Formed by heavyweight guitar prodigy Leslie West (born Leslie Weinstein in 1945) and Cream producer Felix Pappalardi, US group Mountain were often regarded as the…
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The Move brought a blast of Black Country grit – plus an unlikely dash of classicism – to the fey realm of 1960s British psychedelia.…
Formed in 1980, Sydney northern beaches band Moving Pictures released their debut album, Days of Innocence, in late 1981. What About Me? (February 1982) was the biggest…
British band Mr Big began life as a group called Burnt Oak in the sixties. The new name was first used when the band performed…
Not to be confused with the British band of the same name who enjoyed a worldwide hit in 1977 with Romeo, this American hair metal…
Bogdan Charis Kominowski was born in 1945 inside a Nazi concentration camp near Düsseldorf in Germany. His French father was killed in the war, but…
Hailing from Surrey, Mud had their origins in several Carshalton or Mitcham bands of the 1960s: Guitarist Rob Davis and drummer Dave Mount first played…
Muddy Waters – real name McKinley Morganfield – was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1915 and was raised by his grandparents (his parents separated…
Unsurprisingly it was John Peel who first championed Mudhoney in the UK. One night in 1988 he excitedly announced the arrival of the rama lama fa-fa-fa blast…
The Mudlarks were a family group from Luton, Bedfordshire, originally comprising Jeff Mudd, Fred Mudd and Mary Mudd. They all had jobs at the Vauxhall motor…
Little-known skiffle-cum-jug band, The Good Earth gained instant success and a new name overnight following a sensational performance at the Hollywood Pop Festival in Staffordshire, England,…
The Music Machine rode the songwriting genius of Sean Bonniwell, who was ahead of his time in protest songs like Eagle Never Hunts The Fly and Mother Nature,…
Musical Youth formed in 1979 at Duddeston Manor School in Birmingham, England. The pop/reggae group featured two sets of brothers – Kelvin and Michael Grant,…
Brothers Gary and Donald Hosie had been the prime movers of the Sydney (Australia) mod revival scene of the early 1980s with their band The Sets.…
Quiet – loud, quiet – loud. For people whose singing voices were slightly less audible than falling snow, My Bloody Valentine knew how to make…
Melbourne (Australia) entrepreneur and businessman Michael Kopp came up with the concept of The Mystrys purely as a gimmicky business venture in 1966. They secured…