Hailing from the same West Country region of England as The Troggs (the agricultural cathedral city of Salisbury, actually) this group started life as Dave Dee and…
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Born in April 1944, Cardiff native Dave Edmunds released a single called Morning Dew in 1967 as a member of The Human Beans. He went on…
Dave Warner was born in Bicton, Western Australia, in 1955 and was educated at Aquinas College and the University of Western Australia, graduating with a…
Born in January 1947, David began his musical career playing drums in a dance band, wearing a bowtie and playing the Hokey Cokey. Initially little more…
Born the son of actor Jack Cassidy and actress Evelyn Ward, in New York on 12 April 1950, David Cassidy turned actor straight out of high…
David Essex was born David Albert Cook in Plaistow, London, in 1947, of gypsy stock – hence the ‘Romany Romeo’ tag he eventually received in…
David Ruffin, who Marvin Gaye characterised as “one of the true artists of Motown”, was among the most conspicuously gifted singers in all of soul…
This British crooner was one of the biggest home-produced names in the early and mid-1950s, The singer (who hailed from Hull) had hits including Mama, Cara Mia,…
Manhattan-born and Hell’s Kitchen-raised, Tony Orlando started out singing in a New York street Doo-Wop group called The Five Gents, before moving on to singing on…
This talented quartet from North Carolina moved to Manhattan and began gigging around the city, earning near-universal praise. Unfortunately, no American record companies took an…
Led by the highly respected singer/songwriter Dave Dobbyn, DD Smash was one of the most popular New Zealand bands of their era. Formed in 1981,…
Leo De Kroo (originally from Dordrecht in the Netherlands) and Perth boy Doug Brewer met up in Western Australia and – discovering a musical kinship…
Scottish band Deacon Blue were named after the track Deacon Blues from Steely Dan’s 1977 album, Aja. Frontman Ricky Ross (a youth worker by profession) had been submitting demo…
The Dead Boys began life in 1975 as a Cleveland (USA) band called Frankenstein. When the band members relocated to New York City in July…
Both of Anglo-Irish descent, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry met in Melbourne, Australia in 1980 (the duo worked in a Lebanese restaurant together in East…
Hailing from Kilmarnock in Scotland, the Dead End Kids formed in 1974 as a covers band (originally known as Vehicle) playing Status Quo, Creedence Clearwater…
Formed in San Francisco in early 1978, the Dead Kennedys became American public enemy number one right from the start. A creation of Jello Biafra…
Deaf School was formed at Liverpool College of Art in 1974. A chaotic bunch of art-school weirdos, their initial ad hoc line-up numbered up to…
Dean Martin was born Dino Paul Crocetti in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1917. By the age of 15, he had dropped out of high school and…
Australian band Dear Enemy suffered the fate of having one successful single (Computer One) and being unable to capitalise on the success, despite significant media…