Formed from the ashes of faux ska band Guns For Hire, and named after the impossibly cool 1969-1970 TV show, London’s Department S earned their brief…
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Formed in Basildon, Essex (UK) in 1976 by Vince Clarke, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher while they were still at school. The line-up was completed…
An almost fictitious group ended up making a double vinyl album that, though it bombed at the time, has since been re-evaluated as a rock…
Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Dekker (real name Desmond Dacres) was orphaned as a child. He lived in Seaforth, St Thomas, before returning to…
The Emeralds vocal harmony group was formed in Little Rock, Arkansas by brothers, Ivory, Abrim, Cleophus and Raymond Tilmon. After Cleophus and Raymond left, the…
Devo was formed in Akron, Ohio (the rubber town 40 miles away from Cleveland) in 1972 by Kent State art students Jerry Casale and Mark…
On a hot night in July 1978, Kevin Rowland and Kevin “Al” Archer set out to round up a like-minded bunch of men to have…
July 1981, and Diamond Head – the perennially underachieving kings of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) – have just played a routine gig at…
Like The Crew Cuts, whose career they so closely followed, The Diamonds also came from Canada, where Ted Kowalski (tenor), Phil Levitt (baritone) and Bill…
Renee Diane Kushner was born on 13 July 1945 in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She began singing at an early age and took voice lessons from…
Richard Anthony Monsour – known professionally as Dick Dale – was the first real surfer to actually make surf music, attempting to recreate the experience…
Richard Charles Kneller was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey. After leaving school he tried a wide variety of jobs including stonemason’s assistant, spraypainter, electric plater,…
Formed in Los Angeles in 1977, The Dickies were always regarded as a cartoon band, understandably given that their biggest hits were novelties like Nights In…
Like The New York Dolls, The Dictators were punk forerunners. Mixing dumb metal riffs with junk culture lyrics, their influence would soon be heard in the…
Formed in Sydney (Australia) in 1983, Died Pretty consisted of musicians Brett Myers, Ronald S Peno and Frank Brunetti – all longstanding veterans of the…
Australian singer Digby George Richards was born the son of a policeman in Dunedoo in New South Wales on 12 September 1941. Digby (or ‘Dig’…
In the 1960s, Dinah Lee was the most successful female singer in her New Zealand homeland (and “next-door” in Australia). Born Diane Jacobs, she began…
Born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Dinah Washington grew up in Chicago, where she sang and played the piano in a Baptist church. After…
Valenti was born Chester Powers in 1937 to ‘carny’ folk (they ran a tent called the ‘hootchie cootch’ – which was basically a strip show).…
Dino, Desi and Billy had one of the best introductions to the entertainment world that any neophyte trio could hope for. Two of the three…