Born Anne Martin in Whitstable Kent, Bette Bright was a founding member of Liverpool cult favourites Deaf School. Criminally underused in that group, she released…
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Bette Midler grew up in Hawaii, where her parents Fred and Ruth had moved in the early 1940s from Paterson, New Jersey. The family subsisted on…
Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1939, Betty Everett was playing piano and singing in church by the age of nine. In 1957, she moved to Chicago…
Miami queen of soul Betty Wright served her apprenticeship in the church with family gospel group The Echoes of Joy. By the time she was…
Bettye LaVette was born Betty Haskins in Muskegon, Michigan on 29 January 1946. Raised in Detroit, she was signed by a local record producer called Johnnie…
Alongside Lynne Randell, petite (4′ 9″) blonde Bev Harrell was one of the most popular female solo singers on the mid-60s Australian pop scene. Hailing…
Widely considered the blueprint for the British girl group, this vocal trio consisted of three real-life sisters from East London – Joy (the eldest) and…
Big Audio Dynamite was formed in London in 1984 by ex-Clash guitarist Mick Jones, who was still under contract with CBS. He recruited Dan Donovan,…
This duo formed in the UK with Brit Simon Tedd and Canadian ‘Shark’. They had minor hits for MCA with Shooting From My Heart and the superbly…
Chicago’s noise autocrats Big Black were always a contrary outfit. The three-piece of Steve Albini (guitar, vocals), Santiago Durango (guitarist) and Dave Riley (bass) split…
The “Big Bopper” was born Jiles Perry Richardson on 24 October 1930, in Sabine Pass, Texas. Following military service in the Army, he worked as…
The one-time house band at San Francisco’s Avalon Ballroom, Big Brother & The Holding Company was an early Bay Area sensation, but their raw, primitive…
Scottish band Big Country – with their big guitars and heroic, anthemic rock – were the polar opposite of the predominant synthesizer groups of the…
Few other groups in the post-punk era can claim to have launched so many successful careers as Big In Japan – The KLF, Frankie Goes To…
Joe Turner was born in Kansas City on 18 May 1911, and by the late 1920’s he was a singing bartender in a town where…
Born in Montgomery, Alabama, on 11 December 1926, Willie Mae Thornton’s father was a minister, and as a young girl, she and her six brothers…
Although technically an Australian group, Big Pig began in London around 1985. Lead singer Sherine had a dark alto that complemented the often depressing tone…
Named after a Memphis supermarket, Big Star were so far ahead of the game that even though co-founder Chris Bell died in 1978, it would…
In 1962, the most popular group on Merseyside amongst the other musicians was possibly not The Beatles but The Big Three, and yet they couldn’t transform…