NIRVANA

Few bands in rock history have had a more immediate and tangible impact on their contemporary pop musical landscape than Nirvana did in the early Nineties. When the Seattle trio hit the scene in 1991, mainstream radio was awash in the hair metal of Poison and Def Leppard. But seemingly within hours of the release of Nirvana's anarchic, angry single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" — and its twisted anti-pep-rally video—the rules had changed. Artifice was devalued; pure, raw emotion was king.

Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's leader, was Seattle's resident genius — and a tortured one at that. Nirvana's reign was tragically cut short on April 5, 1994, when Cobain took his own life following at least one earlier suicide attempt and severe bouts with drug addiction, a chronic stomach ailment, and depression. He was 27.

Cobain and Krist Novoselic grew up in Aberdeen, Washington, a small logging town 100 miles southwest of Seattle. When Cobain was eight, his secretary mother and auto-mechanic father divorced, leaving him constantly moving from one set of relatives to another. As a child he loved the Beatles, but by nine discovered the heavier music of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Kiss. Cobain met the 6-foot-7-inch Novoselic, son of a local hairdresser, through mutual friend Buzz Osborne of the Aberdeen band the Melvins. Osborne introduced them to the hardcore punk of Black Flag and Flipper.

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THE CRANBERRIES

Emanating from Limerick City, Eire, the Cranberries enjoyed major US success during the mid-90s. Their sound was distinguished by the honeyed voice of frontperson Dolores O’Riordan (Dolores Mary Eileen O’Riordan, 6 September 1971, Ballybricken, Limerick, Eire). From a conservative, rural Catholic background, she had sung since the age of four in schools and churches. The band was originally launched by guitarist and co-songwriter Noel Hogan (b. 25 December 1971, Eire), his brother Mike Hogan (b. 29 April 1973, Eire; bass), and Feargal Lawler (b. 4 March 1971, Parteen, Eire; drums). The trio had been involved as a band for some time but it had never amounted to much until they joined forces with O’Riordan in 1991. The band’s original vocalist had given them their previous name - The Cranberry Saw Us. Their debut EP Uncertain was released in late 1991 on the Xeric label, whose owner, Pearse Gilmore, became their manager. With its circulation the buzz surrounding the band transferred to the UK, where Island Records underwent tough negotiations (not least due to Gilmore’s self-interested protectionism) to tie up a six-album contract. However, Uncertain disappointed many journalists who had been given a preview of the far superior songs on the demo (which included ‘Put Me Down’, ‘Dreams’ and ‘Linger’). Sessions for their debut album also produced rancour, with Gilmore attempting to act as producer, leading to the end of that relationship.

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METALLICA

James Hetfield (vocals, guitar; born August 3, 1963), Kirk Hammett (guitar; born November 18, 1962), Jason Newsted (bass; born March 4, 1963), Lars Ulrich (drums; born December 26, 1963), Cliff Burton (bass; born February 10, 1962, died September 27, 1986), Robert Trujillo
(bass; born October 23, 1964)
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal in the Seventies, and Metallica redefined it in the Eighties. Since erupting on the scene with their debut album, Kill ‘Em All, in 1983, Metallica has been a cutting-edge band – the standard by which metal’s vitality and virtuosity are measured. No band has loomed larger, rocked heavier, raged more angrily or pushed the limits further than Metallica.
The group formed in 1981 around the core of James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, who both lived in Los Angeles They met when Hetfield answered an ad placed looking for someone to jam with. The pair bonded over their mutual love of metal – especially the “New Wave of British Heavy Metal.” Ulrich, a Danish immigrant, turned Hetfield on to this faster, punkier wave of British heavy metal. The sensibility of that movement – feisty, aggressive, anti-fashion and, most of all, independent in spirit – rubbed off as they assembled an American band that would break free of commercial glam-metal cliches. The name Metallica unambiguously expressed their metal salvage mission, and they became identified with the subgenre known as thrash-metal.
In addition to singer/guitarist Hetfield and drummer Ulrich, Metallica’s first lineup included guitarist Dave Mustaine (who’d found Megadeth after leaving) and bassist Ron McGovney. Their first release was a seven-song tape, No Life ’Til Leather, that spread their name through heavy-metal’s rabid tape-trading underground. After slogging it out on the L.A. scene for two years, Metallica relocated to San Francisco. With a revamped lineup that included bassist Cliff Burton and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, they flew to New York to cut their first full-length album. Kill ‘Em All, released in 1983 on the Megaforce label, revitalized the stale domestic metal scene. It was one of heavy-metal’s most significant debuts, helping to establish the thrash-metal sound in America. It also revealed the group’s obsession with themes of death, destruction and the darker realms of the human psyche.

