Over 100 fans have voted on the 100+ people on Who Is The Most Famous Anthony or Tony In The World?. Current Top 3: Anthony Hopkins, Tony Hawk, Anthony ...
The result is a full list of the most famous musicians born the same year as you, including some of the biggest names in pop, rock, rap, and jazz.There are some tough and easily debatable calls here. For example, the 1943 nod is given to Beatles guitarist George Harrison, which seems ...
X-Ray Spex toed the line between punk and New Wave. Their saxophone player helped the latter, while singer Poly Styrene (who died of cancer in 2011) fed their punk urges. She was the genre's greatest female singer, and her gasoline-fueled vocals makeGermfree Adolescentsone of punk's best...
Born Farrell Sanders in Little Rock, Ark., Sanders began playing tenor saxophone in high school and after graduating started playing in clubs in Oakland, Calif., and later in New York City. In 1965, he released his first album, Pharoah's First, and also became a member of John Coltrane'...
Despite these hardships, Hayes found solace in music, teaching himself how to play piano, organ, and saxophone. His natural talent for music led him to become a session musician for Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, a pivotal moment that would shape his career. Hayes's contribution to the...
From the ecstatic flights of his playing, and the sometimes explicitly religious iconography he employed to contextualize it, it is clear that the something he sought had a spiritual dimension. But for all his yearning toward a higher plane, the giant of jazz saxophone—who died on Saturday at...
Keef’s bucket list. For that matter, neither is the topic of who is the world’s greatest guitar player. While he has mellowed with age and become more polite to interviewers, if you are a budding rock journo prepping for your interview with him, it would be wise to keep this in ...
Nik Turner, who served two stints as a member of the space rock outfitHawkwind, died at the age of 82 on Nov. 10, 2022. Turner was a multi-talented musician who was known for playing both flute and saxophone with the band, while also serving as a vocalist and composer. Turner was fi...
a neighbor who played saxophone and went with me had talked our way into joining the band – minus Jason – for drinks at the hotel across the street. I soaked in the conversation and experiences until Ellis arrived. He started telling stories about when Charlie Parker was in Jay McShann’...
He would later form 'The Beat Brothers' (Ricky Barnes - saxophone, Roy Young - organ, Colin Milander - guitar and Johnny Watson - drums). They are credited as playing in support of Tony Sheridan on some recordings made in Hamburg in 1962/3 including 'What'd I Say', 'Ya Ya' & 'Le...