SANDY KOZEL

1964

Sir Roderick David "Rod" Stewart is 72 today.

Stewart worked as a newspaper delivery boy and a gravedigger. He left school
when he was fifteen and sought out a career as a footballer until he was
rejected.

Rod Stewart received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007 and in
2006 he won a Grammy Award for the best Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
for Stardust…The Great American Songbook Volume III.

The song "People Are Strange" was released by The Doors from their second
album Strange Days which was also released in September 1967. The single
peaked at the number 12 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and made it
to the top ten in the Cash Box charts. It was written by Jim Morrison and Robby
Krieger although credit was given to The Doors.  

Deborah Anne "Debby" Boone

Pop singer Debby Boone, whose single "You Light Up My Life" was a #1 hit
has won multiple Grammy Awards for her contributions to contemporary
music and Christian albums. She began touring with her father, singer Pat
Boone at the age of fourteen. Debby pursued a solo career after being
encouraged by record company executive Mike Curb.

The song "Yesterday" by the Beatles was written by Paul McCartney
(credited to Lennon–McCartney). It topped the Billboard chart in
October.