Born in August 1955, Midlander Joe Jackson was a music college graduate (he studied piano at London’s Royal College of Music) and cabaret arranger before…
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Acclaimed by many as the UK’s Phil Spector, Joe Meek was born on 5 April 1929. His first love from childhood had been electronics, and this…
Joe South was born Joseph Souter on 28 February 1940 and given a guitar by his father at the age of 11. He built a…
John Mellencamp grew up in Seymour, Indiana. By seventeen he was married, and at nineteen he was a father, pouring concrete for a living and…
John Barry first formed the group in Yorkshire in 1957, after he completed his military service in the British Army. While playing at the Rialto…
The son of a US Air Force pilot, John Denver was born Henry John Deutschendorf on 31 December 1943 and raised all over the US…
John Peter Farnham was born in Dagenham, East London, on 1 July 1949 and moved to Melbourne (Australia) with his family in 1959. At the…
Over a career spanning more than five decades, beginning in the early 1970s as a staff songwriter in Nashville, John Hiatt has effortlessly moved across…
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…
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.…