Neil Cossar

Neil Cossar a former musician was the guitarist in the late 70’s - 80’s group The Cheaters, (who signed to Parlophone Records, but never troubled the charts). Continually giging in 1982, were awarded ‘Hardest working band of the year’ by BBC Radio 1 after playing 321 gigs and recording an album!

During the 90’s Neil worked as a radio DJ in Manchester, England presenting a late night show which featured countless ‘new acts’ in session including Radiohead, Blur, The Charlatans, Lenny Kravitz, PJ Harvey, The Cranberries and Tori Amos.

He also runs a PR company with his partner Liz Sanchez – their clients have included - Def Leppard, INXS, Joan Baez, Glen Campbell, Jean Michel Jarre, Natalie Imbruglia, The Hollies, Feist, The Stranglers, Barenaked Ladies and UB40.

He first started to collect music facts and trivia while working on the radio, in the early 90’s, this turned into an obsession over the years and evolved into the web site This Day in Music.com which was launched in 1999.

The first edition of This Day in Music was published in 2005 and is now available in a new vastly improved and expanded edition published by Omnibus in June 2010.