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ELVIS PRESLEY

Elvis Aaron Presley, 8 Ocak 1935’de Tupelo, Missisippi’de doğdu. Çocukluğu boyunca Pentecostal kilise korosunda şarkı söyledi. 1948 yılında ailesi Memphis’e yerleşti. Blues ve caz müzikle tanışması ve bu müzik türlerine ilgi duyması onu şarkı söylemeye itti. 1953 yılında Lise’den mezun olduğunda daha 18 yaşındayken müzik firmalarının kapısını aşındırmaya başlamıştı. ‘My Happiness’ ve ‘That’s When Your Heartaches Begin’ parçalarını annesine doğum günü armağanı olarak yazmıştı. Memphis Recording ve Sun Recording’e giderek sesini dinlemelerini istedi. Plak yapımcısı ve müzik şirketi sahibi Sam Phillips Elvis’in ses tonundan ve müzik tarzından çok etkilendi.
1954 yılında Gitarda Scotty Moore, bas gitarda Bill Black ile birlikte üçlü ilk stüdyo kayıtlarını yaptılar. "That's All Right" ve "Blue Moon of Kentucky" country, blues tarzında hareketli rock’n roll parçalarıydı. Sun Records’la yaptığı kontrat RCA Record firmasına satılınca yavaş yavaş kariyer basamaklarını tırmanmaya başlamıştı. Bu sıralarda çıkardıkları 5 single gençlerin ilgisini çekerek müzik listelerinde ilk On’a girmeye başlamıştı. Bu 5 single içinde en ilgi çeken parça ise "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" ti ve Country listelerine 1 numaradan girmişti.

Televizyon ekranları
"Heartbreak Hotel" parçası ise Elvis Presley’in tekrar müzik listelerine girip 8 hafta boyunca listelerde kalmasıyla son buldu. Ed Sullivan’ın televizyon programına çıkan Elvis Presley, hareketleri ve konuşmasıyla ilgi çekti. Bu ilginin farkına varan ve onların direk kalplerinde son bulan parçalarla karşılık veren Elvis bu dönemde "Don't Be Cruel," "Hound Dog," "Love Me Tender," "All Shook Up" ve "Jailhouse Rock." parçalarını yaptı.
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You parçasıyla 11 hafta boyunca listerde kalan Elvis hızla yükseliyordu. 1956 Kasım’ında Love Me Tender filmyle kamera karşısına geçti, böylece ileride 31 filmde yer alacağı Hollywood stüdyolarıyla tanışmıştı. Bu filmden iki ay once Ed Sullivan’ın televizyon programında ‘Love Me Tender’ı televizyon ekranlarında onu izleyen 54 milyon izleyici önünde söyleyerek ününe ün katmıştı, artık Amerika onu konuşmaya, onu dinlemeye başlayacaktı.

Elvis Presley öldü
1973 yılında eşinden boşanan Elvis Presley, 1977 yılında Indianapolis’deki son konserinden sonra 16 Ağustos 1977 tarihinde öldü.Ölümünden sonra açıklama yapan Doktor Jerry Francisco ölümüne kalp yetmezliğinin neden olduğunu söyledi. Tüm dünyada büyük üzüntü yaşayan hayranları Elvis Presley’i Rock’n Roll müziğin öncüsü, kralı ve babası olarak ilan ettiler.

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QUEEN

The epitome of pomp-rock in the Seventies and Eighties, Queen rocked radio and sports stadiums alike with booming, highly produced anthems like "We Are the Champions" and "We Will Rock You." Onstage, the English quartet used elaborate sets smoke bombs, and flashpots — none of which were quite as captivating as the band's lead singer, Freddie Mercury, whose preening and over-the-top vocals helped make Queen wildly popular.

Queen's roots go back to 1967, when guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor joined singer Tim Staffell in a group called Smile. Staffell soon left to go solo, and the remaining two Smiles teamed up with Freddie Mercury (from a group called Wreckage) and later bassist John Deacon. They played very few gigs at the start, avoiding the club circuit and rehearsing for two years while they all remained in college. (May began work on a Ph.D. in astronomy; Taylor has a degree in biology; Deacon, a degree in electronics; and Mercury had one in illustration and design.) They began touring in 1973, when their debut album was released. After a second LP, the band made its U.S. tour debut, opening for Mott the Hoople.

