Artists - M
M.P.D. Limited
M.P.D. Limited had one of the most meteoric rises in the history of Australian rock and pop.
Formed from the remains of Melbourne Shadows-style instrumental band The Phantoms, M.P.D. (Mike, Pete and Danny) were supporting UK...
Machinations
Australian band Machinations formed around guitarist Tim Doyle and keyboard player Tony Starr in 1979, using what electronic instruments they could find.
Their school friend Fred Loneragan joined as their singer, and they played their first...
Madder Lake
Melbourne (Australia) band Madder Lake are best remembered for their infectious single 12lb Toothbrush.
Formed in 1970, their brand of prog rock/psychedelic blues quickly became extremely popular on the local pub circuity and Madder lake appeared as...
Madness
Madness were at the forefront of the UK ska revival at the end of the 70s. They ultimately shed the 2 Tone image and became one of the most consistent UK chart groups of the Eighties. They were a...
Madonna
Nobody quite embodies the Eighties like the 'Material Girl' from Detroit, Madonna Louise Ciccone.
Ciccone enjoyed a comfortable suburban middle-class upbringing (her father, Tony, was a scientist employed in Detroit's car industry), although with five siblings...
Magazine
No sooner had Manchester's Buzzcocks released their debut Spiral Scratch EP in January 1977 than singer/founder Howard Devoto quit. Twelve months later he launched Magazine in a debut gig at the closing night of the Electric Circus in...
Maggie Bell
Margaret "Maggie" Bell was born on 12 January 1945, at Maryhill, Glasgow, in Scotland. She began singing in her teenage years and left school at the age of fifteen to work as a window dresser by day...
Magic Michael
Described by NME writer Nick Kent as "Ladbroke Grove's answer to Wildman Fischer," Magic Michael (real name Michael Cousins) was a permanent fixture on the early '70s UK hippie scene - albeit one who seemed destined to...
Magic Sam
Samuel Maghett was born on Valentines Day 1937 on a farm in central Mississippi, where he learned to play the guitar by stretching strings tied to nails driven into a wall. His family moved to Chicago...
Magma
French prog rock band Magma were assembled by seismic drummer Christian Vander to relate his operatic saga concerning the future disintegration of Earth and the subsequent efforts of a few citizens to begin a new...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta were a gentle acoustic-guitars-and-harmonies outfit who began in the late 60's and survived several line-up changes. Their material, built mainly around the songs of Chris Simpson and Tom Hoy, was melodic and intelligent,...
Mahogany Rush
Canada's Mahogany Rush were led by lead guitarist/vocalist Frank Marino, who was indelibly influenced by Jimi Hendrix, and his music shamelessly reflected this.
Marino pushed his Hendrix acolyte credentials to the limit on the band's fourth and...
Makin’ Time
Makin' Time hailed from the West Midlands and for a period were considered the great white hopes for the mod revival scene.
Their debut single Here Is My Number was produced by Pat Collier who had...
Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was born on 22 January 1946 in North London. His father left when he was two and he and his brother Stuart were raised by his maternal grandmother. Leaving home in his teens,...
Mamas & The Papas, The
Leader and principal songwriter John Phillips had enjoyed limited success with The Journeymen before retiring to the Virgin Islands with his wife Michelle and two friends, Denny Doherty and Mama Cass Elliott (who had played in...
Man
Back in the days when nobody was ashamed to be called a hippie, Welsh band Man were the closest thing the British side of the Atlantic had to those all-time great star-truckers the Grateful Dead and...
Manassas
The multi-talented Stephen Stills founded this highly regarded unit in 1971 during sessions for a projected album.
Chris Hillman and Al Perkins, both formerly of the Flying Burrito Brothers, and percussionist Jo Lala joined the singer's regular...
Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann (born Manfred Lubowitz in South Africa in 1940) formed a group in Britain in 1963 called The Manne-Hugg Blues Brothers.
Shortening their name to simply 'Manfred Mann' they made the charts early in 1964 with...
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Manfred Mann's Earth Band came together in 1971 after Mann had grown disillusioned with his original outfit.
A year later they signed a recording deal with Polydor and scored a Top Ten hit with the single Joybringer (August 1973)...
Manhattans, The
Not as successful in the UK as, say, The Stylistics or The Chi-Lites, what really set The Manhattans apart in the 60s and 70s was the number of good songwriters in the group's ranks.
Blue Lovett,...
