I was hours old when the Rolling Stones released “Satisfaction”:

Four years later, the Beatles released “The Ballad of John and Yoko”:

The short list of birthdays today includes Roger Brown, who played saxophone for the Average White Band …

… born the same day as the only surviving member of the Mamas and the Papas, Michelle Phillips:

Jimmy McCulloch played guitar for Stone the Crows, Thunderclap Newman and Wings:

Those readers from the ’80s know that DeBarge is not how Tattoo would identify a barge coming to Fantasy Island:

Steffen Lessard plays bass for the Dave Matthews Band:

Today is also the anniversary of the death of bass player Ronnie Lane of the Faces, who died of multiple sclerosis at 50:

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