Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for December 29th

Take a deep breath 'cuz we gotta lotta candles to blow out with a trio of classic rocker birthdays today, here we go...

12/29/1941 - Happy Birthday to Moody Blues singer-songwriter-flute-player Ray Thomas, 75 years old today; Ray's most famous compositions for The Moodies include "And The Tide Rushes In", "Watching And Waiting" (with Justin Hayward), "Dear Diary", "Our Guessing Game", and most famously, the psychedelic classic tribute to Timothy Leary, "Legend Of A Mind".

12/28/1946 - Happy Birthday to Marianne Faithfull, 70 years old today; perhaps most famous as one of the lead female artists of the original British Invasion of the mid-Sixties (she was just 16 when she hit with her classic cover of the Stones' "As Tears Go By"), Marianne had a major career resurgence starting in 1979 with a series of critically acclaimed albums that were quite provocative and somewhat controversial for their brash and complex lyrics and heavy-rock-dance-beats: if you've never heard "Broken English" before, well, strap yourself in...

12/28/1955 - Happy Birthday to guitar wiz (and Pat Benatar's husband) Neil Giraldo, 61 years old today; his wife's catalog of classic songs would, simply put, be just about your average kinda rock stuff were it not for Neil's superbly-tasty-and-often-flat-out-stunning guitar solo's. The cat can play...

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"So raise your glass/We'll drink a toast/To the little man who sells you thrills along the pier...", xoxo!