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Paul Haig might be best known as the frontman of Scottish post-punk band Josef K, whose lone official record played a major role in the development of the C-86 scene that followed a few years after the group’s disintegration
The warm, mellifluous voice of Paul Heaton often masks the jagged satirical content of his lyrics From pointed political jabs like “The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death” to darkly comical love stories such as “Something That You Said,” Heaton’s work with the Housemartins and the Beautiful South has had countless listeners obliviously humming along to his biting wit
Paul Hornsby started playing music at an early age His first professional experience came in 1962 in the band the Minutes By 1967, he was playing with Duane and Gregg Allman in the Hour Glass
Not to be mixed up with any of the performers whose real name actually is Paul Howard, this pseudonym was part of a group of aliases employed by the members of Goose Creek Symphony during that band’s early days
The saxophonist Paul Howard played on the sole album by a band entitled Mummy Calls, released in the mid-’80s He should not be confused with an earlier jazz saxophonist and bandleader of the same name who was active through the ’50s
A native of Canada, Paul Janz trained for a musical career in Switzerland and joined the German group Deliverance in the ’70s After the band split up, Janz recorded a demo tape that interested A&M enough to sign him and release High Strung in 1985, Electricity in 1987 and Renegade Romantic in 1990
London vocalist Paul Johnson was in Paradise before he was signed to a solo deal by Columbia in 1987 While a nice, if somewhat bland, singer in the Urban Contemporary mode, Johnson’s singles didn’t make much headway
Paul Johnson was one of the founding fathers of surf guitar, writing the 1961 classic “Mr Moto” for his band the Bel Airs He floated around the genre for years after their breakup, eventually helping the revival of the genre with his work with the Packards in the ’80s
Unlike the overwhelming majority of songwriters, who get next to the darker side of life but never quite break the door down, Paul Kopasz has lived as part of the fringe element, and his career has evoked comparisons to Townes Van Zandt, Lou Reed and Merle Haggard, three artists known for drawing from their own shady experiences for song material
Paul Kantner is a singer/songwriter and rhythm guitarist who was a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship Kantner was the first person approached by singer Marty Balin about putting together a folk-rock group in the mid-’60s in the San Francisco Bay area