BORN ON THIS DAY

Judge Dread (1945-1998). The musician from Kent, born Alex Hughes, sold more reggae records in Britain in the Seventies than anyone except Bob Marley. described as ‘a big, burly, blond, balding Englishman’, dread was the first white recording artist to have a reggae hit in Jamaica. He died of a heart attack, aged 52, after collapsing on stage at the end of a show in Canterbury. LORENZ HART (1895-1943). The U.S. lyricist was best known for his collaboration with Richard Rodgers, together writing classics including Blue Moon, Manhattan and The Lady Is A Tramp. Rodgers, who was 17 when he first met Hart, 23, recalled: ‘I left Hart’s house having acquired, in one afternoon, a career, a partner, a best friend and a source of permanent irritation.’