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Frank Zappa　

Composer, guitarist, singer, and bandleader Frank Zappa was a singular musical figure during a performing and recording career that lasted from the 1960s to the ’90s. His disparate influences inclu ..more

Fleetwood Mac　

While most bands undergo a number of changes over the course of their careers, few groups experienced such radical stylistic changes as Fleetwood Mac. Initially conceived as a hard-edged {\British ..more

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Black Keys　

It痴 too facile to call the Black Keys counterparts of the White Stripes： they share several surface similarities -- their names are color-coded, they hail from the Midwest, they池e guitar-and-d ..more

Brian Eno　

Ambient pioneer, glam rocker, hit producer, multimedia artist, technological innovator, worldbeat proponent, and self-described non-musician -- over the course of his long, prolific, and imme ..more

Procol Harum　

Procol Harum is arguably the most successful accidental group creation -- that is, a band originally assembled to take advantage of the success of a record created in the studio -- in the history ..more

Bruce Springsteen　

In the decades following his emergence on the national scene in 1975, Bruce Springsteen proved to be that rarity among popular musicians, an artist who maintained his status as a frontline recordin ..more

Foreigner　

While quite a few arena rock acts of the ’70s found the transformation into the ’80s quite difficult, several acts continued to flourish and enjoyed some of their biggest commercial success： Jour ..more

Free　

Famed for their perennial All Right Now, Free helped lay the foundations for the rise of hard rock, stripping the earthy sound of British blues down to its raw, minimalist core to pionee ..more

Bryan Ferry　

While his tenure as the frontman for the legendary Roxy Music remained his towering achievement, singer Bryan Ferry also carved out a successful solo career that continued in the lush, sophistic ..more

Bryan Adams　

Bryan Adams negotiated the shifting tides of the ’80s so well that it never seemed as if he were changing to fit the times. A veteran of the ’70s studio arena rock game, Adams struck out on his ..more

Phil Spector　

Strictly speaking, Phil Spector wasn’t even a performer -- he’s a musician, but he very rarely released records under his name. However, as a producer -- and, to a significant extent, songwriter, l ..more

Brand X　

Brand X were a British jazz-rock fusion outfit formed by Genesis drummer Phil Collins and Atomic Rooster guitarist John Goodsall as a side project from their regular groups. Their initi ..more

Blood Sweat & Tears　

Faces　

When Steve Marriott left the Small Faces in 1969, the three remaining members brought in guitarist Ron Wood and lead singer Rod Stewart to complete the lineup and changed their name to t ..more

Blondie　

Blondie was the most commercially successful band to emerge from the much-vaunted punk/new wave movement of the late ’70s. The group was formed in New York City in August 1974 by singer Deb ..more

Fairport Convention　

The best British folk-rock band of the late ’60s, Fairport Convention did more than any other act to develop a truly British variation on the folk-rock prototype by drawing upon {\traditional ..more

Player　

Best remembered for the late-’70s chart-topper Baby Come Back, Player were formed in Los Angeles in 1977 by singer/guitarist Peter Beckett (formerly of the U.K. group Skyband), bassist { ..more

Blues Project　

One of the first album-oriented, underground groups in the United States, the Blues Project offered an electric brew of rock, blues, folk, pop, and even some jazz, classical, and psychedelia duri ..more