Stuart Adamson
William Stuart Adamson was a Scottish rock guitarist and singer. Adamson began his career in the late 1970s as a founding member and performer with the punk rock band Skids. After leaving Skids in 1981, he formed Big Country and was the band's lead singer and guitarist. The group's commercial heyday was in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he was a member of the alternative country band The Raphaels. In the late 1970s the British music journalist John Peel referred to his musical virtuosity as a guitarist as "a new Jimi Hendrix".
11 April 1958
Born on the same birth date (11 April 1958): Lyudmila Kondratyeva • Wayne Wigham
Born on the same birth day (11 April): Elizabeth Smylie • Hattie Gossett • Ian Bell • Ivonne Teichmann • Karl Rebane • Michael von Grünigen • Micheal Ray Richardson • Milly Alcock • Nancy Honeytree • Pablo Hernández (footballer, born 1985) • Trevor Linden • Whigfield
Born in the same month (April 1958): Alec Baldwin • Andie MacDowell • Brian Haner • Brigitte Holzapfel • Cazuza • Fish (singer) • Georgios Kostikos (footballer, born 1958) • Johan Kriek • John Bracewell • John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute • Keith Acton • Laslo Babits • Michelle Pfeiffer • Nadey Hakim • Rodney Eade