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Virgin Records artists
- David BowieDavid Bowie was born David Robert Jones on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London, and he died two days after releasing his final album, on the 10th of…
- 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…
- Spice GirlsThe Spice Girls were formed in 1994, and within two years they had achieved something no all-female group had done before: landed number one on the charts of…
- Monty PythonMonty Python was a British comedy troupe of six men, and the only thing they ever agreed the name meant was that it sounded funny.
- KornKorn walked into a recording studio in Huntington Beach in 1993 and started playing a riff that would stop strangers in their tracks.
- George MichaelGeorge Michael died on Christmas Day 2016, at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. He was 53. His partner, Fadi Fawaz, found him in bed in the early…
- GorillazGorillaz are an English virtual band formed in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and comic artist Jamie Hewlett. Their four members - 2-D, Murdoc Niccals…
- AaliyahAaliyah Dana Haughton was 22 years old when a twin-engine Cessna 402 lifted off a runway in the Bahamas on the evening of the 25th of August 2001, and then…
- Blur (band)Blur formed in December 1988 when Alex James walked into a rehearsal room and joined Damon Albarn's band. Within a few years, they would be at the centre of…
- Mariah CareyMariah Carey walked into a music executive's party in December 1988 as an unknown backup singer and left without speaking to anyone important.
- Depeche ModeDepeche Mode formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980, and within a decade they were filling the Pasadena Rose Bowl with more than 60,000 people.
- Roy OrbisonRoy Kelton Orbison left a room feeling different after he sang. Where other male performers of his era projected confidence and ease, Orbison sang about…
- Ice-TIce-T was born Tracy Lauren Marrow on the 16th of February 1958 in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Solomon and Alice Marrow.