Forty Favorite Albums Released in 1973

Believe it or not I've actually heard most of these...

1. Little Feat Dixie Chicken
2. Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
3. Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
4. Aerosmith Aerosmith
5. The Who Quadrophenia
6. Tom Waits Closing Time
7. The Allman Brothers Band Brothers and Sisters
8. John Denver John Denver’s Greatest Hits
9. Paul Simon There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
10. Stevie Wonder Innervisions
11. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
12. Grateful Dead Wake of the Flood
13. Billy Joel Piano Man
14. Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
15. T. Rex Tanx
16. Steve Miller Band The Joker 
17. Eagles Desperado 
18. Roxy Music For Your Pleasure
19. Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
20. Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
21. John Prine Sweet Revenge
22. Gram Parsons GP
23. Willie Nelson Shotgun Willie
24. Foghat Foghat
25. Waylon Jennings Honky Tonk Heroes
26. Lou Reed Berlin
27. Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack
28. ZZ Top Tres Hombres
29. The Stooges Raw Power
30. Paul McCartney & Wings Band on the Run 
31. Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells
32. New York Dolls The New York Dolls
33. Genesis Selling England by the Pound
34. Dolly Parton My Tennessee Mountain Home
35. Diana Ross Touch Me in the Morning
36. Neil Diamond Jonathan Livingston Seagull soundtrack
37. Ravi Shankar Ragas
38. Faces Ooh La La
39. Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bachman-Turner Overdrive
40. Ringo Starr Ringo Starr

Forty Other People Born on July 31st

Today is my 39th birthday, which means this time next year I will mark 40 years of me. To celebrate I am posting an appropriately themed countdown each month leading up to the big day, starting... now!

Oh, and if you're wondering how you can participate in all the fun, follow this link for directions on how to submit your suggestion for the "Top 40 Project". And thank you!

Forty Other People Born on July 31^st

1143 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)

1527 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)

1598 – Alessandro Algardi, sculptor and architect (d. 1654)

1800 – Friedrich Wöhler, invented organic chemistry (d. 1882)

1803 – John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)

1837 – William Quantrill, Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (d. 1865)

1847 – Ignacio Cervantes, pianist and composer (d. 1905)

1867 – Sebastian S. Kresge, philanthropist (d. 1966)

1901 – Jean Dubuffet, painter and sculptor (d. 1985)

1904 – Brett Halliday, pulp writer of the Shayne detective novels (d. 1977)

1911 – Liberace, pianist (d. 1983)

1912 – Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)

1918 – Paul D. Boyer, chemist / Nobel Prize Laureate

1919 – Primo Levi, author / chemist (d. 1987)

1921 – Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)

1921 – Whitney Young, civil rights activist / Kentuckian (d. 1971)  

1932 – John Searle, philosopher

1943 – William Bennett, 3rd United States Secretary of Education

1945 – Gary Lewis, singer (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)

1945 – William Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts

1946 – Bob Welch, musician (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2012)

1956 – Michael Biehn, actor (Terminator)

1956 – Bill Callahan, football coach

1956 – Deval Patrick, 71st governor of Massachusetts

1957 – Daniel Ash, musician (Bauhaus)

1958 – Bill Berry, musician (R.E.M.)

1962 – Wesley Snipes, actor/ tax evader

1963 – Norman Cook, musician (The Housemartins, Fatboy Slim)

1964 – Jim Corr, musician (The Corrs)

1965 – J. K. Rowling, apparently invented magic and books

1966 – Dean Cain, actor / Superman (Lois & Clark)

1968 – Mark Cuban, basketball enthusiast

1969 – Loren Dean, actor (Mumford)

1970 – Ben Chaplin, actor (The Thin Red Line, The Water Horse)

1974 – Ben Phelan, pal / American writer / musician (Apples in Stereo)
1977 – Tim Couch, quarterback / Kentuckian

1978 – Will Champion, musician (Coldplay)

1979 – B. J. Novak, actor (The Office, Inglorious Basterds)

1981 – Harry Potter, fictional wizard

1982 – Jeff DaRosa, musician (Dropkick Murphys)