While serving an apprenticeship at a Vauxhall car factory, Paul Young played in two local bands before joining a London group called Streetband (with John Gifford,…
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Hairy, nihilistic and uncompromising, Q65 were as popular as The Who and The Kinks in their native Holland, but their success never crossed its borders. Their bummer vibe was…
Vocalist Jenny Morris formed QED in Sydney in 1983 with guitarist Rex Goh (ex-Air Supply), bassist Ian Belton (ex-Dave Dobbyn) and drummer Shane Flew. Signing to EMI…
At the height of the British Skiffle craze, John Lennon and some enthusiastic but musically limited school friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool…
Birmingham-based New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) band who hopped to a different label with almost every release. Vocalist Mike ‘Taffy’ Taylor co-founded a group called…
Since their 1973 debut album, Queen’s ambitious template had included bombastic classical references, falsetto freak-outs, and pagan mysticism. But at the beginning of 1975, they were, to…
Formed in 1981 outside Seattle, Washington, Queensrÿche were one of the most artistic and creative of the hard rock bands during the decade, and released…
Stephen Lennon, John Robinson, Paul Barry and Chris Kowalski were all pupils at a secondary school in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1978 when their home-recorded demo…
Aussie band The Questions first attracted attention when they were runners-up in Hoadley’s 1967 National Battle of The Sounds. Shortly after they were voted Most…
Formed in Los Angeles in 1976, this power pop band were heavily influenced by British glam bands, which attracted their first manager, Kim Fowley, who…
One of the first West Coast groups, Quicksilver Messenger Service formed in San Francisco in 1965 and built up a big reputation in that area from…
Canadian group The Quid was formed in 1964 in Winnipeg, taking their name from the British slang word for a pound note. Their debut single,…
Back in the mid-70s the primo heavy metal band in Los Angeles was Quiet Riot. Van Halen were pretty popular too, but could boast nothing like…
This heavy rock band formed in 1987 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and were known as The Queerboys for their first year, until the negative effect of that…