NEWS / Music

Born Lili-Marlene Primilovich, the singer came into the world in Detroit, Michigan, before emigrating to England as a teenager.

It was in Ripley, in the UK, that Eric Clapton was born on March 30, 1945.

Born in the Yonkers neighbourhood of New York in 1948, he, like many other artists, chose a more resonant name, and became Steven Tyler rather quickly.

She was born in 1944 in Detroit, Michigan, a historic dual capital of the automobile industry but more importantly perhaps, the capital of soul with the Motown label.

Born in Middlesex, England in 1947, Reginald Kenneth Dwight (his real name) belongs to the 'baby boom' generation just after the Second World War.

Maseo, also known by his real name, Vincent Mason Jr, was born in 1970 in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up on Long Island where he met the other members of the famous group De la Soul.

To the civil registry, she is known as Gabrielle Susanne Kerner and was born in 1960 in Hagen, Germany. But it's Nena and her '99 Luftballons' that the whole world knows.

As his surname suggests, it was in a Polish (and very Catholic) family that little Ric was born in 1944 in Baltimore (Maryland).

Born Mark McLachlan, the singer of Wet Wet Wet, was born in 1965 in Scotland. He quickly developed a passion for music, which he discovered in the family's vinyl collection.

His full name is Gabriel Delgado Lopez. He was born in 1958 in Cordoba but, due to the Franco dictatorship, his father quickly fled Spain to settle in Germany.

Did they fall from the site or were they pushed?

Roger Hodgson showed early promise: at the age of 12, he gave his first concert.