The advertisement in Variety proclaimed, “Madness!! Auditions. Folk & Roll musicians-singers for acting roles in new TV series. Running parts for 4 insane boys, age 17…
Browsing: Music M
In 1965, Ulm School Of Design graduates Karl Remy and Walther Niemann happened across a five-piece band playing in a bar in Stuttgart (Germany), called…
When Adam Ant left The B-Sides to start Adam & The Ants, The Monochrome Set formed from the remnants. They released their debut single, Alphaville, on…
Formed in Wolverhampton (England) in 1964, The Montanas never found significant success in their home country but had one moderate hit in the United States.…
The most memorable musical event of 1967 was the Monterey International Pop Festival, held in the Californian sunshine over three days between June 16th -…
South-west London band Mood Six first popped up in 1982 as part of Britain’s short-lived pre-fab psychedelic revival. The band got their start in a…
Emerging from the provincial South Australian town of Mount Gambier in the late seventies, The Moodists were at odds with most Australian music genres. Neither…
The Moody Blues were formed in Birmingham (UK) in 1966 with Clint Warwick (real name, Albert Eccles), Mike Pinder, Denny Laine, Ray Thomas and Graeme…
Originally formed in Louisville, Kentucky as The Crazy Sounds, the group moved to Cleveland where disc jockey Alan Freed renamed them The Moonglows (after his own nickname…
Stephen Patrick Morrissey was 13 when he fell in love for the first time – with The New York Dolls. He saw the band on television…
Berkeley born and bred, Martha Davis fell in love with “a hardcore juvenile delinquent” at the age of 12. Soon she was pregnant, married and…
Mother Earth formed in 1967 in California but moved to Nashville after their first album. Vocalist Tracy Nelson (pictured) hailed from Madison, Wisconsin, and began her career…
Mother Goose hailed from Dunedin, New Zealand, and were unique for their performances which combined mime, satire, costumes and novelty songs with virtuoso playing. Honing…
Coming from the heart of the burgeoning freak culture on the American West Coast, Frank Zappa’s band were originally known simply as The Mothers until…
Formed in 1964 from the remnants of Ritchie Clark and the Ricochets, The Motions were one of the bigger groups of the 1960s Dutch beat…
In the late 1980s Mötley Crüe – Vince Neil (real name Vincent Neil Wharton), Mick Mars (real name Bob Deal), Nikki Sixx (real name Frank…
Born in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent on Christmas Eve, 1945, Ian Fraser Kilmister moved to North Wales at the age of 10 and attended Ysgol Syr Thomas…
Andy McMaster and Nick Garvey got together in 1974 when the former successfully auditioned for a keyboard slot in Ducks Deluxe, a renowned London-based pub rock band. Garvey…
With an $800 loan from his family and a roster of unknown young Detroit singers, former record shop owner Berry Gordy Jnr (pictured below) started what…
Mott the Hoople took their name from the title of a 1966 novel written by Willard Manus, about a man named Norman Mott who called…