1 December 1997 saw the release of Angels, a new single by Robbie Williams. Few cared. Williams (born in 1974) was viewed as a self-regarding buffoon,…
Browsing: Music – 1990s
This Australian R&B, funk and dance group formed in Sydney, Australia, in 1983. At a time when the Australian music scene was heavily dominated by…
Swedish export Roxette was more popular in the US than ABBA was. Whereas ABBA were purveyors of pure pop, Roxette specialised in big power ballads,…
Horsham’s Bob Stanley and Croydon’s Pete Wiggs formed Saint Etienne in 1990. They sang of sweet dreams from the suburbs, blending the sounds of disco, Motown and girl group blues…
Savage Garden emerged onto the Australian music scene in 1996 after Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones met via an advertisement in a local newspaper and…
An Australian ensemble who took non-musical instruments like tapes, electronic noises etc. and came up with a sound akin to electro-pop. Tom Ellard began making…
Ex-Bananarama singer Siobhan Fahey formed Shakespears Sisters (taking the name from a song by The Smiths) when she became disillusioned with the girl group. American…
The Shamen formed in Aberdeen in 1986 to play heavy psychedelic rock, as evidenced on their 1987 debut LP Drop. But there was dissension in The Shamen’s…
Shed Seven formed in York (England) in 1990 with frontman Rick Witter, Joe Johnson on guitar and keyboards, bassist Tom Gladwin and drummer Alan Leach.…
Sheryl Crow was born on 11 February 1962 and raised in Kennett, Missouri, the third of four children of Wendell Crow (a lawyer and trumpeter)…
Formed when all three members were 12-year-old students at Newcastle High School in New South Wales, Australia, Silverchair released their first single, Tomorrow in 1994.…
Bowie-influenced Scottish punk band Johnny & The Self Abusers changed their name to Simple Minds for New Wave fame and glimmered through the early 80’s by adding Krautrock and Eurodisco…
Simply Red was the culmination of years of musical experimentation dating back to the late 70s. Along with some Manchester mates, ex-art student Mick Hucknall…
Sinead O’Connor grew up in a turbulent household marred by divorce and abuse. By the time she was a teenager, she had been expelled from…
These Leeds second-wavers (named after a track from 1968’s Songs Of Leonard Cohen) formed in 1980 and became the sour face of Goth four years…
Essex-born Louise Wener met Jon Stewart at Manchester University in 1987 in a political philosophy class. The couple played in a number of bands at…
Formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1991, Sloan released their debut album, Smeared, on Geffen in 1992. The fuzzy, shoegaze-heavy LP featured the clever breakout…
Formed in 1989 in Chicago, Smashing Pumpkins were the first non-Seattle alternative band to hit the mainstream in the wake of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Their debut…
It was New York City’s downtown art scene in 1981 that spawned Sonic Youth. The band was also inspired by the late ’70s punk music…
Soul Asylum were in the right place and the right time to grab sturdy coat-tails, and were regarded with bewildering regularity in the 80s as…