Bands and musicians

I want some help - Tyrannosaurus Rex (before T-Rex) had a hit called something like Hot Legs (?) that made it high in the Top of the Pops charts, had more like a caveman beat few words.....anyone remember that? what ...

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Teen pop band of the 90s with a massive (mainly female) following. An unashamedly manufactured band that nevertheless turned out some reasonable music such as "It Only Takes a Minute" and "How Deep is Your Love".After the band split in ...

What can I say? Talk Talk were one of the best bands around in the 80's. They were fronted by Mark Hollis whose distinctive voice could not be mistaken with anyone else. Talk Talk had fantastic hit singles including: "It's ...

Led by front man David Byrne, Talking Heads broke away from the mainstream pop/punk scene in the late 1970's with a superb song called "Psycho Killer". Intelligent new wave had arrived and was an absolute breath of fresh air.The Talking ...

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Many would describe Yorkshire lass Tasmin Archer as the archetypal one-hit wonder but they'd be wrong. Her two week stay at number one in 1992 with "Sleeping Satellite" was followed by four, admittedly less memorable, Top 40 entries. ...

In my opinion, Tears for Fears were more than just your average synthesizer band to come out of the 80's. Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith took their name from Arthur Janov's primal scream therapy work. They will probably be best ...

Terence Trent D'Arby was around in the late 80's early 90's. He was really thin, with plaited hair and amazing huge eyes, plus he had a good voice and had quite a few hits, the most famous being "If You ...

The soundtrack to a sweltering mid 70's summer - I was working during school holidays at Lincoln City football ground. I remember emptying swill bins after the players' exotic Greek night - first time I'd ever seen foreign food! One ...

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One of a handful of bands who launched New Wave in the late 1970's, this Athens, Georgia band had quite a long pedigree. They were silly, polarizing, insanely danceable and single handedly made shopping at thrift stores cool. Maybe you ...

Late 1986 and the most played video in my local pub was the Bangles' "Walk Like An Egyptian". All the lads knew people put it on to ogle at the four beauties in the band, and didn't really care a ...

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If you don't know who the Beatles are, well, you probably aren't human and are accessing this website from space... The biggest band the world has ever seen. They spanned 3 Decades, from the 1950's, 60's and 70's, breaking up in ...

Fronted by ex-Housemartins vocalist Paul Heaton, The Beautiful South enjoyed an impressive run of eighteen top 40 chart singles between 1989 and 1999, including 'Song For Whoever' (their first hit), 'Perfect 10', 'Rotterdam', 'You Keep It All In' and 'A ...

Maurice, Robin and Barry have been making music together since they were young boys. Together they have been able to have hit records in the 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's.The Bee Gees have had numerous hits ranging from "Jive ...

Quite simply the greatest band of all time.The Beta's journey began in 1996, when Steve Mason and Gordon Anderson formed a band they originally wanted to name 'The Pigeons'. They later changed their minds. When they started recording their first ...

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'Young at Heart' ... what a fabulous song which lent itself to an advert for my all time favourite car the VW Golf. I had a battered old blue Golf, (which I loved), a few years post-Bluebells, which I ...

At midnight on August 1, 1981 a small cable tv channel began altering the world of music forever. MTV first broadcast The Buggles prophetic "Video killed the Radio Star" and jump started their "music revolution" with 5 "VJ's" and 24 ...

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The Clash were an English rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap and rockabilly. For most of their recording ...

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This band were the young cutting edge of the (then) new "HB / Surf Punk" contingent. The killer poppunkcombo from Orange County started out in 1978, broke up then regrouped in 1988. They released the album "Letter Bomb" ...

Robert Smith, famous for bad hair and wearing more lippie than Lily Savage, nevertheless created some great songs that have more than stood the test of time - "Lovecats", "Friday I'm In Love", "Why Can't I Be You" and ...

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The Dickies were one of the first punk bands to emerge from Los Angeles in the 70s. They were influenced by The Ramones' music and their best song by far was the punked-up version of Banana Splits (tra la la ...

As one of the most popular Californian pop/rock bands of the '70s, the Doobie Brothers evolved from a mellow, post-hippie boogie band to a slick, soul-inflected pop band by the end of the decade, fun, fresh and funky! ...

this was a progressive rock band founded in the mid 70s by composer Robert John Godfrey (formerly uncredited arranger with Barclay James Harvest). Early albums 'In The Region Of The Summer Stars','Aerie Faerie Nonsense','Touch Me' and 'Six Pieces' were entirely ...

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The Glitter Band were six men who wore sequined suits and started out their career as Gary Glitter's backing band. The Glitter Band then went solo and released six albums and quite a few singles throughout the 70s.Today most of ...

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Manchester rock band formed in the 60's were as well known as bands such as The Rolling Stones and The Searchers. They were known for their vocal harmonies. Their debut single "Ain't That Just Like Me" was released in May 1963, ...

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The Ink Spots were an African American quartet, who had a hit 'Do I Worry' in 1940, which played in a Bold 2 in 1 commercial in 2005 (of course, this was a UK commercial, and in colour), where the ...

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The Jam were quite simply the best band ever. Paul Weller on lead vocals and guitar and the main song writer. Bruce Foxton bass and Rick Buckler on drums. Some of their best songs, in my opinion, were "In the ...