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G, Kenny

Real name:  Kenneth Gorelick
Best known at:  »Forever in Love», US #18 (1993).
Birthday:  June 6, 1956
Place of birth:  Seattle, WA, USA

Gabriel, Peter

Best known at:  Genesis, vocal. As solo »Sledgehammer», US #1 and »Don’t Give Up» (duet with Kate Bush), UK #9; both -86.
Birthday:  May 13, 1950
Place of birth:  Cobham, Surrey, England

Gaines, Steve

Best known at:  Lynyrd Skynyrd, guitar.
Birthday:  Sep. 14, 1949
Place of birth:  Seneca, Missouri, USA
Death:  Oct. 20, 1977
Cause of death:  Plane crash.

Gainsbourg, Serge

Real name:  Lucien Ginzberg
Best known at:  with Jane Birkin, »Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus» (1969).
Birthday:  Apr. 2, 1928
Place of birth:  Paris, France
Death:  Mar. 2, 1991
Cause of death:  Heart attack.

Galga, Eddie

Best known at:  Blackfoot Sue, lead guitar, keyboards.
Birthday:  Sep. 4, 1951
Place of birth:  Birmingham, England

Gallagher, Liam

Best known at:  Oasis, lead vocal.
Birthday:  Sep. 21, 1972
Place of birth:  Burnage, Manchester, England   [some sources: Longsight, Cheshire]

Gallagher, Noel

Best known at:  Oasis, guitar, vocals.
Birthday:  May 29, 1967
Place of birth:  Burnage, Manchester, England   [some sources: Longsight, Cheshire]

Gallagher, Rory

Best known at:  »Tattood Lady» (1974).
Birthday:  Mar. 2, 1949
Place of birth:  Ballyshannon, Ireland
Death:  June 14, 1995
Cause of death:  Complications following a liver transplant.

Garcia, Jerry

Real name:  Jerome John Garcia
Best known at:  The Greatful Dead, guitar.
Birthday:  Aug. 1, 1942
Place of birth:  San Francisco, California, USA
Death:  Aug. 9, 1995
Cause of death:  Officially, a heart attack.

Gardiner, Paul

Best known at:  Tubeway Army, bass.
Birthday:  ?
Place of birth:  ?
Death:  1984
Cause of death:  Drug overdose.

Garner, Erroll

Best known at:  US jazz pianist.
Birthday:  June 15, 1923
Place of birth:  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Death:  Jan. 2, 1977
Cause of death:  ?

Garfunkel, Art

Real name:  Arthur Garfunkel
Best known at:  Simon & Garfunkel
Birthday:  Nov. 5, 1941
Place of birth:  Forest Hills, New York, USA

Garrett, Leif

Best known at:  »I Was Made for Dancin'», UK #4, (1979).
Birthday:  Nov. 8, 1961
Place of birth:  Hollywood, USA

Garrity, Freddie     New!  

Best known at:  Freddie and the Dreamers, vocal.
Birthday:  Nov. 14, 1940
Place of birth:  Manchester, England
Death:  May 19, 2006
Cause of death:  Suffered many years from circulation problems and other illnesses like pulmonary hypertension and heart attack.

Garthwaite, Terry

Best known at:  Joy of Cooking, guitar, vocal.
Birthday:  July 11, 1938
Place of birth:  Berkeley, California, USA
More:  Joy of Cooking - '70s Female-Powered Band

Gates, David

Best known at:  Bread, vocal, guitar, keyboards and songwriting.
Birthday:  Dec. 11, 1940
Place of birth:  Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Gaye, Marvin

Real name:  Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.
Best known at:  »I Heard it Through the Grapevine», US #1 (1968).
Birthday:  Apr. 2, 1939
Place of birth:  Washington D.C., USA
Death:  Apr. 1, 1984
Cause of death:  was shot dead by his father during a violent argument.

Gayle, Crystal

Real name:  Brenda Gail Webb
Best known at:  »Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue» (1977).
Birthday:  Jan. 9, 1951 or 1953
Place of birth:  Paintsville, Kentucky, USA

Gaynor, Gloria

Best known at:  »I Will Survive», UK #1 (1979).
Birthday:  Sep. 7, 1947
Place of birth:  Newark, New Jersey, USA

Geldof, Bob

Real name:  Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof
Best known at:  The Boomtown Rats, vocal.
Birthday:  Oct. 5, 1954
Place of birth:  Dun Laoghaire, Eire
Trivia:  organized Live Aid event in 1985.

