AKA Kirsten Caroline Dunst

Born: 30-Apr-1982
Birthplace: Point Pleasant, NJ
Gender: Female
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Father: Klaus Dunst (medical services executive)
Mother: Inez Dunst (art dealer, parents are separated)
Brother: Christian Dunst (b. 1987)
Boyfriend: Jake Hoffman (actor, son of Dustin Hoffman, dated 1997-98)
Boyfriend: Ben Foster (actor, dated 2000-01)
Boyfriend: Jake Gyllenhaal (actor, dated 2003-06)
Boyfriend: Andy Samberg comic, dated 2006)
Boyfriend: Fabrizio Moretti (drummer for The Strokes, dated 2007)
Boyfriend: Johnny Borrell (singer, dated 2007)
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Mary-Jane in Spider-Man
Kirsten Dunst is an American movie star, famous as Spider-Man's girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, and as the "bad girl of tennis" Lizzie Bradbury in Wimbledon.
On 12 November 1988, in Saturday Night Live's pre-credits opening skit, there was a little girl sitting in Dana Carvey's lap as Carvey played George H.W. Bush, and at the end of the skit the kid shouted, "Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!" The kid, of course, was 6-year-old Kirsten Dunst.
Dunst started working in commercials at age three, and had appeared in almost a hundred commercials before sitting in Carvey's lap. At 7, she played Mia Farrow's daughter in Woody Allen's New York Stories, and at 11, she kissed Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire. At 14, she played Randy Weaver's daughter in The Siege at Ruby Ridge, then turned down American Beauty. She played the hapless Albanian girl in Wag the Dog, and became a low-level star with three low-level hits in 1999: The Virgin Suicides, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and the delightful Dick.

My mom raised me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.
Kirsten Dunst

AKA Uma Karuna Thurman

Born: 29-Apr-1970
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Gender: Female
Religion: Buddhist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Model
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Father: Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (professor of religion, b. 3-Aug-1941)
Mother: Nena Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge Holmquist (ex of Timothy Leary, model, b. 8-Jan-1941)
Sister: Taya Thurman (half-sister, b. 1960)
Brother: Ganden Thurman (Tibet House cultural center, b. 1971)
Brother: Dechen Thurman (actor, b. 18-Jan-1973)
Brother: Mipam Thurman (male model, b. 1978)
Boyfriend: Phil Joanou (film director, b. 1961, dated 1989-90)
Husband: Gary Oldman (m. Oct-1990, div. 1992)
Boyfriend: Richard Gere (actor, dated 1992-3)
Boyfriend: Timothy Hutton (dated, 1995-96)
Husband: Ethan Hawke (dated 1996-98, m. 1-May-1998, sep. 20-Jul-2004, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke (b. 8-Jul-1998)
Son: Levon Roan Thurman-Hawke (b. 15-Jan-2002)
Boyfriend: Andre Balazs (owner of Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, dated 2004-07)
She was named for Uma, the Hindu goddess of light and beauty. At the age of 14 she made her professional stage debut, playing Abigail in a local production of The Crucible. At 15, she dropped out of Northfield-Mt. Hermon to concentrate on modeling auditions (though the school still touts an unflattering photo of the teen Thurman among its "famous alumni"). At 16, she was a professional model, and made her film debut as a thieving teen seductress in the trashy Kiss Daddy Goodnight with Steve Buscemi. At 17, she played the girlfriend of high school football hero Anthony Michael Hall in Johnny Be Good, and at 18, in her third film, she became a star playing the young Venus in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Her best films include Pulp Fiction, where she danced with John Travolta and had a hypodermic needle stabbed into her heart, Gattaca, the underrated cautionary science fiction with Ethan Hawke and Gore Vidal, and the Kill Bill films, where Thurman battled Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Vivica Fox, and hundreds of ninjas to find vengeance against David Carradine. Embarrassments include the abysmal big-screen dismantling of The Avengers with Ralph Fiennes, the destruction of the 'Batman' franchise in Batman & Robin with George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the ruin of Tom Robbins's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues with Pat Morita and Angie Dickinson.
At 20, Thurman married 32-year-old Gary Oldman and at 22 divorced him. Neither of them have spoken publicly of their marriage or divorce, beyond a wistful comment Oldman let slip on a talk show some years later: "You try living with an angel." Thurman was later married to Hawke, her co-star in Gattaca, but their marriage ended after his reported dalliances an unknown actress. Since then she has dated hotel magnate Andre Balazs.
Uma's father, Robert Thurman, was expelled from Phillips Exeter Academy when he tried, without success, to enlist for Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution. Unable to fight, he instead became the first Westerner ordained as a Tibetan monk. He has written and translated numerous books on Buddhism, has often entertained the Dalai Lama, and taught Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University.
Her mother, Nena von Schlebrugge, was a Mexican-born Swedish supermodel of the 1960s who later became a New York psychotherapist. She was friends with Salvador Dali, who introduced her to drug guru Timothy Leary, whom she married on camera in a bizarre documentary, You're Nobody Until Somebody Loves You. Less than two years later, though, Schlebrugge left Leary for Robert Thurman, and the jilted Leary became Uma Thurman's godfather.
Thurman's grandfather, Baron Karl von Schlebrugge, was briefly jailed by Nazis when he refused to betray his business partners, who were Jewish. Her grandmother was a noted beauty immortalized in a nude statue that stands in the Swedish port town of Trelleborg, looking very much like Uma Thurman. On the other side of the family tree, her paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Farrar, a Broadway actress, and Thurman's uncle played cello with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
Uma Thurman

AKA Sheena Shirley Orr

Born: 27-Apr-1959
Birthplace: Bellshill, Scotland
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: My Baby Takes The Morning Train
Brother: Robert
Brother: Alex
Sister: Marilyn
Sister: Annessa
Sister: Morag
Father: Alex Orr, (steel mill worker, d. 1969)
Mother: Annie Orr
Husband: Sandi Easton (m 1979, div. 1980)
Husband: Robert Light (actor, m 1984, div. 1986)
Daughter: Skylar (adopted, 1996)
Husband: John Minoli (m. 5-Nov-2002, div. 2003)
Husband: Timothy Delarm (m. 28-Jul-1997, div.)
Son: Jake (adopted)
Son: Skylar (adopted)

After enough therapy and enough looking at your life, you realize that if it ain't making you happy, you need to find what's genuinely going to make you happy.
Sheena Easton

Born April 26, 1949

Born April 26, 1949 in Mobile, Alabama
Jimmy Hall was the lead singer and harmonica player for the Southern rock group, Wet Willie. He cofounded the band in 1970, which had significant success in the 1970s; in 1980 he scored a hit of his own with the single "I'm Happy that Love Has Found You" (US #27). In 1985, he sang lead vocals on Jeff Beck's album Flash, and was nominated for a Grammy award for the performance. Hall has also toured with Hank Williams Jr., playing saxophone and harmonica.

