Jesse Carmichael, teclista dos Maroon 5, celebra hoje 45 anos...!

    

Jesse Royal Carmichael (Boulder, Colorado, April 2, 1979) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for the pop rock band Maroon 5.

Carmichael also has a solo project called 1863 and a side project titled Circuit Jerks.

   

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Tony Banks, teclista dos Genesis, comemora hoje 74 anos

  

Anthony George Banks (East Hoathly with Halland, 27 March 1950) is an English musician, songwriter and film composer primarily known as the keyboardist and founding member of the rock band Genesis. Banks is also a prolific solo artist, releasing six solo albums that range through progressive rock, pop, and classical music.

Banks co-founded Genesis in 1967 while studying at Charterhouse as their keyboardist and one of their principal songwriters and lyricists. He became a prolific user of the Hammond T-102 organ, Mellotron, ARP Pro Soloist and Yamaha CP-70 piano. In the band's earliest years Banks would play acoustic guitar for some of the mellow and pastoral songs.

In 2010, Banks was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis. In 2011, he was included on MusicRadar's list of the 27 greatest keyboard players of all time. In 2015, he was named "Prog God" at the Progressive Music Awards.

   

        

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Alan Clark, teclista dos Dire Straits, faz hoje setenta e dois anos

   

Alan Clark (Great Lumley, County Durham, England, 5 March 1952) is an English musician who was the first keyboardist and co-producer of the rock band Dire Straits. In 2018, Clark was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a significant member of Dire Straits.

 

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Ray Manzarek, o teclista dos The Doors, nasceu há 85 anos...

   
Raymond Daniel Manzarek (Chicago, 12 de fevereiro de 1939 - Rosenheim, 20 de maio de 2013) foi um músico dos Estados Unidos. Foi o teclista da banda de rock The Doors, de 1965 a 1973, e também a partir de 2001 (por motivos legais, chamada de Manzarek-Krieger, desde 2009).

Na música "Close to you", gravada ainda com a formação original dos The Doors, ou seja, com Jim Morrison, quem canta é Ray, não Jim. Após a morte de Jim, a banda The Doors lançou 2 álbuns, Full Circle e Other Voices, nos quais os vocais eram de Ray ou Robbie, o guitarrista.

Manzarek gravou também uma adaptação rock de Carmina Burana de Carl Orff com Philip Glass. Produziu a banda X, de Los Angeles, tocou com Iggy Pop e colaborou com o poeta Michael McClure, o qual acompanhou, enquanto este recitava poesia.

Ray também formou a banda Nite City, que lançou dois álbuns: um álbum, homónimo, em 1976 e outro em 1978.

Ray Manzarek morreu no dia 20 de maio de 2013 na Clínica Romed em Rosenheim, Alemanha, após uma longa batalha contra um cancro no ducto biliar. Ele tinha 74 anos. Na hora da morte estava rodeado pela sua esposa, Dorothy Manzarek, e os seus irmãos, Rick e James Manzarek. O corpo de Manzarek foi cremado.

     

     

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Saudades de Ray Manzarek...

David Bryan, teclista dos Bon Jovi, celebra hoje sessenta e dois anos

 

David Bryan Rashbaum (Edison, 7 de fevereiro de 1962) é um multi-instrumentista dos Estados Unidos  da América, mais conhecido como o teclista da banda de hard rock Bon Jovi. Hoje em dia é um símbolo dos teclados, bem como um ícone do Hard Rock, sendo considerado uns dos melhores teclistas de bandas de rock.

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Billy Powell, teclista dos Lynyrd Skynyrd, morreu há quinze anos...

 
William Norris "Billy" Powell (Corpus Christi, Texas, 3 de junho de 1952 - Orange Park, Flórida, 28 de janeiro de 2009) foi um teclista dos Estados Unidos, integrante da banda de southern rock Lynyrd Skynyrd.
     

