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Respected by David Bowie and adored by Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief), the American adopted by Belgium passed away when his home in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse (Belgium) went on fire. His wife Marie-Claire went with him on this sadJanuary 17th.

Born in Halifax, England, in 1956, he's best known for founding the Thompson Twins in the late '70s.

Less than a year after Jane Birkin, another icon of the yé-yé years in France, left us in the spring of 2024. Mom is gone... wrote her son Thomas Dutronc laconically on social media on June 11.

Helen Folasade Adu, aka Sade, was born in 1959 in Ibadan (Nigeria). At the age of three, following her parents' divorce, she left her native country with her mother and moved to England, near London.

He was born in Oran (Algeria) in 1956. His childhood was marked by the departure of his father, who abandoned his wife and children, and by the Algerian war, which the family left behind when they settled in Rennes, France.

We have always known him by his stage name, but born in Hastings in 1961, Suggs bears the very British name (Scottish even by his father) of Graham McPherson.

Ask around you. Very few people know the stage name of this brilliant exentric born in Berlin in 1959. And even fewer know his real name: Christian Emmerich. But those who do appreciate him often worship him relentlessly...

Born in London in 1945, he's undoubtedly one of the last living legends of English rock. He celebrates his 81st birthday today…

The whimsical lead singer of the turbulent band founded in New York (of course) in the early 70s, David Johansen has just closed the final chapter of a legendary band that owed as much to glam rock as it did to punk.

He was born in Heston, Middlesex, England, in 1944 and he's celebrating his 82d birthday today.

David Robert Jones was born in London in 1948. From an early age, the young boy was interested in music, joining his school choir and learning the flute, piano and dance.

She was born in Austin, Texas, in 1959, and raised by a single English mother.