Born April 25, 1923

Get out of my life woman, you don't no love me no more
I said, "Get out of my life woman, you don't no love me no more
Get out of my life woman, you don't no love me no more"
Get out my eyes teardrops, I got to see my way around
Won't you get out my eyes teardrops, I got to see my way around
Get out my life heartaches, nothing but heartaches by the pound
Get off my ladder woman, I got to climb up to the top
I said, "Get off my ladder woman, I got to climb up to the top
Get off my ladder woman, ladder's nothing to make you stop"
Get out the way woman, I got to be movin' on
I said, "Get out the way woman, I got to be movin' on
Get out the way woman, I got to be movin' on"
Albert King

On April 24, 1833

In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Methodist-minded town, so pious that the town fathers, resenting the dissipating influence of the soda fountain, passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday. Some ingenious confectioners, obeying the law, served ice cream with syrup but no soda. This sodaless soda was the Sunday soda, and became so popular that orders for "Sundays" crossed the counter everyday of the week. When objection was raised to christening the dish after the Sabbath, the spelling was changed to Sundae, and so developed one of America's most characteristic dishes.
William Lyon Phelps

AKA Roy Kelton Orbison

Born: 23-Apr-1936
Birthplace: Vernon, TX
Died: 6-Dec-1988
Location of death: Hendersonville Hospital, Hendersonville, TN
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer/Songwriter
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Bespectacled rockstar recorded Pretty Woman
Father: Orbie Lee Orbison (worker)
Mother: Nadine (nurse)
Brother: Grady Orbison
Wife: Claudette Frady (m. 1957, died 1966) (3 children)
Wife: Barbara Anne Marie Wilhonnen Jacobs (m. 1969) (2 children)
Orbison was born in Vernon, the seat of Wilbarger County in north Texas. He was the second son of Nadine and Orbie Lee. After having first moved to Fort Worth about 1943 to find work in the munitions and aircraft factories which had expanded during Second World War, the family moved to the West Texas oil town of Wink in Winkler County near the border of New Mexico, in late 1946. Music was an important part of his family life.
At the age of thirteen in 1949, Orbison organized his first band, "The Wink Westerners". When not singing with the band he played guitar and wrote songs. The band appeared weekly on KERB radio in Kermit, Texas. Orbison graduated from Wink High School in 1954. He attended North Texas State College in Denton, Texas for a year, and enrolled at Odessa Junior College in Odessa, the seat of Ector County, in 1955 to study history and English. The Wink Westerners had some success on local television, and were given 30 minute weekly shows on KMID and KOSA. One guest on their show was Johnny Cash, who advised them to seek a contract with his record producer, Sam Phillips, of Sun Records. At first Phillips turned them down ("Johnny Cash doesn't run my record company!"), but he agreed to add them to Sun Records' roster after hearing a recording made at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. The Wink Westerners were renamed "The Teen Kings", and Orbison left college in March of 1956, determined to have a career in music. He ultimately headed for Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
Orbison achieved his first commercial success in June 1956 with "Ooby Dooby", written by Orbison's friends from college, and produced at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. Many of the earliest songs he recorded were produced by Sam Phillips, who also produced Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley. Named after his first wife, his song "Claudette" was recorded by the Everly Brothers as the B-side to their Number 1 hit "All I Have To Do Is Dream." The rockabilly and blues sound of Sun's artists brought Orbison little success and his career seemed over, although fans of rockabilly count his records among the best of this genre. He worked at Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville, Tennessee as a songwriter, and then was given a contract by RCA. Eventually Chet Atkins referred him to Fred Foster, the owner of Monument Records, where he moved after his contract with RCA ended in 1959.
Breakthrough
In 1957 Orbison met songwriter Joe Melson in Odessa. After hearing a song Melson had written entitled "Raindrops," which featured melodic twists and lyrical styling, Roy soon asked him to write with him. Together they created a sound unheard of in rock and roll at the time: the dramatic rock ballad. They created many hits for Monument Records. Fred Foster liked the new direction and assisted with the writing team's vision. Roy's first record, "Uptown," was moderately successful. With the release of "Only the Lonely" and its immediate rise to the top of the charts (#2 in the US, #1 in the UK), he went on to become an international rock and roll star. His single, "Running Scared" became a US #1. Later, Roy wrote many songs with writer Bill Dees including "Oh, Pretty Woman" which may be the most well-known song of Roy's career. Throughout his stay at Monument Records his backup band was a group of outstanding studio musicians led by Bob Moore. The play of Orbison's voice against the dynamic yet uncluttered sound of the band gave Orbison's records a unique and identifiable sound.
Orbison was a powerful influence on contemporaries such as The Rolling Stones. In 1963 he headlined a European tour with The Beatles. He became lifelong friends with the band, especially John Lennon and George Harrison. Orbison would later record with Harrison in the Traveling Wilburys. During their tour of Europe, Orbison encouraged the Beatles to come to the United States. When they toured America, they asked Orbison to manage their tour, but his schedule forced him to decline.
Unlike many artists, Orbison maintained his success as the British Invasion swept America in 1964. His single "Oh, Pretty Woman" broke the Beatles' stranglehold on the Top 10, soaring to No. 1 on the Billboard charts. The record sold more copies in its first ten days of release than any 45rpm up to that time, and eventually sold over seven million copies. The song later became the signature tune for the film Pretty Woman, named for his song, which brought fame to actress Julia Roberts.
He toured with The Beach Boys in 1964, and with The Rolling Stones in Australia in 1965. He was successful in England, logging three No.1 hit singles and was several times voted top male vocalist of the year.
Orbison signed a contract with MGM Records in 1965, and starred in MGM Studios' western-musical motion picture The Fastest Guitar Alive in which he performed several songs from an album of the same name. Due to changes in musical taste he had no hits in the U.S. after 1967. He remained popular elsewhere, but his American popularity did not recover until the 1980s.
Orbison endured a great deal of tragedy in his relatively short life. his first wife Claudette (Frady) (b. September 7, 1941) died in a motorcycle accident on June 6, 1966 in Gallatin, TN. Two years later, on September 14, 1968 the family home at Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee, burned to the ground while Orbison was touring in England. Two of his three sons, Roy Jr. (b. 1958) and Anthony (b. June 29, 1962), died in the fire. His youngest son Wesley (b. May 23, 1965), three at the time, was saved by Orbison's parents.
Orbison met his second wife Barbara in August 1968 in Leeds, England. They were married in Nashville on May 25, 1969, and built a new house one block away from where Roy's old house had once stood.
Songs that had limited success in North America, such as "Penny Arcade" and "Working for the Man," would go to Number 1 on the Australian charts, and "Too Soon to Know" was Number 3 in England. His popularity extended to Germany, and he recorded his hit song "Mama" in German. His records were in great demand on the "black market" behind the Iron Curtain. In France, he was viewed as the master of the ballad of lost love in the vein of that country's most popular singer Édith Piaf. A cover version of Orbison's "Blue Bayou" sung in French by Mireille Mathieu went to the top of France's record charts. Fans in the Netherlands founded his largest world-wide fan club. He continued to perform in Ireland, despite the constant terrorist activities in Northern Ireland. A rendition of the popular ballad "Danny Boy" on the 1972 Memphis album is considered one of the best recordings ever made of this much-recorded song.
His contract with MGM ended in 1973 and he signed with Mercury Records. He released on there a country style album entitled "I'm Still In Love With You." The original liner notes even said how Roy's career was suffering and the lack of hits he had in the states, and according to the notes, that was to change with the release of the songs on the lp. The song Sweet Mama Blue which is considered another rare and overlooked song was a single from the lp and like all the other songs of that era of Roy's failed to chart.
He re-signed with Monument in 1976 hoping to revive his career, once again with Fred Foster at the helm of his recording sessions. The music from the sessions gave us the LP "Regeneration". The LP is classic Orbison through and through, but once again the public failed to find the songs or Roy. There was enough material yet for another lp to be released, but Roy asked Fred to be released from his contract in 1978.
In 1977, multi-Grammy winning vocalist Linda Ronstadt, included Blue Bayou in her triple-platinum album ( 3 million copes in US ) Simple Dreams. The single reached No. 3 on the Billboard singles chart and was RIAA certified platinum (over 1 million US copies sold). Ronstadt's interpretion of Blue Bayou is Orbison's greatest commercial songwriting success with the single itself having reported sales of over 7 million copies sold worldwide.
Roy continued to tour heavily in the late 1970's and at times non-stop for weeks at a time. That all came to a halt in late 1977 when Roy had discovered that he needed open heart surgery at the age 42. On January 18, 1978, Roy underwent the operation and until he passed away in 1988, Roy had a new lease on life and his voice and music would become as big, if not bigger than it did in the early 60s.
Roy's last contract in the 1970's came in 1979, with Electra-Asylum where he finished the LP "Laminar Flow". The LP was a new direction for Roy, as it was his attempt at doing disco. The LP also has a beautiful tribute to Elvis Presley, "Hound Dog Man".
Roy Orbison Blind?
The singer's odd, pasty look and huge dark glasses led many to speculate, then and now, that Roy Orbison was blind. His trademark shades never left him, but they were no stranger (or stronger) than Grandma's reading glasses.
Roy did have eyeglasses to correct his vision, but they were quite normal; en route to an Alabama concert, however, he accidentally left them on the plane. The only other pair he had were prescription sunglasses, so he wore those instead. The very next day Roy was scheduled to open up a European Beatles tour, and there was no time to go find his old pair, so the dark shades stayed on him throughout the tour. The resultant frenzy of Beatlemania ensured that the singer would be seen throughout the world in that pair; by the time he returned home, it was a trademark. Proof that Roy wasn't blind can be found in the early television performance footage that shows him wearing no glasses at all.