Gentry, Bobby

Real name:  Roberta Lee Streeter
Best known at:  »Ode to Billy Joe», US #1, UK #13 (1967).
Birthday:  July 27, 1944
Place of birth:  Chickasaw County, Mississippi, USA

Gentry, Teddy

Best known at:  Alabama, bass, vocal.
Birthday:  Jan. 22, 1952
Place of birth:  Fort Payne, Alabama, USA

George, Lowell

Best known at:  Little Feat, vocal, guitar, songwriting.
Birthday:  Apr. 13, 1945
Place of birth:  Hollywood, California, USA
Death:  June 29, 1979
Cause of death:  Heart attack due to drug abuse.

Gèrard, Danyel

Real name:  Gèrard Daniel Kherlakian
Best known at:  »Butterfly», UK #11 (1971).
Birthday:  Mar. 7, 1941
Place of birth:  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Gessle, Per

Best known at:  Gyllene Tider och Roxette, vocal, guitar, keyboards and songwriting.
Birthday:  Feb. 12, 1959
Place of birth:  Halmstad, Sweden

Gibb, Andy

Real name:  Andrew Roy Gibb
Best known at:  »Shadow Dancing», US #1 (1978).
Birthday:  Mar. 5, 1958
Place of birth:  Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Lancashire, England
Death:  Mar. 10, 1988
Cause of death:  Heart failure, an inflammatory heart virus.

Gibb, Barry

Best known at:  The Bee Gees
Birthday:  Sep. 1, 1947
Place of birth:  Douglas, Isle of Man, British Isles

Gibb, Maurice

Best known at:  The Bee Gees
Birthday:  Dec. 22, 1949
Place of birth:  Douglas, Isle of Man, British Isles
Death:  Jan. 12, 2003
Cause of death:  Cardiac arrest before an operation to remove an intestinal blockage.

Gibb, Robin

Best known at:  The Bee Gees
Birthday:  Dec. 22, 1949
Place of birth:  Douglas, Isle of Man, British Isles

Gibbs, Georgia

Best known at:  »Tweedle Dee» (1955).
Birthday:  Aug. 17, 1920

Gibbins, Mike

Best known at:  Badfinger, drums.
Birthday:  Mar. 12, 1949
Place of birth:  Swansea, Wales

Gibson, Debbie

Best known at:  »Foolish Beat», US #1 (1988).
Birthday:  Aug. 31, 1970
Place of birth:  Long Island, New York, USA

Giguere, Russ

Best known at:  The Association, guitar, vocal.
Birthday:  Oct. 18, 1943
Place of birth:  Portsmouth, NH, USA

Gillan, Ian

Birthday:  Aug. 19, 1945
Place of birth:  Hounslow, Middlesex, England

Gilmour, David

Best known at:  Pink Floyd, vocal, guitar.
Birthday:  Mar. 6, 1947
Place of birth:  Cambridge, England

Glitter, Gary

Real name:  Paul Gadd
Best known at:  »I Love You Love Me Love», UK #1 (1973).
Birthday:  May 8, 1940
Place of birth:  Banbury, Oxfordshire, England

Glover, Roger

Best known at:  Deep Purple, bass.
Birthday:  Nov. 30, 1945
Place of birth:  Brecon, Powys, Wales

Godchaux, Keith

Best known at:  The Grateful Dead, keyboards.
Birthday:  July 19, 1948
Place of birth:  San Francisco, California, USA
Death:  July 23, 1980
Cause of death:  Car accident.

Goddard, Paul

Best known at:  Atlanta Rhythm Section , bass.
Birthday:  June 23, 1945
Place of birth:  Rome, Georgia, USA

Goffin, Gerry

Best known at:  US songwriter at sixties. Wrote with Carole King over 30 US Top Twenty Hits.
Birthday:  Feb. 11, 1939
Place of birth:  Queens, New York, USA

Goldsboro, Bobby

Best known at:  »Honey», US #1, UK #2 (1968).
Birthday:  Jan. 18, 1941
Place of birth:  Marianna, Florida, USA

Goldsmith, Jerry

Best known at:  Famous movie and TV composer.
Birthday:  Feb. 10, 1929
Place of birth:  Pasadena, California, USA
Death:  July 21, 2004
Cause of death:  Cancer.
More:  Jerry Goldsmith - film and TV composer and Jerry Goldsmith Online - In Memoriam Jerry Goldsmith 1929 - 2004

Goodman, Steve

Best known at:  Wrote »The City of New Orleans» for Arlo Guthrie (1972).
Birthday:  July 25, 1948
Place of birth:  Chicago, Illinois, USA
Death:  Sep. 20, 1984
Cause of death:  Leukemia.

