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Born of show-business parents (a bandsinger/radio personality and a vaudeville entertainer), Buz Overbeck started playing professionally at age 15 He studied at the Cincinnati College/Conservatory of Music and became the show drummer at Cincinnati’s Gaiety Theater, the last of the authentic vaudeville/burlesque houses
Toronto, Canada’s quirky popsters Barenaked Ladies were never ones to follow a trend They were more interested in making someone laugh than being astute and serious Most of all, a friendship consumed this band, and that bond cemented their place in alternative rock
The name Barry Gray may not mean much on its face to baby boomers, but a mention of some of the television series that he scored — Fireball XL5, Supercar, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Thunderbirds, UFO, Space: 1999 — will evoke instant recognition from most television viewers who were over 30 in 2001
Barry Weber began working for the All-Music-Guide when he was 15 after a recommendation from his cousin, writer Steve Huey A Wisconsin resident, Barry is an avid fan of ’70s and ’80s hard rock, which he began to take a liking to after receiving an Aerosmith album when he was 12
Composer Basil Poledouris has scored a wide variety of major Hollywood features and television movies of the ’70s,’80s and ’90s Before breaking into the film industry Poledouris earned a music and composition degrees from Long Beach State University and attended both the Los Angeles film school and the AFI school
The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop/rock band of the ’70s with a strong following among teenage girls The origins of the group go back to the formation of the duo the Longmuir Brothers in the late ’60s, consisting of drummer Derek Longmuir (b
For decades the BBC Radiophonic Workshop has produced the majority of incidental electronic music broadcast over British airwaves, their adherence to cutting-edge technology pioneering countless creative innovations
Formed by Argentinean musicians in São Paulo (São Paulo) in the mid-’60s as a vocal/instrumental rock group, the Beat Boys were an important reference in a moment when Tropicália was being geared, as they provided the rock spirit that Caetano Veloso was looking for at his iconoclastic appearance at the III Festival de Música Popular Brasileira/FMPB (Festival of Brazilian Popular Music Festival, Paramount Theater, TV Record, São Paulo, 1967), when their performance of “Alegria, Alegria” (Caetano Veloso) provoked virulent reactions by the audience that were amplified throughout public opinion and yielded a marked polarization between nationalists and transnationalists against the electric guitar
Becky Byrkit is an accomplished poet and fiction writer with over 80 magazine publications to her name Her first book, zealand (SUN/gemini Press), was nominated for the Western States’ Book Award in 1996
The artist known as Beguiling Oxymoron chooses to let his music speak for him and not let his persona interfere with the listener’s enjoyment of the experience His ambient music envelopes the listener, creating an artificial environment with long-flowing chords, repeated musical motives, and a near-absence of hard rhythm