The effervescent vocals of General Norman Johnson did much to secure Chairmen Of The Board a major hit with Give Me Just A Little More Time in…
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Raised in Chicago and re-named by her local chapter of the Black Panthers (her real name is Yvette Marie Stevens) Chaka Khan brought both erotic maturity and…
Like their West Coast contemporaries Sly and the Family Stone, The Chambers Brothers shattered racial and musical divides to forge an incendiary fusion of funk,…
This melodic, multi-layered guitar-pop quartet formed in Manchester in 1981, and originally comprised Mark “Birdy” Burgess (vocals & bass), Reg Smithies (guitar), Dave Fielding (guitar),…
The Champs grew out of a group of Texan studio session musicians Gene Autry hired for his fledgling Challenge Records label in Hollywood. Their first…
Robert Lee “Chan” Romero was born on 7 July 1941 in Billings, Montana (USA). His father was of Spanish and Apache descent while his mother…
The Chantays – from Orange County, California – were launched upon the world by Dot Records after label boss Randy Wood heard their debut single…
Led by Riss Chantelle (formerly known as Iris Lana), British girl group The Chantelles cut some high-quality material in the mid-1960s, made numerous TV appearances and even…
Five New York school friends led by 15-year-old Arlene Smith made the Top 20 in 1958 with Maybe, produced by disc jockey Alan Freed for…
All the Merseybeat performers who made the charts were white, but Liverpool was (and still is) a cosmopolitan city and there were several black performers. The main…
A bunch of complete punk loonies from Bristol who started out as Vice Squad’s road crew plus some mates. The line-up eventually settled down as Ampex,…
The Charlatans were the city slickers in residency at The Red Dog Saloon in Nevada in the summer of 1965. They mixed jug-band folk and rock…
The Charlatans came into existence after Jon Baker and Martin Blunt (ex-Makin’ Time) were crushed between Morrissey and Marr’s monitors at a Smiths gig in the 80s.…
Rockabilly pioneer Charlie Feathers was born Charles Arthur Feathers in June 1932 in the hill country near Holly Springs, around 50 miles southeast of Memphis, and…
After being discharged from the Air Force in the mid-fifties, Charlie Rich’s wife, Margaret Ann took some of his tapes to Sam Phillips’ legendary Sun…
Texan Charlie Sexton was a child prodigy – he got his first guitar at the age of four and played lead guitar in Joe Ely’s…
This pop duo from north London emerged as unexpected chart successes in the late 1970s and early 1980s. With both members already in their 30s…
Cheap Trick formed in Rockford, Illinois, USA in 1972. Main songwriter Rick Nielsen and Tom Petersson had originally performed as The Grim Reapers, then Fuse…
Although based on a seemingly foolproof formula, it was probably the ultra-commercial pop image that contributed to Cheek’s eventual demise. The mainstays of the Aussie…
The English-born, Melbourne-bred Hammond sisters, Chrissie (the brunette) and Lyndsay (the blonde), were the archetypal 1970s sex bombs with big hair. They had tremendous, booming…