David Bowie (January 8, 1947 – January 10, 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor with a career in music and the performing arts that spanned more than fifty years. He played in a sequence of mid-Sixties beat groups and released two self-titled albums, charting first with the 1969 opus “Space Oddity.” Between […]
Elton John (born March 25, 1947) is an English vocalist, pianist, songwriter, and philanthropist with a career stretching back to the mid-1960s. He achieved global stardom with his self-titled second album in 1970. Since that time, he has recorded more than 30 albums and scored numerous hits that have gained evergreen status around the world. […]
Kate Bush is an English singer–songwriter who released five albums between 1978 and 1985 on EMI. She rose to international prominence with her debut single “Wuthering Heights,” one of the biggest global hits of 1978. Background Kate was born Catherine Mary Bush on July 30, 1958, in Bexleyheath, Kent, into an artistic family. Her father, […]
Brian Eno is an English art-rock/ambient musician and producer who first emerged as the original keyboardist for Roxy Music. Between 1973 and 1977, he released four solo albums under his surname on Island Records. From 1978 onward, he issued a series of ambient recordings on E.G. Records Ltd., including collaborative efforts with Harold Budd, Jon […]
Elvis Costello is an English musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Paddington who debuted with the album My Aim Is True on Stiff/Columbia in 1977. After assembling his backing band The Attractions, he issued the popular Radar titles This Year’s Model (1978) and Armed Forces (1979), followed by seven albums on F-Beat between 1980 and […]
Jack Bruce (1943— 2014) was a Scottish-born bassist, vocalist, and composer who played in a series of popular English bands during the 1960s, followed by a successful solo career over the following half-century. He first emerged in 1965 with a two-album stint in the Graham Bond Organization, followed with brief time in Manfred Mann and […]
Dusty Springfield (April 16, 1939 – March 2, 1999) was an English singer with a career in pop that spanned nearly four decades. As part of sibling folk trio The Springfields, she scored one of the earliest stateside hits by a UK act when “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” made the Billboard Top 20 in […]
Richard Thompson is an English singer, guitarist, and songwriter who formed the folk rock band Fairport Convention, which he co-headed on the 1968–70 albums Fairport Convention, What We Did on Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking, Liege & Lief, and Full House. Post-Fairport, he played on albums by Nick Drake, Gary Farr, Mick Softley, John Martyn, and former […]
Joe Jackson is an English pianist, songwriter, vocalist, author, and occasional bandleader, active since the late 1970s. Emerging on London’s New Wave scene, he achieved fame with the 1979/80 albums Look Sharp!, I’m the Man, and Beat Crazy. Over the years, his music has incorporated rock, reggae, salsa, jump blues, Tin Pan Alley, big-band vocal […]
Peter Gabriel is an English singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and activist with a career in music dating back to the late 1960s. He rose to prominence as the vocalist of Genesis, which he fronted for six albums between 1969 and 1974. As a solo artist, he issued four self-titled albums on Charisma between 1977 and 1982. […]
Rod Stewart (born Jan. 10, 1945) is an English rock vocalist from London who fronted several R&B/beat combos during the mid-1960s before rising to prominence as the frontman of the Jeff Beck Group on the 1968/69 albums Truth and Beck-Ola. In 1969, Stewart left the group along with bassist/guitarist Ron Wood to join the Small […]
Terry Reid (November 13, 1949 – August 4, 2025) was an English singer, guitarist, and songwriter who emerged in mid-sixties beatsters Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers. He debuted as a solo artist with the 1968 US Epic release Bang, Bang You’re Terry Reid, followed by a self-titled album on Columbia. As his profile soared, Reid […]
Cat Stevens (born July 21, 1948) is an English singer/songwriter who was primarily active as a recording artist between 1966 and 1978. Scoring a deal with Decca just shy of age 18, he burst onto Swinging London with the chipper “I Love My Dog” in late 1966. The following year saw back-to-back albums of mostly […]
