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A&M Records
A&M; Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group, and operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M; division.
A&M; Records was formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. Their first choice for a name was “Carnival Records,” under which they released two singles...
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Amy Grant
Amy Lee Grant (born November 25, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and occasional actress, best known for her Gospel and Contemporary Christian music.
Grant made her debut as a teenager, and gained fame in...
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- Nov 25, 1960 (age 49 years)
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Gram Parsons
Gram Parsons (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons was a member of the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers. He was later a solo artist who...
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- Nov 5, 1946
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- Sep 19, 1973 (age 26 years)
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Phil Ochs
Philip David Ochs (pronounced /ˈoʊks/) (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was a U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism,...
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- Dec 19, 1940
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- Apr 9, 1976 (age 35 years)
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952) is an Academy Award-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, record producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo. He played keyboards in the influential...
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- Jan 17, 1952 (age 57 years)
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country and pop into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. Crow is also a liberal political activist.
She has...
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- Feb 11, 1962 (age 47 years)
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Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and eclectic folk-inspired music.
Two of Vega's songs (both from her second album Solitude Standing, 1987) reached the top 10 of...
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- Jul 11, 1959 (age 50 years)
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Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They are responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians. Although their initial career...
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- Oct 1975
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- Jan 14, 1978
Soundgarden
Soundgarden was an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by lead singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron became the band's permanent drummer in 1986 while bassist Ben...
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- 1984
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- Apr 1997
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Bauhaus
Bauhaus were an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy (vocals), Daniel Ash (guitar), Kevin Haskins (drums) and David J (bass). The band was originally Bauhaus 1919 before they dropped the numerical...
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- 1978
The Brothers Johnson
The Brothers Johnson is a band consisting of American musicians, and brothers, George aka 'Lightnin' Licks' and Louis Jagger Johnson aka 'Thunder Thumbs'.
Guitarist/vocalist George and bassist/vocalist Louis formed the band Johnson Three Plus One...
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Barry White
Barry White (September 12, 1944(1944-09-12) – July 4, 2003) was an American record producer and singer-songwriter.
A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his rich bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo...
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- Sep 12, 1944
Date of death:
- Jul 4, 2003 (age 58 years)
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The Police
The Police were an English rock trio, from London, England, formed originally in 1977. The trio consisted of Gordon Sumner, CBE (born 2 October 1951), widely known by his stage name of Sting (lead vocals, bass guitar), Andy Summers (guitar, vocals)...
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- Jan 1977
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- 1986
Rick Wakeman
Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949 in Perivale, London) is an English keyboard player, composer, and songwriter known as the keyboardist for progressive rock group Yes. Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the use...
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- May 18, 1949 (age 60 years)
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Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her...
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- May 16, 1966 (age 43 years)
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Squeeze
Squeeze are an English band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s. They are known in the UK for their hit songs "Cool for Cats," "Up...
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Yusuf Islam
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948), best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam.
His albums...
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- Jul 21, 1948 (age 61 years)
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Sting
Sting (born as Gordon Matthew Sumner), CBE (born 2 October 1951) is a musician, activist, actor and philanthropist.
Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist of the rock music band The Police. As a...
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- Oct 2, 1951 (age 58 years)
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Sun Ra
Sun Ra (birth name: Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; (b. May 22, 1914 - May 30, 1993) was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic...
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- May 22, 1914
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- May 30, 1993 (age 79 years)
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S Club 7
S Club (formerly known as S Club 7) was a British pop group created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, comprising Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Jon Lee, Bradley McIntosh, Jo O'Meara, Hannah Spearritt and Rachel Stevens. The group rose to...
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- Apr 2003
The Flying Burrito Brothers
The Flying Burrito Brothers was an early country rock band, best known for its influential debut album, 1969's The Gilded Palace of Sin. Although the group is most often mentioned in connection with country rock legends Gram Parsons and Chris...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1968
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (born March 6, 1972), nicknamed "Shaq", is an American professional basketball player, rapper, actor, reserve police officer and a U.S. Deputy Marshal. He is widely perceived as one of the most dominant players in the...
