Founded in 1993 by aspiring music mogul Louis Walsh and composed of five Irish vocalists, Boyzone embraced a pop style similar to Take That’s, whose breakup in…
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Since the mid-60s the Texas-bred Scaggs (real name William Royce Scaggs) had bounced around the music business, serving a stint in the Steve Miller Band – he…
As enthusiasts are aware, Kraütrock encompasses wildly disparate musical tendencies. But if you tend to the freak-out side and want the opposite of the amorphous ambience/mellifluous…
Bram Tchaikovsky (born Peter Bramall) began playing in local pub bands in Lincolnshire in the late 60s. He joined The Motors in 1977 and was relegated to…
English ex-pat Dave Burnett and Melburnian Lee Cutelle began working together in Melbourne (Australia) in the 1960s, releasing the single I Can See The Colours…
Bread started out as Elektra Records studio session musicians and originally intended the group to be wholly studio-based. The reception for their first album in 1969…
Formed in 1962, female vocal trio The Breakaways became Britain’s premiere session vocalists throughout the 1960s, also recording a handful of little-known girl group singles. The original…
The Breakfast Club’s drummer, Stephen Bray, helped write and produce several hits for his former college friend, Madonna, including True Blue and Into the Groove. Madonna actually played drums in…
Formed in 1990 when Kim Deal was still the bassist for The Pixies, The Breeders gave her an outlet to play the guitar and write…
Perhaps the most beautiful woman to step in front of a microphone at the studio, there was never a greater, more unfulfilled talent at Motown…
Born Brenda Mae Tarpley in Atlanta, Georgia, on 11 December 1944, Brenda Lee is rumoured to have taken to the road with a singing group…
Alfred Jesse Smith was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on 26 July 1941 but moved to San Pedro in Los Angeles with his family as a…
Brewers Droop formed around High Wycombe in 1971. They played blues-based music and gigged extensively in the early days of the pub rock scene. They…
Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll (Jools) first came together in early 1965, as members of Steampacket, a self-contained touring revue show that also featured Long…
Instead of becoming a rock star, Perth-born Brian Cadd could have become a champion tennis player. At the age of ten, his mother offered him…
Brian Epstein was born on 19 September 1934 in Rodney Street, Liverpool – an exclusive area well known for its concentration of doctors. The grandson…
Brian was born on 12 November 1943 in Queens, New York City, where his first musical experience ranged from church choir at the age of…
Always a little bit different, Leeds band The Bridewell Taxis (named after the slang term for a police van) featured a trombone player and were…
The New York record business at the start of the 1960s was very much the leader in the field and was dominated by the idea of…
It’s a tad unfair that Brinsley Schwarz became a global laughing stock after their infamous “Fillmore trip” of 1970. The ill-fated jaunt saw them pay…