American doo-wop group The Crests was formed by bass vocalist Jay Carter in the mid 1950s. The group included Talmadge “Tommy” Gough, Harold “Chico” Torres and…
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The Cretones were a Los Angeles-based new wave and power pop group in the early 1980s. Led by singer/guitarist Mark Goldenberg (who also wrote the…
The song Sh-Boom was originally recorded early in 1954 by The Chords. But it was the version by Canadian group The Crew Cuts (released later the same…
Despite roots dating back as far as 1978, Australia’s Crime & the City Solution did not truly emerge until 1984, coming to life in the…
Crispian St Peters was born Robin Peter Smith in Swanley, Kent. After his National Service, he formed a band called The Beat Formula Three and met manager…
Hailing from Stoke Newington in London, The Crooks had a lengthy residency at The Pegasus in Green Lanes – and wore mainly rugby shirts and…
In 1969, while Neil Young was laying the foundation for a solo career, his Buffalo Springfield partner Steven Stills was playing and recording with former Byrd David Crosby, and Graham Nash…
Neil Finn – a native of Te Awamutu, a small town in the volcanic region of New Zealand – decided to form what would become…
Five black schoolgirls from Brooklyn, New York were chosen by Phil Spector to launch the Philles label he had formed with Lester Sills in late 1961. Spector…
A Leeds band who specialised in absurdist takes on pop classics and po-faced indie styles with a groovy funk backbeat. They released a Peel Session in 1988…
Formed in Bradford, England in 1982 as Southern Death Cult with Ian Astbury (then calling himself Ian Lindsay) performing vocal duties. Having spent time in…
George Alan O’Dowd was born in 1961 in Eltham, Kent, England. George idolised David Bowie and Marc Bolan and frequented the London clubs which were to be the focal…
The Cure were one of the most pivotal and musically diverse post-punk bands to emerge from England. Reincarnated continually throughout their history by main man…
The gangling Martin Benedict Volpelière-Pierrot (‘Ben’ for short) and his boys clocked up five hit singles in their career, after first coming to the attention…
Born in Chicago in June 1942, Curtis joined a vocal harmony group called The Roosters in 1956 with his friend Jerry Butler. The other members…
Sonja Kristina started out by wanting to be a folk singer. She learned guitar at her convent school in Brentwood, Essex, about the same time…
Cutting Crew was formed in 1985 by English vocalist Nick Van Eede and Canadian guitarist Kevin Scott MacMichael. The duo made demos which led to…
The Cybermen formed in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, in 1982 when school friends Dave Turner and Barry ‘Fuzz’ Hayes teamed up with…
Irritating, unsexy and unable to pronounce her R’s, Cyndi Lauper was one of the biggest stars of the early MTV era, selling five million copies of…
Formed in 1961 by a group of students at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, The Cyrkle started as a frat band called The Rhondells. During the…
