Today’s Birthdays

Astronaut Alan Bean (Apollo 12, 4^th man to set foot on the moon, Skylab 3 commander) is 80.

Jazz pianist – composer Cecil Taylor is 79.

Actor Judd Hirsch (Taxi, Ordinary People) is 77.

TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggert is 77.

Bass guitarist Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead) is 72.

Singer – songwriter Mike Love (The Beach Boys) is 71.

Bass guitarist David Costell (Gary Lewis & The Playboys) is 68.

Musician – singer Sly Stone (Sly & The Family Stone) is 68.

Guitarist – singer Howard Scott (War) is 66.

Actor Craig Wasson (Body Double, Malcolm X) is 58.

Singer – songwriter Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) is 57.

Here’s a snippet of Snider’s testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1985 about censorship in the music industry.

Fabio Lanzoni (romance novel cover model) is 53.

Singer – songwriter Terence Trent D’Arby (Wishing Well, Introducing the Hard Line) is 50.

Singer Rockwell (Kennedy William Gordy; Somebody’s Watching Me; son of Motown founder, Berry Gordy) is 48.