Makin’ Time hailed from the West Midlands and for a period were considered the great white hopes for the mod revival scene. Their debut single…
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Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was born on 22 January 1946 in North London. His father left when he was two and he and his brother…
Leader and principal songwriter John Phillips had enjoyed limited success with The Journeymen before retiring to the Virgin Islands with his wife Michelle and two friends,…
Back in the days when nobody was ashamed to be called a hippie, Welsh band Man were the closest thing the British side of the…
The multi-talented Stephen Stills founded this highly regarded unit in 1971 during sessions for a projected album. Chris Hillman and Al Perkins, both formerly of the…
Manfred Mann (born Manfred Lubowitz in South Africa in 1940) formed a group in Britain in 1963 called The Manne-Hugg Blues Brothers. Shortening their name…
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band came together in 1971 after Mann had grown disillusioned with his original outfit. A year later they signed a recording deal with…
Not as successful in the UK as, say, The Stylistics or The Chi-Lites, what really set The Manhattans apart in the 60s and 70s was…
Formed in Wales in 1988 and obsessed with The Clash and Public Enemy, the Manic Street Preachers survived early media vitriol to emerge defiant and triumphant. Nicky…
If ever a band was beyond parody, it’s Manowar. As self-appointed Kings of Metal, these valiant, muscle-bound, loincloth-wearing warriors have acted as standard bearers for…
Neo-glam space travellers are supposed to be beamed down to Earth from some flamboyant galaxy far far away – a distant nebula far more grandiose…
Formed in 1974, NYC’s Marbles were brothers Howard (guitar) and David Bowler (drums) with Eric Li (keyboards) – who Dave met while a freshman at…
Skegness lad Graham Bonnet and Blackpool-born Trevor Grunnill were cousins. Trevor moved to Australia with his family in the late 1950s, where he met The…
Blue Moon was the only song by Richard Rodgers and Lorenzo Hart not to have been written for a musical. Originally composed as a ballad of…
This rock band with definite Goth leanings was formed in England in December 1981. Laurence “Loz” Elliot (bass) met Simon “Detroit” Denbigh (vocals) at Leeds…
Marcia Elaine Hines was born in Boston (USA) in 1953 and arrived in Australia in April 1970 at the age of 16 to appear in…
London-born Mari MacMillan Ramsey Wilson grew up listening to everything from Stax and Motown to Judy Garland and Peggy Lee. At the age of 15, she travelled to America,…
Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica d’Amato was born on 12 September 1943 in Greenwich Village, New York City (her name changed when she married Geoff Muldaur,…
Former convent girl Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) released her debut single – the Mick Jagger/Keith Richard penned As Tears Go By – in August 1964,…
Olive Marie Osmond was born in Ogden, Utah, the eighth of nine children (and the only daughter) born to Olive May and George Virl Osmond.…