- Tom Jones was born on June 7,1940 in Pontypridd, Wales, UK
- Elton John was born in Pinner, Middlesex, England on March 25, 1947 (his original name was Reginald Dwight).
- Sting was born on October 2, 1951 in Wallsend, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England His original name was Gordon Matthew Sumner.
- Bono was born on May 10, 1960 in Dublin, Ireland. His original name was Paul Hewson.
- Rod Stewart was born on January 10, 1953 in London, England.
- Ozzy Osbourne was born December 3, 1948 in Birmingham, England. Formerly of Black Sabbath, his original name was John Osbourne.
- David Bowie was born on January 8, 1947 in Brixton, England and died January 10, 2016. His original name was David Robert Hayward Jones.
- Led Zeppelin (originally the Yardbirds) were formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page. They played their 1st concert in a converted gym in Gladsaxe, Denmark.
- Coldplay’s Chris Martin was born in Exeter, Devon and co-founded the band in London in 1996
- Elvis Costello was born on August 25, 1955 in Liverpool, England. His original name was Declan Patrick McManus
- Van Morrison was born on August 31, 1945 in Belfast, Ireland
- Donovan was born on May 10, 1946 in Glasgow, Scotland
- Cat Stevens was born on July 21, 1947 in London, England
- The Corrs were formed in Louth, Ireland in 1990 as a 4 piece family band
- Charlotte Church was born February 21, 1986 in Llandaff (near Cardiff) in Wales.
- The Cranberries were formed in Limerick, Ireland in 1990.
- Enya Brennan was born in Gweedore, Ireland in 1961. Her real name is Eithne Ni Bhraonain in Irish Gaelic.
- Bob Geldoff was born in Dublin in 1952 and formed the Boomtown rats in 1975.
- Andrea Bocceli was born on September 22, 1958 in Laiatico in the province of Pisa, Italy.
- Julio Iglesias was born September 29, 1943 in Madrid, Spain.
- Enrique Iglesias (3rd son of Julio) was born on May 8,1975 in Madrid, Spain.
- Sinead O’Conner was born on August 12, 1966 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Ronan Keating, part of the Irish group Boyzone, was born on March 3, 1997 in Dublin, Ireland
- Björk was born and raised in Reykjavík, Iceland on November 21, 1965
- Robbie Williams was born on February 13, 1973 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. See www.robbiewilliams.com
- Peter Gabriel was born on February 13, 1950 in Cobham, England
- Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice) was born Victoria Adams on April 17 in Goff’s Oak, Hertfordshire, England
- Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) was born on August 6, 1972 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England
- Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) was born January 21, 1976 in Barnet, England
- Melanie B (Scary Spice) was born Melanie Janine Brown on May 29, 1975 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England
- Melanie C (Sporty Spice) was born Melanie Jayne Crisholm on January 12, 1974 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England
- Milli Vanilli were formed in ’88 in Munich by lip-synching duo Fabrice Morvan born on May 14, 1966 in Paris, France and Rob Pilatus born on June 8, 1965 who died on April 2, 1998 in a Frankfurt hotel of a booze/sleeping pill overdose
