Given that New York/Bostonian three-piece Galaxie 500 set out in 1987 with ambitions that didn’t stretch beyond releasing a single, their debut album, Today (1988), was critically…
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The daughter of a carnival worker father, Gale Garnett was born in New Zealand but moved with her family to the United Kingdom, then to…
Based in Sacramento, California, Game Theory made their recording debut in 1982. Although loosely associated with the ‘paisley underground’ movement the band’s progress was determined…
Forged in the crucible of late 70s Leeds student politics, marked by a determination to think beyond the badly-played heavy metal that passed for much…
Australian band GANGgajang formed in 1984 after Graham ‘Buzz’ Bidstrup and Mark Callaghan fell into a songwriting partnership during work on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s…
The Gants were formed in 1963 by Sid Herring (vocals, guitar), Johnny Sanders (guitar), Vince Montgomery (bass) and Don Wood (drums) in Greenwood, Mississippi. Named…
One day producers Butch Vig, Steve Marker and Duke Erikson were in a studio remixing a track for Nine Inch Nails when a visiting friend…
In 1961, in the unlikely town of Norfolk, Virginia, Gary Anderson (who had been born in Jacksonville, Florida) recorded some of the wildest, most bizarre party…
Paul Gadd was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on 8 May 1944. He changed his name to Paul Raven and recorded several singles during the 1960’s -…
Gary Lewis had a great background for a showbiz career: He was the son of noted comedian and actor Jerry Lewis. His musical career began…
Gary Numan (real name Gary Anthony James Webb) joined The Lasers as a guitarist and rapidly took over the helm of the punk band, who,…
Gary Puckett was born in Hibbing, Minnesota, on 17 October 1942. He began playing the guitar in his teens and graduated from Twin Falls High…
Genuine escapist joy rarely sounded purer than on the teenage surf-and-hotrod pop pouring out of the Hollywood Hills in the early 1960s, where kids’ greatest…
Gaye Bykers On Acid emerged from Leicester and combined traditional biker attire with elements of psychedelia and hippie camp. Male vocalist Mary (real name Ian…
In 1980, four Brummie drinking buddies got together and formed a band inspired by the mid-70’s punk acts. Initially called Charged GBH, somehow this rowdy mob of…
Formed in 1974, Geeza were a powerful four-piece rock group from the western suburbs of Sydney (Australia). The group originally performed as The Geeza Rock…
At the hedonistic peak of Britpop, Gene’s more melancholic, Smiths-influenced strains were a lad-free anomaly. The obviousness of their influences would ultimately be their downfall, but their…
Identical twins Jay (John) and Mike Aston enjoyed cult appeal as Gene Loves Jezebel in the UK goth community but achieved greater success in America. The…
Gene Pitney was born in February 1940 of Polish origin and grew up in the Connecticut town of Rockville. While at school there he formed…
Vincent Eugene Craddock was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1935. After dropping out of South Norfolk High School at the age of 15, he lied…
