Big on the Northern Soul scene but little-known outside of it, The Metros from Detroit honed their exquisite harmonies in their school’s bathroom and made…
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Mi-Sex formed in New Zealand as a long-haired hippie pub band known as The Fragments Of Time. They moved to Australia in 1978 to try…
Michael Holliday was born Norman Alexander Milne in the Kirkdale district of Liverpool in November 1924 and began his singing career after winning an amateur…
The King of Pop is a lofty title for any person to live up to, but there’s no doubt that Michael Jackson was qualified. He had…
Michael Schenker joined his brother’s band, Scorpions in 1971. The group opened for UFO on one of their early German tours and UFO were impressed enough that they asked…
Michelle Shocked was born Karen Michelle Johnson in Dallas, Texas. She came to prominence in the 1980s as a rootsy, folk-influenced singer/songwriter who collaborated prolifically with musicians…
Mickey Baker was a music instructor and Sylvia Vanderpool one of his pupils when Baker was inspired to form the group by the success of…
Mickey Jupp was a pre-pub rock scene fixture throughout the 1970s as frontman with the band Legend. Jupp’s solo debut LP, Juppanese (1978), was an album…
Mickie Most (real name Michael Peter Hayes) was born in Aldershot, England, in June 1938. He formed The Most Brothers with Alex Murray in 1958…
Microdisney formed in Cork, Eire, in 1980 when Cathal Coughlan (vocals/keyboards) and Sean O’Hagan (guitars) met at a party. After a lengthy gestation period with…
Scottish quartet Middle Of The Road formed in 1970 – they had previously been known as both Los Caracas and Part Four – and cut five UK…
Australian band, Midnight Oil developed from an association struck up in 1974 between drummer Rob Hirst, bassist Andrew ‘Bear’ James and guitarist/keyboard player James Moginie.…
From the blazing psychedelia of their blistering self-titled debut album (November 1969) to the mellow sounds of their swansong, A Jug Of Love (1971), Mighty Baby…
Initially calling themselves The Sherbet Monsters, English band The Mighty Lemon Drops formed in Wolverhampton in 1985 and became a central fixture of the late-1980s British…
Starting life as a North London pub jazz trio with a singing drummer (Mike Felix) the band became The Migil Four with the addition of…
Genesis bass player Mike Rutherford formed Mike & The Mechanics as a side-project, little realising his spin-off group would become a fully-fledged band in their own right.…
Mike Batt was born in Southampton on 6 February 1949. As a teenager, he played piano and organ in several school bands and sang in…
Mike Oldfield was only 17 when he conceived Tubular Bells – a near-indescribable one-track monolith of ambient sound and neo-classical ambition. Recording it at 19, he then…
The Nightriders were one of dozens of Birmingham bands bashing away trying to replicate Liverpool’s Merseybeat sound. Roy Wood’s stay in The Nightriders was short. He…
Within a few months of the formation of this Brighton-based quartet, original guitarist Nigel Langham fell to his death after leaping through an upstairs window…