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Them
Van Morrison formed Them in 1964. After two hits in 1965 - Baby Please Don't Go and Here Comes The Night - and three not very successful albums, the blues-based band split up and Van Morrison went solo.
Van Morrison
Vocals, harmonica
Billy Harrison
Guitar
Eric...
Residents, The
Louisiana swamp rats who relocated to San Francisco in 1966 and created a stir by never revealing their identities and making head size eyeballs famous, The Residents specialised in proto-synth programming that pre-dated Devo and just about...
Apartments , The
Like a number of Australian musicians who got their start during the late 1970s New Wave movement, The Apartments' Peter Milton Walsh received more acclaim in Europe than at home.
Walsh's songs were full of bittersweet lyrical imagery,...
Faron’s Flamingos
Faron's Flamingos emerged from a band formed at the Liverpool Mercury Cycling Club (apparently in the winter months they preferred skiffle to cycling!). The group (The Hi-Hats) became Robin and The Ravens, with Robin wearing...
Spiceworld (1997)
The Spice Girls are a global pop star phenomenon and everyone wants to be a part of their world, but for their manager Clifford (Richard E. Grant) this means another hectic day of organising their...
Ratt
This American heavy rock band was formed in 1980 in Los Angeles by vocalist Stephen Pearcy and guitarist Robbin Crosby. Pearcy's first band had been called Mickey Ratt.
The pair had known Warren DeMartini as a rival...
Nice, The
The Nice formed in 1967 as a backing band for singer PP Arnold. Keith Emerson and "Blinkey" Davison had previously been playing in Gary Farr's T-Bones, and they teamed up with Lee Jackson and Davy O'List.
At...
