Ruby Florence Murray was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1935 – the youngest child in a Protestant family. She began working in Northern Ireland…
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Belfast band Rudi formed in 1975 as a covers band, playing rock ‘n’ roll and glam rock hits. The original members were school friends Drew…
Born on 26 March 1917 in Cayce, Mississippi, Rufus Thomas first hit the stage as a dancer and comedian with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. In…
The Rumour comprised former members of British pub rock bands Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe and Bontemps Roulez. Formed in 1975, they initially performed and recorded…
Run-DMC are the single most important act in hip-hop history. The trio from Hollis, in New York’s Queens district, changed the sound and attitude of…
Four teenage girls – all aged 16 except lead guitarist Lita Ford, who at 17 was the “old lady” of the group – formed The…
Aussie guitarist Doug Ford and singer Andy James (Andy Anderson) moved to Melbourne when The Missing Links broke up in 1966. There they formed Running,…
Canadian band Rush began playing hard rock in Toronto bars in 1968. After financing a debut 1974 LP themselves, Neil Peart (an ingenious lyricist) replaced…
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…
Russell Morris joined Somebody’s Image in 1967. The band (Russell, Eric Cairns, Les Townsend, Kevin Thomas and Les Owen) became very popular in Australia and…
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…