Scooby Doo Stage Show Salford Quays UK 2007

The Haçienda was the product of Manchester - its people, its mood and its time. From an initial idea by Rob Gretton (manager of Joy Division), and the TV broadcaster and music entrepreneur Anthony Wilson, the nightclub was set up as a then "alternative" platform and venue for new bands, many of...

The Hollies formed from 2 earlier Manchester groups, The Deltas and The Dolphins in 1962, and launched on a career of long running UK hit records. They comprised Alan Clarke (vocals), Tony Hicks (guitar and vocals), Graham Nash (guitar and vocals - see below - next entry), Eric Haydock (bass),...

10cc were a UK group from Manchester who formed the band in 1972. The original line up included Eric Stewart (guitar and vocals), Graham Gouldman (bass and vocals), Lol Creme (guitar and vocals), and Kevin Godley (drums and vocals). In October 1976, Stewart and Godley and Creme left to form their...

Mick Hucknall - Simply Red A British group formed in 1982, originating in Manchester, with an original line-up of Mick "Red" Hucknall on vocals, Chris Joyce on drums, Tom Bowers on bass, Tim Kellet on keyboard and trumpet, Fritz McIntyre on keyboards and vocals, and with Sylvan Richardson on...

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...

Gary Barlow Gary Barlow was born on the 20th January 1971 in Frodsham in Cheshire and attended Weaver Vale Junior School and then Frodsham High School. From a very early age he worked every Saturday night as a musician in Connah's Quay Labour Club. At the age of fifteen he entered the BBC's...

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...

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...