Berry wore many different hats. Before he made it big on the music scene, he worked at his father’s construction company, at an auto plant and as a freelance photographer. He also followed in his...
By the time he hit high school, Buddy Holly was playing guitar; by 1953, when he was only 17, he was playing regularly on radio in the country-and-western duo Buddy and Bob (Bob was Bob Montgomery, a friend...
In 1973, during a show in Hollywood, the brothers were in the middle of their set when the venue’s manager came on stage to alert the crowd that the show had been cancelled due to Don Everly being...
Herman's Hermits were outselling the Beatles in the States. The Manchester act sold more than 80 million records. They were a squeaky-clean, music hall act safe for the whole family. They starred in a...
In 2009, the Hollies returned with a new album, Then, Now, and Always, and the following year, they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The group continued to tour in the U.K. and Europe,...
The band started as the M&B Five, named after a brewery in Birmingham, England called Mitchell and Butler, which sponsored the band. When the group outgrew pub dates, they changed the name to The Moody...
In 1979, Supertramp became one of the most successful bands in America, thanks to an album (Breakfast in America) that explored the country from the perspective of an Englishman.The band was originally...
Knopfler wrote Money For Nothing – which mocks the rock star lifestyle – after hearing a “hard-hat type” complaining in a department store while MTV played in the background on...
Robert Smith from “The Cure” Met His Wife When He Was 14Smith met his wife, Mary Poole, when he was 14. They took a drama class together at school. They married in 1988. That's her as the ghostly...
Yes, it’s true. On May 31, 1976, the concert show in London by the band “The Who” was so loud that a Guinness World record was created. Later it was beaten several times by several others....
U2 was only the fourth music group to appear on the front cover of Time magazine, after the Beatles, the Band and the Who.Bono is taken from the Latin 'bono vox' which translates as good voice, it was...
The band Cranberries and their lead singer Dolores, a Roman Catholic, had the opportunity to perform at the Vatican three times, in front of Pope Benedict XVI. She performed at the annual Christmas concerts...
She has been nominated 12 times for Grammys, winning 4 times, including a win for the music video for “Physical” which won Video of the Year in 1983.She is co-owner of a health spa/retreat...
Her first television appearance came on The TonightShow.She sang a cover of Harold Arlen's "A Sleepin' Bee."Since then, she has gone on to record 50 studio albums.She's taken home ten Grammy Awards including...
Worked as a commercial jingle writer, and wrote or co-wrote ditties for State Farm Insurance (“Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there”) and Band-Aid (“I am stuck on Band-Aid’s...
Her parents were staunch movie-lovers. Her full name was Better Davis Midler and she had been named after the famous Hollywood actress Bette Davis.Bette hailed from an extremely poor family that lived...
She was on television before she started singing. When Cher was a child, her mother booked parts for her and her sister to appear as extras on shows like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.