John Miles (April 23, 1949 — December 5, 2021) was an English vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter who shot to fame on Decca with the 1976 album Rebel and the singles “Highfly” and “Music.” It was produced by Alan Parsons, who also handled Miles’ 1979 fourth album More Miles Per Hour. Concurrently, Parsons enlisted the […]
Robin Trower (born March 9, 1945) is an English rock/blues guitarist with a musical career that dates back to the early 1960s. He first rose to prominence as a member of Procol Harum, with whom he played from 1967 to 1971. He made his solo debut with the 1973 release Twice Removed from Yesterday and […]
Howard Jones (born Feb. 23, 1955) is an English keyboardist, singer, and songwriter who released four albums on WEA between 1984 and 1989, charting first with “New Song” and “What Is Love?” He achieved transatlantic success with his 1985 release Dream Into Action, which spawned the hits “Things Can Only Get Better,” “Like to Get […]
Marianne Faithfull (December 29, 1946 — January 30, 2025) was an English singer from Hampstead who released three albums on Decca between 1965 and 1967, scoring early successes with the singles “Come and Stay With Me,” “This Little Bird,” “Summer Nights,” and a cover of the Rolling Stones ballad “As Tears Go By.” The early […]
Steve Hackett is an English classical/rock guitarist with a career in music that dates back to 1970. He rose to prominence as a member of Genesis between 1971 and 1977, during which time he played on six of the band’s studio albums: Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, The Lamb Lies Down on […]
Nick Drake (June 19, 1948 — Nov. 25, 1974) was an English singer–songwriter and guitarist who released three albums on Island between 1969 and 1972: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, and Pink Moon. In 1974, he completed four songs for a proposed album before his death that year from a prescription-med overdose. The songs appeared […]
Nik Kershaw (born March 1, 1958) is an English musician, vocalist, and songwriter who rose to prominence in the mid-1980s with a run of UK chart hits and critically regarded synth-pop albums. Kershaw released Human Racing and The Riddle on MCA in 1984, both of which went platinum in the UK and produced singles such […]
Jon Anderson (born Oct. 25, 1944) is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Accrington, Lancashire, who rose to fame as the frontman of Yes, appearing on all but one of the band’s 17 proper studio albums between 1969 and 2001. During a break in the band’s activities in 1976, he self-recorded his debut solo […]
Pete Townshend (born May 19, 1945) is an English musician, composer, and singer who rose to global prominence as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, which released 10 studio albums between 1965 and 1982. His first proper solo album, Who Came First, appeared on Track Records in 1972. As the Who’s activities became more […]
Chris Rea is an English singer, guitarist, and songwriter who released nine albums between 1978 and 1987 on Magnet, followed by further titles on WEA, EastWest, and Jazzee Blue over the subsequent three decades. Rea’s 1989–91 albums The Road to Hell and Auberge both topped the UK Albums Chart and spawned Top 20 title singles. […]
Toyah Willcox (born May 18, 1958) is an English New Wave vocalist, actress, and television personality from Birmingham who released five studio albums and two live discs on Safari between 1979 and 1983. In 1986, she cut a collaborative spoken-word/ambient album with Robert Fripp, whom she married that year. Early Life Toyah Ann Willcox was […]
Steve Winwood (born May 12, 1948) is an English vocalist, keyboardist, and songwriter from Birmingham who emerged as the voice of the Spencer Davis Group, which he joined in 1963 at age 15. After four years, three proper albums, and assorted singles with the band — including the soul-rock evergreens “Gimme Some Lovin’” and “I’m […]
Murray Head (born March 5, 1946) is an English singer–songwriter and actor who portrayed Judas Iscariot on the 1970 rock musical album Jesus Christ Superstar by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He released the albums Nigel Lived (CBS, 1972) and Say It Ain’t So (Island, 1975), which offered source material for Roger Daltrey (“Say […]
John Martyn (September 11, 1948 — January 29, 2009) was an English singer/songwriter and guitarist who released eight studio albums and a live disc on Island between 1967 and 1980, followed by a pair of 1981/82 titles on WEA and a further round of Island albums during the late 1980s. His early acoustic work culminated […]
