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English pop music groups

  • The BeatlesIn November 1956, a sixteen-year-old John Lennon formed a skiffle group with friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool.
  • Spice GirlsIn February 1994, a trade paper called The Stage carried an advertisement seeking singers for an all-female pop band. Four hundred women showed up to…
  • Bee GeesThe Gibb brothers were born on the Isle of Man in the late 1940s. They moved to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, in 1955.
  • Herman's HermitsIn 1963, a publican in Manchester noticed that Peter Noone looked like Sherman from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons. This observation led to the name…