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The synth-pop group NASA was for the verge of reaching an American audience once the rug was abruptly pulled from under them. Comprising Patrik Henzel (vocals, sounds) and Martin Thors (vocals, sounds), NASA debuted in 1983, documenting a song to get a Swedish film. In 1985, NASA released their first …

Within the tradition of Homer and Jethro came the riotous barnyard humor and song parodies of Sandy Pinkard and Richard Bowden. Unlike their forebears, Pinkard and Bowden’s laughter was frequently coarse, and their vocabulary was sometimes tough plenty of to warrant explicit vocabulary warnings on the records; actually, they were …

b. Gerald Irby, 20 Oct 1917, New Braunfels, Tx, USA, d. 2 Dec 1983. Irby grew up by his rich grandmother, an undeniable fact that contradicted his state to have battled ‘with only a inexpensive guitar and some tracks’. In 1933, he shifted to Houston playing honky tonks, and in …

RPM was perhaps one of the most important groupings in Brazilian pop/rock and roll from the ’80s. In 1983, bassist/vocalist/composer Paulo Ricardo (Paulo Ricardo Oliveira Nery de Medeiros, Rio de Janeiro RJ, b. 1962) joined up with Luiz Schiavon (Luís Antônio Schiavon Pereira, São Paulo SP, b. 1958), a pal …

Although Duke Ellington was well-known for featuring his many sidemen in extremely beneficial and inventive settings, generally in most of his bands there have been a couple of players who have been underutilized. Wallace Jones, an excellent 1st trumpeter with an attractive tone, was sadly rarely presented with Ellington although …

Aside from the Allman Brothers, possibly the only other rock-band to reduce bandmembers under a similar conditions (and almost exactly twelve months apart) was the Pretenders, when guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon both succumbed to medication overdoses through the early ’80s. Farndon was created on June 2, 1952, …

Despite failing woefully to identical the industrial success or cross-cultural impact of the Athens, Georgia, compatriots R.E.M. as well as the B-52’s, Pylon’s impact over the city’s renowned music scene demonstrated just like pronounced — the group’s propulsive, angular jangle pop audio resonated not merely inside the Athens innovative community, …

Ludus are among the less-known Manchester rings from the post-punk period. Created in 1978 by previous Manicured Sound guitarist Arthur Kadmon, the group in the beginning consisted of previous Nosebleeds drummer Philip Tolman, bassist Willie Trotter, and vocalist Linder (Linda Mulvey), a Manchester scenester who designed record sleeves and posters …

Lucienne Boyer is really a French vocalist who was simply popular within the 1930s and is most beneficial known for the tune “Parlez-moi d’Amour.” Delivered Émilienne-Henriette Boyer on August 18, 1903, in Paris, France, she started her performance profession being a cabaret vocalist within the Montparnasse One fourth of Paris …

Among the many voices from the root base era, Prince Much I used to be absolutely unique. He certainly can’t be categorized being a vocalist, although sometimes — specifically during chanted passages — there is certainly a singsong quality to his vocals, and due to that the closest evaluation was …