In 1976, Larry Mullen Jr. , then a 14-year-old pupil of Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin, Ireland, posted a note on the school’s notice board in search of musicians for a new band. For the first practice, which was held on 25 September in Mullen’s kitchen, Mullen played drums…
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Rick Savage , Tony Kenning, and Pete Doubleday, all students at Tapton School in Sheffield , South Yorkshire, formed a band called Atomic Mass in 1976.
Driven largely by commercial pressures to stay with reliable chart-toppers and teenage pop sensations, the Australian music industry in the mid-1970s cast a dismissive eye toward most bands with an alternative outlook.
Babjak, Diken, and Mesaros are all from Carteret, New Jersey , and graduated from Carteret High School in 1975. In 1980, they formed the band with DiNizio, who was from Scotch Plains, New Jersey . DiNizio had placed a classified ad in The Aquarian Weekly looking for a drummer to…
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The band went silent for a time preceding the separation. The only publicity was the band’s participation on the tribute album, Tributo a Queen: Los Grandes del Rock en Español , in which Soda Stereo covered ” Some Day One Day ” from Queen ‘s 1974 album, Queen II .…
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Shed Seven formed in 1990 from the remnants of Brockley Haven, a band featuring frontman Rick Witter , guitarist and songwriter Paul Banks , bassist Tom Gladwin (born Thomas Peter Gladwin, 11 January 1973), drummer Magnus Thompson and keyboardist John Leach, brother of Alan Leach (born Alan Steven Leach, 22…
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In 1971 drummer Rob Hirst , bass guitarist Andrew James, and keyboard player /lead guitarist Jim Moginie were performing together. They adopted the name “Farm” in 1972, and played covers of Cream , Creedence Clearwater Revival and Led Zeppelin songs. They placed an advert for a band member; Peter Garrett…
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James Gunn , a St. Louis native, planned to feature the band in the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy , but ultimately decided to stay with a mix of 1970’s music.
Guitarist Jason Pollock revealed in The Cavalier Daily that they came up with the name while watching the 1970s TV series CHiPs . ‘7 Mary 3’ was the call sign for Officer Jon Baker, played by actor Larry Wilcox . (7M3: police radio call sign; 7 designates the patrol beat,…
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Butthole Surfers formed at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas during the late 1970s, when students Gibson “Gibby” Haynes and Paul Leary Walthall (later just Paul Leary) met for the first time. Though it was their shared taste in non-mainstream music that caused them to become friends, both appeared to…
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