April 1975 in Music History

Events in Music

TV Show Appearance

Apr 28 Ringo Starr appears on "The Smothers Brothers Show", singing Hoyt Axton's "No No Song", and John Lennon is the guest on Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow" program, in what turns out to be his final television interview

Birthdays in Music

Apr 1 John Butler, Australian singer and musician
Apr 2 Deedee Magno Hall, Filipino-American rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why), born in Portsmouth, Virginia
Apr 5 Juicy J [Jordan Houston], American rapper, songwriter, and record producer (Three 6 Mafia), born in Memphis, Tennessee
Apr 6 Dannon Phillip Pampolina, rapper and drummer (Party)
Apr 7 John Cooper, American christian rock musician (Skillet), born in Memphis, Tennessee
Apr 8 Anouk [Teeuwe], Dutch singer, born in The Hague, Netherlands
Apr 10 Chris Carrabba, American rock singer and guitarist (Dashboard Confessional - "Stolen"; "Vindicated"), born in West Hartford, Connecticut
Apr 13 Lou Bega, German mambo musician (Mambo No. 5), and artist, born in Munich, Germany
Apr 14 Avner Dorman, Israeli composer, born in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Apr 16 Joanna Ławrynowicz, Polish classical pianist, born in Warsaw, Poland [1]
Apr 23 Jón Þór Birgisson, Icelandic musician and singer (Sigur Rós)

Apr 25 Ruben Gomez, American rocker (Menudo-Cannonball), born in Brooklyn, New York
Apr 26 Joey Jordison, American drummer (Slipknot, 1995-2013 - "All Hope Is Gone"), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 2021)
Apr 26 Nerina Pallot, British pop-rock singer-songwriter ("Sophia"; "Everybody's Gone To War"), born in London

Deaths in Music

Josephine Baker

Apr 12 Josephine Baker, American-French song and dance revue artist (Folies-Bergere), actress, and civil rights activist, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 68

Apr 21 Jack Westrup, English composer, dies at 70
Apr 24 Pete Ham, Welsh rock singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Badfinger - "Without You"; "No Matter What"; Day After Day"), takes his own life at 27
Apr 25 Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)

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