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- Mar 6, 1972 (age 37 years)
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Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson (born David Ian Jackson, 11 August 1954, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire) is an English musician and singer–songwriter, now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001. He is best known for the 1979 hit...
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- Aug 11, 1954 (age 55 years)
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Michael Hampton
Michael Hampton (born November 15, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a funk/rock guitarist. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
Hampton started his professional career...
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- Nov 15, 1956 (age 53 years)
The Human League
The Human League is a British synthpop band formed in Sheffield, England in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
Monster Magnet
Monster Magnet is an American hard rock band. Hailing from Red Bank, New Jersey, the group was founded by Dave Wyndorf (vocals and guitar), John McBain (guitar), Tom Diello (drums), and Tim Cronin (vocals and bass). The band first went under the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Styx
Styx (pronounced /ˈstɪks/) is an American rock band, best known for their most popular hit songs "Lady" (#6, 1975), "Come Sail Away" (#8, 1977), "Babe" (#1, 1979), "The Best of Times" (#3, 1981) and "Mr. Roboto" (#3, 1983). Other hits such as "Show...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1970
Chuck Mangione
Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione (pronounced man-JIOE-nee) (born November 29, 1940) is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good". Mangione has released more than...
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- Nov 29, 1940 (age 69 years)
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MxPx
MxPx is a Christian punk rock band that officially formed in Bremerton, Washington, United States in 1992. The band has recorded eight studio albums, four EPs, four compilation albums, a live album, a VHS tape, a DVD and released 20 singles.
All the...
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- 1992
Oingo Boingo
Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts. The band was founded in 1972 as a performance art group called The...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1972
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- Oct 31, 1995
Blues Traveler
Blues Traveler is an American rock band, formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band has been influenced by a variety of genres, including blues-rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul, and Southern rock. They are known for extensive use of...
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- 1983
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The Neville Brothers
The Neville Brothers, an American R&B; and Soul group, was formed in 1977 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The group dates back to 1976, when the four brothers of the Neville family, Art (b. 1937), Charles (b. 1938), Aaron (b. 1941), and Cyril (b. 1948)...
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Simple Minds
Simple Minds are a rock band from Scotland, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band, from the south side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s, and later...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1978
John Cale
John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.
Though best known for his work in rock music, Cale has worked...
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- Mar 9, 1942 (age 67 years)
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Peter Frampton
Peter Kenneth Frampton (born in Beckenham, England, April 22, 1950) is a British/American musician, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd, among others. In 1982 Frampton...
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- Apr 22, 1950 (age 59 years)
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.38 Special
38 Special (also written .38 Special or Thirty-Eight Special) is an American rock band that was formed by neighborhood friends Don Barnes and Donnie Van Zant in 1975 in Jacksonville, Florida. By the early 1980s, 38 Special began amalgamating...
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Procol Harum
Procol Harum are a British rock band, formed in the 1960s, who contributed to the development of progressive rock, and by extension, symphonic rock. Their best-known recording is their 1967 single "A Whiter Shade of Pale." Although noted for its...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1967
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electropop band formed in 1978, known for pioneering the electropop music genre. The principal members are Haruomi Hosono (bass), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums and vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards).
The...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1978
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1983
Gin Blossoms
Gin Blossoms is an alternative rock band formed in 1987, in Tempe, Arizona. They took their name from a photo of W.C. Fields which bore the caption "W.C. Fields with gin blossoms," referring to the actor's gin-ravaged nose. The band released three...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1987
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams, OC, OBC (born Bryan Guy Adams on November 5, 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter and photographer. Adams was first nominated at the 28th Grammy Awards for Reckless and "It's Only Love" and won the Grammy and in 1992 won the award...
Date of birth:
- Nov 5, 1959 (age 50 years)
Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977), was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T. Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era, though...
