Bands and musicians

Canadian singer-songwriter is best known for his 1976 UK number 1 hit "No Charge", this stayed in the charts for 11 weeks. Due to no other commercial success, he is regarded as a one hit wonder. ...

Thought to be one of the greatest soul singers of all time. American born Jackie was born in 1934. His first group hit was "You Can't Keep a Good Man Down" which he performed with The Dominoes. ...

The Jackson 5 were a very popular African-American Boy Band. Upbeat melodies and lyrics appear to have hidden the somewhat dark reality of their lives off stage. Through surgery, Janet and La Toya have noses the size of pencil erasers, ...

Well known bass player with Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the 80's, John Joseph Wardle was born in London in 1958.Jah's music style is varied between Post-punk, Alternative, World music & Dub music. He has collaborated with the likes of Bjork, ...

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Indie britpop sounds of the late 80s & early 90s. James are best known for their re-release of "Sit Down" (the original 12" has an intriguing fade-out of 'Lester Piggott' being sung over & over).Tim Booth the lead singer has ...

Jamiroquai's front man Jason Kay has often overshadowed the band's huge commercial success. The bands debut single “When You Gonna Learn?was released in 1992, they were then signed up with Sony to an 8 album record deal, 7 out ...

1986 was the start of the bands thrust into the spotlight with their first album 'Nothings Shocking' which was banned from many record outlets due to its artistic album cover. Jane's Addiction was now popular in the world of ...

Led by lead singer David Sylvian and his brother Steve Jansen (drums), Mick Kahn (fretless bass), Richard Barbieri (keyboards). On the fringe of 80s New Romantic scene. Their first really memorable hit was 'Quiet life', from the album of the ...

Jason shot to fame following his role in Neighbours as Scott around 1987. In both the soap and in real life Jason Donovan dated Kylie Minogue.Kylie released an album around 1988 and so did Jason. The album got to number ...

Born Heidi Stern in September, 1960, Jennifer (stage name chosen by CBS) spent her earlier years growing up in New York City before moving to Europe with her family who are also in the music industry. Jennifer's father is ...

Jethro Tull! A blast from the past! Wild-eyed, shaggy-haired Ian Anderson standing on one leg playing 'Rock flute'. Martin Lacelot Barre with his smoking jacket, pillbox hat and monacle on guitar, and a fine assortment of other musicians over the ...

Sheffield born comedian actor Graham David Fellows created the character 'Jilted John' who had a hit single during the 1970's punk era which was called 'Gordon Is A Moron' and it reached number 4 in the UK charts but this ...

Jim Diamond was formerly the lead vocalist with early 80s group Ph.D, who scored a sizeable chart hit with the song 'I Won't Let You Down'. His biggest solo hits were 'Hi Ho Silver' (the theme tune from Boon) and ...

One of the absolute legends of rock-n-roll and guitar-playing, James Marshall Hendrix and the Jimi Hendrix Experience brought forth a new generation of music. It was he who showed the world that one can make a guitar wail, cry, and ...

Geordie singer-songwriter James Bradford was born in March, 1954. Jimmy's career was orginally in the music industry before being made famous by playing the part of 'Oz' in the hit british comedy drama 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet' in the early ...

Jimmy is the youngest member of the world famous Osmond family. ...

The name 'Jimmy The Hoover' was the brainwave of Malcolm McLaren. 'Jimmy The Hoover' became a one hit wonder after being dropped by their label when their follow up single failed to achieve the same success as "Tantalise", which reached ...

Northern pop music act was presented in the form of a cartoon rabbit. The group combined pop music with rock and roll music to create the unforgetable sound of Jive Bunny. They achieved three number one hit singles, ...

Joan Armatrading is a fantastic 70's black songstress famed for "Love and Affection", "How some Emotion" and loads more. Still going strong today and I will never forget seeing her live in concert in the late 70's at the Hammersmith ...

English musician and actor, born in the North of England in May 1944 is most memorable for his cover version of The Beatles hit "With a Little Help from My Friends" and other hits which he sang at Woodstock Festival ...

I think the most enduring memory I have of this song is it kept Ultravox's "Vienna" from reaching #1. A catchy little ditty this tune but should it have kept "Vienna" off the top spot?"Shaddap You Face" was released in ...

British born singer-songwriter was born in the UK in August 1954, he is most memorable for his hit single "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" which was released in 1979. Other successful tracks include: "Jumpin' Jive" reached number 43 ...

People today may remember John Denver only vaguely, either for that wedding staple, "Annie's Song" or that standby of the karaoke bar, "Take Me Home, Country Roads". His stab at going into space during the 80's was belittled in many ...

One of the former member of the Beatles. John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool in 1940 and is one of the most famous british musicians of all time.Lennon was the founder of the band "The Quarrymen", which later ...

Irish singer / songwriter was best known for his hit single "What's another Year" which he performed whilst representing Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1978 and won. The hit reached number 1 in the UK charts, Johnny ...

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American born singer was born in September, 1935. Johnny was recognised as a phenomenal artist at the age of 19 and landed a recording contract in 1956. Two singles "Wonderful, Wonderful' & "It's Not For Me To Say" ...

"I Can See Clearly Now" was Johnny Nash's best known hit single which was released in 1972. Johnny was the first non-Jamaican to record reggae music in Jamaica, he recorded "Stir it up" which was written by Bob Marley ...

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One of the finest Heavy Metal bands to come out of England. I remember the video for "Breaking The Law", the band held up Barclays Bank with guitars to steal gold records! There's always a killer first track on their ...

This was reggae with saucy lyrics.His real name was Alexander 'Minto' Hughes and he chose the name Judge Dread from a fellow reggae artist's song, He was the first white recording artist to have a reggae hit in Jamaica, ...

Musician, born in 1957 in South Glamorgan, Wales, raised by his parents in Tamworth, UK. Whilst attending college in Liverpool during the 70's, Julian met like minded musicians including Ian McCulloch, Pete Burns and Pete Wylie, they went onto ...

London born Julie is best known for the release of the hit single "Don't Cry for me Argentina" from the musical "Evita", her definitive version reached the top of the UK singles chart in 1976. One year later, she ...

Born in Madrid, Spain on 23rd September 1943, full name Julio Jose Inglesias de la Cueva. Married twice and has 8 children, Julio was once a goalkeepr for The Real Madrid Soccer Team and studied law at Madrid University ...