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It's unclear if he was a hopeless romantic when he was born in the London suburbs in 1954, but officially he's still called Raymond Burns.

It was on 24th April 1949 that Véronique Sanson was born, into a family of music lovers.

Due to fraud on social media, fans of the English rock band Oasis have lost more than two million pounds.

Also an actor in his spare time, this multi-instrumentalist British artist was born near London in 1950.

He was born in 1947 in Muskegon, Michigan and very quickly decided he would never conform.

The third of four children, Robert Smith was born in the United Kingdom on April 21, 1959.

Not to be confused with his namesake trumpeter, he was born in 1970 and grew up in a small town near Jerusalem in Israel.

Singer was chosen to ease tensions between Northern Ireland and Great Britain

Streaming platform Deezer tries to manage the musical tsunami

Victoria Adams, her maiden name, was born in 1974 in Harlow and spent her childhood in Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire.

He was born in 1955 in Leigh in the Manchester area under the birth name of Peter Campbell McNelsh. He chose his stage name in tribute to Percy Bysshe Shelley, his favourite poet known for his radicalism.

Peter Garrett was born in Sydney, Australia in 1953.