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Axe. Origin. Gainesville, Florida, United States. Genres. Hard rock. Years active. 1979–1984, 1989, 1995-2019. Axe (stylized as AXE) was an American hard rock band from Gainesville, Florida, formed in 1979 and disbanded in 2012. The band is best known for their 1982 song "Rock 'N' Roll Party in the Streets", and had other hits such as "Now or ...
List of best-selling music artists. The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. The sales figures are calculated based on the formula detailed below. The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure (s) and ...
King's X. King's X is an American rock band formed in Springfield, Missouri in 1979. They were first called the Edge and later became Sneak Preview before settling on their current name in 1985. [ 4] The band's current lineup has remained intact for more than four decades, consisting of vocalist and bassist Doug Pinnick, drummer Jerry Gaskill ...
The Band. Jaime Royal " Robbie " Robertson[ 1] OC (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician of Indigenous ancestry. [ 2] He was lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, guitarist and songwriter with The Band from their inception until 1978, and a solo artist. Robertson's work with the Band was ...
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), also known as " Mister Guitar " and " the Country Gentleman ", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans. He was primarily a guitarist, but he also ...
The band's first album in 11 years, My Midnight Things, was released on June 15, 2018, [15] and peaked at number 148 in the Billboard Top 200 and number 84 on the Top Hard Music Charts in Canada. [16] Lizzy Borden is currently working on a follow-up album, [17] and the band released its first song in five years, "Death of Me", on August 23 ...
Be-Bop Deluxe. Be-Bop Deluxe were founded in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, by singer, guitarist and principal songwriter Bill Nelson in 1972. [ 1] The founding line-up consisted of Nelson, guitarist Ian Parkin, bassist and vocalist Robert Bryan, drummer Nicholas Chatterton-Dew, and keyboardist Richard Brown (who left in December of that ...
Metal Health is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Quiet Riot, released on February 28, 1983. [ 1] The album spawned the hit singles "Cum On Feel the Noize" and "Metal Health". It was the band's first album to receive a worldwide release, as the first two were released only in Japan.