This London-based pop-rock quartet formed in 1987 when vocalist Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavurin – who were also the main songwriting team – met…
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An American all-girl trio steeped in medieval and renaissance sounds as well as pop, Sunforest epitomised the variety of the Deram label. Settling in London…
Sydney band The Sunnyboys remain one of the most highly regarded and best-loved bands of the Australian ‘post-punk’ era. Led by 18-year-old singer/lead guitarist/songwriter Jeremy…
Californian surf band The Sunrays began life as The Renegades – and had also recorded as The Snowmen and The Rangers – before being picked…
Welsh band Super Furry Animals formed in Cardiff in 1993 with the aim of making techno records. Their music was, in fact, an artful mish-mash of…
Founded in 1974 by Liverpudlian tenor-saxophonist Albie Donnelly and drummer Dave Irving, Supercharge soon built up a cult following in Liverpool. They then built a…
Singer/guitarist Gaz Coombes and his older school friend, drummer Danny Goffey had been playing together in The Jennifers since their early teens, releasing one single…
Supernaut was formed in Perth (Australia) by Gary Twinn (vocals), Chris Burnham (guitar) and his brother Joey Burnham (drums), all of whom had emigrated from England with…
Dutch band Supersister’s heady brand of prog owed much to the Canterbury Scene. Their debut LP, Present From Nancy (1970), was freaky, percussive and epic – like Soft…
In 1969, a young Dutch millionaire called Stanley August Miesegaes (‘Sam’ to his associates) gave vocalist and keyboard player Rick Davies an opportunity to form…
In 1961 three teenage girls, Florence Ballard, Diane Ross (not until later would she be known as Diana) and Mary Wilson, began a journey that…
This surf group from Glendora, California are remembered for Wipe Out – the #2 hit from 1963 that ranks as one of the great rock instrumentals, featuring…
This Australian mod-pop, ska, and neo-psychedelic band formed in Sydney in 1983. Bizarrely, the band functioned in both the alternative and Christian rock music scenes,…
In 1960, whilst working as a vocalist with the Ronnie Hancox band, Newcastle-born Susan Maughan (born Marian Susan Maughan) made her first record, an EP…
Once upon a time, there were two Scottish brothers – lain and Gavin Sutherland – peddlers of particularly earthy soft-rock fare with two albums on…
It’s easy to dismiss Suzanne Vega as a poor man’s Joni Mitchell, but songs such as Luka and Book Of Dreams (about the plight of amputees) proved that she…
Susan Kay Quatro was born in Detroit on 3 June 1950 – the daughter of Detroit jazz bandleader Art Quatro (the family name “Quattrocchi” having…
Born in 1945 in Brighton, England, Suzy Cope began her singing career at the age of three, performing at Brighton’s Dorset Garden Hall. By the…
John Swan was born John Archibold Dixon Swan in Glasgow, Scotland in 1952. He emigrated to Australia with his family in 1961 and was the…
Of all the trash Glam bands, the Sweet were the glammest. No question. They had the best makeup, the best idiot clothes, the best bouffant…