Bands and musicians

Sure there was first this little band called the Beatles who had lots of Gold records (1M+ sold) and won several Grammy Awards; but who was the next band from Liverpool to acheive this level of success? If you said ...

Way back in 1982, a trio of Norwegian musicians formed a band called A-ha and left Norway for the bright lights of London to see if they could make a career for themselves in the music business. The front man ...

Abba were the Swedish pop group that rose to worldwide fame following their win in the Eurovision Song Contest. The group comprised Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad and they used their combined initials to create the ...

I really think that ABC were the greatest band of the 80's. Led by the gold suit wearing Martin Fry, they bounced onto the music scene in 1981 with the hit single "Tears are not Enough", closely followed by "Poison ...

A hard rocking quartet from Australia, AC/DC developed a following soon after the band's formation in 1973 in their native country. After releasing albums such as TNT, High Voltage, and Powerage, AC/DC was almost shattered when lead singer Bon Scott ...

When Ace of Base formed in 1990, Sweden hadn't produced as successful a band since ABBA, two decades earlier."The Sign", "All That She wants" and "Don't Turn Around" were Ace of Base's best known singles."It's a Beautiful Life" was a ...

Punk rock band from the 70's and 80's. Adam Ant (real name Stuart Goddard) formed Adam and the Ants in 1977 and quickly acquired a cult following. In 1979 the band hired Malcolm McClaren to help revamp their image and ...

Blu Tack sales must have gone through the roof in both September and December of 1981, when Look-In Magazine put Adam Ant on the cover. Teenage girls everywhere were tying tiny ribbons in their hair and covering their faces with ...

One-time manager of Leo Sayer, Adam Faith was no slouch in the hit department himself rustling up two number ones, including the shortest ever number one single "What Do You Want?", 9 Top 10 hits and 13 other chart entries. ...

Although he'd had previous chart success with the Lucozade-baiting NRG, Adam Tinley's first real success came with the number one hit "Killer", featuring then unknown Seal on vocals. The track was a global hit, and brought the Acid House and ...

American hard rock band fronted by Steve Tyler that first came on the scene in the 1970s with a string of hits such as "Dream On" and "Walk This Way".Although the band declined in the early 80s they had revived ...

When Alanis Morrisette's hit "You Oughta Know" (from her debut album "Jagged Little Pill") crackled across all airwaves, angry and angst-ridden women everywhere believed she had finally found her own personal anthem! Little wonder that feminists of all persuasions each ...

Alice Cooper was/is one of those rock/heavy metal people who started off good, went ace for a while, and ended up being quite rubbish in my opinion.He was a downright scary-looking man who wore very dark make-up, and sang songs ...

A.I.C. were, and still are, my fave Metal band. I went to watch them at the Manchester Academy years ago. They played excellently, I got well drunk, bought loads of merchandise.... it was one of the best night out I've ...

Alisha's Attic was a band that arrived in the mid 90's and comprised two sisters, Shelly and Karen. I remember having their album "Alisha Rules The World" which was brilliant. They had a couple more albums before splitting and ...

Alison Moyet first appeared as one half of the successful synth-pop band Yazoo debuting in 1982. After two successful albums the Yazoo duo split and went solo and Alison Moyet released her album 'Alf' which became a number one hit ...

UK rock group featuring Julianne Regan on vocals with songs such as "Like Emily" and "Scarlet and Other Stories". ...

Alphaville were a kind of a-ha type band who had a number one hit with 'Big in Japan' in the late 80's and another hit with 'Forever Young'. They were from Germany I think. ...

Clare Grogan - oh, what a babe she was. She was my first serious pop-babe crush and when you get a crush at 13, boy do you get a crush! I bought Pinky Blue in 1982 instead of buying my ...

Althia Forrest and Donna Reid have gone down in history as one hit wonders. The duo topped the UK charts in 1977 with the reggae hit "Uptown Top Ranking", and were unable to follow up that success.I remember hearing the ...

Alvin Stardust started his career as far back as the early 1960s under the name of Shane Fenton whilst playing with his band The Fentones. The Fentones had a few hit singles on the Parlophone label from 1961 to 1965. However, ...

American Hi-Fi initially formed their band under the name BMX Girl but changed it to American Hi-Fi as personally suggested to him by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. They released their self-titled debut album through Island Records on ...

"Mr can you tell me where my love has gone? Oh My Japenese Boy". Scottish housewife Aneka complete with kimono sang this 1981 one hit wonder. It would be banned today. Remember her on Top of the Pops possibly the ...

Animotion were a one hit wonder with the song 'Obsession'. But what a song! It was a fab 80s anthem with a great video where the stars did loads of costume changes... really camp! ...

Anita Ward is probably best known for singing "You can ring my be-e-el, ring my bell" back in 1979. The former schoolteacher (our were never that glamorous!), originated from Memphis, Tennessee. Her Ring My Bell hit was originally intended to ...

Another Level were a 4 piece boy band that comprised Bonak Kianoush, Dane Bowers, Mark Baron and Wayne Williams. Their music was a combination of pop, R&B and rap.Another Level had several hits such as "Freak Like Me" and "Alone ...

The first 'heavy metal' single I bought was "I'm The Man" by Anthrax. I heard it on the radio and thought it was quite funny, as the end of each line didn't rhyme although it was obviously supposed to.I ...

A band from Solihull in the mid 60s. The band consisted of Al Jackson on vocals, Martin Thomas on lead guitar, Philip Peter Casg on rhythm guitar, Megan Kelso Davies on bass guitar and vocals, Gerald Sernest Freeman on drums ...

This Danish super group came to life in 1997 with their multi-million smash hit "Barbie Girl". Quickly becoming more than a 1 hit wonder with the release of their number 1 album Aquarium. Jam packed full of bubble-gum pop classics ...

Armand Van Helden is a superstar US dance DJ that is still kicking around today churning out chart dance tunes that are usually really catchy. Best moments include the remix of Tori Amos's 'Professional Widow' and the 00's club smash ...

Art was one of the world famous duo, Simon and Garfunkel but in 1970, they split due to differences in career interests and went their separate ways. This is when Garfunkel went solo but they did regroup on occasions to ...

Electro-pop experimental band that came to fame in the early eighties. Have provided inspiration to a later generation of musicians including The Prodigy and was Madonna's choice of wedding music (apparently Madonna walked down the aisle to the sound of ...

One of the UK's most successful reggae bands who at one time were backing artists for Bob Marley.Aswad reached number one with the single "Don't Turn Around" and had other chart-topping hits such as "Give a Little Love" and "On ...

André Tanneberger, commonly known as ATB was born 26 February 1973, in Germany. He started his career with the dance music group Sequential One from 1993 upto 2002 but within this time he also started his solo project under ...

Fronted by wonderboy Roddy Frame, Aztec Camera spearheaded the postpunk guitar revolution with jangly chords and hopelessly romantic - albeit opaque - lyrics.My first memory of the band was the album 'Knife' which I taped from a friend. I was ...