Biografia

Começou como roadie da banda em 1970, até que, em 1972, durante o aquecimento num show do Lynyrd em Jacksonville, tocou uma versão de "Free Bird" no teclado. O vocalista Ronnie Van Zant ficou tão impressionado que imediatamente o convidou para ser o teclista oficial do grupo.

Sobreviveu ao desastre aéreo que abateu a banda em 1977, sofrendo apenas ferimentos no rosto. Entre essa época e 1987, entrou para uma banda cristã chamada Vision.

Voltou aos Lynyrd em 1987, para uma turnê-tributo, permanecendo com a banda até à sua morte, de ataque cardíaco, em 28 de janeiro de 2009, em Orange Park, Flórida.
    

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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free bird

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be travelling on, now,
cause theres too many places Ive got to see.
But, if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldnt be the same.
cause Im as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I cant change.

Bye, bye, its been a sweet love.
Though this feeling I cant change.
But please dont take it badly,
cause lord knows Im to blame.
But, if I stayed here with you girl,
Things just couldnt be the same.
Cause Im as free as a bird now,
And this bird youll never change.
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I cant change.
Lord help me, I cant change

 

Tony Kaye, teclista dos Yes, faz hoje 78 anos

 

Anthony John Selvidge (Leicester, 11 January 1945), known professionally as Tony Kaye, is an English keyboardist, best known as a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes. Born into a musical family, Kaye was classically trained and intended to become a concert pianist before he developed an interest in jazz and contemporary rock and pop music. He joined several groups through the 1960s, including the Federals, Johnny Taylor's Star Combo, Jimmy Winston & His Reflections, and Bittersweet.

From 1968 to 1971, Kaye was a member of Yes and played on their first three albums. He then formed Badger and relocated to Los Angeles in 1974, after which he toured with David Bowie and joined Detective. Kaye then played in Badfinger and is featured on their final studio album in 1981. He returned to Yes in 1983 for their most commercially successful period before he left in 1994.

Kaye has since been involved with several projects with Billy Sherwood and is a current member of CIRCA:. From 2009 to 2011, the two were also members of the supergroup Yoso with members of Toto. In 2017, Kaye was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes. 

 

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John Paul Jones, o multi-instrumentista que tocava baixo e teclas nos Led Zeppelin, faz hoje 78 anos

  

John Paul Jones, nome artístico de John Baldwin (Sidcup, 3 de janeiro de 1946) é um multi-instrumentista, baixista e teclista britânico. Jones ganhou notoriedade por ser o baixista, teclista e um dos membros dos Led Zeppelin até ao desaparecimento da banda, após a morte de John Bonham, em 1980. 

  

O símbolo de John Paul Jones no álbum Led Zeppelin IV

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Christine McVie, uma das vocalistas dos Fleetwood Mac, deixou-nos há um ano...

Christine Anne McVie,  née Perfect (Greenodd, 12 July 1943 – London, 30 November 2022) was an English musician, singer and songwriter. She was best known as keyboardist and one of the vocalists of Fleetwood Mac.

McVie was a member of several bands, notably Chicken Shack, in the mid-1960s British Blues scene. She began working with Fleetwood Mac in 1968, initially as a session player, before joining the band in 1970. Her first compositions with Fleetwood Mac appeared on their fifth album, Future Games. She remained with the band through many changes of line-up, writing songs and performing lead vocals before partially retiring in 1998. McVie was described as "the prime mover behind some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits" and eight songs she wrote or co-wrote, including "Don't Stop", "Everywhere" and "Little Lies", appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album. She appeared as a session musician on the band's last studio album, Say You Will. She also released three solo studio albums.

As a member of Fleetwood Mac, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1998 received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In the same year, after almost 30 years with Fleetwood Mac, she left the band and lived in semi-retirement, releasing a solo album in 2004. She appeared on stage with Fleetwood Mac at the O₂ Arena in London in September 2013 and rejoined the band in 2014 prior to their On with the Show tour.

