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): Dolores Huerta • Frank Barson • Hannes Sigurðsson • Hayley Westenra • Helen McElhone • Jean Lannes • Kenny Lattimore • Laura Bell Bundy • Max von Sydow • Michel Corrette • Mike Hawthorn • Noa Kirel • Paul Bearer • Peter Hollingworth • Rachel Corrie • Sheb Wooley • William Booth • William Hazlitt
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