Founder member of Soft Machine and sometime member of Gong, Kevin Ayers’ career is a snapshot of the English underground across four decades. Patchy, erratic and often unclassifiably…
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Kevin Borich was born in 1948 in Huapai (near Auckland) in New Zealand. In 1961, at the age of 12, Borich recorded a private single…
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August Darnell was born in New York’s Bronx on 12 August 1950. For years the background he invented for his Kid Creole alter-ego had him…
Melbourne band Kids In The Kitchen reached #10 on the Australian national charts with their debut single, Change In Mood, in November 1983. A second single, Bitter Desire (May 1984),…
Kiki Dee had been making records since the Sixties, but her career didn’t really get going until Elton John signed her to his Rocket label.…
Kilburn and The High Roads formed at Canterbury College of Art in 1970 when lecturer Ian Dury let his inner Gene Vincent fan take control,…
Named after the blues standard covered by everyone from Howlin’ Wolf to Mike Bloomfield, Killing Floor was fronted by the much under-appreciated guitarist Mick Clarke. They…
Formed in the post-Sex Pistols melee of the late 70s, Killing Joke formed in London when South London punk Martin Glover (more commonly known as…
Six and a half feet tall and uglier than he could be, Kim Fowley was born – in the Philippines – on the day Hitler…
Kim Weston was born Agatha Natalie Weston on 30 December 1939, in Detroit, Michigan, and started singing in the church at the age of four.…
In the late 70’s, veteran rocker Marty Wilde had the idea of co-writing songs with his failed pop star son, Ricky, for his not-unattractive daughter Kim.…
Formed in the Chicago area in 1981, The Kind recorded their self-titled debut album in 1982 on their own Three-Sixty Records as their single Loved…
Formed in 1969 and led by charismatic guitarist Robert Fripp, King Crimson quickly earned an underground reputation which led to a record deal with Island,…
Formed in 1983, this crazed psychobilly sextet immediately hit pay dirt with the Top 40 single Destination Zululand. Made infamous by notorious live shows in which…
Kingmaker originated in Hull, Yorkshire, when schoolmates Loz Hardy and Myles Howell formed the band during their gap year. Seeking a drummer, they placed a…
On Louie Louie (1963), this Portland, Oregon, garage band was terribly recorded, could barely keep the beat and got lost mid-way through the song – and singer…
A fluke #1 hit with Tom Dooley sparked off a folk music boom, and a deluge of replica groups appeared. The Kingston Trio’s debut album topped the…
The Kinks – from London’s Muswell Hill district – began their career in a similar way to hundreds of other groups, playing R&B and blues…
Kippington Lodge released five excellent singles on Parlophone Records between 1967 and 1969, yet they remain one of the least-known English pop groups of the…