The man who brought the electric guitar to the forefront of the blues, Aaron Thibeaux Walker was born in Texas on 28 May 1910, to…
Browsing: Music T
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld) was the elfin prince of Glam. He’d tried being a mod, he’d tried being a hippie, he’d tried being a…
T’Pau formed in 1986 in Shropshire, taking their name from a Vulcan priestess by the same name on the Star Trek TV series. Fronted by vocalist Carol…
With origins in Canberra (Australia) and founded by singer, songwriter and guitarist David Studdert in 1977, Tactics relocated to Sydney in 1979 and built a…
Tages were a Swedish rock and roll/psychedelic/folk band formed in the early 60s near Gothenburg. The band released a number of singles and LPs in…
As the most popular teen pop sensation in Britain since the 1960s, Take That ruled the UK charts during the first half of the 90s.…
Talk Talk began their career in 1981 as a synth-pop new wave band who looked pretty and sounded slick and shuffled gawkily around the New Romantic fringes -…
David Byrne and fellow Rhode Island School of Design students Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz formed a trio in 1974. After rejecting names such as…
Formed in the early 80s in New Zealand by ex-Toy Love members Alec Bathgate and Chris Knox, The Tall Dwarfs were one of the most…
Australian band Tall Tales and True formed as a three-piece in Sydney in 1984, building a loyal audience in the inner city before releasing their…
Formed in February 1986, Talulah Gosh were a guitar-pop group from Oxford, who formed because they wanted to support The Pastels. They quickly became one of…
One of the most startling allegations about ex-Bay City Rollers manager Thomas “Tam” Paton (b. 1937) involved him setting his dogs on the father of singer…
Tamam Shud began life as a Newcastle (Australia) instrumental band called The Four Strangers. The group released one well-regarded surf instrumental single -The Rip b/w Pearl Diver -…
Tammi Terrell (real name: Thomasina Montgomery) was born in Philadelphia in 1945. Her mother was an actress and Tammi was showbusiness aware from an early age.…
To say Tammy Wynette (real name Virginia Wynette Pugh) had a tough childhood is something of an understatement: she never knew her father since he…
This Pennsylvania girl group featured sisters Gretchen and Cathy Owens singing alongside their friend Linda Jones. The trio recorded three singles in 1963 for Ascot,…
Atlanta’s Tams were among the more popular up-tempo soul groups of the 60s, although they were never able to break Motown’s pop stranglehold. Joseph Pope’s…
There were two turning points for West Berlin art student-turned-rock guitarist Edgar Froese. The first was working with – and writing music for – Salvador…
Born in Münster, West Germany, in August 1969, the daughter of an Indo-Fijian British Army officer and a Sarawakian Malay mother, Tanita Tikaram spent her…
Not to be confused with the Rory Gallagher-fronted blues band of the early 70s, this Melbourne (Australia) band was an archetypal glam rock outfit that…