A quartet of Pete Beckett (vocals/guitar), Phil Boardman (business lead guitar), Dave Croft (drums) and Alan Hornby (bass), this Liverpool, Merseyside, Britain group initially recorded as backing music group to regional singer Tiffany (as Tiffany‘s Thoughts). With this guise they released two singles on Parlophone Information, ‘I Understand’ and ‘Discover …

To check out the career of Researchers is, essentially, to check out the career of Kim Salmon, probably one of the most lively musical skills to emerge from Australia in the 1970s. Not really that he was the only person. Nick Cave, for instance, may have produced even more of …

Such power pop founders as the Raspberries and Big Star might have been woefully underappreciated throughout their preliminary run in the first ’70s, but by the finish from the decade, many of their offspring had used the style towards the higher reaches from the charts — including Inexpensive Trick, the …

This UK skiffle-cum-blues jug band act originally comprised Jona Lewie (b. John Lewis, 14 March 1947, Southampton, Hampshire, Britain; keyboards/vocals), Graham Hine (acoustic guitar/vocals), Jim Pitts (acoustic guitar, vocals, harmonica), Pete Gibson (trombone, vocals, percussion), Dave Arnott (drums) and percussionists Keith Trussell (aka Keef Problems) and Big John Randall. Several …

Edward (Thomas) Downes was a well-known and highly respected Uk conductor. (He had not been linked to the American music critic, lecturer, and Metropolitan Opera Broadcast intermission commentator Edward (Olin Davenport) Downes, [b. 1911].) Like a young man, he learned to try out the violin and piano and sang inside …

Mostly renowned for his or her 1964 Top Five hit “Have I the proper,” the Honeycombs within their hit-making years were virtually a car for producer Joe Meek as well as the songwriting-management team of Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. The group was originally shaped in Hackney during November of …

Amoeba was among the results of the multi-decade on-again, off-again cooperation between multi-instrumentalist Rick Davies and ambient composer Robert Full. The two initial fulfilled in 1979 after Davies came back from a extend in Britain and Spain. Through the entire ’80s they might collaborate on many bands, including Estimate Unquote …

Yo La Tengo are in lots of respects the quintessential critics’ music group: furthermore with their adventurous eclecticism, defiant self-reliance, and restless creative ambition — three characteristics that virtually assurance music press acclaim — the group’s frontman, Ira Kaplan, actually tenured like a rock and roll scribe ahead of finding …

Bred within the healthy pop affects of XTC and Richard Davies, Minneapolis’ Function of Saws was conceived as a spare time activity task of singer/guitarist Brock Davis. Utilizing a take down tape recorder, Davis started compiling a huge selection of one- to two-minute “songlets” that went the stylistic gamut, including …

Any sci-fi fan with an extended memory space probably remembers those 1970s’ DAW paperback editions of Michael Moorcock’s sword-and-sorcery novels, making use of their pictures of heavily armored, very muscular warriors carrying huge swords and standing up against eerie scenery and starscapes. Consider that imagery, toss in some brands and …