Bev Bevan was, after John Bonham, one of the most successful rock and roll drummers ever to emerge from Birmingham, England. Given birth to Beverley Bevan in 1944, in Sparkhill, he became thinking about music like a young man and, by age group 19, had switched professional as an associate …

For the very first time in the 13 years following the Smiths called it quits, Johnny Marr announced that he previously formed his own band aptly titled Johnny Marr’s Healers. It had been certainly a welcomed proclamation such as those 13 years Marr was mainly an exaggerated sideman (just as …

Among the initial New Zealand rings to explore the globe of “abused technology” — samplers, synthesizers, drum devices, and so on — the Headless Hens formed in 1985 like a one-off task to try out the media event “Nitpickers Picnic.” Originally dubbed the International Headless Hens, the trio — onetime …

Ace Kefford was a second person in the 1st lineup from the Move, taking part in and recording using the music group through 1968, through the most pop-oriented stage of their profession. Prior to the Move, Kefford experienced used Carl Wayne & the Vikings, offering future Move vocalist Wayne and …

Not to end up being confused using the better-known Alcatrazz having a “C” featuring Graham Bonnett and Yngwie Malmsteen, Maidstone, England’s Alkatrazz having a “K” were formed in 1980 simply by Australian vocalist Craig Stevens, guitarist Bob Jenner, bassist Gary Bevan, and drummer Nick Parsons. Impulsively authorized by RCA amidst …

Carl Wayne & the Vikings recorded three unknown singles in the mid-’60s, but possess somewhat more name reputation than the ordinary such group because three-fifths of these joined the Move. Originally Keith Powell & the Vikings, the name was transformed when Wayne changed Powell as business lead vocalist. (Powell would …

The first choice of Britain’s first-ever dark band, the West African Rhythm Brothers, Ambrose Campbell was a revolutionary force in world music a lot more than two generations prior to the phrase was initially coined. Celebrated mainly because the daddy of contemporary Nigerian music by believe it or not an …

A longtime luminary from the Cleveland folk picture, singer/songwriter John Bassette was among the 1st regional artists to record and make music for his personal independent label. Created Dec 28, 1941, in Hampton, VA, Bassette was the boy of the Baptist preacher. After participating in Virginia Union University, he relocated …

A active, forceful, and risk-taking pianist, Matthew Bourne defies pigeonholing but is kin to performers in the nu-jazz picture. Categories like this deny his wide appeal, nevertheless. He draws not merely upon the jazz piano custom of Count number Basie, Costs Evans, Herbie Hancock, and Thelonious Monk, themselves a mixed …

Shaped in Oxford, Britain, by longtime friends Yannis Philippakis (guitar) and Jack port Bevan (drums), along with Andrew Mears on vocals, guitarist Jimmy Smith, and bassist Walter Gervers, Foals — whose name can be a play for the etymology of Philippakis’ name — started in an effort to protest against …