Paul Anka was born in Ottawa, Canada, on 30 July 1941, and started singing professionally at the age of 12 with two friends. The trio…
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Paul Maurice Kelly was born on 13 January 1955 in Adelaide, Australia, the sixth of eight children. He attended Rostrevor College, where he played trumpet…
Inspired equally by show tunes, music hall and rock ‘n’ roll, the young James Paul McCartney (whose first guitar, incidentally, was a Rosetti Lucky 7…
Paul Revere and The Raiders were formed in Portland, Oregon in 1962 by vocalist/saxophonist Mark Lindsay – the heart-throb of the group – and organist…
After the 1970 breakup of the legendary folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon launched a diverse, critically acclaimed solo career. His self-titled 1972 debut album featured…
Paul Weller (born John William Weller on 25 May 1958) found his voice early, bellowing rock ‘n’ roll covers in working men’s clubs as a…
Following the sad demise of The Q Tips in September 1982, vocalist Paul Young signed a solo record deal with CBC/Columbia and released Iron Out The Rough Spots…
Paula Julie Abdul was born in 1963 in San Fernando, California. From the age of nine, she took dance lessons and impressed her teachers with…
Pavement were three friends from California: laconic singer Stephen Malkmus, guitarist Scott Kannberg, and unruly hippie drummer Gary Young, who would hand out free cabbages…
Formed in the early 70s in St Louis, Missouri, by David Surkamp and Mike Safron from the remnants of a band called High On A…
Los Angeles psychedelic band The Peanut Butter Conspiracy emerged in 1966 from the remains of The Ashes, formed the previous year by singer Pat Taylor,…
Pearl Gates was born in 1958 of a Filipino mother and American father and grew up in Germany, where her father was stationed by the…
Edward Louis Severson III was born in Evanston, a northern suburb of Chicago, on 23 December 1966. The eldest of four stepbrothers, he would not…
Led by lisping singer and poet/lyricist Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine formed in 1965 and wrote and recorded a number of songs which they sent to…
The Peddlers formed in Manchester in April 1964, as a trio of Roy Phillips (vocals and organ), Tab Martin (bass) and Trevor Morais (drums, previously of…
Newcastle (Australia) band Pel Mel initially restricted their performances to occasional gigs on the Sydney inner-city circuit, plus some plum supports for international touring artists…
Under their own steam Pendragon released half a dozen albums between 1985 (The Jewel) and 2001 (Not Of This World). Their first two albums offered…
In 1977, following exposure to The Sex Pistols, Penetration sprang out of Durham pit village Ferryhill only to find themselves allergic to the music industry.…
Royal Academy of Music alumni and freelance pop music arranger Simon Jeffes had a varied client base. Everything from Caravan albums to Sid Vicious’s My Way were to…
Curtis Williams was a member of vocal group The Hollywood Flames formed in Watts, Los Angeles in 1949. However, in late 1953 he decided to…