Born April 22, 1923

I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn't trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn't think of myself as liberated, and I don't believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn't know any other way to be, or any other way to live
Betty Page

Died April 21, 1996

African Americans were naturally superior athletes because they had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery
Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder

AKA Jessica Phyllis Lange

Born: 20-Apr-1949
Birthplace: Cloquet, MN
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Tootsie
Boyfriend: Mikhail Baryshnikov (one daughter)
Daughter: Alexandra (b. 1981)
Husband: Paco Grande (m. 1971, div. 1981)
Boyfriend: Sam Shepard (dating since 1982)
Daughter: Hanna
Son: Walker

How people can justify shooting a doctor who performs abortions and yet be so rabidly pro-life?
Jessica Lange

AKA Ashley Tyler Ciminella

Born: 19-Apr-1968
Birthplace: Granada Hills, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Father: Michael Ciminella (marketing consultant; div. 1972)
Mother: Naomi Judd (country singer)
Sister: Wynonna Judd (half-sister; country singer)
Boyfriend: Lyle Lovett (singer; dated early 1990s)
Boyfriend: Michael Bolton (singer; dated)
Boyfriend: Brady Anderson (outfielder, Baltimore Orioles; dated)
Boyfriend: Robert De Niro (actor, Heat; dated 1995-ish)
Boyfriend: Matthew McConaughey (actor, A Time to Kill; dated 1996-ish)
Husband: Dario Franchitti (professional race car driver; m. 12-Dec-2001)
Ashley Judd is the daughter of country singer Naomi Judd and the younger half-sister of singer Wynonna Judd. Her parents divorced in 1972, and her mother struggled to raise two girls on her nurse's salary. The girls wore second-hand clothes, and the family moved often. They occasionally lived without electricity or indoor plumbing in remote, poverty-stricken areas of Kentucky. When Judd was a teenager, her mother and sister's country music duet, The Judds, became popular and successful, and suddenly the Judd family was rich. Ashley didn't sing, though, so she moved in with her father during the school year, and only accompanied her mother and sister on tour during summers. On these road trips, Judd has said she was given the chore of cleaning the tour bus for $10 a day.
Judd wore braces as a child and had acne as a teen, but she was gorgeous enough to be a cheerleader in high school. She majored in French in college, but after graduation, she moved to Hollywood, deciding to be an actress. She was quickly hired to play a junior member of the Enterprise engineering staff on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes, briefly sparking with Ensign Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) as they saved the ship's crew from an addictive computer game. After that she appeared on the sitcom Sisters for several years, playing Swoosie Kurtz's spoiled daughter.
Her first movie role was as "wife of paint store owner" in 1992's Kuffs. She was originally offered a bigger role, but turned it down when she was told it involved a topless scene. She starred in 1993's Ruby in Paradise, winning critical raves. Her better films include Heat, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and De-Lovely, though she has also appeared in a number of lowball thrillers like Kiss the Girls and High Crimes.
Judd volunteers for anti-AIDS education.
In 2001, she won "substantial damages" suing the British magazine Now after reporter Gill Pringle fabricated an interview with Judd and Now published it.
In 2004, during a stay at the Ahwahnee hotel in Yosemite, Judd accidentally locked herself out of her cabin without her clothes, and with her face covered in pimple cream. She wrapped herself in a yoga mat and went to the lobby to get a new key.

Born April 18, 1924 Died September 12, 2005

That's America – they think all a black man can do is three things: play blues and jazz or be an athlete. They don't acknowledge that a man is a man and he can do anything he want to do. Blues, jazz, country, Cajun, bluegrass, everything – that's what I do. It pisses me off to see America so goddamned stupid!
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Died April 17, 1960

i'm a-gonna raise a fuss, i'm a-gonna raise a holler
about a-workin' all summer just to try to earn a dollar
well one time i called my baby, tried to get a date
my boss says, no dice son, you gotta work late
sometimes i wonder, what i'm agonna do
but there ain't no cure for the summertime blues

oh well my main and papa told me
son you gotta make some money
if you wanna use the car to go ridin' next sunday
well i didn't go to work, told the boss i was sick
now you can't use the car 'cause you didn't work a-late
sometimes i wonder, what i'm a-gonna do
but there ain't no cure for the summertime blues

i'm gonna take two weeks, gonna have a fine vacation
i'm gonna take my problem to the united nations
well i called my congresman and he said quote
i'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote
sometimes i wonder, what i'm a-gonna do
but there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
Eddie Cochran

Died April 16, 1948

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way
Babe Ruth

Born April 15, 1944

You went away and left me long time ago,
Now you’re knocking on my door.
I hear you knocking, but you can’t come in!
I hear you knocking – go back where you been.
I begged you not to go, but you said good-bye
And now you’re tell me all your lies.
I hear you knocking, but you can’t come in!
I hear you knocking – go back where you been.
A-a-a-a-a-aw, yeah!
Oo-oo-oo-ooh hooh!
**************
Fats Domino!
Smiley Lewis!
Chuck Berry!
Huey Smith!
Muff ******!
You’d better get back to your “used-to-be”
‘Cause your kinda lovin’ aint for me!
I hear you knocking, but you can’t come in!
I hear you knocking – go back where you been.
I told you, baby, back in ’52,
That I would never go with you.
I hear you knocking, but you can’t come in!
I hear you knocking – go back where you been
Dave Edmunds

Born: 14-Apr-1977
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Father: Arthur Gellar (estranged, b. 1941, d. 9-Oct-2001)
Mother: Rosellen Gellar (day care worker)
Boyfriend: Jerry O'Connell (actor, dated 1998-99)
Boyfriend: Elliot Segal (New York disc jockey, dated in 1999)
Boyfriend: Jan-Michelle Gambill (tennis player, dated in 1999)
Husband: Freddie Prinze, Jr. (actor, dated 1999-2002, m. 1-Sep-2002)
Sarah Michelle Gellar was "discovered" at age 4, while attending (not competing in) a talent show with her mother. She was soon appearing in commercials for Burger King, including some of the first American ads to directly name and criticize a competitor. The pitch was that McDonald's burgers were 20% smaller than Burger King's burgers, and the first commercial had Ms. Gellar saying, "Do I look 20% smaller to you?" The dim bulbs at McDonald's were so incensed they sued Burger King and the advertising agency -- and Gellar, the 4-year-old kid in the commercials. She also read the scripted line, "I only eat at Burger King", which, upon cross-examination, was revealed to be untrue. (Not many people only eat at Burger King.) The lawsuit was settled in 1982, when Gellar was 5.
Her parents divorced when Gellar was seven, amid whispers that her father couldn't stand that his daughter was earning more than he -- lots more. After the divorce, young Gellar was raised by her mother in the upper-east side of New York City, and Gellar and her father were very, very distant. As an adult, she refused any contact with him, and they remained estranged until his death in 2001. Growing up, Gellar made more than a hundred TV commercials, and accumulated several movie and off-Broadway stage credits. At 14, she got good notices playing a young Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in a 1991 mini-series. At 15, she was in the huge ensemble cast for a quickly-canceled teen soap opera called Swans Crossing.
From 1993 to 1995, Gellar played the spawn of Erika Kane (Susan Lucci)'s rape on All My Children. Though only 16 when she was hired, her character was 23, and had many affairs and was married twice before Gellar finished high school. Gellar won Emmys in 1994 and 1995, for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Daytime Drama. After leaving All My Children, Gellar moved to Los Angeles and was unemployed for a long time. She auditioned several times for Buffy the Vampire Slayer before she got the part.
The series was based on a 1991 teen horror-comedy movie of the same name, about a high school built over a hellmouth; re-tooled by its original writer, Buffy playfully mocked the traditions of horror movies, with ongoing character development and plot twists that kept a small but loyal audience engrossed. One episode was performed sans dialogue (when demons stole everyone's voices) and another was a musical (when an unknown force compelled everyone in town to sing). Buffy was killed twice by demons, and once took her own life to save her sister, but like the vampires she killed and loved, Buffy refused to stay dead. After Buffy ended, Gellar annoyed some fans by declining to appear as Buffy in the next season's Angel, a spin-off. She also rejected offers to perform the voice of Buffy for an animated series (Buffy's voice was done by one Giselle Loren instead).
Gellar has also appeared in several movies, including Cruel Intentions, (an adolescent twist on Dangerous Liaisons) I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Grudge, and two Scooby-Doo movies, co-starring her husband Freddie Prinze, Jr..

Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Born April 13. 1945

Boy, Beaver, wait'll the guys find out you were hanging around with a girl. They'll really give you the business
Tony Dow as Wally Cleaver

Born April 12, 1947

A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.
David Letterman

Born April 11, 1959

He was a man
A ramblin' man he was yes he was
Guitar in hand
His home was on the road and that's where he was

He's seen a thousand roads
He's been a million miles
And when he'd bend a note
A tear would fill my eyes
Where are you playin'
Mr. Bluesman
Mr. Bluesman

Town to town
Honkytonks and dives all look the same
His gipsy heart keeps his shadow ridin' through the rain

A graveyard full of scars
His life will paint his songs
'Cause when you're on the road
There's nowhere you belong
You're just alone
Where are you playin'
Mr. Bluesman
Mr. Bluesman

He's seen a thousand roads
He's been a million miles
And when he'd bend a note
A tear would fill my eyes
Where are you playin'
Mr. Bluesman
Mr. Bluesman

I've paid some dues
Now I make my living as a music man
I play the blues
I guess the blues must be just what I am

A graveyard full of scars
His life will paint his songs
'Cause when you're on the road
There's nowhere you belong
You're just alone
Where are you playin'
Mr. Bluesman
Mr. Bluesman

He's seen a thousand roads
He's been a million miles
And when he'd bend a note
A tear would fill my eyes
Where are you playin'
Mr. Bluesman
Mr. Bluesman
Richie Sambora

Born April 10, 1959

Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh,
Black and orange stray cat sittin' on a fence
Ain't got enough dough to pay the rent
I'm flat broke but I don't care
I strut right by with my tail in the air

Stray cat strut, I'm a ladies' cat,
A feline Casanova, hey man, thats where its at
Get a shoe thrown at me from a mean old man
Get my dinner from a garbage can

Yeah don't cross my path

I don't bother chasing mice around
I slink down the alley looking for a fight
Howling to the moonlight on a hot summer night
Singin' the blues while the lady cats cry,
"Wild stray cat, you're a real gone guy."

I wish I could be as carefree and wild,
but I got cat class and I got cat style.

I don't bother chasing mice around
I slink down the alley looking for a fight
Howling to the moonlight on a hot summer night
Singin' the blues while the lady cats cry,
"Wild stray cat, you're a real gone guy."

I wish I could be as carefree and wild,
but I got cat class and I got cat style.
Brian Setzer

