Category: Band Music

Peter Brian Gabriel was born on February 13, 1950 in Surrey, England.

Peter founded the group Genesis in 1967 with his schoolmates Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and Chris Stewart. With them launched a series of records, and managed to make the band a cult.

Peter Gabriel left the group in 1975 for personal reasons, and two years later released her first album, titled “Peter Gabriel”, like their first four albums, as Peter refused to label them with a specific name. However, the album covers vary. This album was produced by Bob Ezrin, and the first single to be extracted from this material was “Solsbury Hill”, an autobiographical piece that expresses his feelings on leaving Genesis. (more…)

The Presets is a group formed in Yecla, Murcia in 1983. Presets in the style of the great funk musicians as “Kool & the Gang” or “Defunk”. His first appearance was made for a radio contest.

However, the group disappears until 1984 Sole Giménez and his brother Juan Luis Gimenez, along with Pablo Gomez, convinced of their quality, Valencia decided to record a maxi-single consisting of two themes, which became his first job market. (more…)

The germ of Pearl Jam would be found in the group Mother Love Bone, Seattle formed in 1989 and consisted of Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Bruce Fairweather, Greg Gilmore and Andrew Wood. Were influenced by the music of Led Zeppelin, but his style also varied between grunge and hard rock.

When Andrew Wood died of an overdose, the group disbanded. When the other group members know Eddie Vedder, decide to rejoin, this time under the name Mookie Blaylock, a friend of the group, NBA player. (more…)

The group Pink Floyd was born in Cambridge, and the evolution of a small group of music fans, ‘Architectural Abdams’ (formerly ‘Sigma 6′), which owe their name to the fact that most of its members studied architecture at the University of London.

The members of Pink Floyd, by then, were: Nicolas Mason, Roges Waters , Richard Wright, Clive Metcalf, Keith Noble and Juliette Gale. When Clive and Juliette left the group, they were joined by Roger Keith ‘Syd’ Barrett. They decided to rename the group to start a new phase, baptizing as Pink Floyd, in honor of two idols of the blues: Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. (more…)

Sex Pistols Punk Rock was a group of short life, he began his artistic career in 1975 in London, England.

The story of the Sex Pistols dates from 1973 when the band “The Strands” (formed by Steve Jones on vocals, Paul Cook on drums and Wally Nightingale on guitar) looking for a bassist and found Glenn Matlock. Back line changed their name to “The Swankers”.

Wally and Glenn are removed from the band, and instead enter Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious respectively. And choose a new lineup called ” Sex Pistols “. (more…)

The Police begins its history in London in 1976. In the British capital was joined by three young musicians: guitarist Henry Padovani French, Sting (who played bass in a modest group of jazz) and Stewart Copeland.

The Police starts bandwagon of ‘punk’ fashion at the time, pear both Sting and Stewart hated the poor quality of that movement. To improve your own style hire a well known guitarist, Andy Summers (more…)

The Ramones is one of the most important groups in rock history and were the ones who laid the foundations of punk. Although they have a sound and style of their own, are influenced by groups such as the Sex Pistols or Nirvana.

The band was originally formed by four young men from Queens, who decided to take a common name, Ramone, who apparently had been used by Paul McCartney himself on occasion early in his career. These four friends were called Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy. Later members were incorporated, which also adopted the surname Ramone. These were CJ, Marky, Richie and Elvis. (more…)

The Smiths were a rock band formed 1982 in Manchester, England.

The Smiths began with the following musicians: Johnny Marr (guitar, keyboards, mandolin, bass and harmonica), Stephen Patrick Morrissey (vocals, piano), Mike Joyce (drums and vocals) and Andy Rourke (bass and cello).

In 1983 The Smiths signed contract with record label Rough Trade Records and recorded their first single “Hand in Glove”. Subsequently released to radio the songs “This Charming Man” and “What Difference Does It Make?”. Thus were becoming known and in 1984 released their debut album under the title ” The Smiths “. With this LP managed to reach second place in the British charts. But the press lashed out because according to them, songs like “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle” and “Reel Around the Fountain” promoted pedophilia. (more…)

The Velvet Underground was a rock band that formed in 1964 in New York, USA.

The history of the group begins with the multifaceted Lou Reed (composition, voice, guitar, piano and harmonica) and John Cale (bass, electric viola, organ and vocals) decided to form a group under the name “The Primitives”. Shortly thereafter, motivated by work on something bigger, summon the musicians Sterling Morrison (guitar and bass) and Angus McLise (percussion). With them comes “The Warlocks” which later became known as “The Falling Spikes.” Finally change the name ” Velvet Underground “(a name taken from the title of a book).

A year later they recorded a demo and accept a contract to play by opening for another band at a local bar. McLise not happy with the deal, leaving the group and instead enters Maureen Tucker. (more…)

The group ‘The Cranberries’ was born in 1989 with the union of four young friends: Noel Hogan,Fergal Lawler, Mike Hoganm and Niall Quinn as a singer.

A year later, Dolores O’Riordan Converts the new singer, the same year they release a demo with their first songs, Sunday, Lingerm Chrome Paint and A Fast One offer concerts in small clubs and began to be heard. (more…)