McVie received a Gold Badge of Merit Award from BASCA, now The Ivors Academy, in 2006. She received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors in 2014 and was honoured with the Trailblazer Award at the UK Americana Awards in 2021. She was also the recipient of two Grammy Awards.

     

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McVie married John McVie in 1968, with Peter Green as best man. Instead of a honeymoon, they celebrated at a hotel in Birmingham with Joe Cocker, who happened to be staying there, before going on the road with their own bands. The couple divorced in 1976, but remained friends and maintained a professional partnership. During the production of Rumours, Christine had an affair with Fleetwood Mac's lighting engineer, Curry Grant, which inspired the song "You Make Loving Fun". From 1979 to 1982, she dated Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. McVie married Portuguese keyboardist and songwriter Eddy Quintela on 18 October 1986. Quintela and McVie collaborated on a number of songs together, including "Little Lies". They divorced in 2003, and Quintela died in 2020.

During the height of Fleetwood Mac's success in the 1970s, McVie resided in Los Angeles in a house that had previously been owned by Joan Collins and by Elton John. In 1990, she moved to a Grade II-listed Tudor manor house in Wickhambreaux, near Canterbury in Kent, to which she retired after leaving Fleetwood Mac in 1998, and worked on her solo material. For years McVie found inspiration in the home's country setting, not only writing songs there, but also restoring the house. After rejoining Fleetwood Mac in 2014, she began spending more time in London, and put the house on the market in 2015.

   

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McVie died in hospital on 30 November 2022, at the age of 79. Her death was announced by her family through social media. In a statement following her death, Fleetwood Mac said that she was "the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life". Fellow band member Stevie Nicks said McVie had been her "best friend in the whole world". According to her death certificate revealed in April 2023, McVie died of a stroke and suffered from metastatic cancer of unknown primary origin.

 

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Dave Sinclair, teclista dos Caravan, celebra hoje 76 anos

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David Sinclair (Herne Bay, Kent, 24 November 1947) is a British keyboardist (organ, piano, harpsichord, electric piano, Mellotron, Davolisint, etc.) associated with the psychedelia/progressive rock Canterbury Scene since the late 1960s. He became famous with the band Caravan and was responsible as a songwriter for creating some of their best-known tracks: "For Richard", "Nine Feet Underground", "The Dabsong Conshirtoe", "Proper Job/Back to Front". 

  

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Saudades de Richard Wright...

Rick Wright, o teclista dos Pink Floyd, morreu há quinze anos...

      

Richard William "Rick" Wright (Hatch End, Middlesex, 28 July 1943 – London, 15 September 2008) was an English musician, composer, singer and songwriter. He was a founder member, keyboardist and vocalist of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, performing on the majority of the group's albums including The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Division Bell, and playing on all of their tours.
    

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Geddy Lee, baixista, vocalista e teclista dos Rush, faz hoje setenta anos...!

        

Gary Lee Weinrib (Toronto, 29 de julho de 1953) é um músico canadiano, baixista, vocalista e teclista da banda canadiana de rock progressivo Rush.

     

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Christine McVie, uma das vocalistas dos Fleetwood Mac, nasceu há oitenta anos...

Christine Anne McVie,  née Perfect (Greenodd, 12 July 1943 – London, 30 November 2022) was an English musician, singer and songwriter. She was best known as keyboardist and one of the vocalists of Fleetwood Mac.

McVie was a member of several bands, notably Chicken Shack, in the mid-1960s British Blues scene. She began working with Fleetwood Mac in 1968, initially as a session player, before joining the band in 1970. Her first compositions with Fleetwood Mac appeared on their fifth album, Future Games. She remained with the band through many changes of line-up, writing songs and performing lead vocals before partially retiring in 1998. McVie was described as "the prime mover behind some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits" and eight songs she wrote or co-wrote, including "Don't Stop", "Everywhere" and "Little Lies", appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album. She appeared as a session musician on the band's last studio album, Say You Will. She also released three solo studio albums.

