Bill Haley ( - ) est l'un des premiers musiciens américains blancs de rock and roll.
Après le rock and roll afro-américain qui bat son plein de 1946 environ
à 1954, il est le premier artiste blanc à réellement avoir du succès
dans ce style avec son groupe Bill Haley & His Comets et leur
chanson Rock Around the Clock.
Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and the Comets and Bill Haley's Comets
(and variations thereof), was the earliest group of white musicians to
bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest of
the world. From late 1954 to late 1956, the group placed nine singles in
the Top 20, one of those a number one and three more in the Top Ten.
Bandleader Bill Haley had previously been a country music performer; after recording a country and western-styled version of "Rocket 88", a rhythm and blues song, he changed musical direction to a new sound which came to be called rock and roll.
Although several members of the Comets became famous, Bill Haley remained the star. With his spit curl
and the band's matching plaid dinner jackets and energetic stage
behavior, many fans consider them to be as revolutionary in their time
as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones were a decade later.
Following Haley's death, no fewer than seven different groups have
existed under the Comets name, all claiming (with varying degrees of
authority) to be the official continuation of Haley's group. As of the
end of 2014, four such groups were still performing in the United States
and internationally.
Icehouse est un groupe new wave australien créé en 1981,
composé de Iva Davies, Robert Kretschmer, Simon Lloyd, Stephen Morgan
et Paul Wheeler. L'année précédente, ils avaient, sous le nom de Flowers, sorti un album qui s'intitulait Icehouse, nom qu'ils choisirent finalement comme titre de leur formation. Le groupe se fit ensuite connaître pendant les années 1980, notamment avec leur titre phare Hey Little Girl.
Icehouse is an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in 1977 in Sydney. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop music and attained Top 10 singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies (singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe)
supplying additional musicians as required. The name Icehouse, which
was adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and
the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people.
Icehouse's iconic status was acknowledged when they were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame on 16 August 2006. ARIA described Icehouse as "one
of the most successful Australian bands of the eighties and nineties...
With an uncompromising approach to music production they created songs
that ranged from pure pop escapism to edgy, lavish synthesised pieces..."
Icehouse has produced eight Top Ten albums and twenty Top Forty singles
in Australia, multiple top ten hits in Europe and North America and
album sales of over 28 times Platinum in Australasia alone. As of 2006, Man of Colours was still the highest selling album in Australia by an Australian band.
The Jackson Five (J5 ou Jackson 5ive) est un groupe de soulaméricain originaire de Gary dans l'Indiana près de Chicago, et composé de cinq membres d'une même fratrie : Jackie, Toriano dit Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, et Michael. En 1976, la fratrie quitte la Motown pour CBS et le plus jeune, Randy, entre dans le groupe au départ de son frère Jermaine, qui préfère rester au sein de la Motown. Le groupe devient alors The Jacksons.
Le groupe a vendu des millions de disques et a reçu une grande
attention par beaucoup de médias et dans le monde entier à leur époque.
Les Jackson 5 deviennent l'une des grandes "légendes" de l'histoire de
la musique et "laissent une trace" aujourd'hui grâce à leurs plus grands
tubes comme I Want You Back, I'll Be There ou encore ABC.
The Jackson 5 (sometimes stylized as Jackson Five; later known as the Jacksons) was an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana. Formed in 1964 under the name the Jackson Brothers, the founding members were Jackie, Tito and Jermaine. Marlon and Michael would later join, and the band's name would be changed to The Jackson 5. After participating in talent shows and the chitlin' circuit, they entered the professional music scene in 1967 signing with Steeltown Records and releasing two singles. In 1969 they left Steeltown Records in order to sign with Motown.
K7 released another album in 2002 called Love, Sex, Money.
K7, along with the other members of TKA, still tours and performs in nightclubs around the U.S. K7 also has a new album out, released in March 2009, called The King's Agenda available on iTunes.
MARRS (également écrit M|A|R|R|S, M/A/R/R/S ou M.A.R.R.S.) est issu de la collaboration entre deux groupesanglais du label indépendant 4AD, à savoir Colourbox et Ar Kane.
Ils se firent connaître en 1987 en sortant le disque Pump Up the Volume, disque symbolisant l'explosion de la house music au Royaume-Uni.
MARRS (stylised M|A|R|R|S) was a 1987 one-off recording act formed by the groups A.R. Kane and Colourbox, which only released one commercial disc. It became "a one-hit wonder of rare influence" because of their international hit "Pump Up the Volume", and nominated for a Grammy Award in 1989.
Ocean was a gospel rock band formed in 1970 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are best known for their million-selling 1971 single "Put Your Hand in the Hand", penned by Gene MacLellan. The gramophone record sold over one million copies and received a gold disc awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America on 3 May 1971. Ocean consisted of Greg Brown (vocals, keyboard), Jeff Jones (bass, vocals), Janice Morgan (guitar, vocals), Dave Tamblyn (guitar), and Chuck Slater (drums). The album was recorded in Toronto
in 1970 and originally released on the highly collectable Yorkville
label in Canada. The album contained eight songs written by such
notables as Robbie Robertson and Gene MacLellan. The album was picked up in the U.S. by the Kama Sutra
label that also released the band's second album in both the U.S. and
Canada. Ocean managed another hit in Canada with the songs "We've Got a
Dream" and "One More Chance" written by the British songwriting team of Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, but they failed to make any impact in the U.S. and disbanded in 1975 after only two albums.
