Tag Archives: 1970s – 2010s

Led with the charismatic Martha Davis, the Motels had been perhaps one of the most successful and acclaimed rings to emerge from the fertile LA new wave scene, achieving the TOP in 1982 making use of their biggest strike, “Only the Lonely.” Davis shaped the group in 1972 while surviving …

Among the essential members of the brand new influx music group Ultravox, guitarist/vocalist Midge Ure began his professional music profession with Salvation, a Glasgow-based group that became the bubblegum music group Slik in 1974. Upset within the modification of path, Ure still left the band to become listed on the …

Vocalist Anita Ward is most famous for her 1979 disco one “Band My Bell,” lots one pop strike within the U.S. as well as the U.K. Delivered on Dec 20, 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee, Ward created a pastime in music — especially gospel — young. She continued to sing using …

After a group of low-key UK school bands, Robert Lloyd (b. 1959, Cannock, Staffordshire, Britain) produced the Prefects – among the first punk rings – who toured using the Clash. They split in 1979 and Lloyd put together the Nightingales utilizing the greatest of the music artists who had approved …

Led with the raffish and slightly scuzzy romance-obsessed Peter Perrett, the only real Ones were among the punk era’s most underrated rings. Much less confrontational because the Sex Pistols, simply because politically indulgent because the Clash, or simply because stripped-down because the Ramones, the only real Ones performed not-so-fast guitar …

The European blues fans all adore Austin, TX-based guitarist and singer/songwriter Omar Kent Dykes. That’s because he suits the stereotypical picture most of them possess from the American musician: he’s high, wears cowboy footwear and includes a deep tone of voice having a Southern highlight. However, Dykes will not bring …

Italy’s Ricchi e Poveri (The Full and the indegent) was formed being a vocal music group in 1967 by Franco Gatti (given birth to on Oct 4, 1945, in Genoa), Angela Brambati (given birth to on Oct 20, 1949, in Genoa), Angelo Sotgiu (given birth to on Feb 22, 1947, …

Even by large metal’s innately freaky criteria, the artist referred to as Thor was a complete superfreak! Straight-faced Norse god impersonator, semi-professional bodybuilder, on-stage wrestler, all-around functionality artist (recognized to flex a steel club between his tooth!), sometime professional, and, ok last one, even occasional rock and roll & roll …

Rex Smith could very well be best known being a past due ’70s/early ’80s pin-up idol, who issued many albums for Columbia Information. But besides his documenting career, Smith provides acted in countless Television shows and Broadway musicals over time. Born on Sept 19, 1955 in Jacksonville, Florida, Smith captured …

Crash Program in Science certainly are a pioneering minimal synth trio from Philadelphia, shaped in 1979 by business lead vocalist Dale Feliciello, Mallory Yago, and Michael Zodorozny. Influenced by performance artwork as well as the punk picture, they started to create quirky tunes about household products, utilizing incredibly rudimentary drum …