Scott McCaughey and guitarist Chuck Carroll formed Young Fresh Fellows in Seattle, Washington, in 1981, with Carroll’s cousin Tad Hutchison joining on drums shortly after. Jim…
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Young Homebuyers hailed from Adelaide, Australia, and pivoted around the songwriting team of Nigel Lawrence and Greg Williams, who met at high school. In their…
Tony Cox and Douglas Macrae-Brown met while studying engineering at university in London and began singing together to their own guitar accompaniment. Having composed several…
Formed in 1978, the band took its name from a book on Greek sculpture and their cues from Kraftwerk and The Velvet Underground. An elusive simplicity became the…
Adelaide band Young Modern was one of Australia’s pioneering power pop/new wave bands of the late 1970s. Vocalist John Dowler formed the band (taking their…
The Young Rascals (the ‘young’ prefix was dropped when the band members left their teens) initially gained a following in New Jersey around 1965, particularly…
Peter Bellamy, Royston Wood and Heather Wood (no relation) came together in April 1965 as The Young Tradition. While the Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention…
Native New Yorkers The Youngbloods formed under the leadership of Jesse Colin Young in 1967 and played soft rock numbers with a light jazz feel,…
Born in 1946, Yvonne Barrett became a regular on Australian pop television show The Go! Show in the 1960s, which resulted in a successful career…
Billed as “The Goddess of Rock”, Zenda Jacks (whose real name was Susan McCloskey and who hailed from Walsall) was discovered by Alvin Stardust and…
After working with several Australian bands – most notably Young Modern – during the late 1970s and early 1980s, singer John Dowler formed The Zimmermen…
The Zipps formed in Holland in 1965 from the remains of popular local folk group The Beat Town Skifflers. They were soon signed by the Muziek…
The Zombies were the only British group of the 60s who could have seriously given The Beatles a real run for their money. Although comparatively unrecognised, their…
When Australian band Zoot moved from their hometown of Adelaide (where they had played as Times Unlimited and Down The Line) to Melbourne in 1968,…
The most fondly remembered London club act of the 1960s was, perhaps, Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band, whose Big Time Operator was their only Top 30…
Producer Trevor Horn was half of the duo Buggles, who topped the charts with Video Killed the Radio Star, before he created ZTT Records with…
This sturdy American blues-rock trio from Texas formed in 1969 in and around Houston, from rival bands The Moving Sidewalks (Gibbons) and The American Blues…