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Über-ABBA tribute the A-Teens assembled Stockholm, Sweden-based adolescents Marie Serneholt, Sara Lumholdt, Dhani Lennevald, and Amit Paul Beginning work on their debut album The ABBA Generation in 1998, two years later the group topped the European charts with their cover of “Mamma Mia,” achieving the feat exactly a quarter of a century after the original ABBA hit number one with their own rendition of the song

Originally “Colours,” “the Supersonic Bangs” and “the Bangs”, the all singing/all performing four-woman the Bangles formed in 1981 and sprung from the L

The Beach Boys Biography, Photos, Pictures

Beginning their career as the most popular surf band in the nation, the Beach Boys finally emerged by 1966 as America’s pre-eminent pop group, the only act able to challenge (for a brief time) the overarching success of the Beatles with both mainstream listeners and the critical community

The Cheetah Girls Biography, Photos, Pictures

Going from a series of books about a girl pop band to a series of Disney TV movies about a girl pop band to an actual, touring girl pop band, the Cheetah Girls began as 16 young-adult books by Deborah Gregory

The Click Five Biography, Photos, Pictures

Power pop quintet the Click Five formed in Boston in mid-2003 Lead guitarist Joe Guese, bassist Ethan Mentzer, and keyboardist Ben Romans were students at the Berklee School of Music when they captured the attention of svengali manager Wayne Sharp, a longtime jazz promoter whose first attempt at creating a pinup-ready pop combo, Candy (featuring future Guns N’ Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke), ended in commercial disaster when the group’s hotly tipped 1985 debut, Whatever Happened to Fun, flopped at retail

Tadashi Hattori Biography, Photos, Pictures

Japanese composer who concert works included a large body of music for mandolin that is considered notable Hattori’s most familiar, or, at least, most widely heard music were the scores that he wrote for three movies by Akira Kurosawa: They Who Step On the Tiger’s Tail, No Regrets For Our Youth, and One Wonderful Sunday, in 1946 and 1947

Comprising three sisters and one brother of the Corr family — vocalist Andrea, drummer Caroline, violinist Sharon and guitarist/keyboard player Jim — the Corrs blend the music of their Irish background with contemporary pop/rock and occasional use of synthesizers

The Fabulous Pop Tarts Biography, Photos, Pictures

Two of the busiest men in show business, the Pop Tarts have produced three hit television series (including The Best of Manhattan Cable for England’s Channel 4), written a book (about Michael Milken), masterminded the career of supermodel/singer RuPaul, and composed and recorded a 17-song CD — all in the past 12 months

The Flirtations Biography, Photos, Pictures

If there is one group that embodies the state of gay culture today, it’s the Flirtations The Flirtations gained national prominence in the late ’80s as the only openly gay, positive a cappella group

The Hall Johnson Choir Biography, Photos, Pictures

The Hall Johnson Choir is responsible for many of the greatest choir performances on stage and screen in the ’30s and ’40s The group was formed by Hall Johnson — arranger, composer, writer, and multi-instrumentalist — in order to demonstrate the unique sense of rhythm and intensity that Afro-American culture could bring to a musical performance, an aspect he felt had been previously ignored by vocal groups utilizing what can best be described as standard white barbershop harmony

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