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Bobby Hebb
Born in 1938 in Nashville to blind musician parents, Robert Von Hebb spent his childhood singing and tap dancing on street corners.
At 14, Bobby...
Rodriguez
Born in 1942 and schooled in the Detroit folk scene, Rodriguez was a hard-bitten street poet. His experiences as a child of immigrants -...
Gadzooks! It’s All Happening/Gadzooks! It’s The In Crowd
1 9 6 5 (UK)
35 x 30 minute episodes
A sequel to The Beat Room, the Monday evening show Gadzooks! It's All Happening offered the same kind of...
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
ELO may be fixed in the public mind as the multi-headed beast commanded by Jeff Lynne, probably performing Mr Blue Sky under a fake UFO, but...
New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM)
In the early 1980s, UK rock magazine Sounds ardently promoted (and christened) the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal - the acronym of which is spelt...
