 | | CCS - Collective Consciousness Society - was an unlikely collaboration between blues traditionalist Alexis Korner (b. |
 | | Pratt & McClain's biggest hit single was the theme from the long-running ABC-TV series Happy Days. San Antonio,TX, native Truett Pratt started out singing in the church choir, then joined a rock band in high school. |
 | | Hayseed Dixie is a novelty band that issued a tribute album to heavy metal legends AC/DC in 2001 (completely reworking the Australian band's classics as country/hillbilly rave-ups), titled A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC. |
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 | | Before he joined Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham was sketching out his brand of Brian Wilson-influenced pop with Stevie Nicks in the folky duo Buckingham Nicks. |
 | | This rock singer/songwriter sang three lead vocals on the movie soundtrack for Grease and sang backup with Elton John before cutting a series of albums of her own. |
 | | The pop/rock group Cutting Crew formed in England in 1985, just one year before "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" made them stars at home and across the Atlantic. |
 | | Although they only recorded one album, the California duo of David Baerwald and David Ricketts made some of the finest mainstream pop of the '80s. |
 | | The quintet from Berkeley, CA, were led by vocalist Eddie Rice and included guitarist Johnny Perri, keyboardist Cazz McCaslin, bassist George Diebold, and drummer Scott Mason. |
 | | Best remembered for a string of mid-'80s hits including the MTV staple "And We Danced," Philadelphia rockers the Hooters were led by singer/keyboardist Rob Hyman and singer/guitarist Eric Bazilian, whose longtime creative partnership also yielded hits for artists including Cyndi Lauper and Joan Osborne. |
 | | Python Lee Jackson's history is confusing on several counts. They're known principally for one big hit that featured a superstar on lead vocals, yet that singer was never even in the band. |
 | | Though originally helmed by onetime Left Banke mastermind Michael Brown, Stories ironically scored their lone hit, the 1973 chart-topper "Brother Louie," following Brown's exit from the lineup. |
 | | Brian Wilson is arguably the greatest American composer of popular music in the rock era. Born and raised in Hawthorne, California, he formed the Beach Boys in 1961 alongside his two younger brothers, cousin Mike Love, and school friend Alan Jardine. |
 | | Synthesizer player/composer Vince DiCola is best known for his composing and performing of the soundtrack of the 1986 animated film Transformers: The Movie. |
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 | | Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1949, Daryl Braithwaite became one of Australia's most successful pop singers, both as a solo act and with the band Sherbet. |
 | | Singer/guitarist/songwriter Allan Clarke is one of the founders of the Hollies; intermittently, he also has maintained a solo career. |
 | | Born in London on January 15, 1951, he started playing guitar in his teens. An uncle manager fanned his interest in the music business. |
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 | | Love and money were two things that eluded the Scottish band Love and Money. After splitting from his backseat role in Friends Again in 1984, James Grant (vocals, guitar) formed Love and Money in 1985 as an outlet for his developing songwriting skills. |
 | | Scottish pop combo Hipsway was formed in 1984 by ex-Altered Images bassist Jon McElhone; also featuring vocalist Graham Skinner, guitarist Pim Jones and drummer Harry Travers, the group signed to Mercury and in mid-1985 issued their debut single "Broken Years. |
 | | Mike McGear is actually Paul McCartney's brother; he changed his name in the mid-'60s shortly after the Beatles become famous, not wishing to be perceived as riding Paul's coattails. |
 | | A soft rock act which placed one single in the US Top 20 in 1971, ‘Rings’, Cymarron comprised Rick Yancey (b. |
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 | | Bassist, guitarist and clarinet player and vocalist Gary Dalton joined with percussionist/vocalist Kent DuBarri to form the soulful, blues-influenced group, Dalton and DuBarri in the mid-1970s. |
 | | In the swing era, there existed what were called "territory bands," swing outfits that performed successfully in a specific region but never ventured much beyond it to achieve national recognition. |
 | | Under the name Diesel, American born guitarist/singer Mark Lizotte became one of the biggest selling and most awarded Australian recording artists of the late '80s/early '90s. |
 | | During the time between the breakup of British pop-wave band, Squeeze in late-1982 and its reformation in 1985, the group's founding songwriters, guitarists and vocalists Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford continued to work together. |
 | | The late Thomas Jefferson Kaye was a musician, songwriter, and producer responsible for a number of classic pop records, including ? and the Mysterians' "96 Tears," the Shirelles' "Soldier Boy," and Loudon Wainwright III's "Dead Skunk," to name just a few. |
 | | Formed in New York City, USA around 1972, King Harvest was best known for its one US hit single, ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’, in 1973. |
 | | It's never easy to be the sibling of a star when you're active in the same profession -- ask Joey Travolta or Frank Stallone, and try to find out what happened to John Murray, one of Bill's brothers. |
 | | British singer/songwriter Russ Ballard, born in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, was the lead singer of Argent, for whom he wrote the hit "God Gave Rock and Roll to You. |
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 | | Mike Love has been the lead singer of the Beach Boys since the group's formation in 1961. In that time, he is the only member of the group to stay with it consistently, on every recording, at every live performance. |
 | | A duo comprising Lenny LeBlanc (b. 17 June 1951, Leominster, Massachusetts, USA) and Pete Carr (b. 22 April 1950, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA), this act enjoyed one chart album and a handful of singles in the late 70s, including the US Top 20 single ‘Falling’. |
 | | Blackfoot Sue was a British pop/rock group of the 1970s whose members were Tom Farmer(b.1952 03 02, Birmingham, England) (bass, keyboards, vocals), his twin brother Dave Farmer(b. |
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 | | Blue Angel was a New York-based pop/rock quintet consisting of Cyndi Lauper(b.1953 06 20, Queens, NY) (vocals), Arthur Neilson(guitar), Lee Brovitz(bass), John Turi(keyboards, saxopbone), and Johnny Morelli(drums). |
 | | Fatal Flowers is a must hear for music fans who are even slightly interested in Nederbeat (or Dutch rock music from the late '60s). |
 | | Led by guitarist/vocalist Doug Bennett, the Vancouver-based Doug & the Slugs have been at the forefront of Canadian rock for more than a quarter of a century. |
 | | Dream Command was a short-lived, ill-fated alias for Sheffield, England's Comsat Angels. Early on in the Comsats' career, they began receiving legal threats from the Communications Satellite Corporation thanks to their moniker, which was actually taken from a short story by J. |
 | | Multi-instrumentalist Andy Bown has displayed tremendous versatility as a sessionman as well as strength and loyalty as a bandmember in several much-loved British combos. |
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 | | Comparable to Pat Benatar, Tané Cain is an expressive pop-rock vocalist who should have hit big in the 1980s but never enjoyed the commercial success she deserved. |
 | | The Ontario-based band Tokyo toured the province for several years before changing their name to Glass Tiger and signing with Capitol. |
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 | | Bassist Ralph James formed Harlequin in 1975, adding vocalist George Belanger, guitarist John Hannah, keyboard player John White and drummer Denton Young. |
 | | English singer/songwriter Robbie Patton received his break when he toured as a special guest of Fleetwood Mac in 1979 when that act was one of the hottest acts in the music world. |
