Having started life in the early 1960s travelling the UK in a van as John Lee Hooker’s backing band, by the mid-70s, The Groundhogs -…
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Emerging from the renowned Dutch group Klits (short for ‘clitoris’) from The Hague, Group 1850 were an interesting, if sometimes exasperating, late-’60s Dutch band who…
The GTOs were a “group of groupies” in the late 1960s, comprising Miss Pamela (Pamela Des Barres), Miss Sparky (Linda Sue Parker), Miss Lucy (Lucy McLaren),…
Jangle pop band Guadalcanal Diary originated in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta in the early 1980s. Singer/guitarist Murray Attaway’s songs reflected a bizarre variety…
From their roots as Chad Allan & The Reflections, The Guess Who rose to become the most popular Canadian rock band of their generation and…
One of the great lost blues figures, New Orleans’ Guitar Slim (real name Eddie Jones) was an electric guitar pioneer. He was also a flashy…
Gun formed in 1968 from the ashes of an Ilford (Essex) band called The Knack (no relation to the My Sharona outfit), who performed regularly at…
Originally named Creeping Ritual, The Gun Club channelled punk energy into a vivid exploration of American roots music, drawing on rockabilly, country and the Delta…
Axl Rose (real name William Bailey) put Guns N’ Roses together in Los Angeles after hitch-hiking from Indiana with old school friend Izzy Stradlin’ (real…
Guy Mitchell was born Albert Cernik in 1927 and recorded for King Records as Al Grant. When he signed with Columbia Records, label president Mitch…
Guys ‘n’ Dolls were formed in 1974 after Ammo Productions held auditions for three girls and three boys to start the band. They secured a…