The Mekons formed in late 1976 around a core of fine art students from Leeds University including Jon Langford and Tom Greenhalgh. Fired up by…
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Melanie Safka was born on 3 February 1947 in Astoria, Long Island, New York, of Ukrainian/Italian parentage. Her rise to stardom reads like a modern-day…
Irish folk-rock group Mellow Candle originally came together as three singing teenage girlfriends from a Dublin convent school – Alison Bools, Clodagh Simonds and Mariah…
The Members formed in London’s commuter suburb of Camberley, Surrey, in the winter of 1976. Nicky Tesco (born Nicholas Lightowlers), a political science graduate working…
Formed in 1977, this UK punk group was based in the seaside town of Blackpool – later immortalised as Tatty Seaside Town. Founder and bassist John…
Singer/songwriter Colin Hay grew up in a town on the west coast of Scotland called Saltcoats, where his father owned a music store. In 1967,…
Busking in Shepherd’s Bush, Welsh singer Stefan Cush met up with bassist Shanne Hasler (who had been in The Nips (Nipple Erectors) with The Pogues’…
Formed in Montreal, Canada in 1980, Men Without Hats was the brainchild of American-born vocalist Ivan Doroschuk and Jérémie Arrobas, who created all the accompaniment…
Daydreamer (1995) was the only song this short-lived band had in their arsenal when they started. It turned out to be the only one they would…
Utilising elements of rockabilly, rock and R&B combined with an energetic live act, Australian band Mental As Anything proved a lasting, popular live and recording…
MEO 245 (the name referred to the catalogue number of an obscure French pressing of a Beatles EP) formed in Tasmania (Australia) in the late…
This six-piece band from Buffalo, New York, burst onto the music scene in 1991 to critical acclaim for their enterprising mix of Pink Floyd and…
Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash both learned the value of prison at around the same time. For Cash it was the release of the two prison albums…
Merlin formed in late 1973 and released a self-titled album on CBS in 1974. The group also released a handful of singles – Put My…
The Merseybeats formed in 1961 as The Mavericks. After a short period as The Pacifics, they finally settled on The Merseybeats (at the suggestion of…
If the Merton Parkas had called their debut LP Just Another Face in the Neo-Mod Crowd, no further explanation would have been needed. This unmemorable group…
Born Merv Bonson in Preston, Victoria (Australia) on 12 August 1942, Merv grew up listening to the radio and became enraptured by the music of…
Formed by Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield in Los Angeles in 1981 and initially inspired by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), Metallica’s…
The Meteors were the first UK band to combine punk’s energy with raw 50s rockabilly and invent a new musical form – psychobilly. In the…
Though The Meters were never superstars, recording sessions with Dr John, Paul McCartney and Robert Palmer attested to the appreciation they were later afforded by…