Born April 09, 1954

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.
Dennis Quaid

AKA Jeffrey Isbell

Born: 8-Apr-1962
Birthplace: Lafayette, IN
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Guitarist
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Former rhythm guitarist, Guns n' Roses
Wife: Aneka
Izzy Stradlin (b. April 8, 1962, Lafayette, Indiana) is an American musician, best known as the lead songwriter and rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses from 1985 to 1991. Since leaving the band in 1991, Stradlin has released seven solo albums. He has also played as a guest on the 2006 Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy World Tour.
Biography
Early life
Izzy Stradlin was born as Jeffrey Dean Isbell of English, French and Scottish descent.
Of Lafayette, Stradlin said, "It was cool growing up there. There's a courthouse (Tippecanoe County Courthouse) and a college (Purdue University), a river (the Wabash) and railroad tracks. It's a small town, so there wasn't much to do. We rode bikes, smoked pot, got into trouble - it was pretty Beavis and Butthead actually."
Stradlin's first musical favorites included Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, and the Rolling Stones, but the biggest influence was his grandmother, who had a band together with her friends. Stradlin talked his parents into buying him a drum kit. He would stay with the drums until 1983, when he chose to switch to guitar, since it was easier to write songs on, and songwriters had a better chance of making money. In high school Stradlin started playing in a band with some friends. One of them was William Bailey, better known as Axl Rose. "We were long-haired guys in high school. You were either a jock or a stoner. We weren't jocks, so we ended up hanging out together. We'd play covers in the garage. There were no clubs to play at, so we never made it out of the garage. Axl was really shy about singing back then. But I always knew he was a singer."
Guns N' Roses
After his graduation Stradlin decided that Indiana wasn't enough if he wanted to pursue a musical career. He packed his drum kit into his car and headed for Los Angeles. He tried his luck as drummer with a couple of bands, then switched to bass for a short while. After a few years in Los Angeles, Stradlin was joined by Axl, and they ended up playing together in a band they called Rose (later called Hollywood Rose), which was the first band Stradlin played guitar in. In 1984, he briefly left to join Sunset Strip staple, London (whose revolving membership included Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe as well as Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. amongst its ranks). However, he returned to playing with Rose in time for the band to finish the year by playing a show at the 'Dancing Waters' club in Los Angeles.
Rose became Hollywood Rose, and then broke up before re-uniting and morphing into Guns N' Roses. The early history of the band is confusing, but in June of 1985 the classic lineup of Guns N' Roses embarked on their first tour, the infamous "Hell Tour" that took them up along the US west coast to Seattle, hometown of bass guitar player Duff McKagan. Around that time, Stradlin adopted his gypsy look and started playing classic looking guitars (hollowbody and semi-hollowbody, as well as telecasters), both as tributes to his idol, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.
When the "Appetite for Destruction" tour ended, Stradlin, along with bandmates Slash, Duff and Steven, ratcheted up the heavy drinking and drug use that had become a trademark of the band. Unlike the others, Stradlin finally managed to overcome the temptation of continuous intoxication and cleaned up. He has said that touring with Aerosmith in 1988 was a big source of inspiration: "It was like, thank God we got to meet some people that weren't fucked up! I'd go out to watch and they'd sound fucking amazing! I thought, we're gonna have to really pull this shit together to keep up, 'cause they were right, you know? And with us, even then, it was like the music was already taking a back seat to all the other shit..." What finally made him take the decision to give up drugs was an infamous incident on board an airplane in which he was arrested for urinating in the galley of the plane. After that incident, Stradlin was subjected to random urine tests for drugs.
Stradlin was often seen as the silent one in the "most dangerous band in the world", and this became a lot more noticeable during the 1991 "Use Your Illusion" tour. Stradlin didn't travel with the band anymore. He, his Swedish girlfriend Annica Kreuter (who he later married in 2000), and his dog had a private bus that took them from show to show. He commented further that this had to do with his efforts in remaining sober while being around people still drinking and using drugs.
Stradlin has also mentioned that after Steven's firing, he felt that Matt Sorum's sound "didn't work" for the band. He felt that Steven was essential to the band's sound. Also, it has been noted by Axl and Slash that he was simply not having fun with the band anymore, and no longer enjoyed it.
Stradlin finally left the band on November 7, 1991, in the midst of their world tour.
After Guns N' Roses and beyond
After Guns N' Roses he went back to Indiana and started recording the songs that ended up on his first solo album with his band the Ju Ju Hounds, Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds, released in 1992. The music was more laid back and simpler than Use Your Illusion I and II They received fair reviews and went out on a world tour.
In 1993 Stradlin's replacement in GN'R, Gilby Clarke, hurt his wrist in a motorcycle accident and the band's upcoming European tour was in jeopardy. A quick solution was needed, and Stradlin was able to fill the gap. However, after his tour obligations were met, he promptly returned to Indiana to take time away from the music industry. Stradlin was promised to receive royalties he felt he was owed by the band in return for this.
During these years off, he travelled a lot and dedicated much time to two strong interests: motors and racing. He even built a track close to his house. In 1998 Stradlin returned to the music scene with his second solo album, 117°. As before, he had little interest in promoting the album — he agreed only to do a few interviews — and played few live performances. It turned out that it would be Stradlin's last release on the Geffen label. In the big merge of the label into Dreamworks, Stradlin and many others were dropped (along with Duff McKagan).
In 1999 his third solo album Ride On, a Japan-only album, was released on the Universal Victor label. This time Stradlin actually did a small tour in Japan as promotion. A fourth album called River came out in 2001 released by Sanctuary then re-released in the US by Canoga Park California-based indie label Bilawn Records, followed by On Down The Road in 2002.
Several of his former bandmates asked him to join Velvet Revolver when it was in its formative stage but he declined due to his unwillingness to work with a lead singer, and his aversion to the life on the road.
In 2003 Stradlin recorded his sixth album, Like A Dog. Several promo copies were made, but it was not released. Two years later, a petition was formed by Stradlin fan Will Villiers to have the promo copies sold to Stradlin's fans. The petition was very successful with over a thousand signatures. The maker of the petition, who also hosts a large Izzy Stradlin fansite, was contacted by Stradlin. He had decided to release Like A Dog, selling them for $20 to his fans.
In 2004, Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagan, his former Guns N' Roses bandmate, appeared on the Mark Lanegan album, Bubblegum. Stradlin announced in early 2006 that he was considering releasing some tracks excluded from his albums among other things hidden away in his basement. He also stated a new album is near completion, and could be hitting shelves sometime soon.
As with fellow former member of Guns N' Roses, Matt Sorum, it appears that Stradlin and Axl Rose have repaired their fractured friendship, as it was reported that Rose attended a birthday party held for Stradlin in New York.
Back on the road with Guns N' Roses
On May 17, 2006, Stradlin appeared on stage with Guns N' Roses to perform the songs Nightrain, Think About You and Patience. Stradlin also performed six songs with Guns N' Roses at the UK's Download Festival on June 11, 2006, in Prague on June 13, 2006 and in Nijmegen, The Netherlands on July 2, 2006. The songs were "Patience", "Nightrain", "Used to Love Her", "Think About You", "Paradise City" and "You Could Be Mine". He also appeared on stage in Oslo Spektrum, Norway during the concert on July 8, 2006.
Stradlin also has made an appearance with Guns N' Roses during numerous UK performances. He appeared at Sheffield's Hallam FM hall, Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena on July 19, 2006, Glasgow's SECC on July 22, 2006, Manchester's Manchester Evening News Arena on July 23, 2006, in Birmingham at the National Exhibition Centre on July 25, 2006, at Nottingham Arena on the July 27, 2006. Also on July 29 at Wembley Arena, London and July 30 at the same venue.
Izzy Stradlin made his first appearance with GN'R on their 2006 North American tour at the first show of three at Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California (December 17, 2006). He guested on Think About You, Used to Love Her, Patience, Nightrain and Paradise City. He also appeared on December 19/December 20 at the Gibson Amphitheater to play the same songs.
Recently, Stradlin has been in contact with the four other original Gunners, and was approached by Steven Adler about a possible reunion tour, which Adler said would be "the biggest reunion in history". Stradlin is apparently in favour of the idea.
2007
On May 3, 2007, Izzy announced on www.Chopaway.com that a new album would be released on iTunes sometime in May-June 2007, and on May 30, the record was released. The album is an exclusive 'iTunes only' release, available in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe simultaneously. No physical CD release has been planned. The album features 11 tracks recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami, including "Buildings In The Sky," "Let Go," "TJ" and "FSO Ragga". The new album is described by guitarist Rick Richards as being "a bit of a departure from "Like A Dog" but still quite a rocker."

On July 24, 2007, Stradlin announced that "Miami" had been remixed and re-released on iTunes. All tracks were remixed except "FSO Ragga". The original mix of "Miami" is no longer available on iTunes. The only song not to be remixed was FSO Ragga
Izzy's Statement: "JT Longoria and I have just remixed 10 tracks of the "Miami" recordings and its much louder and more powerful sounding now. It was done in Dallas at Nomad Studios. Gary long did the mastering. Big thanks to those guys. It has just gone live on I-Tunes today. You will hear the difference...... Cheers! Izzy."
Stradlin will release another iTunes-only album in November, 2007, entitled Fire, the Acoustic Album.