Queen's sound combined showy glam rock, heavy metal, and intricate vocal harmonies produced by multi-tracking Mercury's voice. May's guitar was also thickly overdubbed. A Night at the Opera included "God Save the Queen" rendered as a chorale of lead guitar lines. (Until 1980's The Game, the quartet's albums boasted that "no synths" were used.) Queen's third LP, 1974's Sheer Heart Attack, featured "Killer Queen," its first U.S. Top Twenty hit. The LP also became its first U.S. gold.

Heavy-metal fans loved Queen (despite Freddie Mercury's onstage pseudo-dramatics, which had more to do with admitted influence Liza Minnelli than with Robert Plant), and the band's audience grew with its breakthrough LP, 1975's A Night at the Opera. It contained the six-minute masterpiece "Bohemian Rhapsody," which featured a campy, operatic section in which Mercury's voice was spread over dozens of tracks. "Bohemian Rhapsody" stayed at Number One in England for nine weeks, breaking the record Paul Anka had held since 1957 for his "Diana."

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BRITNEY SPEARS

Singer, songwriter and actress Britney Spears was born on December 2, 1981, in Kentwood, Louisiana. She began performing on the TV show The All New Mickey Mouse Club when she was 11 years old. Not long after, Spears began gaining fame as a pop artist. In January 1999, her song "Baby One More Time" reached the top of the pop charts. Spears has since been one of the most successful—and sometimes controversial—solo acts in pop music. Additionally, in 2012, she began appearing as a judge on the popular singing-competition show The X Factor.

Singer, songwriter and actress Britney Jean Spears was born on December 2, 1981, in Kentwood, Louisiana. For more than a decade, Britney Spears has been one of the most successful—and sometimes controversial—solo acts in popular music. For a time, however, she was better known for her personal struggles. Spears launched her latest comeback in 2008, releasing a new album and setting out on a world tour.

The middle of the three children, Spears developed an interest in performing at a young age. "Ever since I was 7 or 8 years old, my mom would have company over, and I was always performing for everybody in front of the TV. . .Even when I went to school, I was always the weird child; I would go outside and instead of playing, I wanted to have 'Star Search' competitions," Spears told Hollywood Reporter.

When she was 8 years old, she auditioned for a spot on the Disney Channel'sThe New Mickey Mouse Club. Spears did not get the part, but she did eventually achieve one childhood dream: showcasing her vocal talents on the popular entertainment competition Star Search in 1992.

Spears tried again for The New Mickey Mouse Club when she was 11. This time, she was picked for the cast, which also featured other up-and-coming talents such as Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, and actress Keri Russell. Spears appeared on the children's variety show for two seasons. "We had an amazing amazing time; we got to sing and dance and do everything," she later explained to Hollywood Reporter.

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ALEXANDRA STAN

Alexandra Stan is a Romanian solo singer. Alexandra Stan was born on June 10, 1989 in Constanţa. She studied at the Lyceum in the city of Trajan and is now second year student at the Faculty of Management Andrei Saguna. She participated in various music-related contests with a notable appearance at the Mamaia Festival section interpretation.In 2009 she released her single Lollipop also known as Lollipop (Param Pam Pam). Then in 2010 she released "Mr. Saxobeat", which reached most played on Romanian radio for week commencing 8 November. The song reached the top spot of the Romanian Top 100 on December 12, 2010, being Stan's first number one single. Elsewhere, it peaked at number 27 in its second week on the Hungarian Dance Chart. In France, Mr Saxobeat peaked at number 6 in the official single charts. Also in the Netherlands Mr Saxobeat entered the top 40 at Friday 8th of april on number 39 and also has the titel Dancesmash of the week.

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LINKIN PARK

Linkin Park is a music band well known for its natural mixing of different music styles that is far different from the music nowadays bands would like to offer. This phenomenon makes this band a "hybrid" in the type of music they play and their fan-base too. Linkin Park began its early origin in 1996 when rapper guitarist, Brad Delson and the MC/vocalist, Mike Shinoda started a band called Xero. Both of them had attended high school together, where they met the band's drummer, Rob Bourdon. Later on Shinoda hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena, where as Delson, who was attending UCLA, shared an apartment with bassist Phoenix, who left the band after college and returned a year later. To be the last member of the group was Mark Wakefield, the band's vocalist. 

