Blue Mink was formed in London in 1969 by a group of Britain’s top session musicians with the sole intention of recording an album of…
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Paul Buchanan, Robert Bell and PJ Moore first combined at Glasgow University in the very early 80s. Paul and PJ had known each other since…
Kevin Archer, a key player in Geno-era Dexys Midnight Runners, changed his name to Al because Kevin Rowland would not countenance two Kevins in the band.…
The roots of that strange, outlaw motorcycle band, Blue Öyster Cult, can be traced back to the smoky wisps of psychedelia, when they were known…
It shows you how far and fast New Wave travelled. Five years earlier, Chris Sullivan might have been screaming lyrics in a punk band; in…
Blue Swede formed in 1973 in Sweden when Björn Skifs, a top vocalist in that country, was looking for a band to accompany him during…
From the same new Scottish pop scene that begat Aztec Camera came The Bluebells – a bookish-looking quintet of Merseybeat revisionists. Their self-titled debut mini-album…
Blues Incorporated was formed in 1962 by Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner with the amazing line-up of Charlie Watts on drums, Jack Bruce on bass,…
The roots of The Blues Magoos were laid when Ralph Scala and Ronnie Gilbert met as members of the golf team at DeWitt Clinton High…
Formed in 1965, The Blues Project were in the vanguard of the Sixties blues revival. Playing a rootsy amalgam of blues, jazz, folk and rock,…
Elton Dean passed away on 7 February 2006 from heart and liver-related health problems. Elton Dean Saxophone Reg Dwight Vocals, piano Long John Baldry Vocals…
Originally called The Bottlegarden, The Bluetones formed in Hounslow, London, in 1994. In 1995, they released two singles, Are You Blue or Are You Blind?…
Formed in London in 1988 via Colchester, Essex, Blur (initially called ‘Seymour’) started on the lower rungs of the gig circuit. Within a year they…
Otha Ellas Bates was born on 30 December 1928 in McComb, Mississippi, and at the age of five, moved with his family to the south-side of…
September 1964 saw the launch of the short-lived Ready Steady – Win!, a sister show to Ready Steady Go! aimed at finding the next Beatles in what…
Bobby Byrd and Earl Nelson had both been members of a prolific doo-wop group in Los Angeles called The Hollywood Flames, while Byrd also had…
After dabbling briefly in rock music as pianist for Bobby Vee, Robert Zimmerman of Duluth, Minnesota took himself off to Greenwich Village, New York, where he…
Bob Lind was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1942, though his family moved to Denver during his teens, where he found his niche on the…
Reggae’s only true superstar, Robert Nesta Marley, was born in 1945 in rural St Ann, Jamaica, the son of a teenage mother and middle-aged white…
Bob Seger grew up in Detroit and played in a local band called Last Heard. In 1966 he recorded some solo material, and several tracks…