Despite a career that spanned almost 40 years, Tony Sheridan will forever be remembered as the man who first recorded professionally with The Beatles. Sheridan was…
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Frederick “Toots” Hibbert was born in the rural Jamaican town of May Pen in Clarendon in 1942, the youngest of seven children. He grew up…
Tori Amos was born Myra Ellen Amos in August 1963. Raised, as Amos put it, with “a peace pipe in one hand and a cross…
The Tornadoes (not to be confused with the British beat group The Tornados of Telstar fame) were one of California’s earliest exponents of the surf instrumental sound that swept the USA…
Independent producer Joe Meek had his own recording studio in a flat above a shop in Holloway Road in Islington, North London. There he experimented with echo,…
Toto was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by David Paich, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball (born Robert Toteaux), Steve Porcaro, David Hungate and Jeff Porcaro.…
The 1968 self-titled album by Touch – featuring Don Gallucci (ex-Kingsmen organist and future Stooges producer) – was a wild and glorious explosion of keyboard-led proto-prog that foreshadowed…
The Tourists were a typical British post-punk new wave group, except for the fact that in a brief career spanning 1979 and 1980 they recorded three albums (The…
Australian band The Town Criers formed in Melbourne in 1964. Their first single, a cover of The Kinks’ The World Keeps Going Round, was released…
Tongue-in-cheek good-time Geordie punks The Toy Dolls contributed two songs to the most infamous Oi! album, Strength Thru Oi!, and released a self-financed single (Tommy Kowey’s Car) on…
Birmingham’s Toyah Ann Willcox was born on 18 May 1958. As a professional actress, her film appearances included Jubilee (1978) and Quadrophenia (1979), and she suddenly found parallel success…
Formed in Sydney (Australia) at Christmas 1986, Toys Went Berserk were in the recording studio by the following June under the watchful eye of Aberrant…
The Toys are a great example of one facet of the 60s music scene – the quick rise to fame and the equally rapid decline…
Born in Derby on 25 March 1965 and raised in Essex, Tracie Young was discovered by The Jam frontman Paul Weller, through an advertisement in…
In April 1988, 24-year-old Tracy Chapman – a former Boston street busker with a degree in anthropology – released her folky debut album on the…
The crystal-toned original vocalist from Fairport Convention and the keyboard player from Them (perhaps Britain’s toughest R&B band) certainly made for an unconventional pairing. But…
Traffic formed in 1967 (after Steve Winwood left The Spencer Davis Group) and were the first act signed to the new Island Records label (label boss…
Formed in 1967, Peruvian band Traffic Sound – an exalted name in psych and prog rock circles – recorded four stunning albums in their short but brilliant…
Disco’s most soulful vocal group began in the 60s as The Volcanoes and were also called The Moods. A snappy revival of Judy Garland’s 1940s tune Zing…
Fronted by the small, pouting, usually scantily-clad screamer Wendy James, Putney band Transvision Vamp were fleetingly quite a sizable noise. While the media-conscious James was…