At the beginning of the group career, Xero released a four track demo tape, which includes Fuse, Stick N' Move, Rhinestone, and Reading My Eyes. Soon after Mark Wakefield left the band, the other members agreed to change their name to Hybrid Theory, after which Phoenix also decided to leave the band to tour with another band called the Snax. As the two persons left, the rest of the band continued to play together primarily for fun. Later they signed with Zomba Music, an occasion that fortunately came about when they played at The Whiskey Club in Los Angeles. And the time came for the vocalist Chester Benninton, who had made records since his 16 year age and whose pitch notes was "great," to complete the empty seat on the band. Replacing Mark Wakefield, the combination of Bennington's singing talent with Shinoda MC-ing talent has helped to define Linkin Park's distinct vocal quality that weaving influences as diverse as Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, Aphex Twin, and The Roots into a unified whole. That's the way Linkin Park "want everything to come together without feeling forced," explains Shinoda. 

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CALVIN HARRIS

Born on January 17, 1984, Calvin Harris was known in Dumfried, Scotland as Adam Richard Wiles. Harris cited that had he had curly hair, he would have been a football player, but fate played different scenario. Harris was first introduced to electronic music in his teens, recording his own demos in his very own bedroom. So occupied was he with his new hobby that he became an anti-social person. However, his hard work paid off when his songs were released by a label in early 2002. "Da Bongos" and "Brighter Days" became his first professional releases. 

Harris was discovered on MySpace by Tommy Sunshine who owned Xylophone Jones Recordings. But his big break came in 2006 when he was signed as Sony BMG's artist. His debut album was released in June 2007 under the title "I Created Disco". The effort gathered fans for Harris with the uptempo electronic tracks like "Vegas" and "The Girls". The album reached number eight on the U.K. Albums chart with sales of more than 100,000 copies. Harris then took some time to work on Kylie Minogue's "X" album, producing two of the tracks. 

It did not take long for Harris to begin mulling for the sophomore effort. In 2008, he was halfway through completing songs for his new album when he said lost his laptop at London Heathrow Terminal. Harris said he had the only existing copy of his album on the laptop, but later confirmed that he actually did not lose the electronic device. He lied so that he could buy more time to finish the album. "Ready for the Weekend" was completed for release in August 2009. The lead single "I'm Not Alone" went straight to number one on U.K. Singles chart. 

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ONE REPUBLIC

One Republic were formed by Ryan Tedder and Zach Filkins in 2002. They met in their senior year in high school in Colorado Springs. Before making music under the moniker OneRepublic, they formed a band called This Beautiful Mess and played one talent show but broke up after a week. They vowed to spend their time and energy sharpening their skills as musicians and songwriters before making another leap into band life again. 

"Most bands they play for years and they suck," Ryan said. "They figure out writing on the back end if they figure it out at all. I always wanted to know that as long as I was alive, I could write the kind of songs that would be hits so I would have a career." 

Between his junior and senior years at college, Ryan won an MTV songwriting contest and got a record deal but walked away from the opportunity. He wanted something deeper and felt he had more to learn. So at age 19, he moved to Nashville and learned what it takes to be a good songwriter. 

"I had the advantage of seeing all these artists coming through and seeing the ones that worked and the ones that didn't," he stated. "I learned that people who write great songs are the ones that have careers." At about that time, Timbaland, who'd seen Ryan on MTV offered him a production deal and a chance to work together in Miami. 

Zach, meanwhile, had studied aerospace engineering at college in Illinois post leaving his band project with Ryan. However, the musician who learned how to play guitar since age 7, felt his passion for guitar blossoming. By 2003, he and Ryan moved back to Colorado. Having done all they could to minimize the risk of starting a band, the two headed up to L.A. and started making music together again. 

Nine months later they were signed to Columbia Records. After a few line-up changes, they finally solidified with Ryan on vocal, Zach on guitar and backing vocal, Eddie Fisher on drums, Brent Kutzle on bass and cello, and Drew Brown on guitar. Known initially as Republic, they then changed it to OneRepublic. 

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ED SHEERAN

Ed Sheeran was born in February 1991 in Halifax, England. He began playing guitar at a young age and soon after started writing his own songs. When he was just a teenager, he moved to London to pursue his music, and his outpouring of creativity added up to several early EPs and hundreds of live shows. Getting a lot of attention with his online performances, Sheeran hit No. 1 on the iTunes chart before he ever signed with a record label. Since signing with Atlantic, Sheeran has sold millions of records and has had a song appear in the second installment of The Hobbit trilogy.

