Robert Percell Ferguson was born on 9 May 1929 in Charleston County, South Carolina. He was the eleventh of twelve children. His Baptist preacher father,…
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Named after the legendary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, this bizarre Chicago band drew much of its inspiration from the author’s works. Classically trained multi-instrumentalist…
Erecting a Manhattan-style nightclub in Manchester was a daft idea, but it worked. In 1980, New Order were undertaking their first US tour. During their stay in…
While Swinging London vibrated to the Mod sound of The Who and The Small Faces, an entirely different youth scene had developed half a world away – It was all…
Formed in Kent in 1980, Haircut 100 lit up the charts in 1981 and 1982 with music so cuddly and safe it could only have…
Half Man Half Biscuit formed in late 1985 when Birkenhead (Liverpool) natives Nigel Blackwell and Neil Crossley recorded a batch of the curious little songs…
Philadelphia soulboys Daryl Hall (born Daryl Franklin Hohl) and John William Oates first met at the Adelphi Ballroom in Philadelphia in 1967. At the time…
Jesse Hector (he of the champion sideburns), Alan Butler and Gary Anderson formed the Hammersmith Gorillas, taking their name from London’s pro-Castro activist group the…
Hank Ballard (real name John Henry Kendricks) was born in Detroit on 18 November 1927. When he was seven he was sent to Bessemer, Alabama…
Hiram King “Hank” Williams was born in Alabama and began playing guitar at the age of eight. As a teenager, he led his own country…
Finnish glam heroes Hanoi Rocks were pissed-up, junked-up white trash, and had all the moves and tunes of a 1980’s New York Dolls, with slightly healthier livers.…
Hailing from Paterson, New Jersey, The Happenings were a vocal harmony group who specialised in reviving classic songs. Bob Miranda, Ralph DiVito, David Libert and…
The Happy Hate Me Nots were an Australian band that formed in Sydney in 1983. Mark Nicholson replaced Neil Toddie on drums in 1984 but…
Manchester (UK) band Happy Mondays took their name from a New Order song but came last in a ‘Battle of the Bands’ contest at New Order’s Haçienda Club.…
Hapshash and The Coloured Coat was the name adopted by graphic artists Michael English and Nigel Waymouth. English had gone to art school with Pete…
The Hard-Ons hailed from the Sydney (Australia) suburb of Punchbowl. With Korean, Ceylonese and Yugoslav-Australian backgrounds they made for a potent and volatile cultural collision.…
The sole Harmony Grass LP, This Is Us (1970), is arguably the finest UK soft rock release of the last three decades of the 20th…
Harold Melvin formed the Blue Notes in 1954. Recording for a variety of labels, they had minor R&B hits during the next decade. In 1971,…
Formed in Santa Cruz, California, from the ashes of The Tikis, who had enjoyed some local successes with Beatlesque songs in the mid-1960s, Harpers Bizarre…
Harry Belafonte was born in New York City on 1 March 1927 of a Jamaican mother and a Martinique father. He was taken as a…