Formed in Hersham, Surrey in 1975, Sham 69 was the ultimate “lads” band. All pints of lager, football terrace chants and menacing cocksure attitudes. Jimmy…
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The Shamen formed in Aberdeen in 1986 to play heavy psychedelic rock, as evidenced on their 1987 debut LP Drop. But there was dissension in The Shamen’s…
Originally known as Johnny Theakston & the Tremeloes, the original line-up included Theakston on vocals, ex-miners Jerry Wilcock and Mick Eyre on guitars, Bill Bonney on bass and Tony Hinchcliffe…
Two pairs of New York sisters, The Shangri-Las formed in 1964 and created a series of brilliantly theatrical singles masterminded by madcap producer George ‘Shadow’…
Pint-sized Sharon O’Neill was one of many musicians from New Zealand who made Australia their base during the 1980s. Hailing from Nelson in the South…
If there was any justice in the world, Johannesburg-born Sharon Tandy (born Sharon Finkelstein) would have been up there with Dionne Warwick and Dusty Springfield…
If you were going to invent a teen idol for American teens in the 1970s, you’d have to come up with something like Shaun Cassidy:…
Shed Seven formed in York (England) in 1990 with frontman Rick Witter, Joe Johnson on guitar and keyboards, bassist Tom Gladwin and drummer Alan Leach.…
Sheena Shirley Orr was born in 1959 in Bellshill, Scotland, and began performing while studying speech and drama at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music…
Originally known as The Vampires, The Sheffields formed in Sheffield, Yorkshire (where else?) in 1963 and won a ‘battle of the bands’ contest at the…
James ‘Shep’ Sheppard’s career began in St. Alban’s Park, New York, in 1954 when, in the fashion of the day, his vocal group was having…
A pop sensation of the mid-1970s, Sherbet’s popularity was unrivalled in Australia. Their songs dealt with innocent, romantic allusions to pubescent sexual experience with lyrics…
Sheryl Crow was born on 11 February 1962 and raised in Kennett, Missouri, the third of four children of Wendell Crow (a lawyer and trumpeter)…
Had Shirley Owens and Beverly Lee not become bored while babysitting, The Shirelles may never have existed. Forming as high school classmates in Passaic, New…
The legend that is Dame Shirley Bassey began life in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, in January 1937. The daughter of a Nigerian father and English mother,…
Born in New Orleans on 19 June 1936, Shirley Goodman was 16 years old when she signed to Aladdin, the jazz and R&B label that was…
‘The Shoits’, as their Brooklyn accents would have it, engaged on a long, hard climb in the mid to late 70s along the US East…
Led by singer-songwriter Jill Kossoris, this Milwaukee power pop band came together from the ashes of a number of other local bands, including Death (drummer…
Dutch band Shocking Blue was founded in 1967 by guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen from the ashes of The Motions, one of the great Nederbeat groups…
Shoes (from Zion, Illinois) recorded and pressed their first album, One In Versailles (Un Dans Versaille), in 1974. The title referred to the fact that guitarist Gary…