Ed Sheeran was born on February 17, 1991, in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom. When he was young, he began playing guitar, showing early promise as a musical talent. When he was 11, Sheeran met singer-songwriter Damien Rice backstage at one of Rice’s shows, and the young musician found added inspiration. As the story goes, Rice told Sheeran to write his own music, and Sheeran set out the next day to do just that.
It wasn’t long before Sheeran was recording CDs and selling them, and he soon put together his first official EP, The Orange Room. With that accomplishment and his abiding ambition driving him, at only 14 years of age, Sheeran headed to London for the summer. Thinking he could find gigs on the big city, Sheeran left home with his guitar and a backpack full of clothes, and his musical career took flight.
Once in London, Sheeran got busy recording and playing the local singer-songwriter circuit and quickly released two albums: a self-titled record in 2006 and Want Some? in 2007. He also began opening for more established acts, such as Nizlopi, the Noisettes and Jay Sean, and released another EP, You Need Me, in 2009, a year that found Sheeran playing more than 300 live shows.
It wasn’t until 2010 that Sheeran made the leap to the next level in his career, and it came via online media, a route Sheeran had learned to use with great effectiveness. When a video he posted online got the attention of Example, a rapper, Sheeran was asked to go on the road with him as his opening act. This led to an even larger online fan base and inspiration for many more songs, which ended up filling three new EPs, all in 2010.
When Sheeran headed to the U.S. that year, he found a new fan in Jamie Foxx, who asked Sheeran to appear on his Sirius radio show. Soon after, in January 2011, Sheeran released yet another EP, his last as an independent artist. Without any promotion, the record reached No. 2 on the iTunes chart, and he signed on with Atlantic Records that same month.
With Atlantic, Sheeran released his major debut studio album, +. An instant hit, the album sold more than a million copies in the U.K. in the first six months alone. Sheeran began co-writing songs with bigger artists, such as One Direction and Taylor Swift, and supported Swift on her 2013 arena tour.
On a roll, Sheeran’s next success would come when his song "I See Fire" was featured in movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and in June 2014, his next album, x, appeared, debuting at No. 1 in the U.S. and U.K.
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PINK

Music was a huge part of her childhood; her father taught her the guitar and was a major influence on her style.

After being spotted performing at a Philadelphia club, she was signed by MCA Records to complete the line-up of vocal group Basic Instinct. After a short spell with the trio, Moore moved on to another R&B outfit; Choice, who were signed by LaFace Records. Her writing contributions came to the attention of L.A. Reid, who signed her as a solo artist, and put her in the studio with the label’s leading writer/producers, including Darryl Simmons and co-founder Babyface.

Her debut album, ‘Can't Take Me Home’, was released in April 2000 and hit the US charts with songs ‘There You Go’ and ‘Most Girls’. Pink moved away from her urban roots on the more successful ‘M!ssundaztood’, a harder-edged album featuring several tracks written and produced by her long-time idol, ex-4 Non Blondes leader Linda Perry. The album repeated the commercial success of her debut and featured the US top five singles, ‘Get The Party Started’ and ‘Just Like A Pill’.

Her album ‘Try This’ in 2003 also spawned huge hit singles. Pink’s songs are written to compliment and display her vocal range and her love of the pop side of R&B. In April 2006, she released her fourth studio album, ‘I’m Not Dead’ and it went on to reach the top ten of the US charts and the top five in the UK.

The prolific singer-songwriter released another chart-topping album in October 2008. ‘Funhouse’ reached number one in the UK and debuted at number two in the US. It also netted the star three Grammy nominations and five Video Music Award nominations.

However, she is probably best known for her ‘tough girl’ image, (her dog is named f**ker) and her distinctive style. She is rarely seen without brightly coloured hair and, at only nineteen, she already had thirteen tattoos.

She married motocross racer Carey Hart in 2006 after proposing to the sports star during a motocross race where she held up a sign asking if he would be her husband. The couple briefly split in 2008 but made a public announcement in 2009 that they were back together again.

The 31-year-old confirmed during the ‘Ellen Degeneres Show’ that she is expecting a baby with Hart. She posted pictures of her pregnant belly on Twitter, stating that she had done so “because paparazzi of today have absolutely no photographic skill or artistry whatsoever, and their pictures are hideous”. The award-winning singer said that a three week photography class had made her “a far better photographer than 

any one of them”.