As a member of Fleetwood Mac, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1998 received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In the same year, after almost 30 years with Fleetwood Mac, she left the band and lived in semi-retirement, releasing a solo album in 2004. She appeared on stage with Fleetwood Mac at the O₂ Arena in London in September 2013 and rejoined the band in 2014 prior to their On with the Show tour.

McVie received a Gold Badge of Merit Award from BASCA, now The Ivors Academy, in 2006. She received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors in 2014 and was honoured with the Trailblazer Award at the UK Americana Awards in 2021. She was also the recipient of two Grammy Awards.

     

(...)

    

McVie married John McVie in 1968, with Peter Green as best man. Instead of a honeymoon, they celebrated at a hotel in Birmingham with Joe Cocker, who happened to be staying there, before going on the road with their own bands. The couple divorced in 1976, but remained friends and maintained a professional partnership. During the production of Rumours, Christine had an affair with Fleetwood Mac's lighting engineer, Curry Grant, which inspired the song "You Make Loving Fun". From 1979 to 1982, she dated Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. McVie married Portuguese keyboardist and songwriter Eddy Quintela on 18 October 1986. Quintela and McVie collaborated on a number of songs together, including "Little Lies". They divorced in 2003, and Quintela died in 2020.

During the height of Fleetwood Mac's success in the 1970s, McVie resided in Los Angeles in a house that had previously been owned by Joan Collins and by Elton John. In 1990, she moved to a Grade II-listed Tudor manor house in Wickhambreaux, near Canterbury in Kent, to which she retired after leaving Fleetwood Mac in 1998, and worked on her solo material. For years McVie found inspiration in the home's country setting, not only writing songs there, but also restoring the house. After rejoining Fleetwood Mac in 2014, she began spending more time in London, and put the house on the market in 2015.

   

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McVie died in hospital on 30 November 2022, at the age of 79. Her death was announced by her family through social media. In a statement following her death, Fleetwood Mac said that she was "the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life". Fellow band member Stevie Nicks said McVie had been her "best friend in the whole world". According to her death certificate revealed in April 2023, McVie died of a stroke and suffered from metastatic cancer of unknown primary origin.

 

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Roddy Bottum, teclista dos Faith No More, faz hoje sessenta anos...!

  
Roddy Bottum (nascido Roswell Christopher Bottum III, Los Angeles, 1 de julho de 1963) é um músico americano, mais conhecido como teclista da banda californiana de rock Faith No More.

Bottum estudou piano clássico desde muito jovem, até se mudar para São Francisco, com 18 anos. Em 1982 juntou-se a seus amigos de escola, Billy Gould e Mike Bordin, formando os Faith No More, grupo em que permaneceu até ao seu fim, em 1998. Após o álbum Angel Dust, lançado em 1992, no entanto, a sua participação na banda foi drasticamente reduzida. Numa entrevista lançada em edição especial em vinil do álbum King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime, Bottum explicou que as suas contribuições diminuíram devido à morte de seu pai, naquele mesmo ano. Em 2009 Bottum regressou aos Faith No More para uma turnê de reunião e uma possível gravação de material inédito.

Entre 1994 e 1995 Bottum formou o grupo Imperial Teen, com a baterista Lynn Perko, outra veterana da cena musical da Bay Area. A banda ficou conhecida pelo single "Yoo Hoo", utilizado no filme Jawbreaker, de 1999.

     

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Dizzy Reed nasceu há sessenta anos

  

Darren Dizzy Reed é um um multi-instrumentista norte-americano e teclista que atua na banda Guns N' Roses desde 1990.

    

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O teclista Richard Bell morreu há 16 anos...

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Richard Bell (Toronto, 5 de março de 1946 - Toronto, 15 de junho de 2007) foi um músico canadiano que ficou conhecido pelos seu desempenho ao vivo. É, talvez, melhor recordado como o pianista de Janis Joplin e a sua Full Tilt Boogie Band. Foi ainda teclista dos The Band durante a década de 90.

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