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): Alfred Kubin • Bella Akhmadulina • Charlie Culberson • Chris Carrabba • Claire Wineland • David Harbour • Hayley Westenra • Jeff Gray (baseball, born 1963) • Joseph Pulitzer • Kevin Berry • Kyösti Kallio • Matthew C. Perry • Peter Hollingworth • Philibert II, Duke of Savoy • Prafulla Chandra Sen • Priit Kasesalu • Q-Tip (musician) • Robert Burns Woodward • Sadio Mané • Steve Anderson (hurdler) • Stuart Dybek • Terence Lewis (choreographer) • Tim Alexander • Willo Flood
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