Featuring the yelping vocals and visionary – occasionally demented – lyrics of Roky Erickson, The 13th Floor Elevators were one of the original acid-rock bands.…
Browsing: 1960s Music
The 1910 Fruitgum Company began life as Jeckell and The Hydes in New Jersey in 1965. They signed to Buddah Records in 1967 and released…
Described by the Los Angeles Times in 1969 as “a lukewarm jazz quartet masquerading as a blues band”, San Francisco outfit A.B. Skhy featured a…
Yorkshire group The Accent were originally known as The Blue Blood Group before moving to London in 1966. They secured a residency at Billy Walker’s…
Jazzman Acker Bilk (real name Bernard Stanley Bilk ) came to fame during the trad jazz boom of the early 1960s. The clarinettist scored a…
Formed in Kentish Town in 1963, the frontman of The Action was singer Reg King, a natural lunatic in the Keith Moon mould. He and…
Adam Faith was born Terence Nelhams in Acton, London in June 1940, and left school wanting to enter the film world. The desire led him…
Adam Sachs, Mike Sedgwick and Tim Saunders were encouraged by a friend to send a demo to Decca records who liked what they heard enough…
Alongside Brisbane’s Bay City Union and Sydney’s The Foreday Riders, Melbourne’s Adderley Smith Blues Band is recognised as one of the first authentic blues bands Australia ever…
Jasper Cini was born in Philadelphia on 7 October 1927. After serving in the US Navy during World War II – where he was injured…
Al Stewart began his songwriting career during his school days in Bournemouth. He was writing skiffle songs when he was 13 but also writing poems…
Al Wilson was born in Meridian, Mississippi, in June 1939 and sang in a church choir and his own gospel quartet before moving to San…
Australian singer Alan Dale had been a big band singer before moving over to the new Rock ‘n’ Roll in 1957. His popularity rose sharply,…
Alan Price was born on 19 April 1941 in County Durham, England. From the age of eight, he taught himself to play the piano and…
Born in 1923, Albert King had recorded a series of influential blues records for a variety of labels dating back to 1953, before he achieved pop…
When Brooklyn singer Alice Clark passed away at the age of 57 in 2004 she had no idea she was being regarded as one of…
Allen Klein was born in Newark on 18 December 1931 and spent several years in an orphanage after his mother’s death during his infancy. He…
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 24 May 1950, Allison Anne Durbin joined New Zealand’s popular Uncle Tom’s Friendly Road Children’s Choir (a radio and…
Like The Walker Brothers (who were neither brothers nor Walkers) neither of The Allisons were actually called ‘Allison’. Brian Alford (John Allison) first met Colin Day…
The Allusions were one of the most stylish and inventive of Sydney’s 1960s beat groups. The band issued six singles; Gypsy Woman (March 1966), The…