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A British music group with blues and metallic aspirations, but also a solid art rock and roll tendency (thanks partly to maker Steve Hillage), It Bites were formed in the mid-’80s by vocalist and guitarist Francis Dunnery, bassist Dick Nolan, drummer Bob Dalton, and key pad participant John Beck. The …

German-born singer/songwriter Jann Klose makes melodic, soulful, singer/songwriter pop/rock. Created in Mannheim, Germany, Klose in fact was raised in South Africa. He spent his young years shifting between his house in Hamburg and Cleveland, Ohio where he journeyed as an exchange college student using the American Field Assistance. It was …

Although it’s widely agreed that three people of Rush are incredibly talented at their particular instruments, guitarist Alex Lifeson is commonly probably the most underrated from the bunch. Delivered Alex Zivojinovich on August 27, 1953 in Fernie, Canada (his parents had been Yugoslavian immigrants), Lifeson was raised in Toronto, and …

The onetime frontman from the progressive rock group It Bites, singer/songwriter Francis Dunnery was created on Christmas Day, 1962 in Egremont, Cumbria, U.K. His tenure with It Bites started in 1984, and after three LPs concluded in 1990; throughout that period Dunnery created the Tapboard, a distinctive guitar-like instrument installed …