Martha and The Muffins were a playful Canadian new wave band who had their roots in a mid-70s outfit called Oh Those Pants – a…
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Martha Reeves, Rosalind Ashford and Annette Sterling started singing together at their Detroit high school as The Del-Phis. In 1962 Martha was working as a…
Marty Rhone was born Karel Lawrence van Rhoon in the Dutch East Indies in 1948. His family moved to Australia in the 1950s and he…
Marty Wilde (real name Reg Smith) was born in Greenwich, London, in 1939. He began singing at the age of four when he walked on…
When Berry Gordy first started his Motor Town touring spectaculars (the precursors of the celebrated Motown revues) Marv Johnson was a headliner on an equal…
Hailing from the low-income Detroit suburb of Inkster, the 17-year-old girls who came together as The Marvelettes (originally The Casinyets – a corruption of The…
Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. (inspired by Sam Cooke, he added the “e” to his surname when he began his musical career) was born in Washington DC…
When The Beatles formed their own label, Apple, in 1968, they didn’t want it to exist only for their albums. They also wanted to make it possible for…
Born in Detroit on 13 May 1943, Mary Wells started singing at the age of ten and actually auditioned for the Tamla Motown label in 1961, when,…
Formed in Stockholm in 1963, this successful Swedish group issued around twenty singles and two LPs between 1964 and 1968, reaching the Swedish Top Ten…
British hip-hop has always been a poor cousin to its US counterpart. Only when Brits corrupt the formula by crossing it with other styles do…
Formed in Adelaide, Australia, in 1964, the Masters’ early music was raw R&B with echoes of The Rolling Stones and The Animals, but by 1965 the band had…
Matchbox formed in 1971, but it wasn’t until 1976 that their first album, Riders In The Sky, came out on Charly Records, by which time…
Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, Material Issue formed in 1985, led by frontman Jim Ellison, who sang, played guitar, and wrote most of the band’s songs.…
Matt Finish’s inaugural album Short Note (1981) is widely regarded as an all-time Australian classic and continues to sell to this day. The title track has appeared…
Born on 1 December 1930 in Finsbury, north London, former Shoreditch bus driver Terry Parsons recorded his first album clad in his driver’s jacket and…
Former Fairport Convention vocalist Iain Matthews formed Matthews Southern Comfort in 1970. The band’s country-tinged sound proved to be an excellent forum for Matthews’ songwriting…
Born in Cardiff, Wales, on 23 March 1940, Maureen Evans began her stage career as a young teenager, sharing the stage with Dickie Valentine. She…
Maurice Williams was born in Lancaster, South Carolina at the beginning of World War II. He wrote Stay while he was performing in a band as The…
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