Jimmy Somerville’s post-Bronski Beat group took their name from the group of French revolutionaries who held Paris between 18 March and 28 May in 1871. Somerville…
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Sheffield’s Comsat Angels were defined by the same mix of high-tensile guitar, militaristic beats, moody keyboards and strained vocals as bands like Joy Division, PiL, Wire and Gang Of…
Marrying middle-of-the-road rhythms and almost Ry Cooder-style dreamlike guitar passages, with punk spit and Johnette Napolitano’s streetwise lyrics, Concrete Blonde’s self-titled debut album (1986) made…
These anarchist punks (in the Crass mode) hailed from Eltham, South London, and were formed in 1981. Having followed Crass around the country, they were motivated…
Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero was born in 1938 in Newark, New Jersey to Italian parents and began her career in music as a child accordion…
Formed in Detroit in 1958, The Contours were signed to the newly formed Gordy label on the recommendation of Jackie Wilson. Their single Whole Lotta…
Conway Twitty was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins in Friars Point, Mississippi on 1 September 1933. His father was in charge of a Mississippi ferryboat on…
Like their New Jersey pals The Shirelles, The Cookies (from Coney Island) piqued The Beatles’ interest. When the Fab Four covered their 1962 single Chains, it assured these…
The Corr siblings first officially banded together in 1991 to try out for roles in Alan Parker’s musical comedy/drama film The Commitments. All four won…
Hailing from Bristol, The Cortinas formed in 1976 and started out as one of the dozens of post-Sex Pistols dole queue bands, replete with genuine…
Formed in January 1985, The Cosmic Psychos were a mean-looking but gentle-hearted trio from Melbourne who performed a unique blend of witty lyrics and full-volume,…
Vocalist Mike Spenser arrived in London from Brooklyn in February 1975, met Zenon de Fleur (real name Hierowski) and joined a band called Chrome. By mid-1975…
San Jose band The Count Five lasted only five years and had only one Top 5 hit – Psychotic Reaction (1966). When Psychotic Reaction broke, the band members were…
Formed in San Francisco in 1991, Counting Crows released their Van Morrison-inspired tunes on the multiplatinum-selling debut album August and Everything After on DGC in…
‘Country’ Joe McDonald was born on 1 January 1942, in El Monte, California. Shades of his future political activism were evident in his first song,…
Canadian musician Michael Timmins and his childhood friend Alan Anton formed a group called Hunger Project in 1979. It was not successful and, relocating to…
His siblings often called Barry the most musically talented of the family – which is saying a lot. Older brother Bill almost replaced Brian Wilson…
In 1969, guitarist/vocalist Michael Fennelly met up with a group called Stonehenge who were playing at a Sunset Strip club in LA called Thee Experience.…
In 1982, Cheltenham Oi! outfit The Crack won a televised Battle of the Bands competition (voted for by none other than Slade frontman Noddy Holder)…
Craig Douglas (born Terence Perkins) was a milkman from the Isle of Wight who specialised in medium-paced ballads, usually covers of American hits. Craig was…