There were moments on stage when vocalist Ignatius Jones ceased to be human; when his bloodied face, bondage mask, obscene leotard, dripping sweat and Neanderthal…
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James Dixon Swan was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 28 April 1956, the son of Dorothy and prizefighter Jim Swan. In 1962, his family emigrated…
Jimmy Clanton was born in Louisiana on 2 September 1938 and formed his first band – The Rockets – in 1956 while attending Baton Rouge…
Jimmy Cliff left Jamaica, where he was the #1 local star, to try and make it in Britain in 1964. He spent five years playing…
The son of a music teacher, Michael ‘Jimmy’ James became part of the Kingston (Jamaica) music scene at an early age, working with the producers…
James Anthony Bernard Little was born on 15 December 1939 and as a young man, he befriended Dave and George Sweetnam, who were stepbrothers of…
The master of down-home blues was, shockingly, turned down as an artist by Chess records in 1953, but became a best-selling performer for rival Chicago…
Jimmy Ruffin was born in Collinsville, Mississippi in May 1936. He sang with his family’s gospel group, led by his minister father, before moving to…
Jimmy Smith single-handedly took the lumbering electric organ out of the realms of bible-thumping and chapels of rest, stuck a cold beer on the lid…
Jimmy Webb’s debut album Words and Music (1970) was a formative exercise in multi-tracking and overdubbing, with almost every sound on the LP made by…
If it wasn’t for the fact that this American group were signed to George Harrison’s Dark Horse label (the band were friends of his girlfriend…
John Weldon Cale was born on 5 December 1938, in Oklahoma City. Raised in Tulsa, he served in the US Air Force, then, in the…
Aussie band Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons could almost have been Graham Parker and the Rumour under another name. They also sounded like Elvis…
Singer/guitarist/songwriter Joan Armatrading was born in St Kitts in the West Indies on 9 December 1950. Her father was a fireman and carpenter who played bass…
After playing to coffee houses around Boston in the late 1950s, Joan Baez got her big break when she appeared at the 1959 folk festival…
There are many female musicians, but few genuine female rockers. Joan Jett bucked this trend and pursued straight-ahead rock and roll at a time when…
JoBoxers comprised English-based, expatriate American singer Dig Wayne, backed by the Bristol-based quartet of Rob Marche (guitar), Dave Collard (keyboards), Chris Bostock (bass), and Sean…
Signed to Elektra largely as thanks to manager Jerry Brandt for bringing Carly Simon to the label, ex-Hair actor Jobriath Boone (real name Bruce Campbell, born…
Joe Brown was born on 13 May 1941 in Swarby, Lincolnshire, but his family relocated to Plaistow in London when he was just two-years-old to…
The ex-gas fitter from Sheffield, Yorkshire, reached the British Top 30 in 1968 with his record Marjorine. Six months later he recorded The Beatles’ With A Little Help…