Boasting two acoustic guitar masters, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, a virtuoso rhythm section (comprising drummer Terry Cox and bassist Danny Thompson) and the pure,…
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The group hailed from Redlands in California, making their recording debut in 1965 as The Mark 5 and continued to record under various aliases including…
Percy Sledge was born in Leighton, Alabama, in November 1941 and was working as a hospital orderly in 1965 when his former music teacher asked…
Pere Ubu (the name came from a cruel and crude character in the absurdist 1890s stage play, Uhu Roi, by Alfred Jarry) formed in Cleveland in…
Perry Como was born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and worked as a barber before he embarked on a career in show business in the 1930s. His…
Neil Tennant, the assistant editor of UK pop magazine Smash Hits met keyboard player Chris Lowe in a music shop in London in 1981 and discussed forming…
Peter Alexander Edwin Meaden was born on 11 November 1941. As a teenager, he worked in a restaurant before embracing the mod subculture and establishing…
Born in San Francisco, Pete Myers (aka “The Mad Daddy”) was the wildest Disc Jockey from America’s golden age of Rock & Roll radio -…
Born on 3 May 1919, and immersed in music by his parents – Charles Seeger, a musicologist, and Constance de Clyver Edson Seeger, a concert violinist…
Doctor’s sons Peter Asher (brother of English actress Jane Asher) and Gordon Waller met in 1959 when they were pupils at London’s famous Westminster School.…
With album titles like Pissed and Proud, The Mating Sounds of South American Frogs and The Loud Blaring Punk Rock LP, Brighton nutters Peter & The Test Tube Babies were…
Born Peter Woolnough in Tenterfield, NSW, Australia in 1942, vocalist/pianist Peter Allen began his musical career at the age of nine, playing the piano in…
Peter Blakeley – described by the founder of Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun, as “The finest White Soul singer I have ever heard” – was the lead…
Born in 1949, Peter Doyle enjoyed a varied and successful career which took him from Australia to the UK, the USA and back again. He…
Born in Beckenham, Kent, in 1950, Frampton was an old mate of David Bowie (Frampton’s father, Ossie, taught Bowie art at Beckenham Technical School). The first time…
Originally based in East Anglia (they formed at a Norwich college) and led by Peter Jay on drums, the seven-piece Jaywalkers predated the British Beat…
Peter Sarstedt was born in Delhi, India in 1941, as one of six siblings, to Albert and Coral who were civil servants in the British…
Having quit The Wailers and Island Records (he would frequently call the label boss Chris Blackwell, “Chris Whiteworst”), Tosh delivered Legalize It in 1976. The album was…
Over the years, the Bob Dylan song Blowin’ In The Wind would become the anthem of the civil rights movement and be recorded by literally hundreds of artists. But it was…
At the age of five, Islington lad Lennie Peters (born Leonard George Sargent) was knocked down by a car and lost sight in his left…