The inaugural house band at CBGB’s in New York, and contemporaries of Patti Smith and later Blondie, The Ramones and Talking Heads, Television figure large in American punk rock pre-history. The band began…
Browsing: Music – 1970s
As a Chelsea teenager with a job at Led Zeppelin’s Swansong Records, Dan Treacy began Television Personalities in the mid-’70s with school friends Ed Ball and…
Nottingham-born Alvin Lee teamed up with Leo Lyons and a drummer in 1964 and the trio took themselves off to Hamburg, Germany, to perform in…
Punk produced no more barking proposition than Tenpole Tudor. A bawdy troupe fronted by the garrulous Edward Tudor-Pole – a melodramatic thespian who claimed to…
Thin Lizzy were, without a doubt, one of the greatest live bands ever. They pioneered the use of twin melodic lead guitars, and vocalist and…
The Thought Criminals formed in Sydney (Australia) in late 1977. Bass player Roger Grierson set up Doublethink, a band management venture and record label for…
Fayette Pinkney, Shirley Porter and Linda Turner formed this Philadelphia vocal trio in 1963. Porter and Turner were soon replaced by Janet Harmon and Helen…
Three Dog Night had a succession of 21 hit singles, including eleven Top Tens, and twelve consecutive gold albums from 1969 to 1975, thanks to…
Throbbing Gristle formed in September 1975 from the ashes of COUM Transmissions – an absurdist cosmic rock group cum performance ensemble. Typical components of a…
John “Speedy” Keen was an old crony of The Who (he had been Keith Moon’s chauffeur and “Man Friday”) and had written Armenia City In The Sky, which…
Born on Valentine’s Day 1947, California-raised Buckley’s heroes were Nat King Cole and Johnny Cash, and his 1966 folk rock debut leaned heavily on psychedelia. Just 19 when his debut…
The brilliance of Todd Rundgren’s career lies in its schizophrenia. One minute he’s knocking out perfect 70s soul-pop, the next, he’s a rock god. One…
Tom Petty formed The Heartbreakers in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. Led by Mike Campbell’s Byrdsian guitar and driving, Stonesy rhythms, the group brought a…
In 1973, Tom Robinson formed an acoustic trio called Cafe Society with Herewood Kaye, a friend from Middlesborough, and Raphael Doyle. Shortly after their formation,…
He’s been covered by Rod Stewart and Johnny Cash. Bob Dylan called him one of his “secret heroes”. Tom Waits has always blurred the line between musician and raconteur.…
Evolving from a local covers band called Hiker, this five-piece power pop band from Southend, Essex, sounded like the 60s-era Rolling Stones and sang like…
Frederick “Toots” Hibbert was born in the rural Jamaican town of May Pen in Clarendon in 1942, the youngest of seven children. He grew up…
Toto was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by David Paich, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball (born Robert Toteaux), Steve Porcaro, David Hungate and Jeff Porcaro.…
The 1968 self-titled album by Touch – featuring Don Gallucci (ex-Kingsmen organist and future Stooges producer) – was a wild and glorious explosion of keyboard-led proto-prog that foreshadowed…
The Tourists were a typical British post-punk new wave group, except for the fact that in a brief career spanning 1979 and 1980 they recorded three albums (The…