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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.

Musicians Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Nicks, Ted Nugent, Steve Winwood, Robert Plant, Kenny Loggins, Glenn Frey, Alice Cooper, Tony Iommi, Chris Squire, James Taylor, Todd Rundgren, Jackson Browne, Olivia Newton-John, Donna Summer, John Bonham (R.I.P.) & Rick James (R.I.P.)

A'Keiba Burrell - daughter of rapper MC Hammer. Landon Brown - eldest son of R&B singer Bobby Brown. Lara Johnston -daughter of Doobie Brothers' singer Tom Johnston. Chloe Lattanzi - daughter of Olivia Newton-John. Crosby Loggins - son of singer Kenny Loggins. Jesse Money -daughter of singer Eddie Money. Jesse Blaze Snider - son of Dee Snider. Albert J. Brown IV - son of R&B singer Al B. Sure. Lucy Walsh - daughter of legendary guitarist Joe Walsh.

NOVEMBER 8--Mug shot aficionados are likely aware that TSG has unearthed a host of previously unseen celebrity mug shots, from Tupac Shakur and Andre The Giant to Johnny Cash and 50 Cent. Today we're adding to that list with this marvelous booking photo of David Bowie, which was snapped in Rochester, New York following the singer's March 1976 arrest on a felony pot possession charge. Bowie, 29 at the time, was nabbed along with Iggy Pop and two other codefendants at a Rochester hotel following a Saturday concert. Bowie was held in the Monroe County jail for a few hours...

There aren't many rock stars whose band's debut album sells nearly 20 million copies thanks to eight tracks that continue to get played on rock radio more than 30 years later. And there are even fewer who are so anonymous they could slip by most people unnoticed at the mall or even at one of their own concerts. But that's the story of Boston singer Brad Delp, who on Friday died at age 55 of undisclosed causes after leading one of the most understated rock and roll lifestyles of all time. Delp was the man who lent a muscular voice...

On a recent Monday, six people — soon enough four, then two — were browsing the bins of compact discs at Norman’s Sound and Vision, a music store on Cooper Square in Manhattan, around 6 p.m., a time that once constituted the daily rush hour.A decade ago, the number of shoppers might have been 20 or 30, said Norman Isaacs, the owner. Six people? He would have had that many working in the store. “I used to make more in a day than I probably make in a week now,” said the shaven-headed Mr. Isaacs, 59, whose largely empty aisles...

Like countless parents before him, Steven Tyler is shocked at the music that's been blaring out of his fifteen-year-old son's bedroom lately. But the Aerosmith frontman can hardly disapprove. "I walk by at night and my son is listening to Zeppelin stuff, like 'Black Dog,'" Tyler says. "He's turned all his friends on to Cream, and they're all into [Aerosmith's] Toys in the Attic. I told him, 'I can't believe you're listening to this.'" Though classic rock is in no danger of edging out emo and hip-hop on most teenagers' playlists, a growing number of kids are also making room...

SAN FRANCISCO--In 1970, 20-year-old student Bill Sagan had his first real brush with rock and roll history at an early Led Zeppelin concert at Chicago's fabled Aragon Ballroom. Now the entrepreneur owns one of rock's biggest treasure troves of recorded shows by Zeppelin and other history-making bands, and he's beginning to share it freely online. Since 2002, Sagan has owned the full archives of legendary promoter Bill Graham, whose concerts featuring performers such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix and others helped define the late 1960s and early '70s. Late last week, Sagan began putting excerpts from...

Couldn’t help but catch some of the classic rock songs in recent television commercials.  Band Song Advertiser Comments AC/DC Back in Black Cingular Wireless Razr Phone For those about to sell out....we salute you AC/DC Rock 'n Roll Ain't Noise Pollution Nike Angus Young in $150 cross trainers. No thanks. Cars Just What I Needed Circuit City Annoying like every other Cars song. Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama Kentucky Fried Chicken Fried Chicken and Skynyrd. Southern stables.Waiting for the racists to find the lyrics I. Bon Jovi Wanted Dead or Alive Discovery Channel: Deadlist Catch "...with a crabtrap on...

