SONG OF THE DAY: It's VALENTINE'S WEEKEND and former GENESIS frontman and solo rock star, PETER GABRIEL's 61st Birthday.. The song "In your Eyes" is perhaps best known as the song that John Cusack used t serenade actress Ione Skye via boombox in the 1988 Cameron Crowe film "Say Anything".. The song comes from the 1986 debut "So", which helped to launch Gabriel into solo stardom with the Top 10 hits: "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time".. "In Your Eyes" got to #1 on Billboard's Rock chart in 1986..
FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN TODAY: "American Beauty" star Mina Suvari, singer Robbie Williams, trash talk host Jerry Springer, "Grease" star Stockard Channing, Peter Tork of "The Monkees", "Vertigo" star Kim Novack.. Posthumously: singer Tennessee Ernie Ford, "American Gothic" painter Grant Wood..
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