Born April 07, 1928

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married
James Garner

AKA Merle Ronald Haggard

Born: 6-Apr-1937
Birthplace: Bakersfield, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Country Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Okie From Muskogee
Father: (d., stroke)
Wife: Leona Hobbs (m. 1956, div.)
Wife: Bonnie Owens (ex-wife of Buck Owens, m. 1965, div. 1978)
Wife: Leona Williams (m. 1978, div. 1984)
Girlfriend: Tanya Tucker
Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country music singer, guitarist and songwriter.
Emerging from prison in the 1960s, having broken out 17 different times, Haggard was one of the early innovators of the Bakersfield Sound. With his hard biting electric guitar, he almost singlehandedly introduced the electric sound to country music. By the 1970s, he was aligned with the growing outlaw country movement, and has continued to release successful albums through the 1990s and into the 2000s. His work in familiar country themes – jail, betrayal, drinking and wandering – include a directness that reflects his own life experience. His deep, grumbling voice and his guitar work gives his country a blues-like quality in many cuts.
Early life
Haggard was born in Bakersfield, CA. His parents, Flossie Mae Harp and James Francis Haggard,[1] moved from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression; at that time, much of the population of Bakersfield was made up of economic refugees from Oklahoma and surrounding states. Haggard's father died when Merle was 9, and Merle began to rebel against his mother. Authorities put him in a juvenile detention center[citation needed]. Haggard's older brother gave him a guitar when Merle was twelve years old and he taught himself to play. In 1951, Haggard ran away to Texas with a friend but returned that same year and was arrested for truancy and petty larceny. He ran away from the next juvenile detention center to which he was sent and went to Modesto, California. He worked odd jobs - legal and not - and made his performing debut at a bar. Once he was found again, he was sent to the Preston School of Industry, a high-security installation. Shortly after he was released, 15 months later, Haggard was sent back after beating a local boy during a burglary attempt.
After his second release, Haggard saw Lefty Frizzell in concert with his friend Bob Teague and sang a couple of songs for him. Lefty was so impressed, he allowed Haggard to sing at the concert. The audience loved Haggard, and he began working on a full-time music career. After earning a local reputation, Haggard's money problems caught up with him, and he was arrested for a robbery in 1957. He was sent to prison in San Quentin for 15 years. Even in prison, Haggard was wild, running a gambling and brewing racket from his cell. Merle attended three of Johnny Cash's concerts at San Quentin. Cash inspired Haggard to straighten up and pursue his singing. Several years later, at another Cash concert, Haggard came up to Johnny and told him "I certainly enjoyed your show at San Quentin." Cash said "Merle, I don't remember you bein' in that show." Merle Haggard said, "Johnny, I wasn't in that show, I was in the audience." While put in solitary confinement, Haggard encountered author and death row inmate Caryl Chessman. Haggard had the opportunity to escape with a fellow inmate nicknamed "Rabbit", but passed on it. The inmate successfully escaped, only to shoot a police officer and return to San Quentin for execution. Chessman's predicament along with Rabbit's inspired Haggard to turn his life around, and he soon earned his high school equivalency diploma, kept a steady job in the prison's textile plant and played in the prison's band. He was released in 1960 and in March 1972 was pardoned by then California governor Ronald Reagan. Once released, Haggard said it took about four months to get used to being out of the penitentiary and that, at times, he actually wanted to go back in. He said it was the loneliest feeling he'd ever had.
Country success
Upon his release, Haggard started digging ditches and wiring houses for his brother. Soon he was performing again, and later began recording with Tally Records. The Bakersfield Sound was developing in the area as a reaction against the over-produced honky tonk of the Nashville Sound. Haggard's first song was "Skid Row." In 1962, Haggard wound up performing at a Wynn Stewart show in Las Vegas and heard Wynn's "Sing a Sad Song". He asked for permission to record it, and the resulting single was a national hit in 1964.
Haggard released a series of successful singles in the early 1960s, including "Just Between the Two of Us" (duet with Bonnie Owens) and "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers", both songs written by Liz Anderson. He then signed to Capitol Records and released "I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can" to limited sales. In 1966, however, his second Capitol single, "Swinging Doors", was a Top Five hit and Haggard had become a nationally known superstar. During the late 1960s, Haggard's chart success was consistent and impressive. "The Bottle Let Me Down", "The Fugitive", "Branded Man", "Mama Tried", "Sing Me Back Home", "Hungry Eyes," "Workin' Man's Blues," "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde" and "I Threw Away the Rose" are among the more well-remembered titles. "Mama Tried" and "Killers Three Theme", sung by Merle, were part of the soundtrack to the 1968 film Killers Three, which also included Haggard's acting debut.
In 1968, Haggard's first tribute LP Same Train, Different Time: A Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was released to great acclaim.
