Eddie Hazel
Edward Earl Hazel was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic. Hazel was a posthumous inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. His ten-minute guitar solo in the Funkadelic song "Maggot Brain" is hailed as "one of the greatest solos of all time on any instrument". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Hazel at no. 29 in its list of 250 of the greatest guitarists of all time.
10 April 1950
Born on the same birth date (10 April 1950): Ken Griffey Sr.
Born on the same birth day (10 April): Babyface (musician) • Bobby Smith (rhythm and blues singer) • Eric Greitens • John Whitehurst • Kareem Jackson • Louis Rougier • Margaret Clapp • Noa Kirel • Philibert II, Duke of Savoy • Ricky Leutele • Sean Avery • Siobhan Hunter • Stephanie Sheh • Steve Anderson (hurdler) • Stuart Dybek
Born in the same month (April 1950): Bill Irwin • David Cassidy • David Graf • Franklin Chang-Díaz • Grigory Sokolov • Jancis Robinson • Ken Griffey Sr. • Loris Kessel • Lynn Westmoreland • Miki Manojlović • Peter Hintze • Péter Esterházy • Rowley Leigh • Samuel Alito • Steve Ferrone • Toshiko Fujita