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06/03/2024
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Happy Birthday David Gilmour!

Pink Floyd guitarist and co-lead vocalist David Gilmour celebrates his 78th birthday today! While not an original member of the group, Gilmour did join just a few years after the formation in 1965. He joined in December 1967, while founding member Syd Barrett would leave just a few months later in April 1968 due to deteriorating mental health. One of the most successful groups of all time, Pink Floyd are remembered for a number of not just iconic but legendary albums such as Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You... Read More

01/03/2024

Happy 80th Birthday Roger Daltrey!

Many happy returns to the lead singer of The Who! British music icon Roger Daltrey celebrates his 80th birthday today. The frontman of the one of the most influential rock bands in British history (and across the world), The Who have sold over 100 million records worldwide since their debut in the UK charts back in 1965! The group achieved 25 UK Top 40 singles, and even more impressively a staggering 29 UK Top 40 albums too! Best remembered for songs such as “My Generation”, “Pinball Wizard” and “Won’t Get... Read More

19/10/2016

Go Chucky Go! Berry’s 90th Birthday

Happy Birthday to a music icon. Sometimes, that word “icon” gets thrown around way too much. It absolutely applies here 100% – a man who revolutionised Rock and Roll, and one of the main people we can thank for how music in the modern world has been shaped. From iconic tracks such as “Roll Over Beethoven” and the instantly recognisable “Johnny B. Goode”, Berry has provided many hits that not only have been covered plenty of times over the decades, but have been so instrumental in influencing all our favourite... Read More

31/05/2016

Happy Birthday John Bonham – On His 68th

Today marks what would’ve been John Bonham‘s 68th birthday. Considered one of the greatest drummers in the rock industry, his fast paced and powerful drumming served to create the iconic sound we all know and love from Led Zeppelin, but Bonham never actually had any professional drumming lessons. Instead, he learned by himself with tips and help from other drummers from his local Redditch region. During his school years, John’s headmaster from his secondary school wrote in his report that he would either “become a dustman or a millionaire”. Good... Read More

26/01/2016
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The Biggest Icon Arrives To TShirtGrill… Dot Cotton!?!

This is… a little out of left-field. But hey, us British love our treasures! On-and-off for the past 30 years, June Brown has been entertaining the British nation as Dot Cotton on BBC’s hit soap Eastenders. Cotton is the second longest-serving character on the show, behind only Ian Beale (played by Adam Woodyatt, who has been on it since the beginning). Brown began playing the character 5 months after the show began, and had a 4 year period between 1993 and 1997 where she left following the axing of co-star Peter Dean... Read More

30/10/2015

Bowie’s Back – Blackstar Arrives 2016

Three years on from his last album The Next Day, music icon David Bowie returns with his (get this) 27TH STUDIO ALBUM! Blackstar is the name of not only the album but also the lead single. The single itself will be released on November 20th, and the album will launch on the 8th January 2016 – the day of Bowie’s 69th birthday. David Bowie’s Facebook page at the moment doesn’t go in to much further detail; only that the album is not part of his theater piece Lazarus. The launch of Blackstar will be... Read More

21/09/2015
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Some Might Say: The Best Britpop Band Ever!

The important debate that will probably never die: Which Britpop band was better – Oasis or Blur? We’ve already looked at – and discussed – the latter of those two earlier this year when they released “The Magic Whip” back in April. But today, on Liam Gallagher’s 43rd Birthday, we look at the Mancunian group Oasis. Formed in 1991, the group was developed from a previous band called The Rain (named after a Beatles B-Side track) who’d got together earlier that year. When Chris Hutton was replaced as lead singer... Read More