Best known for a video where a room tries to escape from him, Jay (real name Jason Cheetham) Kay is more familiar to the 30…
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Growing up in Los Angeles’ wealthy Bel-Air neighbourhood, Jan Berry was an overachiever who at the age of 17 scored a Top 10 hit, Jennie…
Jane Aire (real name Jane Ashley) was another talented singer from Akron, Ohio whose career really got started outside her homeland, courtesy of a single…
It’s very difficult to overstate how refreshing Jane’s Addiction felt when they first emerged from LA in the late 80s. They allowed the listener all…
Janet Jackson avoided following her brothers into music, preferring to concentrate on an acting career. By 1982, however, family tradition proved too great, and she…
Janis Ian was born Janis Eddy Fink. She was only 15 when she scored a hit record in 1967 with her depressing interracial love song Society’s…
Janis Joplin – ‘Pearl’ to her friends – sang the blues like no other white woman before or since. Born on 19 January 1943, Janis…
Before Lewisham’s Batt brothers reinvented themselves as archly cosmetic Occidentals with a fascination for the Orient, they affected New York Dolls-style sleaze in slummy, vampish make-up…
Following a genuine buzz around their 1982 EP, Fervor, Illinois native Jason Ringenberg’s seminal cowpunk outfit (then known as Jason and the Nashville Scorchers) were soon…
Vocal group Jay and the Americans were discovered while performing in student venues as The Harbor Lites at New York University in the late 1950s.…
Formed in 1982 and hailing from Northampton in England, The Jazz Butcher served as a vehicle for the idiosyncratic, melodic songwriting talents of Pat Fish…
Born in Surrey, England, in 1944, Jeff Beck was already a guitar veteran of early 60s bands like Screaming Lord Sutch and The Nightshifts when he…
In an era when the soundtrack to angst was defined by grungey guitars and plaid shirts, Jeff Buckley’s delicate melodies and aesthetic sensibilities set him…
Jeffrey Leo Newton was born on 22 April 1946 in Sydney. He was born with spina bifida and underwent numerous operations throughout his life to…
In November 1965, Jefferson Airplane received a $20,000 advance from RCA Records – the largest advance ever paid to any rock band at that time.…
In September 1972, the iconic American band Jefferson Airplane played their final gig and divided into two bands – Hot Tuna and Jefferson Starship. Founded…
The roots of San Francisco band Jellyfish can be traced back to the dawn of the ’80s, when guitarist/keyboardist Roger Manning and lead singer Andy…
Jenny and The Rascals formed in 1965 in Holland. Fronted by teenager Jenny Streur the group issued just two singles in the mid-1960s on the…
Born on 29 September 1935, Jerry Lee Lewis was raised in the same Pentecostal religious tradition and cultural setting as Elvis Presley and was exposed…
He didn’t sing, play or write songs, but Jerry Wexler (born in 1917) changed music significantly more than most people who could do all three.…