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100 Beatles Facts 1. A Hard Day’s Night is the only Beatles album where all of the songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney....
The Cranberries became one of the most successful groups to emerge from the pre-Brit-pop indie scene of the early ’90s. Led by vocalist Dolores O’Riordan, they...
1. The founding members of The Cure were school friends at Notre Dame Middle School in Crawley, West Sussex. Their first public performance was at an...
The Doors’ gestation goes all the way back to a chance meeting between two students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) film school. Jim...
The music of the Everly Brothers influenced the Beatles, with Paul McCartney and John Lennon referring to themselves as “the British Everly Brothers”. Keith Richards called...
The Jam formed in Woking, Surrey, England, in 1972. The line-up was fluid at this stage, consisting of Paul Weller on guitar and lead vocals together...
In 1966, Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, and Noel Redding played together for the first time. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was formed. I’ve seen just about all...
Brandon Flowers the youngest of six children, was born on June 21, 1981, in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nevada. Flowers’s family lived in Henderson...
The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential British rock groups of all time. From their explosive beginnings as part of the...
On 20 December 1962, The Osmonds appeared for the first time on NBC’s The Andy Williams Show. The brothers performed a version of “I’m A Ding...
On 28th Sept 1980, The Police were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with “Don’t Stand So Close To Me,” the group’s third No.1. Taken...
The Smiths were the definitive British indie rock band of the ’80s, marking the end of synth-driven new wave and the beginning of the guitar rock...
The most successful American performers of the 1960s, The Supremes, for a time, rivalled even The Beatles reeling off five No.1 singles in a row. The...
The foundations for what would become the Velvet Underground were laid in late 1964. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage...
Originally known simply as Verve, the group was formed in Wigan a town midway between the two cities of Manchester and Liverpool in 1990. Wigan Pier,...
