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x Keith Moon Keith Moon Rock music Harlesden Two Sides of the Moon
Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the English rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style, and notoriety for his eccentric and...
Surf music
Pop music
Rhythm and blues
Hard rock
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x The Voidoids Voidoids Punk rock   Blank Generation
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, also known as Richard Hell & the Voidoids or just simply The Voidoids, were an American rock band from the first wave of punk rock, fronted by Richard Hell, a former member of the Neon Boys, Television and the...
Time
Destiny Street
Funhunt
The Kid With The Replaceable Head
x Peter Tork 126px-Pt2.jpg Psychedelic rock   Stranger Things Have Happened
Peter Tork (born February 13, 1942) is an American musician and actor, best known as a member of The Monkees. Tork was born Peter Halsten Thorkelson in Washington, D.C.. Although he was born in 1942, many news articles report him as born in 1944 in...
Pop music
Rock music
Pop rock
Experimental rock
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x The Spitfire Boys   Punk rock    
The Spitfire Boys were the first Liverpool punk band to release a single ("British Refugee" c/w "Mein Kampf"). The Spitfire Boys were mainly notable for including in their line-up Peter Clarke, who went on to drum for The Slits and later Siouxsie...
New Wave
x Zablujena generacija        
Zablujena generacija (Delusive or Stray generation) is a Slovene "saloon" punk - alternative rock musical group from Idrija. The group started out in 1994. The original lineup, who took their lead from the legendary American punkers The Ramones, was...
x Heitham Al-Sayed        
Heitham Al-Sayed (born 19 March 1968) is a rapper/singer from South West London. He is of Saudi and English parentage. Al-Sayed is lead vocalist in the band Senser and (previously) Lodestar. He is known for strong political opinions which permeate...
x Lodestar Lodestar - Lodestar Progressive rock   Lodestar
Lodestar was an experimental progressive rock band formed in 1996 by Heitham Al-Sayed (Lead Vocalist), John Morgan (Drums) and "Haggis" (Sound Engineer) after they left Senser. They were joined by a fourth member, Jules Hodgson (Guitar). Lodestar...
x Melvin "Wah-Wah Watson" Ragin   Rhythm and blues    
Melvin Ragin (born c. 1951), better known by the nickname "Wah-Wah Watson", is an American guitarist and session musician famed for his skills with a wah-wah pedal. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Ragin became a member of the Motown Records studio...
Jazz fusion
x Kira Roessler Kira Roessler Alternative rock    
Kira Roessler (born June 12, 1962) is an American bass guitarist, singer and Emmy award-winning dialogue editor. She is best known for her membership in the punk rock group Black Flag. While sitting in with L.A. punk group DC3, members of Black Flag...
Punk rock
Hardcore punk
x Attila the Hun        
Attila the Hun (24 March 1892 - 22 February 1962), was a calypsonian from Trinidad. Atilla the Hun (real name Raymond Quevedo) began singing in 1911 and was at his most prominent in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of the pioneers in spreading...
x dsp Dsp Electronic music    
"dsp" is an experimental electronic music collective originally from Canada. Formed in the late eighties, it released cassette compilations of tape loops, found sound constructions, results of circuit bending, and ambient music from homemade...
x UP SyNDROME   Punk rock    
Up Syndrome is a punk rock group from Orange County, California, formed in 1999. Up Syndrome frequently played at Chain Reaction, an all ages club in Anaheim. The band signed with Nitro Records in December 2002, but were dropped by the label before...
x Daniela Luján Daniela Luján Pop music Mexico City  
Daniela Luján (born Daniela Barrios Rodriguez April 5, 1988) is a Mexican pop singer and actress. Born on April 5, 1988 to Miguel Barrios Luján and Amalia Rodríguez Gómez, she is the youngest of three daughters. She started her artistic career at...
Latin American music
x Joan Sims Joan Sims      
Joan Sims (Born Irene Joan Marion Sims on 9 May 1930 – 27 June 2001) was an English actress best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, and latterly for playing Madge Hardcastle in As Time Goes By. Joan Sims was born in 1930, the daughter...
x Jimmy James and the Blue Flames   Blues New York City  
The Blue Flame usually mistakenly called The Blue Flames or Jimmy James and the Blue Flames by third parties, later and sometimes even the members, much later, though the band never went by those names, was an American rock band that was formed in...