Gore, Lesley

Best known at:  »It's My Party», US #1, UK #9 (1963).
Birthday:  May 2, 1946
Place of birth:  Tenafly, New Jersey, USA

Gorrie, Alan

Best known at:  Average White Band , bass, vocal.
Birthday:  July 19, 1946
Place of birth:  Perth, Tayside, Scotland

Gouldman, Graham

Best known at:  10cc, guitar, vocal.
Birthday:  May 10, 1946
Place of birth:  Manchester, England

Graham, Eva

Real name:  Evelyn May Beatson
Best known at:  The New Seekers, vocal.
Birthday:  Apr. 19, 1943
Place of birth:  Perth, Scotland

Grandmaster Flash

Real name:  Joseph Saddler
Best known at:  US rapper and songwriter.
Birthday:  Jan. 1, 1958
Place of birth:  Bronx, New York, USA

Grant, Amy

Best known at:  »Baby Baby», UK #2 (1991).
Birthday:  Nov. 25, 1960
Place of birth:  Augusta, Georgia, USA

Grant, Eddie

Real name:  Edmond Montague Grant
Best known at:  »I Don't Wanna Dance», UK #1 (1982), »Gimme Hope Jo'Anna», UK #7 (1988).
Birthday:  Mar. 5, 1948
Place of birth:  Plaisance, Guyana

Grantham, George

Best known at:  Poco, drums, vocal.
Birthday:  Nov. 20, 1947
Place of birth:  Cordell, Oklahoma, USA

Gray, Dobie

Real name:  Leonard Victor Ainsworth
Best known at:  »The in Crowd» (1965).
Birthday:  July 26, 1942
Place of birth:  USA

Gray, Les

Best known at:  Mud, vocal.
Birthday:  Apr. 9, 1946
Place of birth:  Carshalton, Surrey, England
Death:  Feb. 21, 2004
Cause of death:  Heart attack. Also many years was suffering from throat cancer.
Trivia:  Mud was one of the best known band of the English musical phoenomina called Glam Rock in the early 70's.
More:  Mud.4ever.cc

Grech, Rick

Best known at:  Family, Blind Faith and Traffic, bass, violin, vocal.
Birthday:  Nov. 1, 1946
Place of birth:  Bordeaux, France
Death:  Mar. 17, 1990
Cause of death:  Medical complications arising from a hemorrhage.

Green, Al

Best known at:  »Take Me to the River», (1975).
Birthday:  Apr. 13, 1946
Place of birth:  Forrest City, Arkansas, USA

Green, Doc

Best known at:  The Drifters, vocal.
Birthday:  Oct. 8, 1934
Place of birth:  USA
Death:  Mar. 10, 1989
Cause of death:  Cancer.

Green, Peter

Real name:  Peter Greenbaum
Best known at:  Fleetwood Mac, guitar, vocal.
Birthday:  Oct. 29, 1946
Place of birth:  London, England

Greenbaum, Norman

Best known at:  »Spirit in the Sky», UK #1 (1970).
Birthday:  Nov. 20, 1942
Place of birth:  Malden, Massachusetts, USA

Greenslade, Dave

Best known at:  Colosseum and Greenslade, keyboards.
Birthday:  Jan. 18, 1943
Place of birth:  Woking, Surrey, England

Greenwich, Ellie

Best known at:  Famous compose-team Barry–Greenwich.
Birthday:  Oct. 23, 1939
Place of birth:  Long Island, New York, USA
Trivia:  Greenwich also sang on several records of The Archies.

Griffin, James

Best known at:  Bread, guitar, vocals.
Birthday:  ?
Place of birth:  Cincinnati, Ohio, USA   [many sources: Memphis, Tennessee]
Death:  Jan. 11, 2005
Cause of death:  Lung cancer.
More:  Article on James Griffin written during last tour

Grogan, Clare

Best known at:  Altered Images, vocal.
Birthday:  Mar. 17, 1962
Place of birth:  Scotland
More:  Clare Grogan

Grohl, Dave

Best known at:  Dave Bramage Band, Nirvana, drums.
Birthday:  Jan. 14, 1969
Place of birth:  Warren, Ohio, USA

Guthrie, Arlo

Best known at:  »The City of New Orleans» (1972).
Birthday:  July 10, 1947
Place of birth:  Coney Island, New York, USA
Trivia:  son of Woody Guthrie (see below).

Guthrie, Woody

Real name:  Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Birthday:  July 14, 1912
Place of birth:  Okemah, Oklahoma, USA
Death:  Oct. 3, 1967
Cause of death:  Inherited incurable nerve disease.

Guy, Buddy

Real name:  George Guy
Best known at:  US blues guitarist.
Birthday:  July 30, 1936
Place of birth:  USA