This is from The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, edited by Jon Pareles and Patricia Romanowski (New York: Rollin Stone Press / Summit Books, 1983), p. 485.
Back in the days before the Internet and Wikipedia, this was the way we would know the birthdays of the musicians in our favorite bands.
I used to read the entries in this book over and over again. Back in the day.
Is the 1983 Encyclopedia entry as obtuse as the Rush entry in the 1979 Record Guide?
Stay tuned for Part 2…
Progarchy 
I used to do the same thing with the Rolling Stone guides, read them over and over, because that’s all the info you could get at the time. Worth noting that as long as Dave Marsh was editor, prog bands and even psych bands like the Doors got a raw deal. Marsh was all about traditional rock and roll and a complete Bob Dylan/Bruce Springsteen fanboy (nothing wrong with that, mind, but it didn’t bode well for musicians that weren’t easily categorized).
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