The Barron Knights formed in 1959 in Leighton Buzzard, and their first brush with fame came in 1963 when they appeared as a support act…
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Barry Blue was born Barry Ian Green in December 1950 in London. He made his TV debut, aged 13, with school band The Dark Knights,…
Barry Manilow devoted himself to music at an early age, learning to play the accordion at age seven and later studying at the Juilliard School…
One of the most successful songwriting teams in history, Mann and Weil created a body of work so significant it has often been described as…
Barry White was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1944. He joined a group called The Up fronts in 1961- the basis of which remained his…
Bauhaus were the founding fathers of Goth-rock, creating a minimalist, gloomy style of post-punk, driven by jagged guitars and cold, metallic synthesizers. Throughout their brief career,…
Love them or loathe them, The Bay City Rollers were the teenage phenomenon of the 1970s. Five young lads from Edinburgh – Alan Longmuir, Eric…
Bay City Union formed in Brisbane in March 1966 and were one of Australia’s first traditional Chicago blues bands. They released one single for Festival…
He says he can’t sing and keep rhythm on the guitar at the same time, but the unquestionable king of the blues – in both…
Heavily influenced by Def Leppard, this Australian hard rock band emerged in 1987 from the ashes of an Adelaide heavy metal band called Boss. BB…
Formed in Yorkshire in 1972, Be-Bop Deluxe are one of British rock’s classic marginal bands. Everyone seems to have heard of them, and yet few…
Spent the last 55 years with a lost tribe in the Amazon? In that case, here’s a band you should know about… Brothers Brian, Carl…
As Virgin Records’ first Australian signing, Beargarden were briefly big big news. Their first single, Finer Things, was released in 1984 and promoted via mega tours…
Coming from white, middle-class, Jewish families, New York rappers Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz, Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “MCA” Yauch were always going to…
Ska revivalists The Beat were formed in Handsworth (a racially mixed area of Birmingham immortalised by reggae band Steel Pulse with their Handsworth Revolution album) in…
The Beat was founded by Paul Collins, the stepson of a civilian father attached to the US military, who spent his pre-teens living in Greece,…
Formed in Tasmania (Australia) in 1975, Beathoven was based around the amazingly talented trio of Charlie Touber, Greg Cracknell and David Minchin, supplemented by a…
So it goes like this . . . 15-year-old Paul McCartney hears a Skiffle group called The Quarrymen play on Saturday 6 July 1957. Along with a police dog…
The Beatmen were a Slovak rock band singing predominantly in English. Although they released only four songs between 1964 and 1966, they remain one of…
This studio team of British musicians was formed by Norman Cook after the break up of The Housemartins. The core team was Cook (bass), Lindy…