Which musician was born first, George Michael or Tom Petty?
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George Michael Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016), known professionally as George Michael, was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! He was best known for his work in the 1980s and 1990s, including hit singles such as "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Last Christmas", and albums such as "Faith" (1987) and "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1" (1990).
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Tom Petty Thomas Earl Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but is also known as a member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys (under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury Jr. and Muddy Wilbury), and his early band Mudcrutch.
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I'm a Survivor (George Jones song) "I'm a Survivor" is a song by country music artist George Jones. Composed by Jim McBride and Keith Stegall, the song references Jones' own hard-living past, including his drinking and arrests, but vowing, "As long as I'm breathin', you ain't heard the last of me yet." However, despite the song's theme of resilience, the single bombed on the charts, peaking at #52, his worst showing in years. Jones performed the song during a television special celebrating the twentieth anniversary of "Hee Haw" in 1988.
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Paul Matthews (musician) Paul Michael Matthews (born in High Wycombe, England October 24, 1978) is a New Zealand musician, songwriter, and record producer based in London (UK). He co-founded I Am Giant in 2008 and is the band's bass guitarist and songwriter. He was also the bass guitarist for New Zealand bands Stylus and Tadpole.
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George Kahumoku Jr. George Kahumoku Jr. is a musician specializing in slack-key guitar.
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Michael Cartellone Michael Cartellone (born June 7, 1962) is an American musician and the current drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd .
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Chris Tompkins Christopher G. "Chris" Tompkins (born Muscle Shoals, Alabama) is an American songwriter based in Nashville. Since 2002 he has co-written songs for pop, rock, and country artists as diverse as Jimmy Buffett, Jamie Lynn Spears, Hank Williams, Jr., Rascal Flatts, and Plain White T's, and has written charting singles for artists such as Jake Owen, Daughtry, Shelly Fairchild, Kenny Chesney, Florida Georgia Line, and Tim McGraw.
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Mike Starr (musician) Michael Christopher Starr (April 4, 1966 – March 8, 2011) was an American musician best known as the original bassist in Alice in Chains, which he played with from the band's formation in 1987 until January 1993.
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Don't Come Around Here No More "Don't Come Around Here No More" is a song written by Tom Petty of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and David A. Stewart of Eurythmics. It was released in February 1985 as the lead single from the band's "Southern Accents" album.
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Michael Messer Michael Messer (born 28 February 1956) is an English singer, songwriter, slide guitarist and record producer. He is noteworthy for his ability to combine acoustic National steel guitar, as well as slide guitar, into his playing style. The American magazine, "Spirit", listed Messer as one of the greatest slide guitarists alongside Duane Allman and Ry Cooder.
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Steve George (keyboardist) Steve George (born May 20, 1955 in Bloomington, Illinois) is an American keyboard player, who is perhaps best known as the keyboardist for the 1980s band, Mr. Mister. He co-wrote many of the Mr. Mister songs, together with his childhood friend, Mr. Mister frontman Richard Page, with whom he also played in Pages prior to forming Mr. Mister.
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California Blue California Blue is a song written by Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty, and recorded by Roy Orbison on the album "Mystery Girl", released in 1989.
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Mike Tramp Michael Trempenau (born January 14, 1961), better known as Mike Tramp, is a Danish singer and songwriter who is best known for his work with the hard rock bands, White Lion and Freak of Nature. Since 1998, he has released several solo albums. In 2012, Tramp went on a solo acoustic tour releasing acoustic albums in both 2013 and 2014. He returned with a full band line up in 2015 and in 2017, released the album "Maybe Tomorrow" which charted at #1 in Denmark.
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Ted Nugent Theodore Anthony Nugent ( ; born December 13, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and activist. Nugent initially gained fame as the lead guitarist of the Amboy Dukes, a band formed in 1963 that played psychedelic rock and hard rock. After playing with the Amboy Dukes, he embarked on a solo career.
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Faith (George Michael song) "Faith" is a song written and performed by George Michael, from his 1987 debut solo album of the same name.
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Tom Constanten Tom Constanten (born March 19, 1944, Long Branch, New Jersey, United States) is an American keyboardist, best known for playing with Grateful Dead from 1968 to 1970.
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Praying for Time "Praying for Time" is a song written and performed by George Michael, released on Epic Records in the UK and Columbia Records in the US in 1990. It spent one week in the number one spot on the "Billboard" Hot 100, making it Michael's ninth number one. It was also the last solo single from Michael to occupy the top of the chart in the US.
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Peter Frampton Peter Kenneth Frampton (born 22 April 1950) is an English rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd. At the end of his 'group' career was Frampton's international breakthrough album his live release, "Frampton Comes Alive!" The album sold in the United States more than 8 million copies and spawned several single hits. Since then he has released several major albums. He has also worked with David Bowie and both Matt Cameron and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam, among others.
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Michael Corcoran (musician) Michael Thomas Corcoran (born December 9, 1972), known professionally as Backhouse Mike or Ken Lofkoll, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, composer, sound designer, musical arranger, orchestrator, and record producer.
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Mike Love Michael Edward Love (born March 15, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who co-founded the Beach Boys. Characterized by his nasal, sometimes baritone singing, Love has been one of the band's vocalists and lyricists for most of their career, contributing to each of their studio albums. He is often regarded as a malign figure in the band's history, a reputation he acknowledges: "For those who believe that Brian [Wilson] walks on water, I will always be the Antichrist."
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Stop Draggin' My Heart Around "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" was the first single from Stevie Nicks' debut solo album, "Bella Donna" (1981). The track is the album's only song that was neither written nor co-written by Nicks. Written by Tom Petty and Mike Campbell as a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song, Jimmy Iovine, who was also working for Stevie Nicks at the time, arranged for her to sing on it. Petty sang with Nicks in the chorus and bridge, while his entire band (save Ron Blair, whose bass track was played by Donald "Duck" Dunn instead) played on the song.
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Tom Middleton (Canadian singer) Tom Middleton is a former Canadian pop singer. The Victoria, British Columbia native first got a taste of the rock life while with The Marquis in 1967, which featured Jerry Adophe (later of Chilliwack and Jim Byrnes), Len Knoke, Norm Piercy, and Gary Garraway. They toured BC while playing the popular covers of the day and graduated to the 'B' circuit across western Canada until they broke up in '69.