Formed in Edinburgh in 1984, this pop group used guitar inflexions enthusiastically borrowed from the Buzzcocks. They were originally called Buba and The Shop Assistants…
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A short-lived revue formed in 1966 from the remnants of Steampacket and The Peter B’s. Vocalists Rod Stewart and Scouse warblette Beryl Marsden fronted the band…
Releasing their first self-titled LP on Bell in 1974, this rock ‘n’ roll revival octet from Leicester spent 209 weeks in the UK Top 40…
Shriekback was formed in 1981 by former XTC keyboardist Barry Andrews and ex-Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen. Joined by guitarist Carl Marsh, they fused funk and rock…
Born Johnny Otis Jr in Los Angeles on 30 November 1953, his formidable musical talents became apparent at an early age, and he began his…
Ex-Generation X bassist Tony James formed futuristic glam band Sigue Sigue Sputnik (allegedly named after a Russian street gang) as a kind of latter-day Monkees with cheekbones,…
Lance Reynolds formed Australian Rock ‘n’ Roll revival act Silver Studs with Gino Latorre and Keith Reed in Brisbane during 1975. The trio’s act included…
Formed when all three members were 12-year-old students at Newcastle High School in New South Wales, Australia, Silverchair released their first single, Tomorrow in 1994.…
British band Silverhead arrived on the scene in the early 1970s with an attitude of “we’ve already made it” which endeared them to a small…
Paul Simon was born in October 1941 in Newark, New Jersey, into a Hungarian Jewish family but moved to the middle-class area of Queens as…
In an era of cash-in records that stretched all the way from The Flower Pot Men to Alf Herbert & His Marijuana Brass, a handful…
Bowie-influenced Scottish punk band Johnny & The Self Abusers changed their name to Simple Minds for New Wave fame and glimmered through the early 80’s by adding Krautrock and Eurodisco…
Simply Red was the culmination of years of musical experimentation dating back to the late 70s. Along with some Manchester mates, ex-art student Mick Hucknall…
Starting out as a trio called The Strutters, singer/songwriter Mark Kjeldsen along with rhythm section Bobby Irwin and Ron François re-branded themselves as The Sinceros,…
Named after a German town, Sindelfingen were a British prog rock band who played only a handful of gigs and released a solitary privately-pressed album…
Sinead O’Connor grew up in a turbulent household marred by divorce and abuse. By the time she was a teenager, she had been expelled from…
Australian band The Singles were formed late in 1979 by Andrew Campbell and Rod Brunell with Geoff Smith and Tony Cook. Andrew and Rod were…
Siouxsie Sioux (real name Susan Janet Ballion) grew up in Chislehurst, Kent. When punk rock hit the UK she was part of the now-legendary ‘Bromley Contingent’ -…
Sister Janet (of the Sisters of Mercy order) has the distinction of being the first Australian recording artist to sell over one million copies of…
These Leeds second-wavers (named after a track from 1968’s Songs Of Leonard Cohen) formed in 1980 and became the sour face of Goth four years…