Robert Wyatt is an English vocalist and songwriter who rose to prominence as the singer and drummer in Soft Machine. After recording four albums with the band between 1968 and 1971, he left to form Matching Mole, which cut two albums for CBS in 1972. The following year, he was paralyzed from the waist down […]
Judie Tzuke is an English singer/songwriter, best known for her 1979 ballad “Stay With Me Till Dawn.” She released seven studio albums through 1989 and charted with the first two, Welcome to the Cruise and Sportscar, on Elton John‘s Rocket Record Company. Background Tzuke was born Judie Myers on April 3, 1956, in London to […]
Anthony Phillips is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer with a career dating back to the late 1960s. As a solo artist, he’s recorded more than thirty albums. Phillips entered the scene as a member of Genesis, which he co-founded in 1967 with fellow pupils at Charterhouse boarding school. He serves as their primary guitarist on […]
Allan Holdsworth (Aug. 6, 1946 — April 16, 2017) was an English guitarist from Bradford, West Yorkshire, who emerged in the jazz-psych band ‘Igginbottom in the late 1960s. During the 1970s, his profile rose with stints in Nucleus, Tempest, Gong, Soft Machine, UK, and Bruford. As a solo artist, he released the album Velvet Darkness […]
Steve Hillage is an English guitarist, composer, and producer from London who first recorded under the pseudonym Simon Sasparella in psych-rockers Arzachel, the starting vehicle of keyboardist Dave Stewart (Egg, Hatfield & the North). The two re-teamed in Khan (with bassist Nicholas Greenwood) for the 1972 Deram release Space Shanty. In 1973, Hillage backed Kevin […]
Marc Almond is an English vocalist, songwriter, and arranger from Southport, Merseyside, who rose to fame as one-half of the synthpop duo Soft Cell, which released three albums between 1981 and 1984. Concurrently, he released two 1982–83 albums with the goth–cabaret side-project Marc and the Mambas. As a solo artist, he released nine full-length studio […]
Fred Frith is an English avant-garde multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser who gained international cult renown as a member of Henry Cow, which made three studio albums and two collaborative discs with Slapp Happy. They instigated the UK/Euro Rock In Opposition network but disbanded over musical differences that spawned the Art Bears. As a solo artist, […]
Russ Ballard is an English musician and songwriter who recorded with the sixties beat groups The Roulettes and Unit 4 + 2. In 1969, he co-founded Argent with ex-Zombies keyboardist Rod Argent. He made five studio albums with the band and wrote their hits “Liar” and “God Gave Rock and Roll to You.” Concurrently, he […]
Leo Sayer is an English pop singer who released ten studio albums between 1973 and 1983 on Chrysalis and Warner Bros. He scored ten Top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart, including “The Show Must Go On,” “Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance),” “Moonlighting,” and “More Than I Can Say.” His 1976 fourth album […]
Labi Siffre is an English singer/songwriter, poet, and playwright who released six albums between 1970 and 1975 on Pye/EMI. He scored UK hits with the 1971/72 singles “It Must Be Love” (later covered by Madness) and “Crying Laughing Loving Lying.” After twelve years away from music, he returned with the 1987 hit “(Something Inside) So […]
Sally Oldfield (born Aug. 3, 1947) is an English-Irish singer and composer, born in Dublin and raised in Reading, Berkshire. In 1968, she formed the folk-psych duo Sallyangie with her younger brother Mike Oldfield, aged 15 at the time of their singular album Children of the Sun, released that year on Transatlantic Records. Between 1973 […]
Lesley Duncan (Aug. 12, 1943 — March 12, 2010) was an English singer/songwriter who made the 1971/72 CBS albums Sing Children Sing and Earth Mother, followed by the 1974/75 GM titles Everything Changes and Moon Bathing and the 1977 MCA release Maybe It’s Lost. Background Lesley Duncan was born on August 12, 1943, in Stockton-on-Tees, England. […]
Chaz Jankel (born April 16, 1952) is an English keyboardist, songwriter, and vocalist from Stanmore, Middlesex, who recorded three albums with rustic-rockers Byzantium circa 1972/73. Between 1974 and 1979, he held slots in Jonathan Kelly’s Outside and Ian Dury’s Blockheads, musically guiding the latter act to chart success on the albums New Bootes and Panties!!! […]
Joe Cocker (May 20, 1944 — Dec. 22, 2014) was an English soul-rock singer from Sheffield who released back-to-back albums on A&M in 1969. That summer, he floored Woodstock attendees with his full-throated rendition of the Beatles‘ “With a Little Help From My Friends.” His 1970 live set Mad Dogs & Englishmen and third studio […]