"Okie From Muskogee", 1969's apparent political statement, was actually written as an abjectly humorous character portrait. Haggard called the song a "documentation of the uneducated that lived in America at the time." (Phipps 2001). He said later on the Bob Edwards Show that "I wrote it when I recently got out of the joint. I knew what it was like to lose my freedom, and I was getting really mad at these protestors. They didn't know anything more about the war in Vietnam than I did. I thought how my dad, who was from Oklahoma, would have felt. I felt I knew how those boys fighting in Vietnam felt." Later, Alabama Gov. George Wallace asked Haggard for an endorsement, which Haggard declined. However, Haggard does express sympathy with the "parochial" or conservative way of life expressed in "Okie" and songs such as "The Fightin' Side of Me" (ibid). It should be noted, however, that after "Okie" was released, Haggard wanted to release a self-penned song titled "Irma Jackson" about an interracial couple; the single was quashed by his record company, although Tony Booth went on to record it in 1970.
Regardless of exactly how they were intended, "Okie From Muskogee", "The Fightin' Side of Me", and "I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am" were hailed as anthems of the silent majority and presaged a trend in patriotic songs that would reappear years later with Charlie Daniels' "In America", Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA", and others. But other Haggard songs were appreciated regardless of politics: the Grateful Dead began performing Haggard's tune "Mama Tried" in 1969, and it stayed in their regular repertoire thereafter; singer-activist Joan Baez, whose political leanings couldn't be more different from those expressed in Haggard's above-referenced songs, nonetheless covered "Sing Me Back Home" and "Mama Tried" in 1969. The Everly Brothers also used both songs in their 1968 country-rock album Roots.
Haggard's next LP was A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (Or My Salute to Bob Wills), which helped spark a revival of western swing.
In 1972, then-Gov. Ronald Reagan gave Haggard a full pardon for his past crimes. Haggard often quips that few figures in history can become public enemy No. 1 and man of the year in the same 10-year period.
During the early to mid 1970s, Haggard's chart domination continued with songs like "Someday We'll Look Back", "Carolyn", "Grandma Harp", "Always Wanting You" and "The Roots of My Raising". He also wrote and performed the theme song to the TV series Movin' On, which gave him a further top-ten country hit. The 1973 recession anthem "If We Make It Through December" furthered Haggard's status as a champion of the working class.
Haggard was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1977.
"If We Make It Through December" turned out to be Haggard's last pop hit. He published an autobiography called Sing Me Back Home. Although he won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for 1984's a new kind of honky tonk had begun to overtake country music, and singers like George Strait and Randy Travis had taken over the charts. Haggard's last No. 1 hit was "Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star" from his smash album Chill Factor in 1988.
Although he has been outspoken in his dislike for modern country music, he has praised newer stars such as George Strait and Randy Travis. The Dixie Chicks paid him tribute by recording Darrell Scott's song "Long Time Gone", which criticizes Nashville trends: "We listen to the radio to hear what’s cookin’ / But the music ain’t got no soul / Now they sound tired but they don’t sound Haggard," with the following lines mentioning Johnny Cash and Hank Williams in the same vein.
In 2000, Haggard made a comeback of sorts, signing with the independent record label Anti and releasing the spare If I Could Only Fly to critical acclaim. He followed it in 2001 with Roots, Vol. 1, a collection of Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams and Hank Thompson covers, along with three Haggard originals. The album, recorded in Haggard's living room with no overdubs, featured Haggard's longtime bandmates The Strangers as well as Frizzell's original lead guitarist, Norman Stephens.
In December 2004, Haggard spoke at length on Larry King Live about his incarceration as a young man and said it was "hell" and "the scariest experience of my life."
In October 2005, Haggard released his newest album, "Chicago Wind", to mostly positive reviews. The album contained an anti-Iraq war song titled "America First," in which he laments the nation's economy and faltering infrastructure, applauds its soldiers, and sings, "Let's get out of Iraq, and get back on track."
In 2006, Haggard was back on the radio, in a duet with Gretchen Wilson, "Politically Uncorrect". He also featured on "Pledge Allegiance to the Hag" on Eric Church's debut album.
On April 24, 2006 Haggard's former wife Bonnie Owens died in Bakersfield, CA due to Alzheimer's disease. She was 76.
On December 19, 2006, the Kern County Board of Supervisors approved a citizen led resolution to re-name a portion of 7th Standard Road in Oildale "Merle Haggard Drive." Merle Haggard Drive will stretch from North Chester Avenue west to Highway 99. The first street travelers will turn onto when they leave the new airport terminal will be Merle Haggard Drive. The name change, however is conditional in that $41,100 be raised by private funds to pay for the new road signs that will go up on county surface streets and along Highway 99. Haggard's Oildale home, made from a converted box car, is still lived in just south of Norris Road.
Haggard released a bluegrass album, "The Bluegrass Sessions", on October 2, 2007.
Equipment
Merle Haggard endorses Fender guitars, both the Stratocaster and Telecaster, of which he has a Custom Artist signature model: a modified Telecaster Thinline with laminated top of figured maple, set neck with deep carved heel, birdseye maple fingerboard with 22 jumbo frets, ivoroid pickguard and binding, gold hardware, abalone Tuff Dog Tele peghead inlay, 2-Colour Sunburst finish and a pair of Fender Texas Special Tele single-coil pickups with custom-wired 4-way pickup switching. He also plays six string acoustic models.

