(Guitar, vocals, b. 1946) After ‘Catch The Wind’ and ‘Colours’ charted in 1965, this projected English ‘answer’ to Bob Dylan lost impetus until he mined a seam of ‘sunshine’ pop with songs such as ‘Sunshine Superman’ – a US No. 1 – and ‘Jennifer Juniper’. After ‘Atlantis’ foundered in 1968’s UK Top 30, he bounced back briefly ...
(DJ/rap artist, b. 1960) As a DJ, Bambaataa (b. Kevin Donovan) was at the forefront of the rise of hip hop in the late 1970s. In 1982, he released ‘Planet Rock’, which borrowed from Kraftwerk’s ‘Trans-Europe Express’, and essentially invented electro. In the mid-1980s he collaborated with both John Lydon and James Brown. His debut album, Beware ...
A founding member of the band Pentangle, Bert Jansch (b. 1943) was born in Glasgow. He was heavily influenced by the guitarist Davey Graham and folk singers such as Anne Briggs. He has recorded 25 albums and toured extensively, influencing artists like Jimmy Page, Ian Anderson, Nick Drake and Neil Young. Jansch earned a Lifetime Achievement Award ...
musician. Between 1962 and 1968, Page played on hundreds of recording sessions for a variety of bands, including The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Donovan, Them, Cliff Richard and Burt Bacharach. He was often hired as an insurance policy in case the band’s guitarist couldn’t cut it in the studio. He played on ...
You Up’. They also scored under their own names with ‘Roadblock’, and ‘Mr Sleaze’. In 1988, they hooked up with Kylie Minogue (‘I Should Be So Lucky’) and Jason Donovan, leading to an annus mirabilis in 1989 when they logged 20 Top 20 hits from the Aussies, plus Sonia and Donna Summer. Mick Stock’s departure in 1991 halted ...
It Be I’m Falling In Love’. They had a latterday UK No. 1, 1980’s ‘Working My Way Back To You’. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | Donovan | Sixties | Rock ...
their toll. ‘Nobody gets fantastically rich off pop records. That’s a myth.’ Pete Waterman Leading Exponents Stock, Aitken & Waterman New Kids On The Block Kylie Minogue Jason Donovan Rick Astley Bananarama Tiffany Debbie Gibson Bros Five Star Introduction | Pop Styles & Forms | Nineties Pop ...
Bobby Digital had been his engineer, while Steelie & Cleevie were his house musicians. Elsewhere, the top producers were Dave Kelly, Gussie Clarke, Fatis Burrell and Donovan Germaine, plus Sly & Robbie who were enjoying a resurgence, and between them they were widening ragga out from the common dancehall concerns of sex and violence to ...
The term ‘singer-songwriter’ tends to be applied to the kind of introspective, socially conscious artist who – in the wake of the folk-inspired movement that was kick-started by Bob Dylan in the early 1960s before peaking in the next decade – performs in a direct yet reflective manner, emphasizing the song’s message over style or calibre of presentation. This is ...
& The Dreamers (whose star had already faded in their home country) and Chad & Jeremy (who few people had even heard of in Britain), also included the folk singer Donovan (‘Britain’s answer to Bob Dylan’) and the harder-edged sounds of The Who, The Yardbirds, The Zombies and The Moody Blues. In 1965, a total of 68 British ...
hired arranger had provided. Impressed, Most hired Jones as a staff arranger and the bassist was soon working on sessions for Herman’s Hermits and Lulu, along with further Donovan ones. Robert Plant: Forms Band Of Joy Having already played in blues and soul bands (one of which, The Tennessee Twins, released a non-charting single: a cover of ...
February Trip to Rishikesh The Beatles resumed their acquaintance with the Maharishi in mid-February when they, their wives, girlfriends and business managers flew out to his ashram at Rishikesh where they attended his initiator training course. Among the other initiators were actress Mia Farrow, Beach Boy Mike Love and Donovan. Ringo returned to Britain after 10 days; McCartney ...
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