Formed in Edinburgh in November 1972, Bilbo Baggins may have suffered through their connection to The Bay City Rollers (Tam Paton was the manager for both…
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Bill Haley, who had been singing and playing guitar with a country & western combo since 1940 – when he was 15 years old -…
When the moody Forever and Ever topped the UK charts for Slik on Valentine’s Day 1976 it completed a remarkable ten years at the top for its…
Billie Davis was born Carol Hedges on 22 December 1945, in Woking, Surrey. She had several hits in the 1960s and is best remembered for…
Born Eleanora Fagan on 7 April 1915 and abandoned by her parents as a baby, former teenage prostitute Billy Holiday’s troubled upbringing in 1920’s Maryland…
Looking back on all the pop star excess of the decade, the 80s needed Steven William Bragg more than anyone could have imagined at the…
Ronald Wycherley – born 17 April 1940 in Liverpool, England – became arguably the best rocker that Britain produced in the early 1960s. The search…
Billy Idol was born William Michael Albert Broad on 30 November 1955 at Stanmore, Middlesex, in England but spent his early years in New York,…
Billy Kramer (real name William Howard Ashton) was an apprentice fitter for British Rail. He was also the lead singer for a Liverpool group called…
William Martin Joel was born on 9 May 1949 in the Bronx, New York. Growing up in the Levittown area of Hicksville, smack in the…
Billy Riley was born in 1933 in Pocahontas, Arkansas, and grew up hard through the Great Depression, with his father taking jobs wherever he could,…
William Everett Preston was born in Texas in 1946 but raised in Los Angeles, where his prodigious talents blossomed early. At the age of 10…
William Richard Thorpe was born in Manchester, England, and moved to Australia with his parents at the age of 11. They settled in Brisbane, where…
Formed in 1963 and originally called The Thunderbirds, West Drayton’s The Birds had shortened their name to avoid confusion with Chris Farlowe’s backing band. Talk…
The Birthday Party hailed from Melbourne, Australia. They had originally been The Boys Next Door but they switched names in 1980 and relocated to London. They…
Steven Clark (Sci-Fi Steven), John Clark (John Disco), and Amanda MacKinnon (Manda Rin) formed Bis in late 1994 while Rin and Disco were at Woodfarm…
Self-taught student group The Bitter Lemons (originally known as The Orgasms) formed in Canberra, Australia, in March 1965 to play at ANU (Australian National University)…
If not as well known as other Ohio rockers of their late-’70s era (Devo, Chrissie Hynde, Pere Ubu, Dead Boys), Akron’s Bizarros had substantial impact…
In 1990, as The Black Crowes released their debut album, American rock was in the midst of change. Heavy Metal was now well into its…
The Black Diamonds hailed from Lithgow (NSW, Australia), evolving out of rockabilly band Johnny Kett’s Black Diamonds in 1965. Managed by local radio DJ Bob…