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Arrested Development
When Arrested Development's debut appeared in 1992, the Atlanta band seemed to herald a new dawn in hip-hop. It seemed they had created a distinctly rural, Southern brand of the genre to blow apart the...
Big Joe Turner
Joe Turner was born in Kansas City on 18 May 1911, and by the late 1920's he was a singing bartender in a town where the Great Depression was hardly noticed.
"Roll 'em, Pete" Turner would...
Barclay James Harvest
From softly focused pastoral passages at the end of the 60s to more muscular rock-outs two decades later, Barclay James Harvest were never a band to wallow in their own heritage.
Pompous enough to be labelled...
Crabby Appleton
In 1969, guitarist/vocalist Michael Fennelly met up with a group called Stonehenge who were playing at a Sunset Strip club in LA called Thee Experience.
Stonehenge had been tentatively offered a record deal with Elektra on...
Bev Harrell
Alongside Lynne Randell, petite (4' 9") blonde Bev Harrell was one of the most popular female solo singers on the mid-60s Australian pop scene.
Hailing from Adelaide, Bev's singing career started at the age of five...
Maureen Evans
Born in Cardiff, Wales, on 23 March 1940, Maureen Evans began her stage career as a young teenager, sharing the stage with Dickie Valentine. She also performed for summer seasons at holiday resorts with Waldini's...
Rude Boy (1980)
England 1978. The mood is of disillusion, economic decline, political failure. Fascists demonstrate in the street. The left-wing clash with the police (not the band!) and
Fascists demonstrate in the street. The left-wing clash with the police (not...
