By Kiesly Jameson
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Stephen Ray Perry (born January 22, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and frontman of the rock band Journey during their most successful years from 1977 to 1987, and again from 1995 to 1998. He wrote/co-wrote several Journey hit songs. Perry had a successful solo career between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, made sporadic appearances in the 2000s, and returned to music full-time in 2018.
Perry’s singing voice has garnered acclaim from prominent musical peers and publications; he has been dubbed The Voice, a moniker originally coined by Jon Bon Jovi. Ranked No. 76 on Rolling Stone‘s “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”, Perry was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey on April 7, 2017.
In August 2023, Perry made the Billboard top 50 list of best rock singer band lead vocalists of all time, coming in number 30. At the same time, Billboard readers chose Perry as the favorite Rock Singer of All Time, with 67 percent of the overall votes.
In the 1980s Perry dated Sherrie Swafford, for whom he wrote the 1984 song “Oh Sherrie“.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
I have some old vegetable seeds I’m not sure will still grow. How can I test them?
Arrange a small group of seeds on a double layer of paper towels. Mark the top of the arrangement with a stick pin and then draw a diagram of which seeds you placed where, if you are testing more than one type. Top the seeds with a double layer of moistened paper towels and cover the whole thing with plastic wrap or a plastic bag. After the seeds germinate, lift the towels and record on your diagram how well each seed type sprouted. Learn how to know how long seeds last!
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Ivan III (Ivan The Great) –
- Sir Francis Bacon (writer, philosopher) –
- Richard Upjohn (architect) –
- August Strindberg (playwright) –
- D. W. Griffith (film director) –
- Ann Sothern (actress) –
- U Thant (United Nations Secretary General) –
- Sam Cooke (singer) –
- Piper Laurie (actress) –
- Bill Bixby (actor & director) –
- Joseph Wambaugh (writer) –
- Steve Perry (singer) –
- Linda Blair (actress) –
- Diane Lane (actress) –
- Guy Fieri (celebrity chef) –
- Balthazar Getty (actor) –
- Christopher Masterson (actor) –
- Beverley Mitchell (actress) –
- Caitlin Clark (basketball player) –
Died
- Queen Victoria (Great Britain, died after the longest reign of any British monarch and was succeeded by her son, Edward VII) –
- Lyndon B. Johnson (36th U.S. president) –
- Telly Savalas (actor) –
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (matriarch of the Kennedy family) –
- Stanley Marcus (chairman of department store Neiman-Marcus) –
- Jack Shea (gold medal-winning speedskater and patriarch of family of Olympic finalists, including grandson who won gold medal at 2002 games) –
- Ann Miller (dancer & actress) –
- Patsy Rowlands (actress) –
- Heath Ledger (actor) –
- Jean Simmons (English actress who later also became an American citizen) –
- James Mitchell (actor & dancer) –
- Hank Aaron (baseball player) –
Events
- Uranium atom was first split by cyclotron –
- Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In debuted on TV –
- George Foreman knocks out Joe Frazier for world heavyweight boxing title –
- Macintosh computer commercial ran during Super Bowl XVIII –
- Politician R. Budd Dwyer committed suicide on national television –
- Roberta Bondar became first Canadian woman in space –
- Madeleine Albright became the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the U.S. Senate –
Weather
- In Spearfish, South Dakota, the temperature rose from -4F to 45F in 2 minutes, due to chinook –
- Meteorologists said that 75 percent of North America was covered by snow –
- Mountain Lake, Virginia, recorded a low temperature of -30 degrees F –
- Snow fell in Jordan –
COURTESY www.almanac.com
