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Elektra Records artists
- MetallicaNear Dorarp, Sweden, at around sunrise on the 27th of September 1986, a tour bus skidded off the road and overturned several times.
- Queen (band)Queen played their last concert with Freddie Mercury on the 9th of August 1986, in front of more than 120,000 fans at Knebworth Park in Hertfordshire.
- Brand NubianBrand Nubian came out of New Rochelle, New York, in 1989, and within a year had released one of the most acclaimed alternative hip-hop albums of the decade.
- Ed SheeranEd Sheeran was eleven years old when he heard Eric Clapton walk on stage at the Queen's Golden Jubilee concert in June 2002 and play the opening riff of…
- Jim MorrisonJim Morrison was found dead in a Paris bathtub on the morning of Saturday, the 3rd of July, 1971. He was 27 years old. No doctor had been called.
- The DoorsThe Doors formed on a beach in Santa Monica in July 1965 when Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek ran into each other in front of Manzarek's house on Fraser Avenue.
- Missy ElliottMissy Elliott was born Melissa Arnette Elliott on the 1st of July, 1971, at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia.
- BjörkBjörk Guðmundsdóttir was born on the 21st of November 1965 in Reykjavík, and by the time she turned 11, she had already released a debut record.
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious FiveGrandmaster Flash and the Furious Five coined a word that would define a generation of music. At a party in the South Bronx, a performer named Cowboy began…
- KraftwerkKraftwerk formed in Düsseldorf in 1970, built by two students named Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. They had met at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in the…