One day in 1955, Richard ‘Ritchie’ Barrett – the lead singer of New York City group, The Valentines – heard The Premiers, a young multi-racial…
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Frank Fruim Abelson was born in Liverpool on 3 February 1928 to a family of Russian Jewish descent. He attended the Lancaster College of Art…
Freda Payne was born in Detroit and began singing and playing piano as a child. At 18 she moved to New York to study music…
In 1956, sixteen-year-old Freddie Garrity won a razor as first prize in a Sale talent contest with an Al Jolson impersonation. Sucked into skiffle’s vortex,…
Texas bluesman Freddie (originally ‘Freddy’) King was often named as one of ‘the Three Kings’ alongside BB and Albert. Although not as well-known as the other two,…
Freddy Cannon was born Frederick Anthony Picariello in Boston (USA) on 4 December 1940. Signed by producers/songwriters Frank Slay and Bob Crewe to Swan Records…
The authority of Free’s debut album Tons Of Sobs (1968) was all the more remarkable given the tender age of its creators. All four band members were…
The Free Design were a jazz-influenced family vocal group usually associated with the US Sunshine Pop era of the late 60s, and they have long…
The Friends of Distinction formed in Los Angeles in 1968 with original members Floyd Butler, Harry Elston, Jessica Cleaves, and Barbara Jean Love. The group…
Frijid Pink formed from the ashes of a covers band called The Detroit Vibrations. Their version of The House Of The Rising Sun was a huge hit…
Poet Edward Sanders fled the US Midwest for New York in 1958 and transformed a Lower East-side kosher butcher shop into the Peace Eye Bookstore.…
As inner-city Britain rioted in 1981, The Specials had just topped the UK charts with the doomy and foreboding Ghost Town. And then they split up . .…
This female punk-pop quartet formed in Birmingham in 1985 and were originally known as We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It. Led by…
Despite purists dismissing them as cartoonish, The Fuzztones from new York quickly attracted a rabid following after they formed in 1980. Rudi Protrudi took the…
This Midlands group had the unlikely gimmick of roller-skating through their gigs – hence the title of their debut single (on the Dawn label) was Roller…