When his last band, JFK and The Cuban Crisis, split up John Kennedy started a solo career as an “urban and western” singer. The band…
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John Lee Hooker was born on a sharecropper farm in Clarkesdale, Mississippi in 1917 and became – with his distinctive heavily-rhythmic boogie style – the…
“We’re more popular than Jesus right now”, John Lennon said in 1966 at the height of The Beatles success. His irreverent remark caused a storm of controversy…
Born in Frinton-On-Sea, Essex, England, on 17 February 1939, John Dudley Leyton started his professional career in the television series Biggles, playing the part of Ginger.…
John Martyn was born Iain David McGeachy on 11 September 1948 in New Malden, Surrey. His opera singer parents divorced when he was five, at…
Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, in 1933, John Mayall attended Manchester School of Art where the blues so captured his imagination that by the time he…
Born in Scotland in 1950, John Paul Young’s family migrated to Australia when he was in his teens. After recording a single with an obscure…
John Peel (born John Ravenscroft in 1939) cut his teeth as a DJ in the USA, working on stations in Dallas, Oklahoma and San Bernardino,…
Signed to Atlantic with the help of Kris Kristofferson, 25-year-old John Prine released his country-tinged eponymous debut LP in 1971, just as the Vietnam War was peaking. Prine got stuck…
Italian-born John St Peeters began his professional performing career during his early teens as Johnny Lo Piccolo, playing the piano accordion on television talent quests…
An imposing deep-voiced Californian who told tales of the new American West, a harsh land populated by lonesome ne’er-do-wells. Stewart’s commercial success was fleeting, but…
Because Marc Bolan (soon to become T. Rex) was briefly a member, John’s Children are perhaps accorded more reverence by ’60s collectors and aficionados than they deserve.…
Despite being skinny, pigeon-toed, half-deaf (he partially lost his hearing as a child and had to use a hearing aid) and effeminate, this highly emotional…
John Watson Jr. was born in Houston, Texas, in February 1935. His father was a pianist and taught his son the instrument but John Jr.…
Although they scored four Top Thirty hits in their native USA, Johnny and the Hurricanes doubled that figure in Britain, where they sold almost as…
Born in Memphis on 9 June 1929, Johnny Ace (real name John Marshall Alexander Jr) returned from service in the US Navy during WWII to…
Memphis-born Johnny, plus elder brother Dorsey and their guitarist friend Paul Burlison, formed the legendary Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio which recorded in the late 50s…
He was born J.R. Cash (‘John’ came later, and ‘Johnny’ was an invention of Sun Records chief Sam Phillips) in Kingsland, Arkansas, one of seven…
John Howard Chester was born on Boxing Day 1941 in North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. By the time he was 17, John had formed a group…
Johnny Devlin was born John Lockett Devlin on 11 May 1938 in New Zealand. In 1956, Devlin heard Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel, and overnight became…