After the Jeff Beck Group splintered in 1969, the guitarist and Rod Stewart planned a supergroup with former Vanilla Fudge bassist Tim Bogert and drummer…
Browsing: Music – 1970s
Formed in Glasgow in October 1974, Cado Belle featured singer Maggie Reilly – a diminutive package of funk with a curtain of long dark hair…
Caleb Quaye (he is the half-brother of Finley Quaye) was employed in the late 60s as resident guitar-prodigy-cum-teenage-studio-whizz-kid-producer for Beatles publisher Dick James’ company, which subsequently became…
Formed by former Shotgun Express keyboardist Pete Bardens, Camel occupied the musical middle ground between Emerson, Lake and Palmer and The Moody Blues, eminently capable…
Formed in Cologne in July 1968, Can surfed the first wave of German innovators, with their debut album Monster Movie referencing Pink Floyd and Hendrix in the context of a radically…
The songs that Alabama’s Candi Staton sang rang true because, sadly, she lived them. A gospel prodigy, she ran off with fellow gospel singer Lou…
Canned Heat started out as a Los Angeles blues band in 1965 and were one of the first white American blues bands to get across…
Husband and wife duo Cathryn Antoinette (“Toni”) Tennille and Daryl Dragon had both worked as session artists before forming a musical partnership, and marrying in…
The multi-genre fusion experimentalist Captain Beefheart (born Don Van Vliet) was born on 15 January 1941 in suburban Glendale, California, where his father drove a baker’s van.…
This group was something of an Australian institution – which started out playing to hippies and found itself playing for punks. In its various incarnations, it was a jug…
One of the seminal British ‘head’ bands of the 70s, Caravan hailed from the Kent cathedral town of Canterbury and would eventually clock up a…
Carly Simon is the daughter of Richard L Simon, the co-founder of one of the largest American publishing companies, Simon & Schuster. Born and raised…
The daughter of Elias Bayer, a New York thread manufacturer, Carole had a middle-class Jewish upbringing in Manhattan. While she was still in her teens…
Carole Klein was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1958, during her student days, she met lyricist Gerry Goffin, whom she later married. The duo…
Clean-cut siblings Richard and Karen Carpenter hit upon a wholesome boy-and-girl-next-door image to counter the wave of heavy rock of the late 1960s. Brought up…
The Carpettes formed in County Durham, England, in April 1977. They replied to an advertisement in Sounds which had been placed by Small Wonder Records and sent…
The Cars were the most successful American New Wave band in the late 70s/early 80s. With their sleek, mechanical pop-rock, the band racked up a string of…
Cat Stevens was born Steven Georgiou, the son of a Greek restaurateur, in London on 21 July 1947. He originally achieved fame as a clean-cut…
The New York club that propelled American rock into the 1970s by launching unsigned and untried bands such as Television, Talking Heads and The Ramones was started by a…
Australian blues group Chain performed with more than fifteen different line-ups during the sixteen year period spanning 1967 to 1983. Tasmanian guitarist Phil Manning (ex-Bay…