Originally made up of the three Morris brothers – Jim (guitar, keyboards, recorder), Mark (vocals, bass) and Des (drums) – Balaam and The Angel began…
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Singer/songwriter Brendan Kibble formed The Bam Balams in Sydney in August 1984. The line-up of Kibble, Brad Fitzpatrick (ex-Division 4), Steve Cole and Matt Manchester…
Formed in 1981 in Collie, a dusty mining town south of Perth in Western Australia, The Bamboos met with little success until they made their…
This British female dance-pop vocal trio, comprising Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin, came on the scene just as MTV was becoming an influential…
Bob Geldof (ex-Boomtown Rats) was watching television in October 1984 when he saw the news reports on the famine crisis in Ethiopia. Driven to action,…
Singer Christian (John) Gaydon, keyboard player Mike d’Abo, guitarist John Baker, bass player David Wilkinson and drummer James Rugge-Price were a bunch of public schoolboys (from Harrow,…
Band of Joy formed in 1966 in West Bromwich with Chris Brown (keyboards), Vernon Pereira (guitar) and singer Robert Plant – who would go on…
Band of Light was a blues-based group formed in October 1972 in Sydney (Australia) by Phil Key, with bassist Peter Roberts – both of whom…
Phil Manning Guitar, vocals Tony Naylor Guitar Phil Gaunt Bass Tony Buettel Drums Gus Fenwick Bass Peter Roberts Guitar Fran Kelly Bass Peter Curtain Drums…
Amid media speculation, Bob Dylan’s backing group, The Band, released their debut album Music From Big Pink in 1968. It was named after the house they recorded it…
Australian band Bandicoot was essentially the duo of Mick Fettes (who had recently left Madder Lake) and Shane Bourne (who later became known as a…
In 1981, a folk-rock singer named Susanna Hoffs rang up a couple of garage-rocking sisters from Northridge on the northern rim of the San Fernando…
Barbara Acklin was born in Oakland, California and moved with her family to Chicago, Illinois, in 1948. By the age of 11, she was singing…
As an 18-year-old in 1965, Barbara Mason captured the innocent stirrings of adolescence on the self-penned Yes I’m Ready, a US #3 R&B hit which is…
Brenda Holloway had one genuine rival in the Motown glamour stakes. The delectable Barbara McNair from Racine, Wisconsin, even went into the annals as the…
Having got the thumbs down from Diana Ross when she auditioned for a place with the post-Florence Ballard Supremes, one-time lead singer of The Platters…
Barbara Rosemary Ruskin was born in East Ham, London, in 1948, and moved to Stoke Newington before starting secondary school. Her father died when she…
From softly focused pastoral passages at the end of the ’60s to more muscular rock-outs two decades later, Barclay James Harvest was never a band…
Ed Robertson and Steven Page began writing and performing together as a duo while they were students at Churchill Heights Public School in Toronto, Canada.…
Despite a cheerfully self-deprecating stance, London’s Barracudas offered quite an enjoyable sentimental journey through assorted American traditions on Drop Out. Some tunes plunged headlong into dense,…