and 1960s pop (she had a daughter with The Kinks’ Ray Davies and had hits with two of his songs, ‘Stop Your Sobbing’ and ‘I Go To Sleep’), The Pretenders produced an exhilarating, melodic hybrid with broad appeal. ‘Brass In Pocket’ was a 1979 UK No. 1, and a hit in 1980 in her native US, which ...
Elvis Aaron Presley was born in his family’s shot-gun shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, on 8 January 1935. His twin brother died at birth, and his mother doted on her sole son. He showed musical aptitude early, and loved to sing at the local First Assembly of God church. His mother, Gladys and father, Vernon, ...
in the mix were Thin Lizzy, Neil Young, Nils Lofgren, Tom Petty, George Harrison and new wavers John McGeoch (Magazine, Siouxsie & The Banshees) and Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott. Marr had been in various teenage bands before teaming up with singer and lyricist Steven Morrissey in 1982. They met when Marr called at Morrissey’s house on ...
with Elvis and Americana in general, resurfaced on Jordan: The Comeback (1990) and The Gunman And Other Stories (2001). Styles & Forms | Eighties | Rock Personalities | The Pretenders | Eighties | Rock ...
, her friendship with The Sex Pistols helped her form a UK band that perfectly blended the leather-chic end of punk with her love of classic 1960s pop romance. The Pretenders were the ultimate transatlantic new wave band, seducing with Hynde’s soulful, French-influenced vocals and songs that carried echoes of US radio rock as much as The Kinks (Hynde ...
rockers The 101’ers. Ex-Brinsley Schwarz songwriter Nick Lowe became the in-house producer with the Stiff record label, one of the foremost punk labels working with The Damned, The Pretenders and Elvis Costello, before going on to enjoy a successful solo career. Singer-songwriters Elvis Costello and the late Ian Dury straddle the divide between pub rock and punk rock ...
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 ...
the band went on to play a complete show, on much better form. The audience, which included members of The Sex Pistols, The Rich Kids and The Pretenders, not only witnessed the band firing on all four cylinders but were also, unknowingly, watching the last show at which the original members would ever perform together. ...
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