Blue Mink was formed in London in 1969 by a group of Britain’s top session musicians with the sole intention of recording an album of…
Browsing: Music – 1970s
The roots of that strange, outlaw motorcycle band, Blue Öyster Cult, can be traced back to the smoky wisps of psychedelia, when they were known…
Blue Swede formed in 1973 in Sweden when Björn Skifs, a top vocalist in that country, was looking for a band to accompany him during…
Bob Lind was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1942, though his family moved to Denver during his teens, where he found his niche on the…
Reggae’s only true superstar, Robert Nesta Marley, was born in 1945 in rural St Ann, Jamaica, the son of a teenage mother and middle-aged white…
Bob Seger grew up in Detroit and played in a local band called Last Heard. In 1966 he recorded some solo material, and several tracks…
Bobbie Gentry (real name Roberta Lee Streeter) was Mississippi born and bred. Her Portuguese parents divorced when she was still in nappies and it was…
Born in Hackney, London, to Polish parents, Wanda Teresa Anna Von Arletowicz moved with her family to South Africa in 1960, where her father, Ali…
Born on 18 January 1941 in Marianna, Florida, Bobby Goldsboro studied business administration at college before playing the guitar with a band that performed for…
Bobby Womack first began singing in the 1950s along with his brothers in a gospel group and later in an ensemble known as The Valentinos.…
Beginning in 1969, Greg Shaw’s Who Put The Bomp was a fanzine for aficionados of such then-unfashionable future New Wave building blocks as Surf Music,…
Euro-disco big cheeses Boney M were the creation of Frank Farian – the German record producer who also flogged Milli Vanilli to a grateful planet. But we…
Gaynor Hopkins was born in June 1951 and raised in the village of Skewen, just outside Swansea in Wales. Her mother (an excellent singer herself)…
Bontemps Roulez were based in the Pub Rock heartland of the Hope & Anchor, where they gigged and recorded between January and May 1975. They…
London art college types influenced by the Commedia Del Arte, 1920s jazz and vaudeville, the Bonzo’s were originally called The Bonzo Dog Dada Band. Figuring nobody…
The Boomtown Rats were formed in Dun Laoghaire (near Dublin), Ireland in 1975 by former NME journalist Bob Geldof (after he was thrown out of Canada…
Singer/songwriter Brian Cadd originally assembled The Bootleg Family Band as the house band for the Australian independent label Bootleg, which he had helped establish in…
Boston leader and guitarist Tom Scholz got a masters degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a researcher and product…
Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Tracy Pew and Phil Calvert were attending Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia, when they formed The Boys Next Door in…
Along with The Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned, The Boys were part of the mid-70’s UK punk explosion in London. In September 1975,…