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British rhythm and blues boom musicians

  • Pink FloydIn 1965, four architecture students gathered in a tearoom basement at the London Polytechnic to play music under the name Sigma 6.
  • Elton JohnOn the 25th of March 1947, Reginald Kenneth Dwight entered the world in Pinner, Middlesex. His father served in the Royal Air Force and his mother worked as…
  • Ronnie WoodRonald David Wood was born on the 1st of June 1947 in the London Borough of Hillingdon. He grew up in a family of English bargees who operated river and…
  • Eric ClaptonEric Patrick Clapton was born on the 30th of March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey. His mother Patricia Molly Clapton was only sixteen years old when he arrived into…
  • Mick FleetwoodMichael John Kells Fleetwood arrived in the world on the 24th of June 1947 within the red clay hills of Redruth, Cornwall.
  • Keith MoonKeith John Moon was born on the 23rd of August 1946 at Central Middlesex Hospital in northwest London. He grew up in Wembley with a restless imagination and…