Tag Archives: 1960s – 1980s

The Active Rockers were a Dutch rock & roll group influenced by early American rock & roll, but a lot more so by its overseas disciples, like Cliff Richard & the Shadows as well as the Spotnicks. The group was led by guitarist/vocalist Henk truck Broekhoven, who Anglicized his name …

Abdelhadi Belkayat and Abdelwahab Doukali, market leaders of the initial influx of big-time Moroccan pop music, both began singing in the 60s. Both had been inevitably inspired by Egypt, and even spent period there. But neither merely “proceeded to go Egyptian,” and both actually ended up worldwide stars. In extremely …

Credited with becoming the first contemporary DJ, Francis Grasso is definitely a name that too little people know. Actually, odds are fairly favorable that a lot of DJs of today’s would respond having a empty stare if she or he had been asked about him. Because of his pioneering strategy …

Cornelis Vreeswijk was of great importance towards the Swedish ballad, giving it a much wider market aswell as by incorporating components of blues, jazz, pop, and Latin rhythms. Vreeswijk reached popularity during the middle-’60s with frequently extremely political lyrics, so when his tunes weren’t political, these were explicit in a …

Electronic and experimental composer Ramon Sender co-founded the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Tape Music Middle with Morton Subotnick in 1961. He analyzed under George Copeland, Elliott Carter, and Robert Erickson in California schools including Mills University (M.A., 1965). In the S.F. Tape Music Center’s start, Sender, Subotnick, Pauline Oliveros, Tony …

b. 5 Apr 1935, South Norwood, Surrey, Britain, d. 21 November 1995, Britain. Most widely known as the heavyweight supervisor of UK rock and roll group Led Zeppelin, Offer began his profession being a wrestler (Count number Bruno Alessio of Milan). He also liked spells as an professional, deputizing for …

Best known while the longtime business lead vocalist for the Philly spirit group the Tymes, George Williams was created in the town of Brotherly Like on Dec 6, 1935. After portion in the U.S. Military, he came back to Philadelphia in 1961, putting your signature on on using a longstanding …

Given birth to in Missoula, MT, Roger Nichols and his parents moved to Santa Monica, CA, when he was a one-year-old. His home brimmed with music when he was developing up. His father was a journalism graduate and a specialist photographer who performed sax in regional jazz rings. His mom …

Veteran guitarist who takes on in a number of settings — progressive and innovative, or more industrial. A completely initial approach.

The Muscles Shoals Rhythm Section (Roger Hawkins, Jimmy Johnson, Barry Beckett, and David Hood, often affectionately called “the Swampers”) is widely thought to be probably one of the most important American recording studio “house bands” emerging in the golden age of rock and soul. The quartet’s people initially began operating …