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THE BEATLES

In just a couple of years from producing their first demo record in 1963 they became the most famous musical men on the planet.
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are still to this day part of a music legend that has transcended time and decades of changing fashions.
Forty years on from their first appearances at the now famous Cavern Club in Liverpool their collective music continues to play around the world. Where other trends of music from artistes from the 70’s and 80’s have now dropped off the radar, Beatles songs still remain classics.
The original line up included popular drummer Pete Best who was later replaced by Ringo after the rest of band decided Best wasn’t good enough. Years later Lennon admitted that getting manager Brian Epstein to sack him was ‘cowardly’
A young Stuart Sutcliffe, who also made up the original band, died tragically at the age of twenty-two from still unknown medical problems. His death, which had a profound effect on the boys, occurred the day before the group flew to Hamburg for a now famous two-month stint at The Star Club. During their first gig they shared sets with Little Richard and Gene Vincent.
When Svengali Brian Epstein first glimpsed The Beatles playing at the Cavern in 1961 he wasn’t overly impressed. The four members were dressed in black leather jeans and leather jackets and looked completely out of control.
“They were not very tidy and not very clean” he recalled. “They were the sort of lads I had always avoided at school, the trouble makers who didn’t give a damn about anyone”
But despite the crude manners of the group, eating, smoking while playing and pretending to hit each other, Epstein knew they had what we now commonly describe as the X Factor. They only played five songs, but what clinched it for Epstein was when John announced a song that both he and Paul had written. The track ‘Hello Little Girl’ was enough to convince Epstein that the boys could write as well as play songs.
When Epstein signed the group, he immediately raised their wages for playing at the Cavern. He was an experienced manager fighting in a competitive industry. Liverpool alone had three hundred rock groups all vying for a record deal. But Epstein knew that in order to get record companies to take notice he’d have to get the lads to clean up their act.
Now that Brian was their full time manager the lads took notice, ditching their scruffy attire for suits, sharp haircuts and a more professional attitude towards their on-stage performance. Eventually, after countless auditions and having been turned down by every record producer in the country, they signed – in what became known as one of the stingiest deals in history – with Parlophone Records.
Beatlemania didn’t take long to grip the imagination of millions of young people. After leaving the Cavern Club they found themselves invited to play the Palladium, The Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Variety Show, appear with Morecombe & Wise, give a spare hit to The Rolling Stones, take the US by storm in 1964 on the Ed Sullivan Show and record the smash hit ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ – all within one rollercoaster year!
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PASSENGER

Passenger, the working name of singer/songwriter Mike Rosenberg, makes intimate, folk-inflected indie pop. Originally a four-piece, Passenger formed in Brighton, England, as a collaboration between singer/songwriter Rosenberg and composer Andrew Phillips. Working out of Phillips' studio, the duo recorded the songs that would become Wicked Man's Rest, Passenger's debut album. The disc was released on ChalkMark in 2007 and spawned several singles, including "Wicked Man's Rest," "Walk You Home," "Do What You Like," and "Table for One." Passenger opened up for several high-profile indie acts throughout the U.K. that year, including Kate Nash and the Hold Steady. The following year found the band providing the soundtrack to the film Where Have I Been All Your Life?, and performing at the 2008 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. In 2009, Phillips parted ways with Passenger, leaving Rosenberg at the helm. The band's sophomore effort, 2009's Wide Eyes Blind Love, reflected this change with a stripped-down acoustic sound. A year later, Rosenberg's Passenger returned with the "fan-only" release Divers and Submarines. Also in 2010, Passenger released Flight of the Crow, featuring collaborations with such artists as Josh Pyke, Katie Noonan, Elana Stone, and others. In 2012, Passenger released its fifth full-length effort, All the Little Lights, which featured a more fully fleshed-out sound. While the album was released in the summer of 2012, it wasn't until 2013 that a tune from All the Little Lights, "Let Her Go," broke through as a hit in Europe. By the end of the year, the single had reached number one in 16 countries, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, and Belgium. Rosenberg began work on his fifth album, Whispers, toward the end of 2013 and enlisted All the Little Lights' co-producer Chris Vallejo to work with him. The record was preceded by the title-track single, and was expected for release in 2014.

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RIXTON

 Rixton are the latest boy band to hit the music scene!They premiered the music video for their debut single ‘Make Out’ yesterday and they’ve already managed to gain a large following online. The video has had over 80,000 hits on Youtube in less than 24 hours.For those who don’t know, Rixton are a group from Manchester who’ve been signed by School Boy/Giant Little Man/Interscope. Interscope are an American record label who’ve been responsible for managing the likes of Lady Gaga, Maroon 5 and Madonna. Now, Rixton are their latest project.

Like with JLS, Lawson and The Vamps, there are four members in Rixton.

Jake Roche, 21, is the lead-singer of the band and also the group’s rhythm guitarist.

Charley Bagnell is 23 years old and Rixton’s lead guitarist whilst Danny Wilkins is also 23 and on the keys and bass. Both Charley and Danny also contribute to backing vocals.

