Robert Anthony Plant was born on 20 August 1948, in the Black Country town of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, to Robert C. Plant, a qualified civil...
Roderick David Stewart was born on 10 January 1945 in Highgate, North London, the youngest of five children. Stewart left school age 15 and worked briefly...
The sound of Carlos Santana is one of the world’s best-known musical signatures. For more than five decades, from Santana’s earliest days as a groundbreaking Afro-Latin-blues-rock...
For a group who only released one proper album, the Sex Pistols made one hell of an impact. Their timing was perfect. The media had a...
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on 2 February 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia. She is the only child of William Mebarak Chadid and Nidia Ripoll Torrado...
Crow was born on February 11, 1962, in Kennett, Missouri, the daughter of Bernice (née Cain), a piano teacher, and Wendell Wyatt Crow, a lawyer and...
1. The Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1977 and became the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s. 2. The roots of Simple...
Their first managers placed the following ad in Stage Magazine: “WANTED: R.U. 18–23 with the ability to sing/dance? R.U. streetwise, outgoing, ambitious, and dedicated? Heart Management...
After meeting as students at Bard College in upstate New York, Walter Becker and Donald Fagenthey began writing songs together on the piano in the common...
Until recently Stephen Stills was one of the last remaining music legends from the rock era without a biography. Music writer and long-time fan, David Roberts,...
On 16th Oct 1976, Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key Of Life, went to No.1 on the US album chart, featuring the tracks ‘Sir Duke’, ‘I...
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, on 2 October 1951, the eldest of four children...
Take That has scored 28 top 40 singles, 12 of which have reached number 1, as well as having seven number 1 albums. Internationally the band...
Taylor Swift Facts: Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania and was named after the singer-songwriter James Taylor. Swift spent her...
Tears for Fears were formed in Bath, England, in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced...