Paco, de son vrai nom François Berthelot, programmateur musical et producteur d'émissions de radio puis chanteur français, interprète notamment de Amor de mis amores qui fut tube de l'été et de l'automne en 1988.
Groupe britannique qui a connu le plus grand succès commercial de ces trente dernières années, Queen a vendu plus de 300 millions d'albums à l'échelle internationale en 2009 dont 32,5 millions aux États-Unis. Selon un sondage d'opinion commandé en Grande-Bretagne par la BBC Two et paru en 2007, Queen est considéré comme étant le « meilleur groupe britannique de tous les temps », devançant les Beatles et les Rolling Stones. Queen est aussi l'un des pionniers du clip vidéo, ayant exploité ce mode de communication dès 1975. Queen a conservé, après la mort de son leader Freddie Mercury en 1991, de très nombreux admirateurs inconditionnels dans le monde entier.
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). Queen's earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works by incorporating further styles, such as arena rock and pop rock, into their music.
Before joining Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor had been playing together in a band named Smile with bassist Tim Staffell.
Freddie Mercury (then known by his birth name of Farrokh "Freddie"
Bulsara) was a fan of Smile, and encouraged them to experiment with more
elaborate stage and recording techniques after Staffell's departure in
1970. Mercury himself joined the band shortly thereafter, changed the
name of the band to "Queen", and adopted his familiar stage name. John
Deacon was recruited prior to recording their eponymous debut album in 1973. Queen enjoyed success in the UK with their debut and its follow-up, Queen II in 1974, but it was the release of Sheer Heart Attack later in 1974 and A Night at the Opera in 1975 that gained the band international success. The latter featured "Bohemian Rhapsody", which stayed at number one in the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks; it charted at number one in several other territories, and gave the band their first top ten hit on the US Billboard Hot 100. Their 1977 album, News of the World, contained two of rock's most recognisable anthems, "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions".
By the early 1980s, Queen were one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world, with "Another One Bites the Dust" their best selling single, and their performance at 1985's Live Aid is regarded as one of the greatest in rock history. In 1991, Mercury died of bronchopneumonia,
a complication of AIDS, and Deacon retired in 1997. Since then, May and
Taylor have occasionally performed together, including a collaboration
with Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers under the name Queen + Paul Rodgers which ended in May 2009. Since 2011, May and Taylor have collaborated with vocalist Adam Lambert under the name of Queen + Adam Lambert. In November 2014, Queen released a new album, Queen Forever, featuring vocals from the late Freddie Mercury.
The band have released a total of 18 number one albums, 18 number one
singles, and 10 number one DVDs. Estimates of their record sales
generally range from 150 million to 300 million records, making them one
of the world's best-selling music artists. They received the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award from the British Phonographic Industry in 1990, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
The Raes were the Welsh-Canadian husband-and-wife singing duo of Robbie and Cherrill Rae, who had a handful of disco-inflected pop hits in the late 1970s.
Barry Allen Sadler (November 1, 1940 – November 5, 1989) was an American military veteran, author, actor, and singer-songwriter. Sadler served as a Green Beret combat medic with the rank of Staff Sergeant of the United States Army during the Vietnam War.
Most of his work has a military theme, and he credited himself as SSG
Barry Sadler, although his music credits read SSgt Barry Sadler. He is
most famously known for his hit song "Ballad of the Green Berets."
Taco Ockerse (born July 21, 1955), usually known mononymously as Taco, is an Indonesian-born Dutch singer and entertainer who started his career in Germany.
Tracey Ullman (born 30 December 1959) known as Tracey Ullman, is an English
television, stage, and film actress, as well as a comedian, singer,
dancer, director, author, screenwriter, and businesswoman of dualBritish and American citizenship.
She emigrated from the United Kingdom to the United States where she starred in her own network television comedy series, The Tracey Ullman Show, from 1987 until 1990. She later produced programmes for HBO, including Tracey Takes On...
(1996–99), for which she garnered numerous awards. She has also
appeared in several feature films. Ullman's most recent sketch comedy
series, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union, ran from 2008 to 2010 on Showtime.
Ullman is currently the richest female British comedian and the second richest British actress (surpassed by Isla Fisher's marriage to comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as of 2015).
