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…
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America was formed in London by Dan Peek, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell where their folks were stationed in US military bases in the United…
Born in July 1947, the son of Woody Guthrie started singing professionally in 1966. In 1967, he made it with his song Alice’s Restaurant, which…
Amid media speculation, Bob Dylan’s backing group, The Band, released their debut album Music From Big Pink in 1968. It was named after the house they recorded it…
Formed in San Francisco in 1964 and most famous for their haunting mid-60s faux British Invasion-cum-folk rock, The Beau Brummels were also among the first…
After dabbling briefly in rock music as pianist for Bobby Vee, Robert Zimmerman of Duluth, Minnesota took himself off to Greenwich Village, New York, where he…
A gypsy childhood took Stephen Stills from Dallas, Texas, through many southern cities and also Central America. At the University of Florida, Steve discovered he…
In 1964, Jim (later Roger) McGuinn, David Crosby and Gene Clark began playing folk music in coffee houses around Los Angeles, calling themselves The Jet…
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…
John Fogerty was only 14 years old when he formed The Blue Velvets, a mostly instrumental band, with two Portola Junior High school friends -…
In 1969, while Neil Young was laying the foundation for a solo career, his Buffalo Springfield partner Steven Stills was playing and recording with former Byrd David Crosby and Graham…
Donovan Phillips Leitch was born in Glasgow in May 1946 and moved to Hatfield in Hertfordshire when he was ten. By 1964 he was living…
The reverberations from The Byrds’ first two albums could be felt as far away as the Muswell Hill house where Simon Nicol and his teenage school…
When The Turtles entered the Billboard Top 40 on 21 August 1965 with a cover of It Ain’t Me Babe that turned Bob Dylan’s hip put-down into a cheery pop tune and…
Formed in 1970 around Sandy Denny and future husband, towering, red-headed Australian folky Trevor Lucas (ex-Eclection), Fotheringay barely lasted a year. The band set to work,…
The Grass Roots began as a studio-only project by Los Angeles songwriter PF Sloan and producer Steve Barri who had written several songs for their…
Born in the folk clubs of Edinburgh, the unique duo of Robin Williamson and Mike Heron appeared to inhabit a parallel universe in which Tennyson’s The…
James Taylor spent years knocking around New York as a member of an ill-fated rock and roll group. The strain of the rock and roll…
Ian Anderson (vocals, flute) formed Jethro Tull in 1967 along with two grammar school mates in his adopted home town of Blackpool. He was born…
Jim Croce (pronounced CROW-chee) was born in South Philadelphia on 10 January 1943 and brought up on ragtime, country and Dixieland music. He played the…