This trio from Fullerton in Orange County, California, specialised in the unlikely combination of punk and surf music. Led by vocalist/guitarist Mike Palm, the band…
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Formed in 1967 as Agitation, this Berlin group was integral to the scene that also birthed Tangerine Dream. But unlike Tangerine Dream, they had to wait…
Formed in Australia through the partnership of Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell, soft-rockers Air Supply produced a solid run of seven US Top 5 singles.…
Prog rock group Airlord arrived in Australia in 1977 as an unknown New Zealand band. Originally formed in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1975 by guitarist…
If Otis Redding dominated 60s soul, Al Green bestrode the 70’s thanks to a voice that glided and levitated, spiralling into a delicate falsetto just as you…
Jasper Cini was born in Philadelphia on 7 October 1927. After serving in the US Navy during World War II – where he was injured…
Al Stewart began his songwriting career during his school days in Bournemouth. He was writing skiffle songs when he was 13 but also writing poems…
Al Wilson was born in Meridian, Mississippi, in June 1939 and sang in a church choir and his own gospel quartet before moving to San…
Before Alabama, bands were usually relegated to a supporting role in country music – nearly every popular recording country artist was a vocalist, not a…
Australian singer Alan Dale had been a big band singer before moving over to the new Rock ‘n’ Roll in 1957. His popularity rose sharply,…
The Disc Jockey widely credited with coining the phrase “rock ‘n’ roll” began life as a jazz trombonist with a band called the Sultans of Swing…
Alan Parsons had acted as Assistant Engineer on The Beatles’ albums Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), engineered Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side…
Alan Price was born on 19 April 1941 in County Durham, England. From the age of eight, he taught himself to play the piano and…
A former child actress (You Can’t Do That On Television), Canadian Alanis Morissette transformed herself into a confessional alternative singer/songwriter Flea and Dave Navarro from…
After playing together for four years in Rhyl, Wales, first, as a punk band called The Toilets and then as a mod group called Seventeen,…
Born in 1923, Albert King had recorded a series of influential blues records for a variety of labels dating back to 1953, before he achieved pop…
Comedy rock band Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias formed in Manchester in 1972. A lot of the humour from the Albertos’ was hit and miss, though…
When Brooklyn singer Alice Clark passed away at the age of 57 in 2004 she had no idea she was being regarded as one of…
Long before there was an Iron Maiden or a Marilyn Manson, rebellious kids around the world thrilled to the macabre antics of Alice Cooper. Simply put, this…
Formed in 1987, and originally a heavy metal band, Alice In Chains was one of the first Seattle bands to sign with a major label,…