Born April 05/1941

Baby, do you understand me now
Sometimes I feel a little mad
But don't you know that no one alive
Can always be an angel
When things go wrong I seem to be bad
But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Baby, sometimes I'm so carefree
With a joy that's hard to hide
And sometimes it seems that all I have do is worry
Then you're bound to see my other side
But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

If I seem edgy I want you to know
That I never mean to take it out on you
Life has it's problems and I get my share
And that's one thing I never meant to do
Because I love you
Oh, Oh baby don't you know I'm human
Have thoughts like any other one
Sometimes I find myself long regretting
Some foolish thing some little simple thing I've done
But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
Yes, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
Yes, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
Eric Burdon

Born April 04, 1915 as McKinley Morganfield

The gypsy woman told my mother
Before I was born
I got a boy child's comin'
He's gonna be a son of a gun
He gonna make pretty women's
Jump and shout
Then the world wanna know
What this all about
But you know I'm him
Everybody knows I'm him
Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm him

I got a black cat bone
I got a mojo too
I got the Johnny Concheroo
I'm gonna mess with you
I'm gonna make you girls
Lead me by my hand
Then the world will know
The hoochie coochie man
But you know I'm him
Everybody knows I'm him
Oh you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm him

On the seventh hours
On the seventh day
On the seventh month
The seven doctors say
He was born for good luck
And that you'll see
I got seven hundred dollars
Don't you mess with me
But you know I'm him
Everybody knows I'm him
Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm him
Muddy Waters

Born April 03, 1894

This day and age we're living in
Gives cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like fourth dimension
Yet we get a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein's thory
So we must get down to earth at times
Relax relieve the tension
And no matter what the progress
Or what may yet be proved
The simple facts of life are such
They cannot be removed

You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by

And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you"
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by

Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
That no one can deny

Well, it's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by
Oh yes, the world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

DOOLEY WILSON

AKA Claude Russell Bridges

Born: 2-Apr-1942
Birthplace: Lawton, OK
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Producer, session player, etc.
Producer, session player, arranger, solo performer.
Wife: Mary Rand McCreary (musician, m. 1975, div. 1979, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Tina Rose
Son: Teddy Jack
Wife: Jan Bridges (m. 1979, three daughters)
Daughter: Sugaree Noel
Daughter: Coco
Daughter: Honey

Died April 01, 1976

John Lennon's father, Alfred 'Freddie' Lennon, died at Brighton General Hospital in England at the age of 63. John's relationship with his father, who had deserted him as a child and then showed up years later to sponge off of John's wealth, had been strained, but they had become somewhat reconciled in recent years. Over the final weeks of Freddie’s life, John did what he could to make further amends: knowing that his father was dying of cancer, he had many trans-Atlantic phone conversations with him in an attempt to finally make peace.
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream
John Lennon