Link Wray
While recording his 1958 hit single Rumble, Link Wray took a pen and punched holes in the tweeters of his amp to get a combination...
Lipstick Killers, The
The Lipstick Killers grew out of two of the most notorious late 70s punk bands in Sydney (Australia); Psycho Surgeons and Filth.
Their Americanised brand...
Little Anthony & The Imperials
Formed in Brooklyn in 1957, the group's first hit, the haunting Tears On My Pillow (1958), encapsulated the essence of street corner harmony.
Further success came with So...
Little Bob Story
Formed in Le Havre in 1974, France's Little Bob Story played a spectacular blend of pub rock, R&B, rock'n'roll and blues, mixing up well-chosen...
Little Eva
Eva Narcissus Boyd was working as a babysitter for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin when they asked her to record a song they had written...
Little Feat
One of the more offbeat and interesting bands to emerge in the 1970s, Little Feat left a catalogue of memorable material and provided, in...
Little Heroes, The
The Little Heroes formed in Melbourne (Australia) in 1980 from the ashes of an outfit called Secret Police.
They walked off with the 1980 National...
Little Murders
English ex-pat Rob Griffiths embraced 1960s English pop culture (The Who, The Kinks, Union Jack flags draped over amplifiers) so it was perhaps unsurprising that...
Little Pattie
During the early years of Australian Rock & Roll, the scene was almost entirely male-dominated. As the beat softened and the frantic momentum diminished...
Little Peggy March
Born Margaret Annemarie Battavio in Pennsylvania, Peggy began singing at the age of two and was heard at a cousin’s wedding when she was...
Little Richard
Little Richard made the kind of Rock 'n' Roll you think only exists in the movies.
Richard pounds the piano, scats out some vocals, the...
Little River Band (LRB)
Little River Band was an Australian 'supergroup' of savvy and well-experienced musicians. Three members came from an acoustic band called Mississippi while Dutch-born Beeb Birtles...
Little Willie John
Born William Edward John in Camden, Arkansas, on 15 November 1937, he grew up in a Detroit household with four brothers and two sisters.
An...
Liverbirds, The
One of the very few Merseybeat bands with female members and possibly the first 'girl group' of all time, The Liver Birds formed in 1963.
The band...
Liverpool Five, The
The Liverpool Five (four of them were actually from Fulham!) left the UK and went travelling throughout Europe. They somehow ended up playing at...
Living Colour
This American rock band was formed in 1984 by Vernon Reid, Muzz Skillings and William Calhoun. Reid had studied performing arts at Manhattan Community...
LL Cool J
LL Cool J was born James Todd Smith. The rap name apparently means "Ladies Love Cool James".
He was only 16 when he released his...
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
Formed in 1983 in the famous Tennants Bar in Glasgow, they built a reputation for studenty, jangly and thoughtful guitar-pop.
Listening to the vignettes on...
Lloyd Price
By the time this raucous rocker from New Orleans was 19 he had become part of rock 'n' roll history when the first song he...
Loaded Dice
Loaded Dice were a hard-working power pop band that were touted as being the next big thing from Western Australia.
Formed in 1974, they started out...
