Petula Clark was born in Epsom, Surrey, UK, on 15 November 1932 and was encouraged by her father to seek a career in show business…
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Despite forming in 1971, Chicago-based Pezband were crowned ‘Most Promising New Act of the Year’ in 1978, primarily because of the resurging interest in power pop music…
Phil Collins was born in Chiswick in 1951. As a young man, his father had run away to sea but was ordered back by Collins’…
They said he was as good as Bob Dylan, perhaps even better. For a split-second in time, Phil Ochs probably was. When Dylan alienated his hardcore…
There are only a handful of people from the 1960s who can truly be said to have had a major and lasting effect on the…
Born Phoebe Ann Laub in New York City in 1952, the singer changed her name after seeing ‘Phoebe Snow’, a fictional advertising character for a…
The Photos formed in Evesham, Worcestershire (UK) when singer Wendy Wu joined band members of punk band Satan’s Rats. They released one self-titled album (Epic,…
In one of those occasional spasms of madness that overcome the British record-buying public (and surely the template for League of Gentlemen’s duffers Crème Broulee),…
This mainly instrumental soul/funk sextet formed in Gloucestershire in late 1980 from the remnants of political funkers The Pop Group. The band made their first…
After the demise of The Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten reverted to being plain old John Lydon and became the leader of PiL (Public Image Ltd). He…
Singer/bassist David Paton spent his early years in Leith (Edinburgh) and then moved to the tough district of Inch, later joining The Bay City Rollers. While…
Described by John Lydon (Sex Pistols, PiL) as his favourite “old wave rock band”, this Ladbroke Grove union of Pretty Things drummer Twink and ex-members of Mick Farren’s…
Pink Floyd (named after two obscure American bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council) formed in Cambridge in 1964 as a six-piece group of Syd Barrett,…
Formerly The Liberators, Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours hailed from Rugby and took their debut single Mirror Mirror to #9 in 1966. Unfortunately, their follow-up disc (Don’t Stop Loving…
Initially formed in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1962 by brothers Sydney and Derrick Crooks and their friend Winston Hewitt, this seminal reggae vocal trio relocated to…
This tongue-in-cheek band from Brighton formed in 1977, and were originally part of the Brighton punk scene. Their sound was individualised by the use of…
Having dropped out of the University of Massachusetts while on a college exchange program, Frank Black (real name Charles Michael Kitteridge Thompson IV) teamed up…
Texan vocalist P.J Proby (born James Marcus Smith in November 1938) became an overnight sensation in Britain when Jack Good brought him and his pudding-bowl haircut over…
New York-based, The Plasmatics established a cult reputation for their outrageous stage presentation, built around the contortions, distortions and disrobing of Wendy Orleans Williams. Williams…
Plastic Bertrand was the alias of new wave prankster Roger Allen François Jouret, a native of Belgium who appropriated the sound and style of the new…