The five Tavares brothers – Ralph, Antone (Chubby), Arthur (Pooch), Perry Lee (Tiny) and Feliciano (Butch) – scored a string of light soul-pop and disco…
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Taxiride formed in Melbourne (Australia) in 1996, with singer-songwriters Tim Watson and Tim Wild. Jason Singh and Dan Hall soon joined them, and they recorded…
Tea & Symphony formed in Birmingham (UK) in 1968 and were originally heavily influenced by folk music, their repertoire consisting largely of their own arrangements…
The Teardrop Explodes formed in 1978 with original members Julian Cope (real name Kevin Stapleton) on vocals and bass, Mick Finkler on guitar, Paul Simpson…
School friends Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith formed Tears For Fears after they had spent their teenage years in bands together, including a Mod/Ska revivalist…
As a bandleader, Ted Heath was responsible for introducing the British public to many top singers of the 50s, including Dickie Valentine, Lita Rosa and…
When the Ted Mulry gang formed in 1972, Mulry was already a well-known pop balladeer. Born in Oldham, England, in 1949, Mulry emigrated to Australia…
In the late 1960s, The Amboy Dukes emerged from the American Mid-West playing thunderous rock which knew no discipline or boundaries. Guitarist Ted Nugent played…
In summer 1958, Phillip Harvey Spector (who had moved from New York to LA a few years earlier) and three of his Fairfax High School pals -…
Born Mary Christine Brockert in 1956, she was billed as Tina Marie Brockert when she appeared on an episode of the TV comedy The Beverly Hillbillies…
A band for which the word ‘quirky’ may have been invented, Teenage Fanclub had always possessed an infuriating knack of confounding expectations. They promised so…
The Teenage Filmstars was formed in 1979 by former members of the Television Personalities, Edward Ball, Daniel Treacy and Joseph Foster. Their debut single, (There’s…
Friends from an Ontario (Canada) high school formed Teenage Head in 1975 and released a self-titled album in 1979. It sold poorly, but 1980’s Frantic City -…
Singer/guitarist Sean Kelly’s first band was Spred, which he formed in Melbourne (Australia) in 1977 with his school chum James Freud (born Colin McGlinchey). The band…
A quintet from Hastings, England, The Teenbeats were one of the better bands on Britain’s late ’70s mod revival scene, with Huggy Leaver (vocals), Ken Copsey (lead…
The inaugural house band at CBGB’s in New York, and contemporaries of Patti Smith and later Blondie, The Ramones and Talking Heads, Television figure large in American punk rock pre-history. The band began…
As a Chelsea teenager with a job at Led Zeppelin’s Swansong Records, Dan Treacy began Television Personalities in the mid-’70s with school friends Ed Ball and…
The early history of The Temptations parallels that of The Supremes. The group actually started life as The Primes while The Supremes were called The Primettes. They…
Nottingham-born Alvin Lee teamed up with Leo Lyons and a drummer in 1964 and the trio took themselves off to Hamburg, Germany, to perform in…
Six years before Johnny Cash recorded his hugely influential live album within the walls of San Quentin prison, western balladeer Ford gave angelic voice to killers, robbers…