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…
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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…
Patsy Kensit starred in British TV specials when she was a child (including the lead role in the 1983/1984 series Luna) and began singing with…
Formed in 1980 out of the Berlin Arts Conglomerate Geniale Dilletanten by vocalist Blixa Bargeld (real name Christian Emmerich) and American-born percussionist Andrew Chudy (performing…
Formed in London in 1992, Elastica were the most crush-inspiring gang of the 90s Britpop set. Their DM’s, eyeliner, jeans and leather jackets non-look set a…
Formed at The Duke pub in Deptford (south London) in 1979, the Electric Bluebirds featured members of The Realists and The Fabulous Poodles and moved…
The Electric Flag made their debut at the Monterey Festival in 1967 with Mike Bloomfield on guitar and Buddy Miles on drums. The majority of…
ELO may be fixed in the public mind as the multi-headed beast commanded by Jeff Lynne – probably performing Mr Blue Sky under a fake…
Because this Australian band’s style was based on that of English punk group Exotic Pandas (who Lin Buckfield had known whilst living in the UK…
The story of The Electric Prunes is the classic tale of a group plucked from obscurity. A group of friends from Taft High School in…
Electronic was a perennially resurgent joint project between Bernard Sumner of New Order and ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. Marr’s instinct for infectious, melodic pop guitar…
The Elgins were a quartet – three males (two of whom had originally signed to Motown as part of The Downbeats) and female lead vocalist,…
Back in 1960, this lady was still named Elaine Bookbinder, a fifteen-year-old from Manchester who after leaving school replied to an ad in a local…
Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1917, Ella Fitzgerald never knew her father – he left the family while she was an infant – and…
Doe-eyed St Louis singer/actress Ellen Foley was at the musical mercy of men in the late 70s and early 80s. Jim Steinman plucked her from…
Eleanor Louise Greenwich was born in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, then a family neighbourhood of New York in October 1940. Both her parents were of Russian…
Despite his brief career – spanning little more than a decade before his early death in 1963 – bluesman Elmore James affected rock and roll…
Reginald Kenneth Dwight began playing the piano as a schoolboy to supplement his earnings as a messenger/tea boy at a London music publishing company. At…
Born Declan McManus in Paddington in 1954, his family moved to Liverpool when he was 13 where he began writing songs. His father, Ross McManus, was a singer…
Elvis Aron (Aaron) Presley was born on 8 January 1935 to a poor family from Tupelo, Mississippi, and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his parents…