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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 14 birthdays of Deep Purple’s Rtichie Blackmore, Arcade Fire’s Win Butler, Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Loretta Lynn, Edison Lighthouse/The Pipkins’ Tony Burrows, The Rivieras’ Marty “Bo” Fortson, Da Brat, and Brewer & Shipley’s Mike Brewer; the April 15 birthdays of The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney, Bessie Smith, The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser, Dave Edmunds, Ansell Collins, 4 Non Blondes’ Linda Perry, UFO’s Phil Mogg, Margo Price, Marty Wilde, Samantha Fox, and Bob Luman; and we remind those of you in the States to pay your taxes.

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Today’s playlist is inspired by the April 12 birthdays of Herbie Hancock, Steppenwolf’s John Kay, Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell, Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray, Everclear’s Art Alexakis, ILoveMakonnen, The Partridge Family’s David Cassidy, Panic! At The Disco’s Brendon Urie, Hot Butter’s Stan Free, Tiny Tim, 311’s Nick Hexum, Mellow Man Ace, Pat Travers, and Get Wet’s Sherri Beachfront; and the April 13 birthdays of Al Green, Little Feat’s Lowell George, The Flamin’ Groovies’ Roy Loney, Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring, The Brothers Johnson’s Louis Johnson, The Chambers Brothers’ Lester Chambers, Lou Bega, Bill Conti, and Nellie McKay.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 10 birthdays of Spinners’ Bobby Smith, A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip, eels’ E, Stray Cats’ Brian Setzer, The Flamingos’ Nate Nelson, The Roches’ Terry Roche, Katrina & The Waves’ Katrina Leskanich, Martin Denny, Stella Donnelly, Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat, Sheb Wooley, Maren Morris, The Beatnuts’ Psycho Les, and Poor Righteous Teachers’ Wise Intelligent; and the April 11 birthdays of The Specials’ Neville Staple, Big Country’s Stuart Adamson, Richard Berry, Catatonia’s Cerys Matthews, Lisa Stansfield, Zola Jesus, Summer Walker, Joel Grey, The Originals’ Freddie Gorman, and Michael Callen.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 8 birthdays of Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, Guns N’ Roses’ Izzy Stradlin, Yes’s Steve Howe, The 1975’s Matty Healy, The Only Ones’ Peter Perrett, L7’s Donita Sparks, Biz Markie, DeJ Loaf, and Hinds’s Carlotta Cosials, and the April 9 birthdays of The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr., Carl Perkins, My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, Lil Nas X, Paul Robeson, Jazmine Sullivan, Paper Lace’s Phil Wright, and Tom Lehrer.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 6 birthdays of The Pixies’ Black Francis, Merle Haggard, Gerry Mulligan, Charles Wright, Le1f, Patrick Hernandez, Accept’s Udo Dirkschneider, Barbara Pittman, and Little Jackie’s Imani Coppola; and the April 7 birthdays of Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider, Billie Holiday, The Knife’s Karin Dreijer, John Oates, Janis Ian, Mongo Santamaria, Bobby Bare, Percy Faith, Carol Douglas, Don Julian, Kitchens of Distinction’s Patrick Fitzgerald, and Alexis Jordan.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 4 birthdays of Muddy Waters, Jill Scott, Pliers, Major Lance, Hugh Masekela, Baccara’s María Mendiola, Cibo Matto’s Miho Hatori, Gary Moore, The Marketts’ Michael Z. Gordon, Kelly Price, and Crabby Appleton’s Michael Fennelly; and the April 5 birthdays of ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog, The Platters’ Tony Williams, Pharrell Williams, The Adverts’ T.V. Smith, The Hollies’ Allan Clarke, Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J, Wall Of Voodoo’s Stan Ridgway, Paula Cole, Crispian St. Peters, and Joe Meek.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the birthdays of Spinners’ Phillippe Wynne, The Band’s Richard Manuel, Doris Day, Jan & Dean’s Jan Berry, Social Distortion’s Mike Ness, Spiller, Richard Thompson, Don Gibson, Tony Orlando, Leona Lewis, Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach, Melody’s Echo Chamber’s April Prochet, Wayne Newton, and The Caravelles’ Lois Wilkinson.

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Today’s playlist celebrates April Fools Day, the April 1 birthdays of The Isley Brothers’ Rudy Isley, Gil Scott-Heron, Faces’ Ronnie Lane, Jimmy Cliff, M, The Murmaids’ Terry Fischer, Henry Gross, Brewer & Shipley’s Tom Shipley, The Halos’ Arthur Crier, and John Forster; and the April 2 birthdays of Marvin Gaye, Serge Gainsbourgh, Emmylou Harris, Migos’ Quavo, Stetsasonic’s Prince Paul, Bananarama’s Keren Woodward, Leon Russell, Jack Webb, Mykki Blanco, and Eilert Pilarm.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the March 30 birthdays of Derek and the Dominos/Cream’s Eric Clapton, Tracy Chapman, Norah Jones, MC Hammer, Celine Dion, Lene Lovich, Frankie Laine, Duck Sauce’s A-Trak, and Justin Moore; and the March 31 birthdays of AC/DC’s Angus Young, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, The Antlers’ Peter Silberman, Lefty Frizzell, Survivor’s Dave Bickler, Herb Alpert, Focus’s Thijs Van Leer, Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff, Ray Goodman & Brown’s Al Goodman, Richard Kiley, Mouth & MacNeal’s Willem Duyn, and Rednex’ Mary Joe.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the March 28 birthdays of Lady Gaga, Salt, EMF’s James Atkin, The Bad Plus’s Orrin Evans, Oran “Juice” Jones, J-Kwon, Lost Boyz’ Mr. Cheeks, and Ian Gomm; and the March 29 birthdays of Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell, Toto’s Bobby Kimball, The Guess Who’s Chad Allan, Thunderclap Newman’s Speedy Kane, Terry Jacks, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner, The Waitresses’ Patty Donahue, Monty Python’s Eric Idle, Vangelis, The Brecker Brothers’ Michael Brecker, and Astrud Gilberto.

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