Curated category
Virgin Records artists
- David BowieDavid Robert Jones was born on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London. His mother worked as a waitress at a cinema while his father managed promotions…
- Sex PistolsLondon in 1975 was a place of decay and unemployment. John Lydon, then nineteen years old, wore a Pink Floyd T-shirt with the words 'I Hate' handwritten…
- 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…
- Monty PythonOn the 11th of May 1969, six men gathered in a Kashmiri tandoori restaurant in Hampstead, London, to change the course of comedy forever.
- KornIn 1993, three musicians from Bakersfield, California named James Shaffer, Reginald Arvizu, and David Silveria stood at the edge of a new sound.
- George MichaelGeorgios Kyriacos Panayiotou arrived in East Finchley, Middlesex on the 25th of June 1963. He was the youngest child and only son of a Greek Cypriot…
- GorillazIn 1998, musician Damon Albarn and comic artist Jamie Hewlett met to create a new project that would challenge the manufactured nature of pop music.
- AaliyahAaliyah Dana Haughton was born on the 16th of January 1979, in Brooklyn, New York. Her family moved to Detroit when she was five years old.
- Blur (band)In December 1988, bassist Alex James joined singer Damon Albarn's band Circus in London. The group initially adopted the name Seymour after J.D.
- Mariah CareyMariah Carey was born on the 27th of March 1969, in Huntington, New York. Her name came from the song They Call the Wind Maria, which appeared in the 1951…
- Depeche ModeIn 1977, schoolmates Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher formed a band called No Romance in China at Nicholas School in Basildon, Essex.
- Roy OrbisonRoy Kelton Orbison was born on the 23rd of April 1936, in Vernon, Texas. His father worked as an oil-field driller who struggled to find steady work after…
- Ice-TTracy Lauren Marrow arrived in the world on the 16th of February 1958. He was born in Newark, New Jersey to Solomon and Alice Marrow.