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Connie Francis
Connie Francis is the prototype for the female pop singer of today. At the height of her chart popularity in the late ’50s and early ’60s, Francis was unique as a female recording artist, amassing record sales equal to or surpassing those of many of her male contemporaries. Ultimately, she branched into other styles of music — big band, country, ethnic, and more. She still challenges Madonna as the biggest-selling female recording artist of all time…
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Brian Brain
Brian Brain was the pseudonym and side-project of Martin Atkins (born in Coventry, England on August 3, 1959), a drummer and session musician best known for his work in post-punk and industrial groups including Public Image Ltd., Killing Joke, Ministry, Pigface and The Damage Manual. His first exposure as a drummer was with John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols band, Public Image Ltd.. Atkins joined in 1979, just in time to contribute to the song “Bad Baby,” on the album Metal Box…
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Lightning Seeds
With their sunny hooks and loosely psychedelic take on melodic indie pop, the Lightning Seeds emerged at the tail end of the 1980s as the solo venture of Liverpool producer and musician Ian Broudie. The former Big in Japan member and producer of Echo & the Bunnymen and the Fall landed a hit right out of the gate with 1989’s “Pure” and spent much of the following decade building on his band’s success with memorable cuts like 1992’s “The Life of Riley”…
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Procol Harum
British rock group Procol Harum began life as a psychedelic band and evolved into one of the leading acts in art rock and prog rock, all without changing much about their essential approach. Lead singer and pianist Gary Brooker gave the group their trademark sound with his downbeat vocals and lush melodies, while primary lyricist Keith Reid added words that often pondered the unpredictability of fate in songs like “A Whiter Shade of Pale”…
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Dory Previn
Dory Previn was a successful lyricist for motion picture theme songs during the 1960s and early ’70s, earning three Academy Award nominations for best song; in the mid-’70s and early ’80s, she published books of memoirs and wrote and performed in musical theater works. But she remains best known for the six albums of original songs and one live album she released in a confessional singer/songwriter style between 1970 and 1976…
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Triptides
Influenced by the sunny jangle of the Byrds, the warm psychedelia of Pink Floyd, and the bouncy melodies of the Beatles, Triptides never sound in thrall to their heroes. Instead, their music sounds like a modern, kaleidoscopic continuation of the magical sounds of the late ’60s, spiced with a little bit of the Paisley Underground and dipped in modern, reverb-heavy production techniques…
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Badly Drawn Boy
As Badly Drawn Boy, Damon Gough puts a fresh spin on the traditions of Nick Drake, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, and other classic singer/songwriters. When he emerged in the late ’90s, his intricate, lilting melodies, quirky but heartfelt lyrics, and offbeat production touches fit in with the experimental pop fringe of artists like Scott 4 and the Beta Band, but Gough soon defined himself as a remarkable talent with 2000’s The Hour of Bewilderbeast, his Mercury Prize-winning debut album.
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Kirsty MacColl
Born October 10, 1959, to British folk singer Ewan MacColl and dancer Jean Newlove, Kirsty Anna MacColl grew up in Croydon with her mother. Whereas her father was a noted folk purist, Kirsty was voracious in her musical tastes, embracing pop, rock, punk, country, and everything in between. Her entry into the local music scene came as the vocalist (under the pseudonym Mandy Doubt) for punk outfit the Drug Addix. The band went nowhere, but Stiff Records heard potential in their 18-year-old singer and signed MacColl to a solo deal…
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Kathe Green
Kathe Jennifer Green (born September 22, 1944) is an American actress, model and singer. She is the daughter of composer and conductor Johnny Green and Bunny Waters. She has a younger sister, Kim Meglio. Born in Los Angeles she traveled for several years in the mid-to-late 1960s with the nonprofit encouragement singing group Up With People, a small singing group that included Glenn Close…
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Doll by Doll
The London-based Doll by Doll was the showcase of singer/songwriter Jackie Leven, a Scottish-born performer who had previously gigged under the name John St. Field. With the dawn of the new wave, however, in 1977 Leven formed Doll by Doll, recruiting guitarist Jo Shaw, bassist Robin Spreafico and drummer David McIntosh and debuting two years later with the LP Remember, a collection informed as much by R&B and Celtic influence as by post-punk attitude…
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