Rock music
Rhythm and blues
x John Bonham John Bonham c.1970 Hard rock    
John Henry Bonham (31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980) was an English musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer of Led Zeppelin. Bonham was esteemed for his speed, power, fast right foot, distinctive sound, and "feel" for the groove. He is...
Heavy metal
Folk rock
Blues-rock
x Mike Davenport   Hardcore punk    
Michael Sean Davenport (born 1968 in Orcutt, California) is a musician. Davenport was bass guitarist, for The Ataris, joining the band in 1995 prior to the album Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits in which Davenport co-wrote the song "In...
Punk rock
Pop punk
x Kris Roe Kris Roe (self-portrait) Punk rock Anderson  
Kristopher Lee Roe (born January 12, 1977,) is an American musician best known for his work as the guitarist, lead vocalist, songwriter and producer for the rock band The Ataris.
Alternative rock
Pop punk
Emo
Indie rock
x Takahiro Nishikawa        
Takahiro Nishikawa (西川隆宏) was the former keyboard player for the band "Dreams Come True" which he left in March, 2002.
x Johnnie Johnson Cover of Johnnie B. Bad Chicago blues   Johnnie B. Bad
Johnnie Johnson (July 8, 1924 – April 13, 2005) was an American pianist and blues musician. His work with Chuck Berry led to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was born Johnnie Clyde Johnson in Fairmont, West Virginia and began...
Jazz Blue Hand Johnnie
Johnnie Be Eighty! And Still Bad
x Scotty Moore   Rock music    
Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III (born December 27, 1931, near Gadsden, Tennessee) is an American guitarist. He is best known for his backing of Elvis Presley in the first part of his career, between 1954 and the beginning of Elvis' Hollywood years...
Rock and roll
x Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans   Pop music   Zip-A-Dee Doo Dah
Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans was an early 1960s vocal group produced by Phil Spector, and was initially conceived as a vehicle for the lead vocals of Bobby Sheen, who took the stage name Bob B. Soxx. The Blue Jeans were backing vocalists Darlene...
x Bruce & Terry       Yeah! / Summer Means Fun
Bruce & Terry were Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher. The pair were instrumental in the development of surf rock, recording under a variety of names and created the band The Rip Chords. They began working together while Johnston was a well-known...
x Jean Sebastien Gerard        
Jean Sebastien Gerard (born 1970), a French musician known by the alias Jess, wrote chiptunes on the Atari ST during the 1990s.
x Paul Butterfield Paul Butterfield with John Mayall, 1967 Chicago blues   Put It in Your Your Ear
Paul Butterfield (17 December 1942 – 4 May 1987) was an American blues vocalist and harmonica player, who founded the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the early 1960s and performed at the original Woodstock Festival. He died of drug-related heart...
Blues-rock The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Electric blues North South
Blue-eyed soul East-West
In My Own Dream
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x Kevin Griffin BetterThanEzra Rock music    
Kevin Griffin (born October 1, 1968) is an American guitarist, vocalist, producer, and songwriter. Griffin formed the alternative rock band Better Than Ezra in 1988. The band had great success in the 1990s with hits such as "Good", "In the Blood",...
Alternative rock
x John Lightman        
John Lightman is a legendary bass guitar player in Memphis, Tennessee. He replaced Andy Hummel in Big Star, appearing on Big Star Live and Nobody Can Dance.
x Robert Downey Jr. robert-downey-jr-1207-lg.jpg     Smile
Robert John Downey, Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor. Downey made his screen debut in 1970, at the age of five, appearing in his father's film Pound, and has worked consistently in film and television ever since. During the 1980s, he...
The Futurist
x Lance Loud Lance Loud New Wave    
Alanson Russell "Lance" Loud (June 26, 1951 – December 22, 2001) was an American magazine columnist and new wave rock-n-roll performer. Loud is best known for his 1973 appearance in An American Family, a pioneer reality television series that...
x Mae West Mae West     Come Up and See Me Sometime
Mae West (born Mary Jane West on August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades. Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for...
I'm No Angel
Come Up and See Me Sometime - 30 Original Mono Recordings 1933-1954
Wild Christmas
Mae in December
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x Art Alexakis Art Alexakis Rock music Los Angeles  
Arthur Paul "Art" Alexakis (born April 12, 1962) is best known as the American singer, composer, and lead guitarist of the rock band Everclear. He has been a member of several notable bands, in addition to his own work as a songwriter for other...
