Singer, songwriter, actor, TV presenter Glen Campbell was born on 22nd April 1936, the 12th child and seventh son of a dirt poor sharecropper. Campbell drowned...
Jerry Garcia was destined to be a musician. Born in San Francisco on August 1, 1942, Garcia was named after legendary Broadway composer Jerome Kern, who...
Green Day has sold more than 85 million records worldwide. The group has won five Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Album for Dookie, (the jewel in the...
“He should be remembered as the supreme singer of his generation, or any generation.” So said Harry Nilsson’s record producer Richard Perry. And his songs? Ace...
Harry Edward Styles was born on 1 February 1994 in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, the son of pub owner Anne Twist (née Selley) and finance worker Desmond...
On 4th Oct 1970, singer Janis Joplin was found dead at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood after an accidental heroin overdose. Just like there’s only one...
OK, here’s the thing. I think anyone who tries to make their own guitar, must be mad. First, you have to cut the whole thing out...
American guitarist, singer, and songwriter Joe Walsh was born Joseph Woodward Fidler on November 20, 1947 in Wichita, Kansas. His father, Lt. Robert Newton Fidler, was...
I can’t think of anyone apart from Elvis who has had such an influence and hold on musical culture for over 40 years, the singer became...
Joni Mitchell, (Roberta Anderson), was born on 7th Nov, 1943. Mitchell is one of the most important and influential female recording artists of the late 20th...
Catherine Bush was born on 30 July 1958 in Bexleyheath, Kent, to an English doctor, general practitioner Robert Bush (1920–2008), and Hannah Patricia (née Daly) (1918–1992),...
On 30th January 1973 – after recently changing their name from Wicked Lester – Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss made their first...
Kylie Ann Minogue was born 28 May 1968 in Melbourne, Australia. She is a fifth-generation Australian and has Irish ancestry; her mother, Carol Ann Jones, came...
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on March 28, 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, to an upper middle-class Catholic family. Both...
On 7th Sept 1968, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham made their live debut as Led Zeppelin but billed as The Yardbirds...