Tag Archives: 1970s – 1980s

Kristine Sparkle was the distaff response to glam rock and roll superstars like David Bowie and Marc Bolan, but didn’t earn either the industrial or important adulation of her male counterparts. She initial earned reputation under her provided name, Christine Holmes, so that as a member from the pop group …

Melodic Leicester, England punk band Disco Zombies included bassist Geoff Dodimead, drummer Andy Fullerton, guitarist Johnny “Electric guitar” Hawkins, and vocalist/guitarist Andy Ross, until Dave Henderson — who had completed costume design for Derek Jarman’s film Jubilee — was added being a vocalist. The quintet documented a four-track EP, nonetheless …

British post-punk band the Lines 1st documented in 1977 and released their last materials in 1983, quietly departing a set of albums — Therapy (Oct 1981) and Ultramarine (March 1983) — and a small number of singles and EPs within their wake. Pretty indifferent towards the press, associated with a …

Anita Moore’s singing profession happened quite unintentionally, as the storyplot goes. Elevated in Tx, Moore was performing in a Tx Southern School jazz ensemble at a pizza parlor when many players from Duke Ellington’s music group occurred to walk in only as she was performing the Ellington tune “I’m Realizing …

German rock-band Karat shaped in that which was then East Germany in 1975 from your ashes of another group called Panta Rhei. The original lineup contains vocalist Hans-Joachim “Neumi” Neumann, keyboardist Ulrich “Ed” Swillms, bassist Henning Protzmann, drummer Konrad Burkert, and guitarists Herbert Dreilich and Utlrich Pexa. Burkert and Pexa …

One of the most flamboyant vocalists to have got emerged in the Spanish pop picture, Tino Casal’s efforts to both music and artwork worlds played a pivotal component in the La Movida Madrileña from the 1980s. Blessed José Celestino Casal Álvarez in Oviedo in 1950, he started his profession fronting …

Most widely known for his 1974 soft rock and roll hit “Please make sure to Come to Boston,” Dave Loggins was created November, 10, 1947 in Hill City, Tennessee. The next cousin of Kenny Loggins, Dave released his debut recording, Personal Belongings, in 1972 via Vanguard. He discovered achievement in …

Power pop/fresh influx group the Yachts was formed in 1978 by Liverpool art-schoolmates Henry Priestman (vocals, keyboards), Martin Watson (electric guitar, vocals), Martin Dempsey (bass, vocals), Bob Bellis (drums, vocals), and J.J. Campbell (vocals). They agreed upon to Stiff Information after a helping place for Elvis Costello in 1977, launching …

b. 16 Apr 1943, Copenhagen, Denmark. Composer and trombonist who started playing dixieland music in the first 60s, but shortly also participated in ‘free of charge’ jazz groupings with John Tchicai among others. Kroner participated in George Russell’s ‘Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Character’ performed by Russell using the …

Although he only appeared on a small number of singles, one full-length album, and one film documentary during his short life, Germs frontman Darby Crash certainly remaining his mark around the punk rock and roll world. Few rock and roll “performers” (the word can be used loosely in Crash’s case) …