Acoustic music
Cowpunk
x Tom Green TOM%20GREEN%20123.JPG Hip hop music   Prepare For Impact
Michael Thomas "Tom" Green (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian actor, rapper, writer, comedian, talk show host and media personality. Best known for his shock humour brand of comedy, Green found mainstream prominence via his MTV television show The...
Basement Jams
Not the Green Tom Show
x Clive Chin Clive Chin Dub    
Clive Chin (born on 14 May 1954 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Chinese Jamaican record producer whose work includes recordings by The Wailers, Dennis Brown, Lee Perry and Black Uhuru, among others. Chin was a pioneer in the establishment of dub as a...
Reggae
x Hillous Butrum        
Hillous Buel "Bew" Butrum (April 21, 1928 – April 27, 2002) was an American country music guitar player and a record and video producer best known as being a member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys. Hillous Butrum was born in Lafayette, Tennessee....
x Liam Gallagher Liam Gallagher in his typical singing stance Rock music Manchester  
William John Paul "Liam" Gallagher (born 21 September 1972) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, the former frontman of the English rock band Oasis and currently of the band Beady Eye. Gallagher's erratic behaviour, distinctive singing...
Britpop
Alternative rock
x Klaus Voormann Klaus Voormann Rock music London A Sideman's Journey
Klaus Voormann (born 29 April 1938) is a German Grammy Award-winning artist, noted musician, and record producer. He designed artwork for many bands including The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Wet Wet Wet and Turbonegro. His most notable work as a producer...
Rhythm and blues
Rock and roll
x Carol Lynn Maillard        
Carol Lynn Maillard (born 1951) is an African American actress, singer and composer. She was one of the founding members of the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Carol Maillard graduated from John W....
x Little Brother Montgomery 'Little Brother' Montgomery on cover of Magpie PY 4451 Jazz Kentwood Tasty Blues
Eurreal Wilford "Little Brother" Montgomery (April 18, 1906 – September 6, 1985) was an American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer. Largely self-taught, Montgomery is often thought of as just a blues pianist, but he was an important...
Blues Chicago: The Living Legends
Boogie-woogie Bajez Copper Station
Blues Live!
No Special Rider
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x Coxsone Dodd   Reggae Kingston  
Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, CD (Kingston, Jamaica, January 26, 1932 – May 5, 2004) was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of ska and reggae in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. He received his nickname "Coxsone" at...
Ska
x Alex Van Halen Alex Van Halen Hard rock Nijmegen  
Alexander Arthur "Alex" Van Halen (born May 8, 1953) is a Dutch-born American musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen. Originally, his brother Eddie had taken lessons for drums, while Alex practiced guitar....
Heavy metal
Jazz fusion
x Michael Anthony Michael Anthony Hard rock    
Michael Anthony Sobolewski (born June 20, 1954), known professionally as Michael Anthony, is an American musician who is currently the bass player in the rock group Chickenfoot. Previously, Anthony played bass in the hard rock band Van Halen....
Rock music
Heavy metal
x Leif Garrett The Leif Garrett Collection Pop music Hollywood I Was Made for Dancin'
Leif Garrett (born Leif Per Nervik; November 8, 1961) is an American singer and actor. He became famous in the late 1970s as a teen idol, but received much publicity in later life for his drug abuse and legal troubles. Garrett was born to Carolyn...
Rock music The Leif Garrett Collection
Leif Garrett
x The Other Ones   Rock music San Francisco The Strange Remain
The Other Ones was an American rock band formed in 1998 by former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and Mickey Hart, along with part-time Grateful Dead collaborator Bruce Hornsby. In 2000, Bill Kreutzmann, another Grateful Dead alumnus,...
Psychedelic rock
Jam band
x Roger Meddows-Taylor Roger in 2006 Hard rock   Fun in Space
Roger Meddows Taylor (born 26 July 1949), known as Roger Taylor, is an English musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the drummer, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of British rock band Queen. As a...
Heavy metal Strange Frontier
Pop rock Happiness?
Glam rock Electric Fire
Progressive rock Surrender
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x Spencer Williams   Jazz    
Spencer Williams (October 14, 1889 – July 14, 1965) was an American jazz and popular music composer, pianist, and singer. He is best known for his hit songs "Basin Street Blues", "I Ain't Got Nobody", "Royal Garden Blues", "I've Found a New Baby", ...
