Nancy Sinatra
Born on 8 June 1940 in Jersey City, New York, Nancy Sinatra was the oldest of three children born to Frank and Nancy Sinatra.
While she was...
Napalm Death
The music of Birmingham agitators Napalm Death typically crashes upon the listener like a drum kit hurled through a closed bay window, their lyrics...
Napoleon XIV
Jerry Samuels to his friends, this recording engineer and occasional songwriter worked a small miracle of bad taste with just a drum and tambourine...
Nashville Teens, The
From the stockbroker town of Weybridge in Surrey came The Nashville Teens, brainchildren of Arthur Sharp and Ramon Phillips, lead singers of two rival...
Nat King Cole
Learning to play the piano at an early age, Nathaniel Adams Coles secured a residency at Chicago's Panama Club with his brother Eddie while...
Nazareth
Formed in Dunfermline in 1968 - and still going 40+ years later - Nazareth peaked in 1975 with their sixth album, Hair Of The Dog,...
Nazz, The
Guitarist Todd Rundgren formed The Nazz with bassist Carson Van Osten in 1967 after they had quit blues purists Woody's Truck Stop.
Recruiting drummer Thom Mooney...
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
British feedback machine Ned's Atomic Dustbin - the name was taken from The Goon Show - formed in the West Midlands in 1988 and...
Neil Christian & The Crusaders
Neil Christian (born Christopher Tidmarsh on 14 February 1940) grew up in Shoreditch, East London. Infatuated by Rock & Roll, but with no desire...
Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond was born on 24 January 1941, in Brooklyn, New York. For his sixteenth birthday, he was given a guitar and began...
Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 13 March 1939 and won a scholarship to the Juilliard Music School (the school depicted...
Neil Young
Since co-founding Buffalo Springfield in 1966 (and then splitting after two albums), Neil Young rarely stopped moving.
Born in Toronto in November 1945, Neil Perceval Young worked in...
Nena
Entering the Billboard Top 40 on 21 January 1984, 99 Luftballons - a single by Teutonic new wave group Nena sung entirely in their own language - put...
Neneh Cherry
She was born Neneh Mariann Karlsson in 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of West African percussionist Ahmadu Jah and Swedish artist, Moki.
Raised by...
Neon Philharmonic, The
After the inspired fantasy of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the general perception was that any vaguely connected series of songs with a...
Nero And The Gladiators
Nero (Mike O'Neill) had previously played keyboards as a member of The Cabin Boys, the backing group of Tommy Steele's less famous brother, Colin Hicks.
He...
Nerves, The
Singer/songwriter Jack Lee formed The Nerves with fellow San Francisco street musicians Peter Case and Paul Collins. He had moved to LA but the...
Neu!
Formed in 1971 in Dusseldorf, this archetypal Kraütrock band was actually a duo comprising guitar wiz Michael Rother and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Klaus Dinger, both previously with Kraftwerk.
Dinger's mechanical,...
New Christs
When the New Christs first formed in 1980 they only performed in a studio, releasing the searing acid-punk single Face A New God (1981).
The original lineup comprised ex-Radio...
New Dream
New Dream was Australia's foremost bubblegum pop band of the early 70s, following in the tradition of The Archies, Ohio Express and The 1910 Fruitgum Company.
The band formed as The...