Momus is the recording name of Scottish songwriter and musician Nicholas John Currie. He emerged from the Edinburgh group The Happy Family, which made a 1982 4AD album. As a solo artist, he released two shortplayers and the 1986 album Circus Maximus on Él, followed by six albums on Creation Records. His catalog combines narrative songs […]
Phil Manzanera is an English musician, songwriter, and producer who emerged as the guitarist of Roxy Music. Between 1972 and 1982, he recorded eight studio albums with the band. Pre-fame, he played in Quiet Sun, which reformed for the 1975 album Mainstream. In 1976, he brought Kiki art-rockers Split Enz to the UK and produced […]
Vashti Bunyan is an English singer–songwriter who released two mid-’60s singles and the 1970 Philips album Just Another Diamond Day. After its 2000 reissue and reappraisal, she reemerged with the 2005 disc Lookaftering. Meanwhile, vaulted early recordings surfaced on the archival double-disc Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind. Her third album, Heartleap, followed in […]
Annabel Lamb is an English singer and songwriter who emerged in the early 1980s with a literate, synth-laced art pop style. She released two albums on A&M—Once Bitten (1983) and The Flame (1984)—before issuing three more on RCA, BMG, and Metronome between 1986 and 1988. Her work blends electronic textures with live instrumentation, often framed […]
Barbara Thompson (July 27, 1944 — July 2, 2022) was an English saxophonist who emerged as a guest musician on 1969/70 albums by the Keef Hartley Band and husband Jon Hiseman’s Colosseum, followed by stints with pianist Neil Ardley, trombonist Michael Gibbs, and singer Inez Foxx. In 1975, Thompson co-founded the multinational ten-piece United Jazz+Rock […]
Clifford T. Ward (Feb. 10, 1944 — Dec. 18, 2001) was an English singer/songwriter who emerged from the Midlands beat circuit before his 1972 solo debut on Dandelion. His 1973 Charisma albums Home Thoughts and Mantle Pieces produced his main UK chart entries, led by the Top Ten single “Gaye” and the later hit “Scullery.” […]
Barry and Paul Ryan were English twin singers and songwriters whose joint career split into separate recording paths by the late 1960s. The brothers placed eight singles on the UK chart as Paul & Barry Ryan before Paul withdrew from regular performance. Paul then wrote and produced material for Barry, whose 1968 recording of “Eloise” […]
Sandy Denny — aka Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny (Jan. 6, 1947 — April 21, 1978) — was an English singer–songwriter who first recorded in 1967 for Saga Records, appearing on split-albums with folkies Alex Campbell and Johnny Silvo. In 1968, she passed through a formative lineup of the Strawbs before joining Fairport Convention, which she […]
Martin Briley is an English musician, vocalist, and songwriter who first appeared in the pop-psych band Mandrake Paddle Steamer, which issued a single on Parlophone in 1969 and recorded more than an album’s worth of material that later appeared on assorted archival discs. Mandrake marked the start of Briley’s partnership with musician Brian Engel. Across […]
David Sylvian is an English musician, singer, and composer from Beckenham, Kent, best known as the frontman of art-rockers Japan, which he formed in 1974 with brother Steve Batt (Jansen). Between 1978 and 1983, they released five studio albums and a live double-LP. Upon their disbandment, Sylvian issued two singles in collaboration with YMO mastermind […]
Paul Young is an English soul-pop singer who first recorded with Streetband, which made two albums and charted with the 1978 novelty song “Toast.” In 1980, he fronted the R&B septet Q-Tips on one self-titled Chrysalis album. As a solo artist, Young released the 1983–86 CBS albums No Parlez, The Secret of Association, and Between […]
Peter Green (Oct. 29, 1946 – July 25, 2020) was an English blues-rock guitarist from Bethnal Green who served as Eric Clapton’s successor in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, recording one album with the band in 1967 before departing with bassist John McVie to co-found Fleetwood Mac that same year. The band recorded four proper albums and […]
Kevin Ayers (Aug. 16, 1944 — Feb. 18, 2013) was an English singer–songwriter who co-founded Soft Machine. After their 1968 debut album, he went solo with the 1969 Harvest release Joy of a Toy. Between 1970 and 1988, he released twelve albums. Island Records documented his all-star concert with Brian Eno, John Cale, and Nico […]
