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MFSB formed in 1971 and disbanded in 1985, three years after Teddy Pendergrass' car accident, which left him paralyzed. [4]Assembled by record producers Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, MFSB was the house band for their Philadelphia International Records label and originated "Philly sound" that dominated the early 1970s for the artists who recorded at the Sigma Sound Studios, including The O'Jays ...
Beru Revue is an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that played that city's club circuit in the 1980s and reunited in 2006. They debuted at Grendel's Lair in Philadelphia on September 6, 1981. Although Beru Revue had a strong and loyal local following, they had only one notable radio hit in their seven-year career, with "Hoods A ...
The Hooters are an American rock band, which was founded in Philadelphia in 1980. [1] They combine elements of rock, reggae , ska , and folk music . The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid-1980s due to heavy radio airplay and MTV rotation of several songs, including " All You Zombies ", "Day by Day ...
Manager from 1984–1985. The "energetic, frequently frenetic and occasionally tasteless tastemaker" Paris is a "legendary" figure in Philadelphia music. [24] His late-Sunday-night radio show on WXPN, Yesterday's Now Music Today (co-hosted with Roid Kafka), was the Philadelphia area's "first significant new music program." [25] David Wildman ...
Categories and articles related to notable musicians presently or previously from Philadelphia. For musical groups associated with Philadelphia, see Category:Musical groups from Philadelphia . The main articles for this category are List of people from Philadelphia and Music of Philadelphia .
Pink, an American pop singer from Doylestown, launched her music career in 1995. The Hooters, a rock band formed in Philadelphia in 1980 Poison, a glam metal band formed in 1983 in Mechanicsburg The Live Aid concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia on July 13, 1985, featured Led Zeppelin, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty and ...
The band's self-titled debut album was produced by Rick Chertoff and released in 1979. [1] Trouser Press likened the album to The Boomtown Rats' A Tonic for the Troops in terms of combining "wit, street savvy and relatively intricate hard-pop arrangements." [2] Gary Hill of Allmusic similarly noted the band's fusion of punk "irreverence" with ...