Although rhythm guitarist and lyricist Richey James Edwards’ assaultive general public persona garnered a lot of the band’s headlines within their early days, the center of Manic Road Preachers was usually singer and lead guitarist James Dean Bradfield. Along with his brief, stocky entire body and hard-man bravado, Bradfield experienced …

Orphan was the creation of songwriter/singer Eric Lilljequist (given birth to January 1, 1948) who was raised in Massachusetts’ Brockton/Avon area, the ensemble emerging in the mid-’60s, a period when few bands in your community performed their own material. Originally phoning the group Orphans, they fallen the plural through the …

Trumpeter Bobby Martin’s birthday in 1903 is duly noted in a number of jazz recommendations, establishing him while the eldest of several performers with this name or variants thereof. For his probable moving, his decision to keep music and operate a family group business in the middle-’40s seemingly resulted in …

Dressed up in glam clothes, putting on heavy eyeliner, and shouting politics rhetoric, the Manic Street Preachers surfaced in 1991 using their hometown of Blackwood, Wales, as self-styled “Generation Terrorists.” Fashioning themselves following the Clash as well as the Sex Pistols, the Manics had been on the mission, going to …

Because the mid-’90s, Mark Sanders continues to be perhaps one of the most active percussionists on England’s jazz scene, “jazz” encompassing from free improv to Jah Wobble’s dub excursions. Resolutely a sideman, Sanders is normally gifted with an excellent technique matched by acute hearing abilities. Increase these flexibility and lots …

Using the Jamaican music scene from the later ’50s and early ’60s having been dominated with a few companies, like Clement “Coxsone” Dodd, Duke Reid, and Prince Buster, the latter half from the ’60s was ripe for a fresh and large selection of studio auteurs. The island’s musical ground, just …

Made up of John Knowles, Tony Radford, Levell Cost, and Nelson Blanton, this strap shaped in 1996. Each one of the members found LA in the ’80s individually from a different area of the USA. And each was included with a number of musical encounters under his belt. Still, the …

A new player who favored a subtle, traditional method of his music, singer and multi-instrumentalist Expenses Harrell remained among bluegrass’ most popular numbers for several years. Created in Marion, VA, on Sept 14, 1934, Harrell’s enthusiasm for music started during his years as a child, when he began playing acoustic …

William Henry Weatherspoon was 1 / 2 of Motown’s songwriting and creation group — (Wayne) Dean and Weatherspoon, who went sound platinum via Jimmy Ruffin’s saving of “What’s Become from the Brokenhearted,” co-written with arranger Paul Riser. Their tunes had been also documented by Edwin Starr, the Screens, the Marvelettes, …

Harvey Fuqua founded the seminal R&B/doo wop group the Moonglows, was an early on mentor of Marvin Gaye (co-producing “Sexual Recovery” and Gaye’s strike duets with Tammi Terrell), helped to build up several Motown serves, and helped to start the professions of ’70s soul-pop group New Delivery and disco superstar …