Scottish classical prog rock band Beggars Opera was formed in Glasgow in 1969. During the 1970s, the band recorded four albums for the legendary Vertigo…
Browsing: Music – 1970s
Bette Midler grew up in Hawaii, where her parents Fred and Ruth had moved in the early 1940s from Paterson, New Jersey. The family subsisted on…
Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1939, Betty Everett was playing piano and singing in church by the age of nine. In 1957, she moved to Chicago…
Miami queen of soul Betty Wright served her apprenticeship in the church with family gospel group The Echoes of Joy. By the time she was…
Alongside Lynne Randell, petite (4′ 9″) blonde Bev Harrell was one of the most popular female solo singers on the mid-60s Australian pop scene. Hailing…
Few other groups in the post-punk era can claim to have launched so many successful careers as Big In Japan – The KLF, Frankie Goes To…
Named after a Memphis supermarket, Big Star were so far ahead of the game that even though co-founder Chris Bell died in 1978, it would…
Formed in Edinburgh in November 1972, Bilbo Baggins may have suffered through their connection to The Bay City Rollers (Tam Paton was the manager for both…
When the moody Forever and Ever topped the UK charts for Slik on Valentine’s Day 1976 it completed a remarkable ten years at the top for its…
William Martin Joel was born on 9 May 1949 in the Bronx, New York. Growing up in the Levittown area of Hicksville, smack in the…
William Richard Thorpe was born in Manchester, England, and moved to Australia with his parents at the age of 11. They settled in Brisbane, where…
If not as well known as other Ohio rockers of their late-’70s era (Devo, Chrissie Hynde, Pere Ubu, Dead Boys), Akron’s Bizarros had substantial impact…
Black Oak Arkansas (the band) put their hometown of Black Oak, Arkansas (population 272) on the map in 1973 with their number one remake of…
The definitive heavy metal band, Black Sabbath, emerged from Birmingham in the British Midlands in 1967. Their debut album, Black Sabbath (1970), stormed to #8 in the UK charts.…
Released soon after Bob Marley’s death, Red seemed a tailor-made pitch for Black Uhuru as reggae’s next global superstars. Here was roots consciousness with an eye on…
Blackfoot Sue formed in Birmingham (UK) from the ashes of a local band called Gift. Signing to the JAM label, their first single was an…
Blind Faith was formed by Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker from Cream, Steve Winwood from Traffic and Ric Grech from Family. Britain’s most anxiously awaited…
In 1968, Mick Abrahams left Jethro Tull to pursue a more bluesy direction than the innovative avenue Ian Anderson was going down. He left behind a sterling…
It was in 1973, at New York’s Boburn Tavern, that former Playboy bunny waitress Deborah Harry met Chris Stein. She was performing as one-third of The Stilettos, who…
This eight-piece group was the brainchild of Al Kooper, former Bob Dylan sideman, Brill Building songsmith and kingpin of The Blues Project, but he had dropped…