It may be a 50 Cent, hip-hop world at most American high schools today, but Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull still rule at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County. At least they do when the school's wildly popular Classic Rock Appreciation Club convenes its weekly meetings. The club's second year began with a bang and a wheeze yesterday when, speak of the devil, a very special musical guest came calling: Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, 58, the flutist, singer and guitarist who has led the band through 21 studio albums and countless tours...

HISTORY OF SOUTHERN ROCK CMT EXPLORES THE ROOTS, LEGACY AND ARTISTS OF SOUTHERN ROCK IN "AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS: SOUTHERN ROCK" Sun, Aug 21st 5:00 PM ET/PT on CMT American Revolutions: Southern Rock, a CMT original 90-minute documentary, explores the roots and legacy of Southern rock by tracing the rise of its greatest artists and their music from the late 1960s to the present. As a young white South looked to redefine its identity after the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Southern rock gave a voice (and driving backbeat) to that struggle in the 1970s -- and had a pretty damn...

I get cloudbursts on a sunny day When it's warm outside, I'm all cold and gray. I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way? "My Girl." Not talkin' 'bout my girl Johanna. Talkin' `bout "My Girl" the song--the mid-1960s Temptations' hit that, like so many classic oldies, now causes me to cover my ears or lunge for the buttons on the car radio. It was a pleasant and catchy enough ditty the first 20 or 30 times. But thanks largely to the unrelenting 21-year effort of those who programmed WJMK-FM (104.3), "My Girl" and several hundred other...

The Boss and the gang are singing the wrong tunes. Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, the Dixie Chicks and others are on a mission to kick President Bush out of the White House. They're touring through swing states to spread their anti-Bush message.

In my humble opinion a true artist will display almost supernatural talent regardless of what constraints he may encounter as a result of a chosen medium. Hand Pablo Picasso a sheet of paper and a pencil and he'll doodle up a simple drawing called "The Bull" and sell it for 50 Grand. A great musician should be able to perform a similar prestidigitation with a simple suite of instruments to work with. Modern technology has masked the deficiencies of many modern artists, but it has also given them a homogeneous, canned sound that has stopped being revolutionary and has nearly...

THE WAY THE MUSIC DIED PBS Airdate: Thursday, May 27, at 9 P.M., 60 minutes In the recording studios of Los Angeles and the boardrooms of New York, they say the record business has been hit by a perfect storm: a convergence of industry-wide consolidation, Internet theft, and artistic drought. The effect has been the loss of billions of dollars, thousands of jobs, and that indefinable quality that once characterized American pop music. “It’s a classic example of art and commerce colliding and nobody wins,” says Nic Harcourt, music director at Los Angeles’s KCRW-FM. “It’s just a train wreck.” In...

Ghosts of music past Warrant rock resurrections Mike Caggeso Friday, May 21, 2004 At bottom: · IF YOU GO Nostalgia is an uncomfortable fun. The memories are from another time and place, but are shared in a mood of sobering reflection. Those songs you blasted out of your speakers during high school, the movies you went to see with your past girlfriends — whatever your bag was, the key word is "was." The nostalgia music circuit is a gold mine, and the large lobbying force of hair metal fans of the 1980s have convinced classic rock stations to include the...

Are there any freeper fans of Jethro Tull out here? If so, Jethro Tull will be appearing live on Rockline tonight, taking calls and answering questions. Listeners in the U.S. can call 1-800-344-ROCK (1-800-344-7625) and talk to that night's guest. Questions can also be e-mailed to rocklineradio@aol.com. Jethro Tull kicked off their latest American tour yesterday. They have performed over 2500 concerts. I guess they are not yet Too old to Rock'n Roll, Too Young to Die... Rockline web page Rockline affiliates Show details Rockline affiliate links which carry tonights show over the internet