Born Patricia Jacqueline Sibley on 10 November 1923, Anne Shelton, came to be known as the “Forces’ Favourite” on wartime radio. A singer with a…
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Anthony George Newley was born on 24 September 1931. He grew up around Hackney in the East End of London and began acting in his…
Although die-hard fans stuck by Anthrax no matter who their singer was, it is widely agreed among metalheads that the band was at their peak…
In good punk tradition, the Anti-Nowhere League formed in Kent, England, in 1980 out of sheer boredom. The band members were old friends, congenital troublemakers…
Hailing from Derbyshire, England, Anti-Pasti were part of the commercially successful but critically reviled second wave of punk. The group signed to the punk/heavy metal…
Born Marie Antoinette Daly in Southend, Essex, between the ages of 13 and 15, Antoinette (later known as Toni Daly) recorded half a dozen singles,…
Stiff Records had great commercial hopes for this Manchester quartet, led by balding, bespectacled singer/guitarist/pianist Clive Gregson, whose songs – mostly about the unhappy side of…
Like a number of Australian musicians who got their start during the late 1970s New Wave movement, The Apartments’ Peter Milton Walsh received more acclaim in Europe…
Aphrodite’s Child were formed in Athens, Greece, by singer Demis Roussos and keyboard player Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (better known later as Vangelis) in the mid-1960s.…
The Applejacks hailed from Solihull in the West Midlands, where, in 1960, guitarists Martin Baggott and Philip Cash were in a church youth club skiffle…
In their first ten years together, Canadian band April Wine went through several changes in style and personnel with Myles Goodwyn the only enduring original…
During Duran Duran’s “gap year” (1985), Arcadia was the girly yin to the macho yang of Power Station, and – surprise, surprise – thanks to hit single Election…
This 1960s psychedelic band was fronted by songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Miguel Sergides with Graham Best on bass, Allan Ellwood on organ, John Albert Parker…
In 1967, Texan Archie Bell received his draft letter from the US Army. Bell was understandably depressed at the prospect of going to serve in…
Don Kirshner and Ron Dante worked together as teenagers for Aldon Music, whose roster of writers included Neil Sedaka, Gerry Goffin and Carole King. After singing on…
1960s-influenced band The Arctic Circles played the Melbourne (Australia) independent scene in the mid-1980s. The band’s sound fused garage-punk, psychedelia and tough R&B riffs. The…
Although the Nashville Sound had peaked by the late 60s, musicians there were still regarded with reverential awe. It was there that Bob Dylan went to…
Daughter of Detroit’s acclaimed Baptist preacher, the Reverend C L Franklin, Aretha Louise Franklin was just into her twenties when she signed to Atlantic in November 1966,…
Rod Argent formed Argent in 1969 after the demise of The Zombies. The band visited the USA for their first tour in 1970, but it…
Australian band Ariel was the brainchild of Mike Rudd and Bill Putt, following on from the break-up of their previous band Spectrum in April 1973. Ariel played blues-tinged…