Personalities | The Fugs | Sixties | Rock

(Vocal group, 1956–69)

Linked culturally to the 1950s beatniks, this burlesque poetry rock outfit was formed in New York by vocalists Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg. While their long hair, anti-everything stance and slapdash musicianship was shared with chartbusting Anglophile garage bands of the mid-1960s, The Fugs’ uncompromising coverage of taboo subjects and Kupferberg’s middle age precluded conventional stardom. Since the mid-1980s, there have been reunion concerts and new albums.

Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock
Personalities | Billy Fury | Sixties | Rock

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

AUTHORITATIVE

An extensive music information resource, bringing together the talents and expertise of a wide range of editors and musicologists, including Stanley Sadie, Charles Wilson, Paul Du Noyer, Tony Byworth, Bob Allen, Howard Mandel, Cliff Douse, William Schafer, John Wilson...

CURATED

Classical, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country and more. Flame Tree has been making encyclopaedias and guides about music for over 20 years. Now Flame Tree Pro brings together a huge canon of carefully curated information on genres, styles, artists and instruments. It's a perfect tool for study, and entertaining too, a great companion to our music books.

Rock, A Life Story

Rock, A Life Story

The ultimate story of a life of rock music, from the 1950s to the present day.

David Bowie

David Bowie

Fantastic new, unofficial biography covers his life, music, art and movies, with a sweep of incredible photographs.