Kings of Leon's Matthew Followill Becomes a Dad

Matthew Followill performs on NBC's "Today" at Rockefeller Center on November 24th, 2010 in New York City.

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Kings of Leon rocker Matthew Followill and his wife, Johanna Bennett, welcomed their first son, Knox, last month.

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Folllowill's represenative tells Us Weekly that Knox Cameron Patrick Followill was born on April 22. 1:02 p.m. in Nashville. The rockin' baby weighed in at 6 lbs., 10 oz.

"Mother, father and baby are happy and healthy and doing well!" the rep for Followill, 26, adds.

Matthew is the lead guitarist in Kings of Leon and is first cousin to the trio of brothers in the band: singer Caleb, drummer Nathan and bass guitarist Jared.

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Caleb Followill, meanwhile, is set to marry model Lily Aldridge later this year.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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