Jefferson Airplane’s ferocious guitar/bass pairing Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady formed Hot Tuna as a sideline in 1969 to syphon off their musical excesses. They…
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Throughout the 80s, the members of the Irish band Hothouse Flowers made their living busking on the streets of Dublin (Liam O’Maonlai and Fiachna O’Braonain performed…
The House Of Love were a strange union between thirtysomething Guy Chadwick – a seen-it-all songwriter who’d already spent a decade in failed groups – and…
Paul Heaton (vocals, guitar) formed The Housemartins in Hull (Yorkshire) with Ted Key (bass), Stan Cullimore (guitar), and Hugh Whitaker (drums) in 1984. The group…
High Wycombe School music teacher and part-time rock band member (he was briefly in a Canadian prog rock band called Warrior) Howard Jones paid for his…
Chester Arthur Burnett was born in Mississippi on 10 June 1910 and began singing the blues while working on a plantation, after being thrown out…
It makes sense that San Francisco sextet Huey Lewis & The News were one of the most popular American bands of the 80’s. Huey (real name…
The Hullaballoos formed in Hull (hence their name) in August 1964 after working for several years under the name of Ricky Knight and The Crusaders.…
A lead singer with pierced nipples and half a head of hair, and two bits of Sheffield totty, discovered dancing in a disco. The band…
Hard-rock combo Humble Pie formed in London in 1969 when Peter Frampton left The Herd and Steve Marriott quit The Small Faces. Having met in Paris while doing…
Formed in Sydney, Australia, in 1986, The Hummingbirds comprised singer/guitarist (and principal songwriter) Simon Holmes, singer/guitarist Alannah Russack, singer/bassist Robyn St Clare and drummer Mark…
Hunters and Collectors formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981, fronted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour and taking their name from a song by German group…
One of the defining moments of Australia’s 1970s pop legacy was undoubtedly Hush performing Bony Moronie on Countdown. This updated version of the old Larry Williams rocker was…
Hüsker Dü formed in Minneapolis (USA) in 1979 and when they started releasing records in 1981, they were lazily typecast as angry young men playing…
Australian band Huxton Creepers formed while the members were still at High School in Melbourne, taking their name from a character in an obscure Basil…
