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“Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'”
“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.”
| Roy Castle, Musician (1932) |
| Richard Gere, Actor (1949) |
| Debbie Gibson, Musician (1970) |
| L. Wolfe Gilbert, Musician (1886) |
| Buddy Hackett, Comedian (1924) |
| Stefan Banach, Mathematician (1945) |
| Charles Baudelaire, Poet (1867) |
| Hall Caine, Novelist (1931) |
| Ilya Ehrenburg, Writer (1967) |
| Lionel Hampton, Musician (2002) |
| Harry Johnston, Explorer (1927) |
| Ferdinand Lassalle, Politician (1864) |