(Vocal group, 1964–68) New York schoolgirls Margie and Mary Ann Ganser, and Betty and Mary Weiss were thrust into the US and UK Top 20s with 1964’s ‘Remember (Walking In The Sand)’. After ‘Leader Of The Pack’, a teenage morality play, topped the US chart, its mordant theme was investigated from new angles with such as ‘Dressed ...
eventual supporting cast of Clem Burke (drums), Nigel Harrison (bass), Jimmy Destri (keyboards) and Frank Infante (guitar). More pop-oriented than their contemporaries and influenced by 1960s girl groups like The Shangri-Las, Blondie had a British No. 2 hit with ‘Denis’ from their second album Plastic Letters (1978). The follow-up, Parallel Lines (1978), was a chart topper on both sides ...
Alive signalled the end, but Saxon’s solo releases – such as 2005’s Transparency – have punctuated the decades since. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | The Shangri-Las | Sixties | Rock ...
King and Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich housed inside New York City’s Brill Building, who turned out hit after classic hit for artists such as The Shirelles, The Shangri-Las, The Chiffons, The Drifters, Little Eva, Connie Francis, The Crystals and The Ronettes; Phil Spector, whose slick, echo-bathed ‘Wall of Sound’ creations added ...
mid-1990s saw Blur and Oasis deliver a much-needed kiss of life to a British music business already in a torpor. After that excitement came The Spice Girls, whose The Shangri-Las meets The Monkees act appealed to both sexes and proved you could still manufacture a pop phenomenon. They were, perhaps, the ultimate extension of the karaoke craze. 1990s ...
From the unlikeliest of beginnings in the British new wave of the late 1970s, Dire Straits became one of the biggest bands of the 1980s, due in large part to Mark Knopfler’s finger-picking guitar style, which has continued to define the sound of his solo work. Born in Glasgow in 1949, Knopfler spent his teenage years in ...
Early ’76 The Sex Pistols’ First Gigs The Sex Pistols played their first gig at London’s St Martin’s School of Art in November 1975, racing through a batch of Faces and Who numbers plus some of their own, including ‘Pretty Vacant’ and ‘Did You No Wrong’, while Rotten sneered at the audience, calling them ‘f***ing boring’. The pattern ...
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