Ratcat came together in Sydney (Australia) in 1984 from the ashes of a garage band called Danger Mouse. Their eponymous debut mini-LP was released in…
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In mid-Sixties Detroit – where cool white R&B bands were as common as cars – the big three were Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Bob Seger…
This American heavy rock band was formed in 1980 in Los Angeles by vocalist Stephen Pearcy and guitarist Robbin Crosby. Pearcy’s first band had been called…
When Ray Brown died in August 1996, Australian rock & roll lost one of its unsung achievers. After bursting onto the pop scene at Sydney’s…
Hailing from Melbourne (Australia), singer Ray Burgess launched his solo career in 1974 with the singles Touch Me (which reached #3 on the Aussie charts…
Ray Charles started out smooth – A substandard Nat King Cole – but after signing to Atlantic, his gospel background kicked in and he effectively invented soul. As…
Starting out as a fairly accomplished outfit in the style of Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Ray Columbus and The Invaders hit the top of…
Band leader and frontman John Felice was in the first, unrecorded, lineup of The Modern Lovers with his next-door neighbour Jonathan Richman in the early ’70s.…
Guitarist/vocalist Dave Sterry and synthesizer player/violinist Richard Zatorski had been members of the final line-up of 70’s Australian band Kush. They began writing songs together…
Soulful vocal group The Real Thing formed in Liverpool in 1970 and, although they performed on the TV talent show Opportunity Knocks, their big break…
The Records are best remembered for their cult classic, Starry Eyes, a song that defined British power pop in the 70s. While they never matched the success of…
The Red Crayola began as a psychedelic experimental rock band formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas (Texas) in 1966. The band…
Formed in 1982, Red Guitars delivered great tunes, had the left-wing political credentials to become NME darlings and were defiantly independent, releasing material through their own label,…
The Red Hot Chili Peppers came together in Los Angeles in 1983, formed by high school friends Anthony Kiedis and Michael ‘Flea’ Balzary. The naughty…
These Leeds-based post-punk doomsters formed in 1982. York-based label/distributor Red Rhino released their hypnotic debut 45, Beating My Head, six months later. Over the next seven years…
In a desperate attempt to prevent a third consecutive Tory victory at the looming General Election, Red Wedge – a coalition of Socialist-minded musicians including…
Barely teenagers at the time, Redd Kross was one of the first bands in So Cal to pick up guitars and lash out at their…
Redgum formed in 1975 when Verity Truman, John Schumann and Michael Atkinson met to plan a Politics and Art course at Flinders University in Adelaide,…
Originally formed as The Redhouse Roll Band, this Geelong (Victoria, Australia) quartet was that city’s premier rock attraction during the mid-1970s. The Redhouse Roll Band…
The Redskins were a skinhead punk band with a brass-driven soul sideline. Hailing originally from York (and known originally as No Swastikas) the band were…
