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A&M Records artists
- Black Eyed PeasBlack Eyed Peas were assembled on the dance floors of Los Angeles in 1988, when two high school students named William James Adams Jr and Allan Pineda Lindo…
- Sex PistolsThe Sex Pistols formed in London in 1975, and within two and a half years they had altered the course of popular music. They never recorded a second studio…
- James BrownJames Brown was supposed to be named Joseph James Brown. A clerk reversed his first and middle names on his birth certificate, and the mistake stuck.
- The PoliceThe Police formed in London in 1977, and within six years they would play Shea Stadium to 70,000 people and hold the number one album position in the US for…
- Queen LatifahQueen Latifah chose her name at age eight, pulling it from a book of Arabic names. The word latifah means "delicate" and "very kind", but Dana Elaine Owens…
- Cat StevensCat Stevens sold more than 100 million records before he walked away from pop music entirely. Born Steven Demetre Georgiou on the 21st of July 1948, in the…
- Shaquille O'NealShaquille Rashaun O'Neal was born on the 6th of March, 1972, in Newark, New Jersey, to a mother named Lucille and a biological father, Joe Toney, who would…
- Herb AlpertHerb Alpert is the only musician in history to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 as both a vocalist and an instrumentalist.
- Billy PrestonBilly Preston was the only artist to receive a co-performer credit on a Beatles recording after the band began recording as independent artists.
- Chris MontezChris Montez was born Ezekiel Christopher Montanez on the 17th of January, 1943, in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in Hawthorne in a Mexican-American…