GALLERY: Classic Rockers from the Midwest
Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander celebrates his birthday today (January 23), and with Cheap Trick being the pride of Rockford, Ill., it made us realized how many awesome classic rockers we…
Cheap Trick's Robin Zander celebrates his birthday today (January 23), and with Cheap Trick being the pride of Rockford, Ill., it made us realized how many awesome classic rockers we all know and love hail from the midwest.
In honor of Zander's birthday, below is a small gallery of some of our favorite classic rockers of the midwest. Enjoy!
Cheap Trick
Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for John VarvatosRockford, Illinois
John Mellencamp
Adam Bettcher/Getty ImagesSeymour, Indiana
Styx
Skip Bolen/Getty ImagesChicago, Illinois
REO Speedwagon
Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesChampaign, Illinois
Izzy Stradlin (far right)
Scott Harrison/Getty ImagesLafayette, Indiana
Axl Rose
Robert Cianflone/Getty ImagesLafayette, Indiana
Bob Seger
Mike Coppola/Getty ImagesBorn in Detroit, Michigan. Grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Iggy Pop
Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesYpsilanti, Michigan
Bob Dylan
Christopher Polk/Getty ImagesBorn in Duluth, Minnesota. Grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota.
Chuck Berry
Timothy Hiatt/Getty ImagesSt. Louis, Missouri
Chrissie Hynde
Terry Wyatt/Getty ImagesAkron, Ohio
Joe Walsh
Mike Windle/Getty ImagesBorn in Wichita, Kansas. Lived in Columbus, Ohio as a kid.
Steve Miller
Mike Coppola/Getty ImagesMilwaukee, Wisconsin.
Glenn Frey
Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty ImagesBorn in Detroit, Michigan. Grew up in Royal Oak, Michigan.