Popular music
x Mighty Spoiler        
Mighty Spoiler, born Theophilus Philip (March 23, 1926 – December 24, 1960), was a Trinidadian calypsonian. Spoiler's career began in 1946 (see 1946 in music) at the House of Lords Tent, and he soon became one of the most popular calypso singers,...
x Willie Lee Perryman Piano Red Rhythm and blues   Atlanta Bounce
William "Willie" Lee Perryman (October 19, 1911 – July 25, 1985), usually known professionally as Piano Red and later in life as Dr. Feelgood, was an American blues musician, the first to hit the pop music charts. He was a self-taught pianist who...
Blues The Blues Collection 68: Live and Feelin' Good
Rockin' With Red / Red's Boogie
x The APF Brigade   Anarcho-punk Peterborough  
The APF Brigade were an anarcho-punk duo from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The group was founded by Andi Export (later Xport) and Jon Hindle in the early 1980s. They were members of the cassette culture scene, and released a number of...
x Daniel Johns Daniel Johns Hard rock Newcastle  
Daniel Paul Johns (born 22 April 1979) is an Australian musician, vocalist, composer, guitarist, and pianist, best known as the frontman of the rock band Silverchair. He is also part of The Dissociatives. In 2007, he was ranked at number 18 on...
Art rock
Grunge music
Electronica
Alternative rock
x Face To Face        
Face to Face (band) may refer to multiple recording groups :
x Omarion O cover Rhythm and blues Los Angeles O
Omari Ishmael Grandberry (born November 12, 1984) better known as Omarion, is an American R&B; singer, actor, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and former lead singer of the R&B; group, B2K. Omarion was spotted at a young age by a manager,...
Urban contemporary Florida 21
Dance-pop Wake Up Everybody
Pop music Face Off
Contemporary R&B Ollusion
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x Tommy McClennan   Delta blues   Cross Cut Saw Blues / You Can't Read My Mind
Tommy McClennan (April 8, 1908 – circa 1962) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist. McClennan was born on a farm near Yazoo City, Mississippi, United States, and grew up in the town. He played and sang blues in a rough, energetic style....
Blues
Country blues
x The Blue Ox Babes   Pop music    
The Blue Ox Babes were an English pop group, formed in early 1981 by the former Dexys Midnight Runners guitarist Kevin 'Al' Archer, together with his girlfriend Yasmin Saleh, and former Dexys keyboard player Andy Leek. Archer was keen to mix the...
x Sharkey Bonano SharkeyBandstand1950Kubrick Jazz New Orleans  
Joseph "Sharkey" Bonano (he sometimes billed himself as Sharkey Banana or Sharkey Bananas) (April 9, 1904 – March 27, 1972) was a jazz trumpeter, band leader, and vocalist. Sharkey was known for playing searing hot and technically virtuoso trumpet...
x The Moonies The Moonies Alternative rock Liverpool  
The Moonies were an alternative rock band from Liverpool, England, who existed from 2001 to 2005. Steve Banks, Ryan Clarke and Mike Berry were teenagers when they first began playing. The trio recorded an album as The Moggs in 2000 for Foulplay...
x Willie Hall        
Willie Hall, best known by his colorful nickname Drive 'Em Down, was a New Orleans blues and boogie woogie piano player. He never recorded, but has had a great influence on blues and rock and roll. His earthy song, "Junker's Blues", with its stories...
x William Lloyd Webber       Invocation
William Southcombe Lloyd Webber (11 March 1914 – 29 October 1982) was an English organist and composer. Lloyd Webber was born in London. The son of William Charles Henry Webber, a self-employed plumber, he was fortunate, from a musical point of view...
x Marciano Cantero        
Marciano Cantero (born August 25, 1960 in Mendoza) is an Argentine singer and musician. He is the lead singer and bassist of Los Enanitos Verdes, an Argentinean pop/rock band. Cantero was nine when he first heard The Beatles, which he credits as one...
x Adrian Olivares     Mexico  
Adrian Olivares (born 1976) is a Mexican singer. Blonde and blue eyed, Adrian became, in 1990, the first non-Puerto Rican member of Menudo. Controversy rattled the group, as a drug arrest in Miami International Airport against members Sergio Blass...
x Walter Parratt        
Sir Walter Parratt KCVO (10 February 1841 – 27 March 1924) was an English organist and composer. Born in Huddersfield, son of a parish organist, Parratt began to play the pipe organ from an early age, and held posts as an organist while still a...
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