The Reels were the first Australian band of any note to emerge from a New South Wales country town. Dave Mason (son of the then-leader…
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There were a number of American vocal groups called The Reflections but the best known were a blue-eyed soul/doo-wop group from Detroit, Michigan. They had…
The Regents were an Italian-American doo-wop group from the Bronx in New York who had a US top twenty hit in 1961 with the original…
The Remains formed in November 1964 at Boston University, where all four members were first-year students living in the same dorm (Myles Standish Hall) in…
Danny Wilde had been pursuing a solo career for five years and Phil Solem had been trying to get his own band off the ground.…
The Remo Four had the connections (guitarist Colin Manley and bassist Don Andrew were classmates of Paul McCartney at Liverpool Institute) but were destined to stay bridesmaids…
When Keith Relf and Jim McCarty left The Yardbirds in 1968, they added Keith’s sister Jane, bassist Louis Cennamo and ace pianist John Hawken from…
Long recognised as Australia’s foremost jazz, blues and soul singer, Renee Geyer (born 1952) has issued 14 albums over the course of a 30+ year career.…
When their 1980 single Keep On Loving You became REO Speedwagon’s first hit, the band had already spent close to ten years trying unsuccessfully to record a…
Italian-American girl-group The Delrons formed in 1963 at St Brendon’s High School in Brooklyn, New York. Their first single, Your Big Mistake (1964), was a flop, so…
The 1980s gave rise to five outstanding US alternative bands: R.E.M, The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü and The Replacements. In common with Hüsker Dü, The Replacements hailed from Minneapolis…
Louisiana swamp rats who relocated to San Francisco in 1966 and created a stir by never revealing their identities and making head size eyeballs famous,…
Before Punk came along, Edinburgh art college students Alan Forbes and John Callis were in R&B covers band The Knutsford Dominators. Their 1976 venture, The Rezillos, was…
Glen Matlock left The Sex Pistols because he was tired of posing, didn’t hate boring old farts enough (he admitted to liking Paul McCartney which…
Former commercial artist Richard Clapton released his first solo album, Prussian Blue, in November 1973, having spent five years in Europe, where he worked in…
By the summer of 1976, Richard Hell (born Richard Myers) had formed and then quit arguably the two most exciting bands of the original CBGB’s scene – Television and The…
Richie Havens’ roots were in gospel and doo-wop, before graduating onto the coffeehouse circuit of the early 60s alongside singers like Bob Dylan and Gordon…
Born Richard Lewis Springthorpe on 23 August 1949 in the Sydney (Australia) suburb of Guildford, Rick Springfield began playing the guitar at Merrylands high school…
An in-demand session musician, the classically trained pianist Rick Wakeman had been a member of folk ensemble The Strawbs before joining prog rock juggernauts Yes…
Born in Chicago in 1954, the third of four children, Rickie Lee Jones was the tragic heir to a family of gipsies and entertainers. Her…
