Possibly the most popular TV and musical cartoon of all time, the Chipmunks enjoyed two periods of prosperity – the ’60s era of adolescent Baby…
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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…
Formed in Deptford, South London, in 1978, The Chords were probably the most energetic and powerful Mod Revival band in London. The band featured Billy Hassett…
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…
Remembered as a one-hit-wonder (the chart-topping Out Of Time), the man born John Henry Deighton can rightly be considered one of Britain’s great underachievers. With his…
Although Chris Isaak was loved by the media when his debut album Silvertone was released in 1985, his songs didn’t get on the radio and his videos…
Goth’s unlikely tendency to flourish in the world’s sunniest places could be said to start with the debut album, Only Theatre Of Pain (1982), from Los Angeles…
Brothers Garry and Russell Christian – formerly an a cappella soul trio with Roger, another sibling from their family of 11 – and ex-Yachts and…
Christie’s chart-topping hit from 1970, Yellow River, remained familiar in the late 1980s as it was adapted for use as a TV commercial for British…
There was a time in 1980 when Christie Allen couldn’t put a foot wrong. Her single, He’s My Number One, claimed a spot in the Australian Top 10…
Christine was born in Leeds on 11 May 1948. After being placed second in a Manchester talent contest, she was offered a contract by Oriole…
This energetic punk band originated from Hitchin in Hertfordshire in 1978 and kept their good-natured Sex Pistols-inspired vision active well into the mid-1980s. The band released their…
Chubby Checker was originally a slaughterhouse worker named Ernest Evans, but was re-named because of his resemblance to a young Fats Domino He scored a…
There is much confusion surrounding the actual birth date of rock legend Charles Edward Berry. Most informed sources agree on 18 October 1931, yet some…
Chuck Jackson racked up a string of uptown New York soul monsters on Scepter’s subsidiary label Wand in the early 60s, but by 1967, the…
An outstanding R&B singer from Atlanta, Chuck Willis became known as the ‘king of the stroll’, although he saw himself as a latter-day Johnny Ace. Legendary…
Chumbawamba formed in the early 1980s and were closely allied with anarcho-punk collective Crass (their first release was a track on the Crass Records compilation Bullshit…
From the release of their single She Never Said in November 1980, this unique Canberra-born, Sydney-based band produced a distinctive, ethereal, psychedelic blend of music that…