Neil Ardley (May 26, 1937 — Feb. 23, 2004) was an English pianist and composer from Carshalton, Surrey, who emerged in the 1960s with the New Jazz Orchestra and the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet. As a bandleader, he released the 1972 album A Symphony of Amaranths on Regal Zonophone, followed by the 1976 Gull release […]
Mick Softley (Sept. 26, 1939 — Sept. 1, 2017) was an English folk guitarist–singer who first appeared with the 1965 Columbia album Songs for Swingin’ Survivors. He reemerged as a CBS singer–songwriter with the 1970–72 albums Sunrise, Street Singer, and Any Mother Doesn’t Grumble. On self-press Doll Records, he made the 1976–78 albums Capitol and […]
Brian Protheroe is an English singer, keyboardist, and songwriter associated with the mid-seventies cabaret glam scene. He released the 1974–76 Chrysalis albums Pinball, Pick-Up, I/You, and the soundtrack to the fifties rock musical Leave Him to Heaven. Early Life, Activities Protheroe was born on June 16, 1944, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, to an English mother and […]
Julie Driscoll is an English blues and jazz singer who cut two 1965 singles for Parlophone, followed by two albums in featured capacity with Brian Auger & The Trinity, which scored a 1968 UK hit with “This Wheel’s on Fire.” In 1971, she released the album 1969 on Polydor and appeared on the double-album Septober […]
Ruth Copeland (born 1946) is an English soul-rock singer who moved stateside in the late 1960s and released the 1970/71 albums Self Portrait and I Am What I Am on Invictus. After several years singing backup for Parliament, she wrapped her career with the 1976 RCA release Take Me to Baltimore. Background Ruth Copeland was […]
Juliet Lawson is an English singer–songwriter who released the 1972 album Boo on Sovereign. Background Juliet Lawson got her musical start as the singer in a rock band formed by her cousin, an occasional co-writer. After a handful of shows, they cut a demo in London. Juliet pitched the tape to Island Records, which offered […]
John Foxx is an English keyboardist, songwriter, and producer who first emerged as the frontman of Ultravox, a pioneering electro-rock band that released three 1977–78 albums on Island Records. In 1980, Foxx debuted as a solo artist with Metamatic, a collection of minimal wave and ambient-vocal cuts on his own Virgin-imprint Metal Beat. Foxx embraced […]
John Entwistle (1944–2002) was an English rock bassist and songwriter, known as “the quiet one” in The Who, his band of four decades. Renown for his deep, fluid tones, he wrote the Who staples “Boris the Spider,” “My Wife,” and “Trick of the Light.” As a solo artist, Entwistle released the 1971–73 albums Smash Your […]
Duncan Browne (March 25, 1947 — May 28, 1993) was an English singer/songwriter who released the album Give Me Take You on Immediate in 1968, followed by a self-titled album on RAK in 1973. After a one-album stint in the symphonic/art-pop trio Metro, he released the 1978/79 albums The Wild Places and Streets of Fire […]
Nigel Mazlyn Jones (born June 26, 1950) is an English singer/songwriter and guitarist from Dudley, West Midlands, who issued five albums on self-press Isle of Light between 1976 and 1991. As a producer, he oversaw the recording of the 1984 album Silent Dance by symphonic-folksters Solstice. Background Nigel Mazlyn Jones was born on June 26, […]
David Essex (born July 23, 1947) is an English vocalist, songwriter, and actor who first recorded a string of pop singles during the mid-to-late 1960s. In 1973, he commenced a working partnership with producer/composer Jeff Wayne that yielded a string of lavishly orchestrated rock albums, including the singer’s melodramatic opus Out on the Street (1976) […]
Colin Blunstone is an English singer who fronted The Zombies, which charted with the British Invasion classics “She’s Not There,” “Tell Her No,” and “Time of the Season.” As a solo artist, Colin released the 1971–74 Epic albums One Year, Ennismore, and Journey and scored hits with “She Loves the Way They Love Her,” “I […]
Catherine Howe is an English singer/songwriter who released the 1971 album What a Beautiful Place, a collection of post-psych orchestral ballads. She returned with the 1975/76 RCA albums Harry and Silent Mother Nature, concluding her initial run with the 1979 album Dragonfly Days. Background Catherine Howe (born May 17, 1950) grew up in Yorkshire in […]
Jacqui Brookes is an English vocalist who cut a 1980 single with the minimal-wave trio Shox, followed by three 1981 singles with Siam. In 1983, she formed Intro with Fingerprintz mastermind Jimme O’Neill, who co-wrote her 1984 solo album Sob Stories, a demure art-pop set on MCA. Shox Jacqui Brookes formed Shox in 1979 as […]
