Proving that there is no accounting for taste, I present the number six song today in 1972:

Twenty years later, Billy Joel got an honorary diploma … from Hicksville High School in New York (where he attended but was one English credit short of graduating due to oversleeping the day of the final):

Birthdays start with Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac:

Chris Wood of Traffic was born the same day …

… as Jeff Beck:

Colin Blunstone of the Zombies:

Patrick Moraz played keyboards for Yes (for one album) and the Moody Blues (including their number one album “Long Distance Voyager”):

John Illsley of Dire Straits:

Terrance Wilson, better known as Astro, of UB40:

Curt Smith of Tears for Fears:

Jeff Cease of the Black Crowes:

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