It figures after yesterday’s encyclopedia of music knowledge that there are no interesting moments in rock history today and only three birthdays of note: Larry Tolbert, drummer of Raydio …

… Taco Ocheriski, an ’80s one-hit wonder …

… and Yusaf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens:

(Stevens, or Islam, either put himself in the Foot in Mouth Hall of Shame or revealed the cancer within his own soul when he approved of the fatwa an imam put on author Salman Rushdie for daring to write The Satanic Verses. Some radio stations refused to play Stevens’ music after that. I thought that was a poor decision at the time; my suggestion was to play Cat Stevens songs, followed immediately by a record from another Stevens — Ray’s “Ahab the Arab.” Needless to say, that would not fly today.)