20 Pink Facts: 1. Pink was born Alecia Beth Moore in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on 8 September 1979. 2. Pink was trained as a competitive gymnast between...
The Diver, a photo taken by Storm Thorgerson for Pink Floyd’s album Wish You Were Here, features what appears to be a man diving into a...
Peter Buck was born in Berkeley, California. After spending time in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Buck family moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Bill Berry was...
Ray Charles is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as “The Genius”. Among...
1. Rihanna was born on February 20, 1988 in St. Michael, Barbados, and was never called Rihanna until she became a big star. Rihanna is her...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
Gregg Allman was referred to as a Southern rock pioneer and received numerous awards, including several Grammys. Following a series of health problems, including hepatitis C...