Cilla Black was born Priscilla Maria Veronica White in Liverpool on 27 May 1943. The family lived over a bank and behind a barber’s shop…
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In the late 80s, Cinderella had triple-platinum hits in the US with their debut album Night Songs (1986) and follow-up, Long Cold Winter (1988). Night Songs was released…
As the original singer in Black Flag (a post later occupied by Henry Rollins), Circle Jerks’ vocalist Keith Morris can lay claim to being an American punk…
Fronted by singer and guitarist Mick Walker, this Wolverhampton-based mod revival four-piece formed from the remnants of West Midlands punk bands The Injectors and The…
Formed in the mid-1970s by Birmingham school friends Lol Mason (whose father, Edward J. Mason, was the creator and original scriptwriter of The Archers) and…
Clannad (the name means ‘Clan from Dore’) came together because they were family – literally. Ciarán Ó Braonáin (the group’s leader, bassist and guitarist), Pól, and Máire (pronounced Moya) were…
The Clash formed in London in 1976. After a riotous tour supporting The Sex Pistols, their manager, Bernie Rhodes, secured them a deal with the major-label…
Classics IV began life as The Classics, a Jacksonville instrumental covers band consisting of JR Cobb on guitar, bassist Walter Eaton, keyboardist Joe Wilson, and…
Another bunch of experimental synth-mongers to make it to the big time thanks to an appearance on the Some Bizarre label sampler, Classix Nouveaux and…
Claude Antoine Marie François was born in Ismaïlia, Egypt, where his father, Aimé François, was working as a senior manager in the Anglo-French Suez Canal…
Of all the Liverpool bands desperate to escape the long shadow of The Beatles in the 60s, The Clayton Squares (named after a city centre…
When Laurel Canyon commune band Brain Train, unusually boasting two drummers (including future CSN man Dallas Taylor), signed to Elektra, Paul Rothchild insisted on becoming…
Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers started out in 1959 playing Rock & Roll, but added saxes in the early sixties, when they were among…
Cliff Richard figured large in my early years. He always provided the soundtrack to my summer holidays (no pun intended). My holidays in Skegness each…
The Climax Blues Band (originally The Climax Chicago Blues Band) was formed in late 1968 in Stafford, England. The original members were multi-talented and forever…
A teen-heartthrob duo with integrity, Climie Fisher got their name when they sandwiched together their surnames. Rob Fisher was a former member of Naked Eyes,…
The Clones were very popular in Sydney, Australia in the late seventies/early eighties but only ever released one single – Tired Of Hiding b/w Happy I’m With Her -…
Indie pop band, The Close Lobsters, hailed from Paisley in Scotland and first came to prominence with the track Fire Station Towers which was included on the NME’s…
Australian indie band, The Clouds, was formed in Sydney in December 1989 around Jodi Phillis (guitar and vocals) and Patricia “Trish” Young (bass and vocals).…
Clout formed as an all-female group in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1977. Their first and biggest hit, Substitute, was a new arrangement of a Righteous…