Tag Archives: 1970s – 2010s

Vocalist Ramon McGuire shaped Trooper (originally Applejack and later on Winters Green) in 1972. By 1974 that they had added drummer Tommy Stewart and bassist Harry Kalinsky. After hearing Trooper play, Randy Bachman authorized the music group for his Story label and released “Baby Woncha Make sure you GET BACK” …

Best known because of their use Chic in the past due ’70s, siblings Debbie, Kim, Joni, and Kathy Sledge — collectively Sister Sledge — reached the elevation of their reputation through the disco period but have been recording because the early ’70s and were even now mixed up in decades …

Amanda Lear initial surfaced in the first ’70s being a fetishistically clothed album-cover model for Roxy Music. She was reported to be a transsexual but, as she informed Interview magazine, which was only a ruse imagined up by her sponsor, David Bowie, to pull interest. Her importance to disco supporters, …

Apart from Fairport Convention, Steeleye Period was probably the most successful and enduring Uk folk-rock music group. The parallels between your bands are many: both up to date traditional United kingdom folk materials with rock agreements, both featured a fantastic female lead vocalist (Sandy Denny for Fairport, Maddy Prior for …

Following a heady burst of international celebrity, Russian-born violinist/violist/conductor Shlomo Mintz has settled into his mature years, producing solo appearances mainly like a violinist and conducting orchestras, both chamber-sized and the ones of full symphonic proportions. Even more romantic chamber music also engages his interest with some rate of recurrence. …

Metal Pulse were among Britain’s ideal reggae rings, rivaled just by Aswad with regards to creative and business achievement. Generally a protest-minded Rastafarian clothing, Metal Pulse began playing authentic root base reggae with details of jazz and Latin music, and gained a substantial target audience among white U.K. punks aswell. …

United kingdom balladeer Tony Christie demonstrated the continued industrial viability of traditional play a post-psychedelic world, scoring some easy listening hits that spanned the 1970s. Created Anthony Fitzgerald in South Yorkshire, Britain, on Apr 25, 1943, at 18 he became a member of the popular regional group the Counterbeats, later …

Alicia Bridges scored big in 1978 with “I REALLY LIKE the Nightlife (Disco ‘Circular),” a celebratory disco one that reached amount five in the Billboard Hot 100. It had been her biggest minute in music and produced her self-titled debut, released on Polydor, an absolute area of the feel-good disco …

Alongside contemporaries George Duke and George Benson, Patrice Rushen produced a significant transition from slicing respectable acoustic jazz material to hitting the top reaches from the club and R&B charts. A dynamite keyboardist with a restricted but sweet tone of voice, Rushen debuted at age 20 within the Prestige label, …

Despite vital acclaim being a performer, the rootsy singer/songwriter T-Bone Burnett received his most significant renown being a manufacturer, helming recording periods for acts which range from Roy Orbison and Elvis Costello to Keeping track of Crows and Sam Phillips. Blessed Joseph Henry Burnett on January 14, 1948, in St. …