Russ Conway (real name Trevor Herbert Stanford) was born on 2 September 1925, in Bristol. After leaving school he trained as a solicitor’s clerk, but…
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Russell Morris joined Somebody’s Image in 1967. The band became very popular in Australia and released three singles – Hide and Seek, When I Come…
Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1928, Ruth Brown (real name Ruth Alston Weston) won an amateur night competition at Harlem’s Apollo Theater in 1948 and was…
A favourite of the late great John Peel, The Ruts emerged from Southall, a heavily Asian-populated west London suburb. Their anti-racist stance fused punk and…
Born in Los Angeles in 1947, Ry Cooder learnt directly from folk-blues singers like the Reverend Gary Davis and Sleepy John Estes, perfecting a technique…
