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Warner Records artists
- Frank SinatraFrancis Albert Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds when he was born on the 12th of December 1915, in a tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- MadonnaMadonna Louise Ciccone arrived in New York City in 1978 with thirty-five dollars in her pocket. It was the first time she had ever flown on a plane or ridden…
- MetallicaNear Dorarp, Sweden, at around sunrise on the 27th of September 1986, a tour bus skidded off the road and overturned several times.
- Deep PurpleDeep Purple formed in London in 1968 with a concept borrowed not from rock and roll but from a carnival ride. The original organiser, a former Searchers…
- 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…
- Prince (musician)Prince Rogers Nelson arrived at Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis on the 7th of June, 1958, and for the next 57 years he operated at a pitch that most…
- Fleetwood MacFleetwood Mac were a British and American rock band whose name was itself a gambit. Peter Green, the guitarist who formed the group in London in 1967, chose…
- Wu-Tang ClanWu-Tang Clan formed in Staten Island, New York City, in 1992, and within two years had rewritten the rules of how a hip-hop group could operate.
- Earth, Wind & FireEarth, Wind & Fire formed in Chicago in 1969, and over the next five decades they sold more than 90 million records worldwide.
- Clint EastwoodClinton Eastwood Jr. entered the world at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco on the 31st of May, 1930, weighing 11 pounds 6 ounces.
- Miles DavisMiles Dewey Davis III was born on the 26th of May 1926 in Alton, Illinois, to a family that owned a 200-acre estate in Arkansas with a profitable pig farm.
- 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…
- The Beach BoysThe Beach Boys formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961, and within a few years had become one of the most argued-over bands on the planet.
- Bing CrosbyBing Crosby's recording of "White Christmas" has sold over 50 million copies worldwide, making it the bestselling single of all time.
- 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…
- Bee GeesThe Bee Gees were the act that made Barry Gibb the only songwriter in history to have four consecutive number-one hits in the United States, breaking a…
- Dire StraitsDire Straits formed in Deptford, south east London, in 1977, at a moment when punk rock was the dominant sound on British streets.
- Eric ClaptonEric Patrick Clapton was born on the 30th of March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, to a sixteen-year-old mother and a Canadian soldier who had already shipped back…
- KeshaKesha Rose Sebert was born on the 1st of March 1987, in Los Angeles, and by the time she was 22 years old her debut single had broken the record for the…
- Frank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was born on the 21st of December, 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland, into a household where Italian was spoken by his grandparents and gas…
- 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…
- Kylie MinogueKylie Ann Minogue was born on the 28th of May 1968 at Bethlehem Hospital in Caulfield South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
- Petula ClarkPetula Clark was performing for troops during the Blitz when she was still a child, her photo plastered on British Army tanks as a good-luck mascot.
- Chicago (band)Chicago, the band, first gathered on the 15th of February 1967, when saxophonist Walter Parazaider called together a handful of musicians in the city that…