuart Adamson of Big Country would’ve turned 50 too. He died in 2001.
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:44:13 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: The KG9 Kid
... and Nancy Spungen would’ve been 50 as well, although she wasn’t a musician but a groupie.
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:45:22 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
A.J.
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:50:20 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
"Are you sure you have the right Bruce Dickinson?"
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:52:47 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
50? looks about 38 to me...
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:55:05 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: All
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIMON!
Simon LeBon of Duran Duran
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:55:18 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: steveo
Well, that’s a photo of Belinda from the 80’s — when she was 30. LOL
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:56:29 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Nikki Sixx and Bruce Dickinson. Damn that makes me feel old. I grew listening to Motley Crue and Iron Maiden.
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:57:01 PM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in - Michael Corleone)
To: Darren McCarty
Make that grew up listening to Crue and Maiden.
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:57:32 PM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in - Michael Corleone)
To: Darren McCarty
I know! We’re getting old....
The one musician that I was stunned to see turn 50 is Tanya Tucker. She looks way older than 50. Maybe the hard life she’s had has contributed to that, I’m sure.
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:58:55 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
I wasn’t referring to her age... boom crash...
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posted on
06/12/2008 5:59:43 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: steveo
OH, BE-HAVE!
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:01:25 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: All; lainie; OCC; ncdrumr
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOAN!
"I Love Rock & Roll!"
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:07:50 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MADGE!
You will always be the Fabulous Madonna!
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:22:51 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: JRios1968
Was there another Bruce Dickinson? A record producer, right? He produced a lot of stuff for Cheap Trick, I think.
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:32:32 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
He’s reportedly got a fever...
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:53:22 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
To: JRios1968
.... a fever for some COW BELL!
God, I love that SNL skit!
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:54:58 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Yowza. Forgot just how hot she was back in the day.
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posted on
06/12/2008 7:46:09 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(No prisoners. No mercy. Fight back or STFU!!!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
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posted on
06/12/2008 8:14:03 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
To: Earthdweller
I admire her voice also! :~)
To: JRios1968
From Wikipedia ( yes, I know )
snip-
“Christopher Walken portrays a character named Bruce Dickinson, who is identified as the producer of “(Don't Fear) The Reaper”. However, the song was actually produced by Sandy Pearlman [3]. Bruce Dickinson was a mid-level manager at Columbia Records whose name appears on a Blue Öyster Cult greatest hits CD as the “reissue producer.” This Bruce Dickinson is not the vocalist for British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, hence the humor in his boastful declaration of being “THE Bruce Dickinson”, as the character was based upon a far less famous figure than Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden.”
Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden is the one who turns 50 this year.
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posted on
06/12/2008 8:48:23 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: JRios1968
He’s reportedly got a fever... He puts his pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once his pants are on, he makes gold records.
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posted on
06/12/2008 8:51:26 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
( This tag blank until football season.)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD; qam1; ItsOurTimeNow; PresbyRev; Fraulein; StoneColdGOP; Clemenza; m18436572; ...
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posted on
06/13/2008 3:59:28 AM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: Free Vulcan
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posted on
06/13/2008 4:50:06 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(I just paid $63 for gas. An icefield in Alaska is NOT the Grand Canyon. F--- the caribou.)
To: Hoodlum91; CharlieOK1; ConservaTexan; The SISU kid; Terabitten; Gondring; baker_girl; RepoGirl; ...
80s stars turning 50 ping.
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posted on
06/13/2008 4:51:06 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(I just paid $63 for gas. An icefield in Alaska is NOT the Grand Canyon. F--- the caribou.)
To: qam1
Mr. Purple Rain, I mean Purple REIGN is 50, eh?
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posted on
06/13/2008 6:36:04 AM PDT
by
rdb3
(Upward, onward, beyond...)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
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posted on
06/13/2008 7:54:34 AM PDT
by
hoppity
To: Darren McCarty
Me too but 50 is the new 40.
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:19:57 AM PDT
by
omega4179
(Barack Hussein:painfully inadequate,dangerously communist.)
To: hoppity; RockinRight; steveo
Let's not forget that Belinda Carlisle (left in this photo, from 1979) was the first female rocker to use the headband and tied bows on her head, as seen in this very photo, at least 5 years before Madonna came into the music scene. Madonna copied a lot of style and fashion from Belinda.
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posted on
06/13/2008 6:27:04 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Also, KosmicKitty - who is NOT a musician despite years of piano lessons :-)
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posted on
06/13/2008 6:33:28 PM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: KosmicKitty
Well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, Kitty!
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posted on
06/13/2008 6:40:02 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
I actually have six months, eleven days, one hour and seventeen minutes, but who's counting
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posted on
06/13/2008 6:45:34 PM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Thanks for the ping, Silvie. Somehow I missed the age 60 thread; I’ll have to track that one down.
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posted on
06/14/2008 5:22:53 AM PDT
by
KevinB
(John McCain is to the Republican Party as James Taylor is to the the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Saw Joan Jett years ago at a real small venue. Around 1985. Shook her hand while she was on stage reaching into the crowd. Right before she stood up and started flipping sweat off her chin into the crowd. Seriously.
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posted on
06/14/2008 5:28:27 AM PDT
by
kjam22
(see me play the guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHy7Cuoucc)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Ah, the pin-up of my childhood. I plastered the walls with Simon’s mug.
(And still go to see Duran Duran whenever they’re in town...)
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posted on
06/14/2008 5:51:39 AM PDT
by
cammie
To: KevinB
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posted on
06/14/2008 6:09:36 AM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: cammie
Saw Duran Duran in the summer of 2005. Nick Rhodes and Simon have both aged well. Andy Taylor and John Taylor, however, not so much.... I used to have a serious crush on John when I was a teenager, and during this concert I was 10 feet away from him for nearly 1 1/2 hours.... all I could think of was: “What the hell happened to you, John?!?....”
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posted on
06/14/2008 6:12:37 AM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
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posted on
06/14/2008 12:34:13 PM PDT
by
KevinB
(John McCain is to the Republican Party as James Taylor is to the the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
I see 9
Andrea Bocelli, Simon LeBon, Kate Bush, Belinda Carlisle ,Michael Jackson ,Madonna,Prince,David Sylvian, and Paul Weller
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