Tag Archives: 1970s – 1980s

Formed within the wake from the punk explosion in England, Pleasure Division became the very first band within the post-punk movement by later on emphasizing not anger and energy but mood and expression, directing ahead towards the rise of melancholy alternative music within the ’80s. Although group’s raw preliminary sides …

This husband-and-wife folk/rock duo began performing together officially in 1972 although their association dated from the prior year. When Richard Thompson (b. 3 Apr 1949, Notting Hill Gate, London, Britain; guitar/vocals) remaining Fairport Convention, he pursued a generally low-key route, performing in folk night clubs and on different sessions, including …

A jazz/fusion music group assembled of acoustic guitar, saxes, drums, and keyboards, they audio similiar to Spyro Gyra sometimes, though they will have an average degree of musicality.

Alongside Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen, Slim Lizzy’s Phil Lynott was among the initial to merge poetry with rock and roll music. Philip Parris Lynott was created in 1949 (his dad was Brazilian and his mom Irish), and grew up mainly by his grandmother, Sarah. After …

Borrowing his stage name from the favorite TV Western hero of the same name, the Lone Ranger was among Jamaica’s most influential early dancehall DJs. He helped pioneer a recently rhythmic, on-the-beat rhyming design that led DJ toasting in to the modern day, and punctuated his lyrics with bizarre exclamations …

The son of actor Selar Sabu, vocalist and guitarist Paul Sabu (b. Burbank, California, USA) provides carved out an effective career being a songwriter, manufacturer/engineer and guitarist for a number of major works. He in addition has contributed to varied film soundtracks, but his single projects have already been dogged …

Some people called Chicago harpist Little Willie Anderson “Little Walter Jr.,” therefore faithfully do Anderson’s style stick to that of the renowned harp wizard. But Anderson had been quite acquainted with the rudiments from the harmonica before he ever strike the Windy Town, having noticed Sonny Guy Williamson, Robert Nighthawk, …

Aimed by Hungarian folklorist and musician Ferenc Sebö, the Sebö Ensemble was among the leading teams during Hungary’s folk music revival from the mid-’70s and offered as training surface for most future stars, including vocalist Márta Sebestyén of Muzsikás.

Argentine tango singer Jorge Falcón established himself in the past due ’70s being a soaring star using the Héctor Varela Orchestra and enjoyed a decade’s worthy of of success before succumbing to cancers in 1987 at age group 37. Given birth to Luis Iglesias on Oct 15, 1949, in a …

Author, vocalist, and muse Julie Coryell remains to be best remembered on her behalf seminal 1978 publication Jazz-Rock Fusion: INDIVIDUALS, the Music, written during her relationship to one from the fusion genre’s true innovators, guitarist Larry Coryell. Created Julie Nathanson in Manhattan, she was the child of vocalist and stage …