The Clovers hailed from Washington DC, where they initially formed just after the Second World War as a conventional 1940s vocal group. Their founder, Harold…
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Formed in January 1986 by four former members of The Allniters and led by Jamaican vocalist Patou (“Pat”) Powell, Club Ska released their first single,…
With German youth crying out for their own brand of heroes, it was unsurprising that Philips signed Cluster in early 1971. Having birthed the Ash Ra…
Clyde Lensley McPhatter was born on 15 November 1933 in the tobacco town of Durham, North Carolina. He was one of ten children for George…
This six-piece band represented the United Kingdom in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest at the Palais de Congrès in Paris, with the song The Bad Old…
Carl Gardner, Leon Hughes, Billy Guy and Bobby Nunn got together in 1955 as The Coasters and hit the US charts with their second release, Down…
Cock Sparrer began life in an East Ham school in the late 70s as a knockabout band for mates Colin McFaull, Micky Beaufoy, Steve Burgess…
“Freedom? There ain’t no fucking freedom!” . . . With that simple statement, the Cockney Rejects assault on the eardrums of the world was launched…
Six-piece Australian band The Cockroaches formed in 1979 while four members of the band were attending the same Sydney school (St Joseph’s College at Hunter’s Hill). They…
The Cocteau Twins formed in late 1981 in Grangemouth – a grimy, featureless Scottish factory town on the Firth of Forth – when the trio…
Veteran Australian entertainer Col Joye was born Colin Frederick Jacobsen, and his first regular singing engagement was as a warm-up act for the movie The…
Cold Chisel came to Australia’s attention with a bang in April 1978 with the release of the Khe Sanh single, which was instantly banned. Censors took offence…
Formed in London in 1997, having met at University College London (UCL), Coldplay became the most-played British group of the 21st century. Their debut album…
Colleen Hewett was born on 16 April 1950 in Bendigo, Victoria (Australia). She began her music career at the age of 12 when she sang…
One of the first bands to fuse jazz, rock & blues, Colosseum was formed in Spring 1968 by drummer Jon Hiseman with tenor sax player…
The Coloured Balls formed in Brisbane (Australia) following the breakup of The Purple Hearts, of which Mick Hadley and Rob Dames had both been members.…
The original Coloured Stone was formed by three Aboriginal brothers from the community of Koonibba, South Australia – Bunna Lawrie, Neil Coaby and Mackie Coaby,…
Terry Hall had already helped soundtrack the late 70s and early 80s with The Specials’ brutal, wry social observations when he quit at the group’s peak…
One of scores of LA bands who briefly flourished then slipped back through the cracks in the late 1960s, Colours took the ornate, harmonic breakthroughs…
Commander Cody (aka pianist George Frayne) introduced his crew of country rock misfits on their debut Paramount album, Lost In The Ozone, in 1971. The west…