Tommy Wayne & the Shondells — the reference to their name, even to a person who doesn’t really find out their music, evokes pictures of dances and the type of fun that rock and roll & move represented before it redefined itself on much more serious conditions. And between 1966 …

Italian pop star Anna Tatangelo was just 15 in 2002 when she received first place in the annual Sanremo Festival within the “Fresh Arrivals” section, with her song “Doppiamente Fragili.” Due to her age, it had been decided to hold off the discharge of her 1st record, and rather the …

Tommy Talton was created too late to be always a fan of rock and roll & roll’s 1st wave — starting his eyes towards the world in the first ’50s, he must have overlooked Elvis Presley’s pre-Army times, but he didn’t mainly because of his sister, five years his older, …

Justin Hayward (b. Swindon, Oct 14, 1946; name David Justin Hayward) got his first acoustic guitar at age group nine. In 1965, he became a member of pre-Beatles British rocker Marty Wilde as an associate of his support music group, the Wild Pet cats. By the finish of 1965, Hayward …

The Prisonaires were that, five African-American male singers who also been inmates from the Tennessee Condition Penitentiary in Nashville. Despite what normally will be regarded as circumstances as well onerous to start out a pop music profession, the Prisonaires had been superstars, albeit briefly, following the documenting of the best …

Composer Mike Oldfield rose to popularity over the achievement of Tubular Bells, an eerie, album-length conceptual piece employed to stunning impact within the film The Exorcist. Blessed Might 15, 1953, in Reading, Britain, Oldfield started his professional profession at age 14, developing the Sallyangie folk duo along with his sister …

The Rocky Fellers were a quintet of four Filipino brothers and their dad, discovered by producer Stanley Kahn and signed to Scepter Information in early 1963. That they had one strike, “Killer Joe, ” compiled by Bert Berns (as Bert Russell), which surely got to No. 16 within the springtime …

Before arrival from the Sugarcubes, jazz fusion band Mezzoforte was Iceland’s best-known music export. The group was produced in 1977 in a Reykjavik senior high school by Fridrik Karlsson (b. 24 Apr 1960; electric guitar), Eythór Gunnarsson (b. 9 Sept 1961; keyboards), Jóhann Ásmundsson (b. 30 March 1961; bass), and …

Ohio local Douglas Bonnell, an American Indian descendant who adopted the name Douglas Blue Feather within the ’90s, performs his flute/new age group compositions on Local American-style flutes. His initial album, Seventh Fireplace, premiered on Nature Hawk Records within the springtime of 1998 and features his flute with keyboards, percussion, …

Nino Tempo is most beneficial known for his duo along with his sister, Apr Stevens, which produced several popular recordings within the ’60s, notably “Deep Crimson.” He also experienced a long profession as a program musician, and in the ’90s belatedly embarked on a profession like a jazz musician. The …