(Vocal group, 2001–05) Although starting life as a quartet, Sabrina Washington, Alesha Dixon and Su-Elise Nash are how Londoners Mis-Teeq are more commonly remembered. Releasing just two albums and a greatest hits in their short career, the group found fame through a suggestive stage presence and tight harmonies. ‘One Night Stand’ (2001) is perhaps the best example ...
collaboration with Mike Batt. According to the Sunday Times in 2008 Melua was the seventh richest British musician under 30. Styles & Forms | Twenty-First Century | Rock Personalities | Mis-Teeq | Twenty-First Century | Rock ...
A largely British movement, glam rock and glitter were highly popular in the early 1970s – so popular that one artist, Marc Bolan, was given his own TV series. Inspired by early rock’n’roll and bubblegum pop, glam rock was fun, catchy and melodic, played with crunchy, distorted guitars, with the musicians dressing up ...
January The Sex Pistols Get The Bullet On 6 January 1977 EMI Records terminated its contract with The Sex Pistols, saying it was unable to promote the group’s records ‘in view of the adverse publicity generated over the past two months’. The media furore over the Pistols’ TV appearance six weeks earlier had barely abated and now politicians were weighing ...
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