That just leaves Lewi Morgan, 23, who is the latest member to join Rixton and the band’s very own drummer.

So is their track ‘Make Out’ any good and is it going to be enough to help them break into the music industry? On first listen, the song is catchy but we’re not sure yet if it’s strong enough as a debut single.

Only time will tell and maybe it’ll grow on us but there’s a lot of competition in the boy band world.

On the other hand, the music video is amazing. In the hilarious video, the boys parody some of the world’s biggest popstars including: Rihanna, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga and Robin Thicke.

Lead-singer Jake also wears a tweed jacket which looks identical to the one Matt Smith wears in Doctor Who.

Rixton made a name for themselves by playing pub gigs and posting covers of popular tracks on Youtube. Some of their most viewed videos include their unique covers of ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ by Taylor Swift and ‘Let Me Love You’ by Ne-Yo which they really made their own.

At the moment, there’s no official release date for ‘Make Out’ but it’s definitely worth checking out. They’ve received support from The Wanted’s Nathan Sykes and it looks like the future is going to be bright to them.

Kaynak:http://onepopz.com/rixton-release-music-video-debut-single-make/

                      

GUNS N'ROSES

Steven Adler (drums; born January 22, 1965), Michael Andrew “Duff” McKagan (bass; born February 5, 1964), Darren Arthur “Dizzy” Reed (keyboards; born June 18, 1963), William “Axl” Rose (vocals, piano; born February 6, 1962), Saul Hudson aka Slash (guitar; born July 23, 1965), Matt Sorum drums; born November 19, 1960), Jeff Isbell aka Izzy Stradlin (guitar; born April 8, 1962)

The 1987 release of Guns n’ Roses’ debut album, Appetite for Destruction, was a pivotal moment in rock history. It upended the music world, which had been filled with videogenic synth-pop and hair-metal bands for much of the Eighties. With Guns n’ Roses – vocalist Axl Rose, guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler – rock music rediscovered its edge, rage and sense of danger. Guns n’ Roses rank alongside a handful of hard-rock bands with punk-rock attitudes – beginning with the Rolling Stones and extending through Aerosmith and AC/DC – that shook and shocked the world. They were uncompromising, tempestuous, explosive and controversial – everything but predictable.

The members of Guns n’ Roses were misfits who came together in Los Angeles in the mid-Eighties. William “Axl” Rose grew up in Lafayette, Indiana, as Bill Bailey. He adopted the surname Rose when he discovered his birth father’s identity. He was in a hometown band called Axl, which he took as his first name. After moving to Los Angeles, he legally changed his name to W. Axl Rose. An inveterate troublemaker, he claims to have been arrested more than 20 times in his hometown and to have spent as long as three months in jail. One of his best friends in Lafayette was Jeff Isbell aka Izzy Stradlin, who headed to Los Angeles after graduating high school. Rose hitchhiked west and joined him. British-born Slash, whose real name is Saul Hudson, grew up in L.A. with parents who worked as designers in music and film. Duff McKagan was a multi-instrumentalist who moved down from Seattle, where he’d played in numerous bands. McKagan met Slash via a musician’s ad in a local paper.

The name Guns n’ Roses was coined in 1985, when Tracii Guns (of L.A. Guns) joined Rose and Stradlin’s band, Hollywood Rose. After Guns left, they were joined by Slash, Adler and, finally, McKagan. This completed the classic lineup that recorded Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide – a four-song EP from 1986, issued on the group’s own Uzi Suicide label – and their full-length masterpiece, Appetite for Destruction, released on Geffen Records in July 1987. The group was signed to David Geffen’s namesake label by A&R staffers Tom Zutaut and Teresa Ensenat.

Read More: https://rockhall.com/inductees/guns-n-roses/bio/#sthash.xX4XVdsA.dpuf

PINK FLOYD

The early Sixties. Everything is up in the air, not least love, drugs and sex. A group of talented teenagers from academic backgrounds in Cambridge — Roger 'Syd' Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour — are all keen guitarists and among many who move to London, keen to discover more of this new world and express themselves in it. Mainly in further education — studying the arts, architecture, music — they mix with like-minded incomers in the big city.

In 1965, Barrett and Waters meet an experimental percussionist and an extraordinarily gifted keyboards-player — Nick Mason and Rick Wright respectively. The result is Pink Floyd, which more than 40 years later has moved from massive to almost mythic standing.

