Artists - E

After humble beginnings as Linda Ronstadt's backing band, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon decided to stay together as a band and call themselves The Eagles. Spotted by Asylum Records boss David Geffen, they were booked...

Earth, Wind and Fire was founded in 1970 by Maurice White - who had previously been the drummer with modern jazz pioneer John Coltrane, and who had also backed Muddy Waters. The seven-piece band topped the US...

East of Eden originated in Bristol in 1967 from non-rock roots and presented a mix of Jazz-Fusion, Prog and World Music with some experimental avant-garde bits tossed in for good measure. Moving to London in 1968,...

With sheer energy bursting out of their amplifiers, dynamic, memorable songs, and a leader with rock & roll animal good looks and the longest hair in town, The Eastern Dark were the wildest thing going...

Have you heard the one about the two Dutchmen, two Englishmen and a Scot who emigrate to Australia? No-one can remember what day it was at the Villawood Migrant Hostel in Sydney's western suburbs in 1964...

The origins of this renowned Liverpool-based band can be traced back to the spring of 1977 when vocalist Ian McCulloch was a member of the short-lived Crucial Three with Julian Cope and Pete Wylie. While the...

Elfin-faced and built like a sparrow (although she used to be a kickboxer) Sonya Aurora Madan had a divine voice and sang in an unusually precise style, with a decided Morrissey influence. Sonya Aurora Madan Vocals Glenn Johansson Guitar Debbie...

UK-based folk rockers Eclection actually only had one British musician in their original line-up (drummer Gerry Conway) - the rest of the band came from Norway (Georg Hultgreen), Australia (Kerrilee Male and Trevor Lucas) and...

Eddie & The Hot Rods formed in Rochford near Southend, Essex in 1975, originally as a garage band called Buckshee. The group were aptly described as "high-octane", and their mix of Pub Rock and Power Pop produced some truly...

Eddie Cochran was born on 3 October 1938, the youngest of five children. The Cochran family home was in Oklahoma City but shortly after Eddie was born the family was forced to move to Albert Lea,...

Eddie Floyd was born on 25 June 1935 in Montgomery, Alabama. His parents, a truck driver and a nurse, moved from Alabama to Detroit when Eddie was young, and his uncle Robert West formed the Lu...

Eddie Rabbitt was born in Brooklyn, New York, in November 1941, but raised in New Jersey. His Irish-American father played both the fiddle and accordion and by the age of 12, having been taught by...

Born in Guyana in 1948, Eddy Grant was the former singer with 60s band The Equals. After suffering a heart attack in 1971 he seemed to gain a new lease of life, setting up his record label,...

Eden Kane was born Richard Sarstedt on 29 March 1942 in Delhi, India, where his father was the accountant to a prosperous tea merchant. His family returned home to Britain in the mid-fifties. While at school,...

Edison Lighthouse was a group which only existed in the recording studio and on television. However, the group (fronted by seasoned session vocalist Tony Burrows - who also sang with Brotherhood of Man and The Pipkins) scored an...

Charles Edwin Hatcher was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1942. He and his cousins, soul singers Roger and Willie Hatcher, moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where they were raised. In 1957, he formed a doo-wop group called...

Widely regarded as the band that gave birth to the British pub rock scene, this New York threesome - Jack O'Hara, Brien Hopkins and Austin de Lone -  travelled to the UK in 1970 to record an...

Patsy Kensit starred in British TV specials when she was a child and began singing with Eighth Wonder - which was formed by her brother Jamie - when she was just 14. Their 1988 album Fearless was produced...

Formed in 1980 in Berlin by vocalist Blixa Bargeld and American-born percussionist Andrew Chudy, Einstürzende Neubauten (German for "Collapsing New Buildings") picked up the gauntlet laid down by fellow sonic terrorists Throbbing Gristle and Faust. They explored...