Since the mid-60s the Texas-bred Scaggs (real name William Royce Scaggs) had bounced around the music business, serving a stint in the Steve Miller Band – he…
Browsing: Music – 1970s
As enthusiasts are aware, Kraütrock encompasses wildly disparate musical tendencies. But if you tend to the freak-out side and want the opposite of the amorphous ambience/mellifluous…
Bram Tchaikovsky (born Peter Bramall) began playing in local pub bands in Lincolnshire in the late 60s. He joined The Motors in 1977 and was relegated to…
English ex-pat Dave Burnett and Melburnian Lee Cutelle began working together in Melbourne (Australia) in the 1960s, releasing the single I Can See The Colours…
Bread started out as Elektra Records studio session musicians and originally intended the group to be wholly studio-based. The reception for their first album in 1969…
Brewers Droop formed around High Wycombe in 1971. They played blues-based music and gigged extensively in the early days of the pub rock scene. They…
Instead of becoming a rock star, Perth-born Brian Cadd could have become a champion tennis player. At the age of ten, his mother offered him…
It’s a tad unfair that Brinsley Schwarz became a global laughing stock after their infamous “Fillmore trip” of 1970. The ill-fated jaunt saw them pay…
While Mott The Hoople effectively fell apart in 1974 they didn’t officially split until 1976, at which point drummer Dale ‘Buffin’ Griffin, bassist Pete ‘Overend’ Watts and…
Brotherhood of Man’s 1970 transatlantic hit United We Stand – #10 in the UK, #13 in the US and #9 in Canada – was adopted…
Guitarists Mike Lutz and Cubby Koda formed Brownsville Station in 1969. Drummer Henry Weck came on board in 1971, and when bassist Tony Driggins departed…
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen grew up in an average middle-class family; his mother, Adele, was a secretary, and his father, Douglas, was a bus driver.…
Miner’s son Bryan Ferry left his native North-East in 1968, a slick young Geordie with a degree in fine arts, down to seek his fortune…
Hailing from Cardiff in 1967 and taking their cue from Led Zeppelin and Cream, Budgie originally performed as ‘Hills Contemporary Grass’ and ‘Six Ton Budgie’…
Sydney band Buffalo was one of Australia’s pioneering heavy rock outfits, and by virtue of the band’s appearance on the Vertigo label (they were the…
Buffy Sainte-Marie (born Beverly Jean Santamaria) is a singer-songwriter, activist, and visual artist who rose to prominence during the 1960s folk music boom. From 1976…
Winston Rodney was born in St Ann’s Parish, Jamaica, where civil rights leader Marcus Garvey was born in 1887, some 58 years previously. The experience…
Teenagers Peter Leay (guitar/vocals), Kevin Roberts (bass) and Les Brians (drums) met at comprehensive school in Wallasey, Liverpool, and formed a band called The New Attraction with…
Buzzcocks was formed in Manchester in 1975 by guitarist/singer Pete Shelley (real name Peter McNeish) and singer Howard Devoto (real name Howard Trafford). They shared…
This experimental band formed in Sheffield in 1974 and played their debut gig at a student disco in May 1975. Named after a Dadaist collective,…