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Jimmy Somerville, singer, [33] member of Bronski Beat and the Communards; Sons and Daughters [34] SOPHIE; Spirea X; Spit Back; Sharleen Spiteri, singer, songwriter, guitarist, member of Texas; Sparrow and the Workshop; Sputniks Down; Stapleton; Al Stewart; Stone the Crows; Strawberry Switchblade; Hamish Stuart, member of The Average White Band ...
Music of the United Kingdom developed in the 1960s into one of the leading forms of popular music in the modern world. By the early 1960s the British had developed a viable national music industry and began to produce adapted forms of American music in Beat music and British blues which would be re-exported to America by bands such as the Beatles, the Animals and the Rolling Stones.
Eliza Janet Thomson (November 1943 [2] – 24 July 2020), [3] who recorded as Barry St. John, was a Scottish female singer who had a No. 47 hit in the UK Singles Chart in December 1965 with "Come Away Melinda".
This was meant to be a one off, but just before the gig, the Poets' name appeared in the line-up to Le Beat Bespoke 8, listing them as playing on 8 April 2012. Lead singer George Gallacher born 21 October 1943, Royston, Glasgow , died of a heart attack on 25 August 2012, at Glasgow Royal Infirmary at age 68 while travelling home after watching ...
Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre and developed around Liverpool in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The genre melded influences from British and American rock and roll , rhythm and blues , skiffle , traditional pop and music hall .
This is a list of women artists who were born in or are closely associated with Scotland This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Janet Beat was born in Streetly, Staffordshire, England and studied piano privately and horn at the Birmingham Conservatoire (formerly the Birmingham School of Music) before reading music at Birmingham University, graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1960. In 1968 she gained a Master of Arts from Birmingham University.