Behind the scenes, record producer Horst Fuchs promoted the band’s career and pulled the strings. Composers such as Jo van Wetter, Willy Albimoor, Hans Blum and Michael Thomas (Martin Böttcher) created songs
like "Hawaii Tattoo", "Carnival of Venice", "Mein Hut der hat drei
Ecken", "Aloha Parade", "Honolulu Parade" and "Waikiki Welcome". The
Waikikis sold their gramophone records
by the millions, and some of their own creations like "Hilo Kiss" or
"Hula-Hochzeit" ("Hawaii Honeymoon") made their way into the charts in several countries.[citation needed]
Xscape was a female American R&B
quartet which began as a quintet. The group had 6 top 10 hit songs on
the Billboard Hot 100 during the 1990s including "Just Kicking it",
"Understanding," "Who Can I Run To", "Keep On, Keepin' On", "The Arms of
the One Who Loves You", and "My Little Secret". The original lineup of
the group consisted of sisters LaTocha and Tamika Scott, Kandi Burruss, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, and Tamera Coggins, though Coggins departed the group before their debut album was released.
Zager and Evans est un groupe de pop-rock américain de la fin des années 60 au début des années 70 formé de Denny Zager et Rick Evans.
Ce duo est particulièrement connu pour son tube In the Year 2525,
écrit par Rick Evans. Cette chanson très noire prédit l'extinction
progressive de l'espèce humaine, détruite par ses propres progrès
technologiques. Ce morceau est numéro 1 des hits-parade aux États-Unis en 1969, et en particulier au moment où l'homme a posé pour la première fois le pied sur la Lune le 20 juillet 1969. In the Year 2525
a également été en tête des ventes au Royaume-Uni. Cette chanson écrite
en 1964 s'est vendue au total à plus de 10 millions d'exemplaires.
Ce succès permet à Zager & Evans de signer avec RCA, mais leurs singles suivants ne rééditent pas le succès du premier.
Zager and Evans was a Lincoln, Nebraska, rock-popduo
of the late 1960s and early 1970s named after its two members, Denny
Zager and Rick Evans. They are best known for their 1969 hit single "In the Year 2525".
John Zacherle (/ˈzækərliː/ZAK-ər-lee; sometimes credited as John Zacherley; born September 26, 1918) is an Americantelevision host, radio personality and voice actor known for his long career as a television horror host broadcasting horror movies in Philadelphia and New York City
in the 1950s and 1960s. Best known for his character
"Roland/Zacherley," he also did voice work for movies, and recorded the
top ten novelty rock and roll song "Dinner With Drac" in 1958. He also edited two collections of horror stories, Zacherley's Vulture Stew and Zacherley's Midnight Snacks.
Xscape was a female American R&B
quartet which began as a quintet. The group had 6 top 10 hit songs on
the Billboard Hot 100 during the 1990s including "Just Kicking it",
"Understanding," "Who Can I Run To", "Keep On, Keepin' On", "The Arms of
the One Who Loves You", and "My Little Secret". The original lineup of
the group consisted of sisters LaTocha and Tamika Scott, Kandi Burruss, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, and Tamera Coggins, though Coggins departed the group before their debut album was released.
Caterina Valente (née à Paris, France ) est une chanteuse, une danseuse, une guitariste et une actrice .
Originaire d'une famille d'artistes italienne, son père Giuseppe
était un joueur bien connu d'accordéon, sa mère, Maria Valente, une
artiste immense. Elle a eu trois frères et sœurs, dont Silvio Francesco
qui fit également carrière dans l'industrie du spectacle.
Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931, Paris, France) is an Italian singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italian artist family. Her father, Giuseppe, was a well-known accordion player; her mother, Maria, a musical clown. She had three siblings, one of whom, Silvio (as Silvio Francesco), was also active in show business.
To date, Ugly Kid Joe have released three full-length albums, two
compilation albums and two EPs. Their best selling records are As Ugly as They Wanna Be (1991) and America's Least Wanted (1992), which were both certified double platinum by the RIAA; the former is notable for being the first EP to go platinum. The band broke up in 1997, but announced a reunion in 2010.
The THP Orchestra was a Canadiandisco group from Toronto created by European producers Willi Morrison and Ian Guenther. The band released its first album in 1977 and was nominated for a Juno Award for Most Promising New Group. After two releases in two years, the group shortened its name to THP and released a third album on Atlantic Records. It disbanded in 1980.
Helen Folasade Adu, OBE (Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú; born 16 January 1959), known as Sade (/ʃɑːˈdeɪ/shah-DAY), is a British Nigeriansinger, songwriter, composer, and record producer.
Following a brief stint of studying fashion design and modelling Adu
began back up singing for a band named Pride, during this time she
attracted attention from record labels and along with other members left
Pride and formed Sade. Following a record deal Sade and her eponymous band released their debut album Diamond Life
(1984), the album was a commercial success and sold over six million
copies, becoming one of the top-selling debut recordings of the '80s and
the best-selling debut ever by a British female vocalist.
Following the release of the band's debut album they went on to
release a string of multi-platinum selling albums, their follow up Promise was released in 1985 and peaked at number one in the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200 and went on to sell four million copies in the US. Sade would later go on to make her acting debut in the film Absolute Beginners, before the release of the band's albums Stronger Than Pride (1988), Love Deluxe (1992) and Lovers Rock (2000) all of which went multi-platinum in the US. After the release of Lovers Rock
the band embarked on a ten-year hiatus in which Sade raised her
daughter. Following the hiatus the band returned with their sixth album Soldier of Love (2010) which became a commercial success and won a Grammy award.
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