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Warner Records artists
- Frank SinatraFrancis Albert Sinatra entered the world on the 12th of December 1915 inside a tenement building at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- MadonnaMadonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City, Michigan, on the 16th of August 1958. Her mother died of breast cancer when Madonna was five years old on the…
- MetallicaIn late 1981, a Danish drummer named Lars Ulrich placed an advertisement in The Recycler newspaper. The ad read "Drummer looking for other metal musicians to…
- Deep PurpleIn 1967, former Searchers drummer Chris Curtis contacted London businessman Tony Edwards to manage a new group he was assembling.
- 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…
- Prince (musician)Prince Rogers Nelson entered the world at Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the 7th of June 1958. His father John Lewis Nelson was a pianist…
- Fleetwood MacLondon, July 1967 marked the birth of a new group when Peter Green left John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers to form his own band.
- Wu-Tang ClanIn the late 1980s, cousins Robert Diggs, Gary Grice, and Russell Jones formed a group named Force of the Imperial Master in Staten Island.
- Earth, Wind & FireIn 1969, Maurice White joined two friends in Chicago to form a songwriting team called The Salty Peppers. They secured a recording contract with Capitol…
- Clint EastwoodClinton Eastwood Jr. arrived at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco on the 31st of May 1930. Nurses nicknamed him Samson because he weighed more…
- Miles DavisMiles Dewey Davis III arrived in the world on the 26th of May 1926, born into an affluent African-American family in Alton, Illinois.
- 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.
- The Beach BoysOn the 20th of June 1958, Brian Wilson turned sixteen inside a bedroom he shared with his brothers Dennis and Carl in their family home in Hawthorne…
- Bing CrosbyHarry Lillis Crosby Jr. entered the world on the 3rd of May 1903, in Tacoma, Washington. He grew up at a house his father built at 1112 North J Street before…
- 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.
- 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.
- Dire StraitsIn 1977, four men gathered in a kitchen in Deptford, south east London to form a band that would change the sound of rock music.
- 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…
- KeshaKesha Rose Sebert arrived in the world on the 1st of March 1987. Her mother Pebe Sebert struggled to raise her and older brother Lagan on welfare payments…
- Frank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was born on the 21st of December 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked at the Edgewood Arsenal chemical warfare facility of the…
- KraftwerkIn 1970, two students named Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter met at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. They began playing together as part of a…
- Kylie MinogueKylie Ann Minogue was born on the 28th of May 1968 at Bethlehem Hospital in Caulfield South, a suburb of Melbourne. Her mother Carol Ann Jones had moved to…
- Petula ClarkSally Clark entered the world on the 15th of November 1932 in Ewell, Surrey. Her parents worked as nurses at Long Grove Hospital in Epsom.
- Chicago (band)On the 15th of February 1967, six musicians gathered in a Chicago rehearsal space with a radical idea that would redefine the boundaries of rock music.