Trailblazing Kinks lead guitarist Dave Davies was born in Muswell Hill, London in 1947. The Davies were a close-knit, musical family and Dave acquired his first guitar, a Harmony Meteor, at the age of 11. He taught himself to play, citing blues pioneer Big Bill Broonzy as his earliest influence. Other inspirations were James Burton, ...
One of the more popular bands of the ‘British Invasion’ and a considerable influence on both 1970s heavy metal outfits and 1990s groups such as Blur and Oasis, The Kinks went through numerous line-up changes but were always led by singer-songwriter Ray Davies (born 21 June 1944), while his brother Dave (born 3 February 1947) supplied the band’s signature rock ...
Benny And Us. The 1987 film Stand By Me sent the song of the same name to UK No. 1. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | The Kinks | Sixties | Rock ...
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hero Buck Owens, he has recorded covers of classic pop/rock material by The Beatles, Van Morrison/Them, Elvis, The Everly Brothers, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and even ‘Train In Vain’ by The Clash, without disturbing his country roots. This resulted in the 1997 album Under The Covers. After a long and successful run with ...
Eddie Van Halen redefined the sound of heavy metal at the end of the 1970s. His high-velocity solos, distinguished by his finger-tapping technique and tremolo-bar effects, on Van Halen’s 1978 debut album heralded a new era in hard-rock guitar that rejected the clichés of a jaded genre. His solo on Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ in 1982, which effectively ...
delight a hip crowd through extended improvisation. What other major artists of the Sixties and Seventies came from such a base ? The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan and The Who, to name a few, worked mainly within the parameters of short songs both live and in the studio; ...
day – ‘heavy’. Conflict was in their DNA. Roger and Pete were a case in point. Unlike almost all the other great rock acts, whether it’s The Stones, Kinks and David Bowie, or Led Zeppelin, U2 and Bruce Springsteen, the singer of The Who was not its lyricist (nor even, by and large, a ...
in-demand session 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 ...
, England. He began teaching himself guitar at the age of 13, later adopting Johnny Marr as his role model. His other inspirations were primarily British guitar bands: the Kinks, the Who, Slade, the Jam and the Stone Roses. After unsuccessfully auditioning for the role of lead singer with Manchester indie group Inspiral Carpets, Gallagher became ...
A pioneering guitarist and the principal creative force behind The Who, Pete Townshend was born in Chiswick, London in 1941. The Townshends were a musical family – Pete’s grandfather was a musician, his father a dance-band saxophonist and his mother a singer. Consequently, a career in music seemed natural for Pete, and his parents encouraged him. ...
UK’s finest rock vocalists, Roderick David Stewart was born on 10 January 1945 to Scottish parents. He went to the same school as Ray and Dave Davies of The Kinks and briefly trained as an apprentice footballer before busking around Europe. Many Faces Back in London he started singing with The Hoochie Coochie Men in 1964 alongside Long John Baldry ...
signing to Excello Records in 1955, where he was instrumental in defining the label’s ‘swamp-blues’ sound. He had a profound influence on 1960s rockers including Van Morrison, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones, who covered Harpo’s ‘I’m A King Bee’ and ‘Shake Your Hips’. Harpo died from a heart attack in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Styles & Forms ...
(Vocal group, 1976–present) Emerging from Manchester in 1976, The Fall are led by vocalist Mark E. Smith who has employed over 50 different musicians. The Fall’s music has, however, remained largely unaltered, a basic garage band throb over which Smith half sings, half rants his frequently obscure lyrics. Apart from a brief period in the ...
Hugh Harris (guitar), Max Rafferty (bass) and Paul Garred (drums) – are the next in a long line of British acts that can be traced as far back as The Kinks, taking in the likes of Supergrass, Blur and even The Coral on their list of influences. Formed and signed by Virgin on the same night at a gig ...
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