The Cherokees formed in 1962 in Leeds, and like many British bands at the time, they made several trips to Hamburg to play in clubs…
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Brothers Leonard and Phil Chess immigrated to America in 1928 from Poland. In 1947 they bought out Aristocrat Records in Chicago, which they renamed Chess.…
For a while, The Chesterfields’ charming, jolly guitar pop was very much in vogue. They were formed in Yeovil, Somerset, in the summer of 1984…
Chet Atkins was born Chester Burton Atkins in Luttrell, Tennessee, on 20 June 1924. His father was a music teacher who specialised in piano. Atkins…
In the late 50s, Eugene Record and Robert ‘Squirrel’ Lester were performing in a singing group called The Chanteurs, while Creadel “Red” Jones and Marshall…
Chic formed in New York in 1977, primarily as a working unit for guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards who had started out working…
The band originally played across the USA as Chicago Transit Authority, until legal action from the city’s transport company resulted in the shortened name. With…
Chicken Shack formed in Kidderminster, Worcester in 1967. They were a heavily blues-based rock band featuring Stan Webb, who has often been compared to Freddie King in…
Chicory Tip formed at school in Maidstone, Kent, in 1969. They were originally called The Sonics but bass guitarist Barry Mayger saw a bottle of…
Doo-lang doo-lang! Four black teenagers from the Bronx, New York, took He’s So Fine to #1 early in 1963. Their sound was a haunting mixture of mid-50s vocalising…
In Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers, Pub Rock revealed its hippie roots. Martin Stone, once the guitar lynchpin in much-touted London bands The Action and Mighty Baby, and…
Chilliwack formed in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) in 1970 from the ashes of a band called The Collectors. Named after a city east of Vancouver,…
This New Zealand guitar-pop band was formed in 1980 by singer, guitarist and songwriter Martin Phillipps from the remains of a school punk group. For…
Gary Daly and Eddie Lundon formed China Crisis in Liverpool after leaving school in 1979. Their first releases, African and White (1981) and Scream Down At…
Possibly the most popular TV and musical cartoon of all time, the Chipmunks enjoyed two periods of prosperity – the ’60s era of adolescent Baby…
Extensive promotion directed at the “flower power” market, catchy psychedelic covers – nothing seemed to work for the Stones-loving Chocolate Watchband from San Jose in 1967…
The Choirboys formed in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney in 1979. The original members of the band were Mark Gable on vocals, Ian Hulme…
The Chordettes, label-mates of The Everly Brothers, were one of the most successful of the many US Girl Groups of the 1950s, scoring seven US Top 40 hits…
Based in Deptford, The Chords were probably the most energetic and powerful Mod Revival band in London. The band featured Billy Hassett (vocals/guitar) and his cousin Martin…
Chris Clark was a 17-year-old, 6-foot platinum blonde when she arrived at Motown’s Detroit headquarters in 1963 to audition for Berry Gordy Jnr. The Motown…
