Courtney Love
Courtney Love was born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964, in San Francisco, California, where her parents first met and married.
Love then spent her childhood with her mother in Oregon, and attended various schools including a boarding school in Nelson, New Zealand.
At 15, Love travelled around the U.S., England and the Republic of Ireland, living on a trust fund established for her by her mother’s adoptive parents. During her time in England, Love met musician Julian Cope, befriended him, moved into his Toxteth, Liverpool home, and became a regular face at rock shows. In his autobiography Head-On, Cope doesn’t use her name, but refers to her as “the adolescent.”
Eventually, she would head back to the states, ending up in Portland, Oregon, still avidly pursuing music. Love’s first rock musician boyfriend was Rozz Rezabek of the Portland band Theatre of Sheep, who had an affair with her while she was still underage. Though the two wrote each other copious love letters, Love has said in many interviews that he did not take her virginity; she claims her first sexual encounter was a one-night stand with Michael Mooney, a sometimes-guitarist for Echo & the Bunnymen and later to Spiritualized.Credit : Wikipedia
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Rimes was born Margaret LeAnn Rimes in Jackson, Mississippi. LeAnn started singing before the age of two. A few years later, Rimes and her family moved out to Texas, and before age 11, she released her first album titled Everybody’s Sweetheart in 1991 on a small independent label. The album’s release garnered the attention of label executives and disc jockeys, including disc jockey, Bill Mack, who was fascinated by Rimes’ Patsy Cline-styled voice. Mack then began to cultivate a plan to make Rimes a mainstream Country music artist. Between the years 1992 and 1994, Rimes continued to release albums under independent labels that failed gaining any type of success in the Country music world. By then her family had relocated to Garland, Texas. She began honing her skills as a country artist performing on Johnnie High’s Country Music Revue in Ft. Worth, a popular show that featured local artists and national acts. Throughout 1995, Rimes’ career continued to gain momentum, as she performed more than 100 concerts and appeared on television shows across Texas.
Johnny Allen Hendrix (later re-named James Marshall Hendrix) was born on November 27, 1942, in Seattle, Washington, U.S.. Hendrix’s parents divorced when he was nine years old, and in 1958 his mother died. He went to live with his Cherokee grandmother because of his unstable household. At age 15, he received his first guitar, an electric to replace the broom stick he would strum like one. Learning quickly, he played in many local bands, playing as far away as Vancouver. Hendrix did not graduate from high school. Hendrix later claimed that he was expelled for holding hands with his white girlfriend, but when questioned later, his principal insisted that it was due to poor grades and frequent absences.
Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the only child of Anthony Martin Sinatra (1894–1969), and Natalie Dolly Garaventa (1896–1977).
