Douglas John Parkinson was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, on 30 October 1946. He began singing in the choir at his Sydney primary school…
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The Dovells were an American vocal group, formed at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1957, under the name The Brooktones. Their first single was No,…
Emerging from the ruins of a 90s dance-electronic outfit called Sub Sub, Manchester band Doves became major figures in the post-Britpop alternative rock scene with a…
Don Craine (real name Mick O’Donnell) and Johnny Sutton had previously been in a Twickenham band called The Downliners. Following the demise of this band,…
Although they never strayed from their gritty R&B-based sound, Dr Feelgood was a fixture of England’s Pub Rock scene since the early 70s. While they were…
Beginning life as a dope-oriented comedy and pathos New Jersey bar band called Dr Hook & The Medicine Show, their first three albums, released on CBS,…
Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack was raised in New Orleans and worked as a session guitarist and writer for Ace Records in the late 50s and early…
Dr Strangely Strange were an Irish counterpart of The Incredible String Band, who moved from an experimental folk base into an LSD-fuelled, but tongue-in-cheek, blend…
Arriving in Australia from New Zealand in 1975, Dragon adopted a hard image that was somewhat at odds with their genius for creating classic Top…
Gilbert Gabriel, Kate St. John and Nick Laird-Clowes were born in London in the late 1950s and were probably too young to attend Woodstock or…
Emerging from the early-80s US paisley underground with their meticulously wrought concoction of The Velvet Underground and Television, The Dream Syndicate were The Strokes ten years before The…
Formed in 1953 in New York at the behest of Atlantic Records, The Drifters were consistent US hit makers until 1964. A few years later their…
Sydney (Australia) band Dropbears formed in Darlinghurst in 1981. In 1982, they released the singles Fun Loving and Lay Him Down, both of which peaked…
Duane was born in Corning in far upstate New York, 150 miles from the Canadian border. He grew up there and in other small upstate…
Ducks Deluxe was formed early in 1972 by former roadies Sean Tyla, Martin Belmont, Nick Garvey and Tim Roper. Taking their name from a slot machine…
Duffy Power was born Ray Howard in Fulham, south-west London, and had been obliged by his parents to leave school at 14 and work in…
The Dugites formed in Perth (Western Australia) in 1978 with Lynda Nutter on vocals, Gunther Berghofer on guitar, Phillip Bailey on bass, Peter Crosbie on…
In 1984, Andy Partridge teamed up with fellow XTC members Dave Gregory and Colin Moulding (with Gregory’s brother on drums) to create a psychedelic band -…
The band that most surely have come closest to being The Beatles of their day, since (like The Beatles) they were a blonde five-piece from Birmingham .…
Vini Reilly’s first album, The Return Of The Durutti Column (1981), was more notorious for its sandpaper sleeve than the music contained therein. Inspired by the…