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Paul McCartney & Wings　

Following his second solo album, Ram, in 1971, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, formed Wings, which was intended to be a full-fledged recording and touring band. Denny La ..more

Paul Simon　

Paul Simon is one of the most successful and respected songwriters of the second half of the 20th century. Rising to fame in the mid-’60s, Simon’s songs were mature and literate, but also melodi ..more

Pink Floyd　

Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-’60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. ..more

Paul McCartney　

Out of all the former Beatles, Paul McCartney by far had the most successful solo career, maintaining a constant presence in the British and American charts during the ’70s and ’80s. In America ..more

Pet Shop Boys　

Postmodern ironists cloaked behind a veil of buoyantly melodic and lushly romantic synth pop confections, Pet Shop Boys established themselves among the most commercially and critically successful ..more

Peter Paul & Mary　

The most popular folk group of the 1960s, Peter, Paul and Mary in later decades have also proved themselves to be among the most durable music acts in history. Their longevity dwarfs that of t ..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

Police　

Nominally, the Police were punk rock, but that’s only in the loosest sense of the term. The trio’s nervous, reggae-injected pop/rock was punky, but it wasn’t necessarily punk. All three ..more

Peter Gabriel　

As the leader of Genesis in the early ’70s, Peter Gabriel helped move progressive rock to new levels of theatricality. He was no less ambitious as a solo artist, but he was more subtle in his me ..more

PFM　

Italy’s leading progressive rock outfit of the early ’70s, PFM would have remained a purely Italian phenomenon had they not been signed to Emerson, Lake ＆ Palmer’s Manticore label. Their soun ..more

Pablo Cruise　

Pablo Cruise achieved some measure of success during the latter part of the ’70s with their mellow, easygoing California pop. The band was formed in 1973 by former members of Stoneground and I ..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

Peter Hammill　

Born Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill, November 5, 1948, in Ealing, London, to parents of fairly good means, Peter Hammill grew up in the embrace of Jesuit teachings, an element that has continued to ..more

Peter Frampton　

Peter Frampton was one of the biggest arena rock stars of the ’70s, making his name largely on the double-LP concert set Frampton Comes Alive! Frampton was one of several ’70s rock arti ..more

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Porcupine Tree　

Though he initially came to wider attention (at least in the U.K.) with No-Man, his long-running collaboration with Tim Bowness throughout the ’90s, singer/guitarist Steven Wilson gained as m ..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

Paul Butterfield Blues Band　

With a style honed in the gritty blues bars of Chicago’s south side, the Butterfield Blues Band was instrumental in bringing the sound of authentic Chicago blues to a young white audience in ..more