Initially performing around their hometown of Liverpool as The Bumblies (named after the Michael Bentine TV show), the group contacted producer Joe Meek (by simply…
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Five black schoolgirls from Brooklyn, New York were chosen by Phil Spector to launch the Philles label he had formed with Lester Sills in late 1961. Spector…
Cuban Heels formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1977 and was headed by John Milarky, who had previously been a member of Johnny & the Self…
A Leeds band who specialised in absurdist takes on pop classics and po-faced indie styles with a groovy funk backbeat. They released a Peel Session in 1988…
Formed in Bradford, England in 1982 as Southern Death Cult with Ian Astbury (then calling himself Ian Lindsay) performing vocal duties. Having spent time in…
George Alan O’Dowd was born in 1961 in Eltham, Kent, England. George idolised David Bowie and Marc Bolan and frequented the London clubs which were to be the focal…
Cupid’s Inspiration hailed from Stamford, Lincolnshire, and originally called themselves The Ends, paying their dues like many others at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany.…
The Cure were one of the most pivotal and musically diverse post-punk bands to emerge from England. Reincarnated continually throughout their history by main man…
The gangling beret-wearing Martin Benedict Volpelière-Pierrot (‘Ben’ for short) and his public school boys clocked up five hit singles in their career after first catching…
Born in Chicago in June 1942, Curtis joined a vocal harmony group called The Roosters in 1956 with his friend Jerry Butler. The other members…
Sonja Kristina started out by wanting to be a folk singer. She learned guitar at her convent school in Brentwood, Essex, around the same time Hank…
Cutting Crew was formed in 1985 by English vocalist Nick Van Eede and Canadian guitarist Kevin Scott MacMichael. The duo made demos which led to…
Irritating, unsexy and unable to pronounce her R’s, Cyndi Lauper was one of the biggest stars of the early MTV era, selling five million copies of…
Formed in 1961 by a group of students at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, The Cyrkle started as a frat band called The Rhondells. During the…