The Tigers were a British ska band comprising singer/guitarist Tony Jacks, guitarist Ross McGeeney (Jacks’ one-time partner in Starry-Eyed & Laughing), bassist Nic Potter (ex-Van Der Graaf…
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Like any group of sensible young people going into business for themselves, the Boston-based band ‘Til Tuesday had a plan. Singer/bassist Aimee Mann and androgynous…
Born on Valentine’s Day 1947, California-raised Buckley’s heroes were Nat King Cole and Johnny Cash, and his 1966 folk rock debut leaned heavily on psychedelia. Just 19 when his debut…
Only three weeks after the globally-discussed death of John Lennon, the demise of a contemporary songwriter passed almost unnoticed by the media. Like Lennon, Tim…
Southport art students Peter ‘Ollie’ Halsall, Clive Griffiths, and Chris Holmes formed a group called Take 5 which ended up touring Britain in support of…
In 1977, Edward Ball formed Television Personalities with fellow Chelsea schoolmate Dan Treacy. They were a ham-fisted pastiche of a punk band, whose ironic swipes at…
Born Rosemarie Timotea Aurro (pronounced “Yuro”) in Chicago to Italian-American parents in 1940, Yuro moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1952. Signed by…
Tin Machine had its beginnings when Sara Gabrels, a journalist who had worked as David Bowie’s press liaison person during his Glass Spider tour in 1987,…
Tina Turner, who had struggled with her solo career since splitting with Ike in 1976, started fighting back in the early 1980s: support slots with The…
Taking their name from Wordsworth’s poem, Tintern Abbey came together in mid-1967 after meeting in a Chelsea dole queue and soon became a regular attraction…
Tiny Tim was born Herbert Khaury in 1932 and grew up convinced he would be a singing star. There was definitely something peculiar about this…
Masters of disguise for over 15 years, the seven individuals who make up TISM never revealed their faces nor their identities – save to a…
The brilliance of Todd Rundgren’s career lies in its schizophrenia. One minute he’s knocking out perfect 70s soul-pop, the next he’s a rock god. One…
Manchester beat band The Toggery Five formed in 1963, and first rehearsed at the Thatched House pub in Stockport. The group’s unusual name came from…
This Brooklyn doo-wop group was originally known as The Linc-Tones when they formed in 1955 at Lincoln High School. Original members Hank Medress, Neil Sedaka, Eddie Rabkin and…
The son of a Welsh coal miner, Tom Jones was born Thomas Jones Woodward in Treforest, Glamorganshire, in 1940, and began his ‘career’ with bar-room singing -…
The most covered of the early 60s folk artists (Dylan aside), Tom Paxton’s songs were common currency by the time Elektra belatedly offered him a…
Tom Petty formed The Heartbreakers in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. Led by Mike Campbell’s Byrdsian guitar and driving, Stonesy rhythms, the group brought a…
In 1973, Tom Robinson formed an acoustic trio called Cafe Society with Herewood Kaye, a friend from Middlesborough, and Raphael Doyle. Shortly after their formation,…
Tom Tom Club began life as a side project for Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth to keep themselves busy while David Byrne gallivanted about…
