Artists - M

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...

Australian band Machinations formed around Tim Doyle and Tony Starr in 1979, using what electronic instruments they could find. Their school friend Fred Loneragan joined...

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...

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...

Nobody quite embodies the Eighties like the 'Material Girl' from Detroit, Madonna Louise Ciccone. In the 1980s Madonna showed herself to be a supreme manipulator...

No sooner had Manchester's Buzzcocks released their debut Spiral Scratch EP in January 1977 than singer/founder Howard Devoto quit. 12 months later he launched Magazine with the brilliant single Shot...

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...

Described by NME writer Nick Kent as "Ladbroke Grove's answer to Wildman Fisher," Magic Michael  (real name Michael Cousins) was a permanent fixture on the early-'70s...

Samuel Maghett was born on Valentines Day 1937 on a farm in central Mississippi, where he learned to play the guitar by stretching strings...

French prog rock band Magma were assembled by seismic drummer Christian Vander to relate his operatic saga concerning the future disintegration of Earth and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Back in the days when nobody was ashamed to be called hippy, Welsh band Man were the closest thing the British side of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...