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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…

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Nobody quite embodies the 1980s like the ‘Material Girl’ from Detroit, Madonna Louise Ciccone. Ciccone enjoyed a comfortable suburban middle-class upbringing (her father, Tony, was…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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