Danny Kirwan (1950–2018) was an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter who (at 18) joined Fleetwood Mac for their 1968 second album Mr. Wonderful and featured in the 1969–72 lineups responsible for the albums Then Play On, Kiln House, Future Games, and Bare Trees. As a solo artist, Kirwan debuted with the 1975 DJM release Second […]
Tim Blake (born Feb. 6, 1952) is an English electronic musician from London who played in Gong between 1973 and 1975 under the alias Hi. T. Moonweed, appearing on the albums Flying Teapot, Angel’s Egg, and You. In 1977, he released the album Crystal Machine on Barclay-subsidiary Egg. After a second solo album for the […]
Charlie Dore is an English songwriter and occasional singer who made the 1979 Alan Tarney-produced Island album Where to Now, followed by the 1981 Chrysalis release Listen! She scored a 1980 US country-pop hit with “Pilot of the Airwaves” and wrote “Strut,” a 1984 hit for Sheena Easton. Background Charlie Dore was born in 1956 in […]
Claire Hamill is an English singer–songwriter who debuted at seventeen with the 1971 Island release One House Left Standing, followed in 1973 by October. She signed with Ray Davies’ Konk label for the 1974–75 albums Stage Door Johnnies and Abracadabra. Between 1979 and 1981, she sang for Yes guitarist Steve Howe and hard-rockers Wishbone Ash. […]
John Howard is an English pianist, singer, and songwriter who released the 1975 album Kid in a Big World on CBS, which vaulted his two subsequent albums, Technicolour Biography and Can You Hear Me OK? He cut five single between 1978 and 1984, but didn’t return as an album artist until the 2005 discs The Dangerous […]
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) was an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist who co-founded Pink Floyd. He fronted the band on their first three singles and 1967 debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Midway through the sessions for their second album, Floyd terminated Barrett due to his drug addiction and mental illness. With the […]
Mick Karn — aka Andonis Michaelides (July 24, 1958 — Jan. 4, 2011) — was an English-Cypriot multi-instrumentalist and composer who rose to prominence as the bassist in the New Wave/art-pop band Japan, which released five studio albums between 1978 and 1981. Just as the band announced its breakup, Karn debuted as a solo artist […]
Kiki Dee is an English pop-rock singer who cut nine singles (1963–67) on Fontana, which issued her 1968 debut album I’m Kiki Dee. She became Tamla Motown’s first British white act with her 1970 second album Great Expectations. In 1973, she joined Elton John‘s Rocket Record Company and scored her first UK hit with “Amoureuse.” […]
Billy Nicholls is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who recorded the 1968 limited release Would You Believe, a chamber-pop artifact of later cult renown. In the mid-seventies, he cut a single on The Who‘s Track Records label and formed White Horse, which cut a 1977 Capitol album with the much-covered “Can’t Stop Loving You” […]
Arthur Brown (born June 24, 1942) is an English singer, performer, and bandleader from Whitby, Yorkshire, who shot to fame as the frontman of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, which issued a self-titled album on Track Record in 1968. Between 1971 and 1973, he recorded three albums with space rockers Kingdom Come. Brown debuted […]
Roy Wood is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader from Birmingham who emerged as the musical mastermind of ’60s pop-psych band The Move, which evolved into Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) during the early 1970s. After recording one album with ELO, he left the project to form Wizzard. Starting with the 1973 release Boulders, he […]
Mick Ronson (May 26, 1946 — April 29, 1993) was an English guitarist and producer who rose to prominence as a member of David Bowie‘s 1970–73 backing band The Spiders from Mars. During this time, he laid licks on select recordings by Lou Reed, Michael Chapman, and Dana Gillespie. As a solo artist, Ronson released […]
Michael de Albuquerque (born June 24, 1947) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter who cut two singles in 1969/70 on United Artists, followed by a 1971 jazz-rock album for Pegasus with saxist/vibist Frank Ricotti. From 1972 to 1974, Albuquerque played bass for the Electric Light Orchestra, appearing on three albums: ELO 2, On the […]