Date of birth:
- Sep 30, 1947
Date of death:
- Sep 16, 1977 (age 29 years)
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The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas (abbr. BEP) is a hip hop band that formed in Los Angeles in 1995. The group is composed of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist will.i.am and vocalists apl.de.ap, Taboo, and Fergie. Since their album Elephunk in 2003, the group's...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
Therapy?
Therapy? are an alternative metal band from Northern Ireland. The band was formed in 1989 by guitarist–vocalist Andy Cairns from Ballyclare and drummer-vocalist Fyfe Ewing from Larne, Northern Ireland. The band initially recorded their first demo...
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- 1989
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Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle; July 20, 1964) is an American rock musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock bands Soundgarden (1984–1997) and Audioslave (2001–2007), and for his numerous solo works and...
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- Jul 20, 1964 (age 45 years)
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Temple of the Dog
Temple of the Dog was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. It was conceived by vocalist Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. The...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1991
Don Cherry
Don (Donald Eugene) Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and who would go on to live and work with a wide variety...
Date of birth:
- Nov 18, 1936
Date of death:
- Oct 19, 1995 (age 58 years)
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The Dingoes
The Dingoes were an Australian country rock band active from 1973 to 1979, initially based in Melbourne they relocated to the United States from 1976. Most stable line-up was John Bois on bass guitar, John Lee on drums, Broderick Smith on vocals and...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1973
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1979
Extreme
Extreme is an American rock band, headed by frontmen Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt, that reached the height of their popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Among some of Extreme's musical influences are Queen and Van Halen. (Gary Cherone...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1985
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1996
David Crosby
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds; Crosby, Stills & Nash, which is sometimes augmented with Neil Young; and CPR. Crosby is a member...
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- Aug 14, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Split Enz
Split Enz was a New Zealand band of the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. They achieved chart success in New Zealand, Australia and Canada during the early 1980s, most notably with the single "I Got You",...
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UB40
UB40 is a British reggae band formed in 1978 in Birmingham, UK. The band has placed more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. The band has sold over 70 million records. Their #1 hit...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1978
Free
Free were an English rock band, formed in London in 1968, best known for their signature song "All Right Now". Lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums. Lead guitarist Paul...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1968
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1973
The Tubes
The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope". During its first fifteen years or so, the band's live performances combined quasi-pornography with wild satires of media,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1972
Stewart Copeland
Klark Kent (born 1973 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a graffiti artist and music producer.
Klark Kent has been writing graffiti since 1989, and has gained international credit for his work over the years. Besides books and magazines his art was...
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- 1973 (age 37 years)
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Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is a British crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She sings in many languages including English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, Italian, Russian, Hindi, Mandarin and Japanese.
Brightman has 160...
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- Aug 14, 1960 (age 49 years)
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Jann Arden
Jann Arden (born Jann Arden Anne Richards; March 27, 1962) is an acclaimed and award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter.
Arden was born and raised near Calgary, in Springbank, Alberta, and she attended Springbank Community High School. She spent...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1962 (age 47 years)
Supertramp
Supertramp were a British progressive rock band that released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Their early music included ambitious concept albums, from which were drawn a number of hits including "Goodbye Stranger", ...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1969
Billy Preston
William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American rhythm and blues musician from Houston, Texas raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy Award-winning career as a solo artist,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1946
Date of death:
- Jun 6, 2006 (age 59 years)
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The Move
The Move were one of the leading British rock bands of the 1960s from Birmingham, England. They scored nine Top 20 UK singles in five years, but were among the most popular British bands not to find any success in the United States.
Although bassist...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1966
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1972
The Pussycat Dolls
The Pussycat Dolls (abbreviated to PCD) are an American pop girl group and dance ensemble founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995 as a burlesque troupe based in Los Angeles, California. After attracting national attention, Antin eventually...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2004
The Mekons
The Mekons are a British rock band. Formed in the late 1970s, they are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk rock bands.
The band was formed in 1977 by a group of University of Leeds art students that included...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1976
