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The Cortinas were, initially a minimum of, Bristol’s best-known punk-era music group; they were the very first punk group from the town to attract the eye of the nationwide music press and radio, the first ever to release a one, and the first ever to to push out a major-label …

German pop duo Cindy & Bert got their begin in the middle-’60s when Norbert Maria Berger (given birth to Sept 12, 1945) was performing bass to get a music group called Blue Birds, who have been buying singer. After vocalist Jutta Gusenberger (created January 26, 1948) arrived aboard, the group …

The career from the Banned, located in Croydon, Britain, spanned only two singles released in the height of punk. Both had been cover versions shipped inside a power pop vein – arousing suspicions that this group had been at members from the pub rock and roll fraternity wanting to leap …

The Langley Colleges Music Project isn’t so much an organization because the name that served as an umbrella for two super-obscure, privately pressed LPs by Canadian elementary school students within the mid-’70s. The recordings had been supervised and organized by Hans Fenger, a Vancouver musician who experienced used a post …

Lead singer about “We Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight,” the only real hit by Fresh York-based the Tamerlanes in 1963, Barry de Vorzon has continued to create his existence felt like a maker and composer. His ratings have been noticed in such movies as Xanadu, Moving Thunder, Bless the Beasts …

From the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Area, the Congress of Wonders comedy team produced several albums reflecting the concerns of the late-’60s/early-’70s hippie counterculture: drugs, sex, and political/social satire. Just like the Firesign Theater and Country wide Lampoon, they utilized the studio room as an instrument to improve their …

Making use of their youthful exuberance and lighthearted method of pop, the DeFranco Family was probably one of the most successful pop sets of the 1970s. Their debut 1973 solitary, “Heartbeat, From the Lovebeat,” offering the business lead vocals of after that-13-year-old Tony DeFranco, reached number 3 for the Billboard …

The feminine trio in charge of the proto-disco funk classic “Female Marmalade,” LaBelle’s outlandish space-age costumes and brash incorporation of rock and roll & move were a long way off from their start as an average ’60s female group, not forgetting the afterwards solo career of frontwoman Patti LaBelle. While …

b. Barry Ian Green, 4 Dec 1950, London, Britain. Briefly well-known in the first 70s because the pop musician Barry Blue, the youthful Barry Green’s early forays into music included playing in Spice (a forerunner to large rock-band Uriah Heep). He documented several singles as Barry Green for Decca Information …

The Drones were a Uk punk music group, specifically from Manchester, made up of guitarist Gus “Gangrene” Callendar, bassist Steve “Whisper” Cundall, vocalist/guitarist M.J. Drone (Mike Howells), and drummer Peter “Ideal” Howells. They started as an R&B-influenced pub music group called Rockslide but produced the changeover to punk following its …