Kids today want designer names, the genuine thing. But in the 1950s and 1960s when money was in short supply, they were happy to buy…
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By the end of the 1960s, many artists were swept up in the wake of The Beatles and their aggressive exploration of pop and rock’s possibilities. For many…
Forest of Dean natives James Atkin, Derry Brownson and Zac Foley formed EMF in 1989, picking up guitarist Ian Dench from Gloucester. The group attracted…
In a musical climate that had been dominated by white British and American acts, Emile Ford forged a name for himself as Britain’s first black…
Emmylou Harris was initially a folkie (her early heroes were Joan Baez and Judy Collins) but became renowned as country music’s First Lady. Harris’s career…
Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey in Madras, India, in 1936) had been singing for years without great success as Gerry Dorsey. Then in 1967,…
Variously described as ‘mood music’, New Age and “trance-like”, Enya (real name, Eithne Ni Bhraonain) has sold albums in their millions. Classically trained on piano,…
Episode Six formed in Harrow, Middlesex, in 1965. The initial lineup consisted of Andy Ross on vocals, siblings Sheila Carter-Dimmock on keyboards and vocals and…
A multi-racial group from South London, The Equals embodied the phrase ‘Blue Eyed Soul’. Their music was a combination of rock and soul, spliced with…
Keyboard player and arranger Vince Clarke (born in 1960 in South Woodford, London) had already enjoyed success as a member of Depeche Mode and Yazoo…
Raised near Cleveland, Ohio, Eric Carmen played piano and developed perfect pitch before he could walk and developed an appreciation of classical music early on. Even before…
Eric Patrick Clapp was born in Ripley, Surrey (UK) on 30 March 1945 and raised to believe his maternal grandparents – Rose and Jack Clapp…
A group of schoolboys formed The Escorts in 1961. John Foster (aka ‘Johnny Sticks’) was Ringo Starr’s cousin and the famous relative with the big…
Esther Phillips was born Esther Mae Jones in Galveston, Texas, on 23 December 1935. She was brought up singing in church and, at the age…
Formed in the Mississippi Delta in 1966, Eternity’s Children were playing at the Biloxi Hotel when they met two Baton Rouge entrepreneurs who would play…
LA-native Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins) was born in Los Angeles on 25 January 1938. Her mother, Dorothy Hawkins, a 14-year-old groupie and jazz fan, put…
Guitarist/songwriter Bernie Lynch formed the original version of Eurogliders in Perth (Australia) in 1980 with his partner, UK-born singer Grace Knight. The pair were married…
Annie Lennox was born in Scotland and raised in the North Sea port of Aberdeen. The paternal side of her family was musical (her father…
Even As We Speak formed in late 1985 in Inner City Sydney (Australia) as a three-piece comprising Matt Love, Scott Leishman and Neil Johnson. The…
The major label debut by neo-Nirvana trio Everclear, Sparkle and Fade, caught the authentic note of vacant ennui that haunts adolescent America. But the songs on So…