The number one British album today in 1973 was the Rolling Stones’ “Goats Head Soup,” despite (or perhaps because of) the BBC’s ban of one of its songs, “Star Star”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVTGx2-MiZ4

Who shares a birthday with my brother (who celebrated his sixth birthday, on a Friday the 13th, by getting chicken pox from me)? Start with Paul Simon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbBLKet14E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6K8wfyzAJQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO3gWIGzH3A

Robert Lamm plays keyboards — or more accurately, the keytar — for Chicago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2rkWL8nx4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxmD724H70Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiRMZOlljxE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5clEx9PSY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwryFOYTKac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3zIj-MJZ14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoFaFy3uyXo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HhDAKuROEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FxZwZ31vNc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyI2Rs9vF_0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZ4w_OyZx4

Sammy Hagar:

Craig McGregor of Foghat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCkZWyohP7M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yaWHa4lB8M

John Ford Coley, formerly a duet with England Dan Seals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH8PVPel15M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGGRdBfIyGI

Rob Marche played guitar for the Jo Boxers, who …

One death of note: Ed Sullivan, whose Sunday night CBS-TV show showed off rock and roll (plus Topo Gigio and Senor Wences) to millions, died today in 1974:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOvUdZgl7vo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVGM86XIilw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JILsCPSyI0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx0bLBk-BNM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2euBN3gbKc8