The O’Jays formed fresh from high school in 1959 and named themselves after Eddie O’Jay, a disc-jockey on Radio WABQ in their hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.…
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Guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, bass player Paul ‘Guigsy’ McGuigan and drummer Tony McCarroll originally formed as 061 (after the telephone area code for their home…
This four-piece combo formed in suburban Solihull in the West Midlands in 1989 around singer and ex-journalist Simon Fowler, laconic guitarist Stephen Craddock, agreeable bassist Damon Minchella…
Michael Lloyd signed his first music publishing deal at the age of 13 and signed with Epic to cut his album, October Country, when he was 18.…
Odetta Holmes was born in Birmingham, Alabama (USA) in 1930 and moved with her family to Los Angeles at the age of six. When her…
This late-’70s power pop group came together in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1977 with a line-up of Cliff Johnson (who had previously been the vocalist…
Bryan Holland and Greg Kriesel attended Pacifica High in Garden Grove, California, together, where they were both on the cross-country team. They formed their first…
Though marketed as a band, it would be more accurate to say that the name “Ohio Express” served as a brand name used by Jerry…
The Ohio Players started life in the 1960s as The Ohio Untouchables and their first real claim to fame was that they were featured vocalists…
Oingo Boingo originally formed in 1972 as The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo – a musical troupe in the tradition of Frank Zappa, performing an…
Formed in Sydney, Australia, in 1975, OL’55 enjoyed enormous popularity with a retro-fifties style that bordered on parody. The band took its name from the Tom…
Shortly after Olivia’s birth (in Cambridge, England, in September 1948), her family moved from England (where her Welsh-born father was head of King’s College, Cambridge)…
The Olympics began life in 1954 as The Challengers while still at high school in Compton, California. Their debut single, Western Movies (1958), reached #8 in the…
Initially known as The Jaygars, Alan Young (vocals and rhythm guitar), Billy Scenters (bass) and brothers Jimmy and Jack McCulloch (lead guitar and drums respectively)…
The Only Ones emerged in 1977 with an independent single, Lovers Of Today b/w Peter & The Pets, and a swag of Velvet Underground-like songs of heroin addiction and…
Opal was formed by two of the leading lights of LA’s paisley underground scene – former Rain Parade guitarist David Roback and ex-Dream Syndicate bass…
The Oppressed was an Oi! band formed in March 1981 in Cardiff by Russell Payne (guitar), his brother Ronnie (bass), Gary Tier (drums) and Martin Brennan (vocals).…
Lovelorn, naive and vibrant, these foppish lads from the middle-class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden fashioned post-Byrds jangle and skinny white soul into their own nervy, lo-fi…
In 1978, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys – two strait-laced kids from the Wirral – hosted an evening they considered to be a self-indulgent experiment…
Original Mirrors formed in Liverpool in 1980 after the demise of vocalist Steve Allen’s art rock group Deaf School. Guitarist Ian Broudie had previously played with Big…
