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…
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The New Colony Six formed at St. Patrick’s High School in Chicago, Illinois, in 1964 and pioneered that city’s rock revolution, becoming the first band…
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…
Formed in 1984 by former New Edition mentor Maurice Starr, New Kids On The Block were created to be a white version of the teen…
New Model Army formed in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1980 and immediately outlined their manifesto by naming themselves after the Sir Thomas Fairfax/Oliver Cromwell revolutionary army.…
Electronic pop band New Musik formed in 1977, growing out of a casual band of south London school friends who jammed together under the name…
New Order rose from the ashes of Joy Division in 1981, releasing their debut album Movement at the end of the year. The album was no work of cavalier…
By 1969, The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia was becoming more and more enamoured with country music and decided to brush up on his pedal-steel playing. He…
The New Seekers were ‘manufactured’ on the break-up of The Seekers in 1970 by Keith Potger and consisted of Eve Graham, Lyn Paul, Peter Doyle, Marty Kristian…
The 1966 UK #1 single Winchester Cathedral was actually recorded by a group of studio musicians assembled by writer, producer and lead singer Geoff Stephens. When…
Portrayed as an Antipodean import, the band was actually largely British; John “Fuzzy” Lee was born in Ashtead, Surrey, and John Kane in Glasgow. Both had…
Arthur Kane and his best friend, George Fedorcik formed a band at high school in New York. Fedorcik adopted the alias Rick Rivets and he…
The Newtown Neurotics hailed from Harlow in Essex; a stereotypically inhospitable and lifeless post-war “new town” of grey concrete and roundabouts (a la Stevenage or…
The Nice formed in 1967 as a backing band for singer PP Arnold. Keith Emerson and “Blinkey” Davison had previously been playing in Gary Farr’s T-Bones,…
Melbourne (Australia) born Nick Cave is one of the most celebrated and enigmatic performers of the post-punk era and boasts an unrivalled international reputation. His…
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was originally formed in 1984 by two former members of the Australian band The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and Mick Harvey. They…
Like Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake was a rare talent whose unique voice and premature death sealed his iconic status. Born in 1948 in Burma but raised…
Nicholas George Gildern was born in London on 21 December 1951. While studying at Technical College in King’s Lynn (Norfolk), his parents migrated to Canada…
Nick Lowe probably has the greatest ear for melody in the modern world. But this is not just a pop melody-composing genius – this is…
“If you’re going to be in the music business, you gotta make hit records,” Mike Chapman once pithily observed. A simple philosophy, it guided sometimes…