In 1984 the brothers William and Jim Reid formed with Douglas Hart and Murray Dalglish the Jesus and Mary Chain. Dalglish will be replaced by Bobby Gillespie and J & MC moved to London to sign with Alan McGee’s Creation Records, releasing the single “Upside Down”. Are introduced to London audiences for their energetic shows, which often end in a brawl, during which their backs to the public. Read the rest of this entry »
David Jones – born on January 8, 1947 in Brixton, London – recorded his first disc in 1964. The popularity comes with the single “Space Oddity” in 1969, a brilliant song vaguely psychedelic sci-fi to the arrangement. The triumph of the year 1972, that of the famous ZIGGY STARDUST – album populated with evergreen songs like “Rock’n'roll suicide,” “Starman,” “Suffragette City”, “Five Years” – which reached fifth place in Great Britain. ALADDIN SANE, released in April 1973, is a hard transition, although corroborated by songs like “Panic in Detroit”, “The Jean Genie” and the gorgeous “Time.” In the same year is also PIN-UPS, covers album. Read the rest of this entry »
The Girls Aloud formed in England in 2002 after winning a television program called Popstars: The Rivals. The band members are Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, Cheryl Tweedy and Kimberley Walsh. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooke Fraser was born in Wellington, New Zealand, December 15, 1983. The daughter of a former player for the All Blacks, began studying piano at the age of 17 years. Read the rest of this entry »
Quincy Jones was born March 14, 1933 in Chicago.
Musician, producer, activist for the rights of blacks in America, in 1951 he won a scholarship to the Schillinger House in Boston, but abandons his career as a student to devote himself to music. He moved to New York where it arranges songs for various artists such as Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa and his friend Ray Charles. Read the rest of this entry »
Keith Richards was born December 18, 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England.
An only child, is introduced to the musical world by his mother that makes him hard to know Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and bought him his first guitar for seven pounds. During the years of school – where he met Mick Jagger – was noticed by the director of the choir that recruits him to sing even coming to perform in front of the Queen Elizabeth II. Read the rest of this entry »
Jimmy Page was born January 9, 1944 in Heston, Middlesex, England.
He began playing the guitar at thirteen and formed his first band – Neil Christian & the Crusaders – in high school, however, leaving this experience due to serious health problems. Starts to play full time in 1966 when she accepts the offer of the Yardbirds to join the group as a guitarist. After taking part in the album Little Games and several tours, Page decided to form their own band, even after the dissolution of the Yardbirds in 1968. This is how the New Yardbirds, along with bassist John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and John Bonham under the battery, the four changes name to Led Zeppelin and immediately become one of the most important rock bands of the period, publishing – especially between 1969 and 1975 – a series of albums that have become classics of the genre, such as LED ZEPPELIN I LED ZEPPELIN II LED ZEPPELIN III LED ZEPPELIN IV, and HOLY HOUSE OF THE PHYSICAL GRAFFITI. Read the rest of this entry »
Summer 1984: born in Seattle band Green River (formed by Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard). In October, the Green River are the supporter to the Dead Kennedys at the Moore Theatre in Seattle.
December 1987 – January 1988: Green River will melt, but Gossard and Ament formed a new band, Mother Love Bone.
March 16, 1990: Death of Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone voice. Later that year, despite the band to dissolve, out of the “Apple”, debut album of Mother Love Bone. The album will be released again in 1992 with the new title of “Mother Love Bone.”
Summer 1990: After the results of “Mother Love Bone,” guitarist Mike McCready joins Ament and Gossard and begins to take form the nucleus of a new band. The trio recorded a demo tape that falls into the hands of Eddie Vedder (even in passing of Jack Irons, the future drummer of Pearl Jam), which affects his voice, his songs and sends him back to Seattle. Read the rest of this entry »
Sting, real name Gordon Sumner, was born October 2, 1951 in Wallsend near Newcastle, northern England. After having served for nearly a decade in the Police began his solo career in 1985, although for some years had begun to show signs of restlessness art. In 1982 had in fact participated in the film “Brimstone and Treacle” by recording a version of the classic ’30s “Spread a Little Happiness” written by Vivian Ellis, and later took part in the incision of the Dire Straits hit “Money for nothing” and collaborated with Phil Collins on the album NO JACKET REQUIRED. Read the rest of this entry »
Serj Tankian was born August 21, 1967 in Beirut (Lebanon). Together with his family of Armenian origin emigrated to Los Angeles in 1975. Serj few years later he enrolled at California State University to study marketing and began working in a software company, while continuing to cultivate his passion for music. Read the rest of this entry »