Born on this day in 1954 – American musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. He was one of the most influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s. Vaughan played guitar on six of the tracks on David Bowie’s album Let’s Dance, including the title track and ‘China Girl’. Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash on August 27th 1990 age 35. His family successfully sued the company’s operators for allowing an unqualified pilot to fly in fog, and was awarded $2 million (£1.2 million). In the months that followed his death, Vaughan sold over 5.5 million albums in the United States.