b. 21 November 1948, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Mouzon started playing when he was four years old and was taught drums at high school. He relocated to New York when he was 17 and in 1969 played in the Broadway musical Promises, Promises. He rel…

Although Red Plastic Bag born Stedson Wiltshire began performing in 1979 it wasnt until the mid-80s when he dedicated his life to singing professionally By combining the sounds of reggae and soca Red Plastic Bag became one of the most popular perform…

As Suicide, New York City's Alan Vega and Martin Rev created a type of music unlike anything else going on around them in the punk era. Combining Vega's punk/futurist Presleyisms with the electronic squeaks and squawks of Rev's keyboards and rhythm m…

Formed by Markus Boehme born July 1972 and Martin Hensing born January 1973 the German electronica ensemble Future Breeze became involved in the local dance music field after sending a demo to Klaus Derichs and Marc Romboy at the independent label Al…

Inspired by the aggressive new metal sounds of the likes of Pantera, Skid Row and Metallica, the Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford (b. 25 August 1951, Walsall, England) formed Fight as a solo project to explore material that he felt was inappropriate…

Formed in Leicester, England, in the late 1990s, dance-rock quartet Kasabian hit big with their self-titled debut in 2004. Bearing the marked influence of "baggy" superstars the Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays, Kasabian set themselves apart from ma…

b. 28 November 1967, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. In the autumn of 1987, the first record releases by a singer called Sanchez D arrived in the reggae shops. His voice was distinctive but untutored, and its roughness matched the equally gritty danc…

Alice Cooper, AKA Vincent Furnier, became famous with a mixture of hard rock and sideshow horror. With his outrageous image and stage show, entertainer extraordinaire Cooper (who eventually adopted the band's name as his own) almost single-handedly i…

b. Stuart Leslie Goddard, 3 November 1954, London, England. After an initially chequered, then immensely successful career leading Adam And The Ants, Goddard went solo in early 1982. For support, he retained old musical partner Marco Pirroni and rela…