Through several changes of personnel, through several musical phases, the band has earned a place on the ultimate roll call of rock, along with the Beatles, the Stones and Led Zeppelin. Their album sales have topped 250 million. In 2005, at Live 8 — the biggest global music event in history — the reunion of the four-man line-up that recorded most of the Floyd canon stole the show. And yet, true to their beginnings, there has always been an enigma at their heart.

Roger 'Syd' Barrett, for example. This cool and charismatic son of a university don was the original creative force behind the band (which he named after the Delta bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). His vision was perfect for the times, and vice versa. He would lead the band to its first precarious fame, and damage himself irreparably along the way. And though the Floyd's Barrett era only lasted three years, it always informed what they became.

These were the summers of love, when LSD was less an hallucinogenic interval than a lifestyle choice for some young people, who found their culture in science fiction, the pastoral tradition, and a certain strain of the Victorian imagination. Drawing on such themes, the elfin Barrett wrote and sang on most of the early Floyd's material, which made use of new techniques, such as tape-loops, feedback and echo delay.

Live, the Floyd played sonic freak-outs — half-hidden by new-fangled light-shows and projections — with Barrett's spacey lead guitar swooping over Waters' trance-like bass, while Wright and Mason created soundscapes above and beneath. On record they were tighter, if still 'psychedelic'. Either way, they sounded 'trippy'. And perhaps that was Barrett's intention. He certainly ingested plenty of LSD and other drugs, which didn't help his delicate mental balance.

Over the spring of 1966, the young band were regulars at the Spontaneous Underground 'happenings' on Sundays at the legendary Marquee Club, where they were spotted by their future managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King. And by the autumn, the Floyd had become the house band of the so-called London Free School in west London.

Read More:http://www.pinkfloyd.com/history/biography.php

IMAGINE DRAGONS

Las Vegas-based indie rockers Imagine Dragons formed in Provo, Utah in 2009. Like their desert-born stadium rock contemporaries the Killers, Imagine Dragons blend engaging, synth-based dance-pop with emotionally charged, Brit-pop-inspired alt-rock. After releasing a pair of well-received EPs (Imagine Dragons and Hell and Silence), the group inked a deal with Interscope Records and headed into West Hollywood's famed Westlake Recording Studios with producer Alex Da Kid (Eminem, Paramore) to record its first major-label release, 2012's Continued Silence EP, which was followed later that year by the group's full-length debut, Night Visions.

Kaynak:http://www.billboard.com/artist/303738/imagine-dragons/biography

SIA

Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (born December 18, 1975) or simply Sia, is an Australian pop and jazz singer and songwriter. Her mid-2010 international tour was cancelled with Sia citing extreme lethargy and panic attacks. She considered retiring from touring permanently until she was diagnosed with Graves' disease – an autoimmune disorder with an over-active thyroid. After resting and hormone replacement therapy, Sia resumed touring with gigs in Australia, the U.S. and Canada during 2011. Sia is the niece of singer-songwriter Colin Hay of Men at Work.

In the early 1990s, Sia started gigging in the Adelaide acid jazz scene and at the age of 17-years-old joined the jazz funk band, Crisp. The group released two albums, 1996’s “Word and the Deal” and “Delerium” in 1997.

By 1997, Sia had left Crisp and as a trip hop artist, released her debut solo album “OnlySee.” It was produced by former Crisp band mate Jesse Flavell, who also wrote most of the tracks. Unlike her later albums, “OnlySee” was marketed under her full name, Sia Furler, instead of simply Sia.

In 2000, Sia signed a recording contract with the Sony Music sub-label Dance Pool. While living in London, she performed backing vocals for Jamiroquai, a British jazz funk band. In 2001 she released her second solo album, “Healing is Difficult,” an eclectic mix of R&B and jazz, that was favorably received by critics. All the tracks were written or co-written by Sia and it was co-produced by Sia and Blair Mackichan. The album included the songs “Drink to Get Drunk” and “Little Man" which became popular in U.K. nightclubs. The album's single “Taken for Granted,” reached #10 on the U.K. Singles chart in June 2000. 

Unhappy with the promotion of the album, Sia fired her manager, left Sony Music and signed with Go! Beat Records, a subsidiary of UMG.

Her third album, “Colour the Small One,” was released in Australia and Europe in 2004. This downtempo album had Sia employing a mixture of acoustic instruments and electronic backing to her material. It featured “The Bully,” which was a collaboration with American musician Beck. Two further songs were co-written with Beck and recorded, but have yet to be released. “Colour the Small One” spawned the singles “Breathe Me” and “Where I Belong.” Six tracks on the album were co-written with her bass guitarist, Samuel Dixon.
Raed More:http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Sia/Biography/