An initially controversial group, boycotted by local media for their "yobbo pop band punk" image. Appeared in 1985 in local venues like the Boardwalk and the Haçienda . The band explained their enigmatic name : "Something hard and something pretty; something noisy but tuneful". Overtly Mancunian,...

The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy - Top of the Pops 1988

Davy Jones - The Monkees Although generally considered to be an American pop group, Davy Jones was the Manchester born vocal element in the group. The line-up included Mike Nesmith (guitar and vocals), Peter Tork (bass and vocals), and Mickey Dolenz (drums and vocals). Formed in 1966, they were...

Phil Lynott Thin Lizzy - (1949-1986) Philip Lynott, guitarist and singer of the famed pop group "Thin Lizzy", though actually born in Birmingham, England on 20th August 1949, of an Irish mother and a black Brazilian father, moved with his mother to live in Manchester while he was still...

David Gray David Gray was born in Sale, Manchester in 1968, where his family ran a chain of bakery shops. As a result of a serious family dispute in 1995, he and his parents moved to live in Wales. Later, he returned to the Northwest region to attend Liverpool University, where his interest in...

Karl Denver (1931-1998) Karl Denver is probably best remembered as the yodelling pop singer of the 1961 recording of the Zulu folk song "Wimoweh". Born Angus McKenzie in 1931 in Glasgow he was a familiar figure on radio and the concert stage in the 1960s. Denver left school at 15 to...

Elkie Brooks Elkie Brooks, who was born Elaine Bookbinder, on 26 February 1946, a bakery owner's daughter from Cavendish Road, Salford, was almost certain to follow many of her family members into show business - Tony Mansfield, her brother, was leader of the then well-known group, "The...

That That The "Brit Pop" rave of the early 1990s, this talented Manchester-based vocal group restored the ballad to the popular music charts. In some ways reviving the youth adulation which the Beatles received during the 1960s, Take That became the role models for many young people....

Happy Mondays A group of 6 musicians whose debut album should have been in the Guiness Book of Records on account of its title alone : "Happy Mondays' Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)". The original group included Sean Ryder...

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