John Philip Thackray was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, in 1938 – the son of Ernest Thackray, a policeman, and Ivy May Thackray. He was educated…
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Paul Weller (born John William Weller) and Rick Buckler met at school in Woking, Surrey, in 1975 and played music together during their lunch hours. The…
Through an early interest by Morrissey, James managed to get a recording contract with Factory Records based in their hometown, Manchester. In 1990 they signed…
Born in a one-room shack in the pinewoods of Barnwell, South Carolina on 3 May 1933, James Joe Brown Jnr. was apparently stillborn and survived entry into…
James Edward Carr remains the most famous charge of Quinton Claunch and Rudolph Russell’s Memphis label, Goldwax. Carr recorded a clutch of late ’60s singles…
Although formed around drummer/vocalist Jimmy Fox as a British Invasion-inspired group, The James Gang were, in reality, the product of a thriving Cleveland music scene.…
James Taylor spent years knocking around New York as a member of an ill-fated rock and roll group. The strain of the rock and roll…
Over a three year period during the early 1970s, Australian child star Jamie Redfern scored four Top 40 hit singles and sold more than $1.3…
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…
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…