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Roy Hay, English guitarist, keyboard player, and composer
Roy Ernest Hay is an English musician who is the guitarist and keyboardist of the band Culture Club. This gave Culture Club the distinction of being the first group since the Beatles to have three Top 10 hits in the US from a debut album. The group disbanded in 1986, but they reunited in 1998 to record a new album.
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Roy Hay (musician) was born in 1961. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
These figures put everyday life in Roy Hay (musician)'s birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.
| Measure | 1961 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Gas | $0.31 | $3.45/gal |
| Average home | $12,500 | $435,000 |
| Average income | $7,600 | $67,500 |
| Minimum wage | $1.15 | $7.25/hr (federal) |
| Movie ticket | $0.69 | $11.95 |
| Postage stamp | $0.04 | $0.73 |
| Population | 183.7M | 341 million |
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