Bad Company was formed in England late in 1973 by the seasoned foursome of Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke (both ex-Free), plus Mick Ralphs (ex-Mott…
Browsing: Music – 1970s
Badfinger began life in Wales in 1964 as The Iveys. After honing their approach as a support act for groups including The Who, The Spencer Davis Group and The…
Bakery formed in Perth, Western Australia, in 1970. One of the leading underground groups of their day, they are remembered for their superb debut album,…
Band of Light was a blues-based group formed in October 1972 in Sydney (Australia) by Phil Key, with bassist Peter Roberts – both of whom…
Phil Manning Guitar, vocals Tony Naylor Guitar Phil Gaunt Bass Tony Buettel Drums Gus Fenwick Bass Peter Roberts Guitar Fran Kelly Bass Peter Curtain Drums…
Amid media speculation, Bob Dylan’s backing group, The Band, released their debut album Music From Big Pink in 1968. It was named after the house they recorded it…
Australian band Bandicoot was essentially the duo of Mick Fettes (who had recently left Madder Lake) and Shane Bourne (who later became known as a…
Barbara Acklin was born in Oakland, California and moved with her family to Chicago, Illinois, in 1948. By the age of 11, she was singing…
From softly focused pastoral passages at the end of the ’60s to more muscular rock-outs two decades later, Barclay James Harvest was never a band…
Barry Blue was born Barry Ian Green in December 1950 in London. He made his TV debut, aged 13, with school band The Dark Knights,…
Barry Manilow devoted himself to music at an early age, learning to play the accordion at age seven and later studying at the Juilliard School…
Barry White was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1944. He joined a group called The Up fronts in 1961- the basis of which remained his…
Love them or loathe them, The Bay City Rollers were the teenage phenomenon of the 1970s. Five young lads from Edinburgh – Alan Longmuir, Eric…
Formed in Yorkshire in 1972, Be-Bop Deluxe are one of British rock’s classic marginal bands. Everyone seems to have heard of them, and yet few…
Spent the last 55 years with a lost tribe in the Amazon? In that case, here’s a band you should know about… Brothers Brian, Carl…
The Beat was founded by Paul Collins, the stepson of a civilian father attached to the US military, who spent his pre-teens living in Greece,…
Formed in Tasmania (Australia) in 1975, Beathoven was based around the amazingly talented trio of Charlie Touber, Greg Cracknell and David Minchin, supplemented by a…
Plans for guitar virtuoso Jeff Beck to form a power trio with the ex-Vanilla Fudge rhythm section were first mooted in 1969. Both the drummer, Carmine…
The Bee Gees – the name is an acronym of “The Brothers Gibb” – are indisputably one of the most popular recording acts of all…
Irish émigré Barry Richardson was playing bass in one of the part-time jazz combos which regularly appeared at the Tally Ho pub in Kentish Town…