Beginning in 1969, Greg Shaw’s Who Put The Bomp was a fanzine for aficionados of such then-unfashionable future New Wave building blocks as Surf Music,…
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Frozen in the collective memory as poodle-haired pretend cowboys, Bon Jovi released their self-titled debut album in 1984. Runaway was the band’s first single -…
Euro-disco big cheeses Boney M were the creation of Frank Farian – the German record producer who also flogged Milli Vanilli to a grateful planet. But we…
Gaynor Hopkins was born in June 1951 and raised in the village of Skewen, just outside Swansea in Wales. Her mother (an excellent singer herself)…
Bontemps Roulez were based in the Pub Rock heartland of the Hope & Anchor, where they gigged and recorded between January and May 1975. They…
London art college types influenced by the Commedia Del Arte, 1920s jazz and vaudeville, the Bonzo’s were originally called The Bonzo Dog Dada Band. Figuring nobody…
Five years after forming as shoegaze wannabes in 1988, The Boo Radleys issued their third album, Giant Steps (1993), which took them into the Top 20 and…
In 1962 the hottest new instrumentalists were Booker T and The MGs – Two blacks and two whites, they were the studio band for Stax records, but…
Australian band Boom Crash Opera played heavy drum-driven dance-oriented rock, much in the manner of INXS, but with just enough angst and bombast to live up…
The Boomtown Rats were formed in Dun Laoghaire (near Dublin), Ireland in 1975 by former NME journalist Bob Geldof (after he was thrown out of Canada…
Singer/songwriter Brian Cadd originally assembled The Bootleg Family Band as the house band for the Australian independent label Bootleg, which he had helped establish in…
Boston leader and guitarist Tom Scholz got a masters degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a researcher and product…
Bow Wow Wow was born when the remaining members of Adam and the Ants, Leigh Gorman, Dave Barbarossa and Matthew Ashman, sought the advice of Sex Pistols’…
This Australian band formed in Sydney in March 1982 as ‘Box of Fish with Tartare Sauce’ (the name was taken from a line in the…
Sydney-based Box The Jesuit formed in October 1986 from the ashes of underground angst merchants Madroom. Box The Jesuit was headed up by the infamous…
Born in Memphis in 1950, Alex Chilton quit school at the age of 16 to join Ronnie and the De Villes, a local group who…
Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Tracy Pew and Phil Calvert were attending Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia, when they formed The Boys Next Door in…
Guitar-playing brothers Lino and Camillo Del Roio formed The Rockhouse Corporation whilst still at high school in Perth, Australia, in 1977. They started out as a…
Along with The Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned, The Boys were part of the mid-70’s UK punk explosion in London. In September 1975,…
The 80s had seen the New Jack Swing sound of R&B acts like New Edition and Keith Sweat sell massively, but it took Boyz II…