Dexys Midnight Runners - the name consistently spelled without an apostrophe - were a British post-punk and northern soul band who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. The word "Dexys" in this case, comes from a colloquialism of "dextroamphetamine" or "purple hearts," a type of amphetamine diet pill that was a popular "upper" drug with England's Northern Soul scene in the 1960s.
There's multiple artist s/bands that calls themself Revolution 1) Revolution is multi-award winning duo made out of twin bothers, George and Joseph Mothiba. Without any doubt, Revolution is one of the best things ever to happen in the South African music industry. The journey of Revolution began in the dusty streets of Alexandra township, where the two grew up and today they are one of the top producers and top house music ambassadors in the country and they own their independent record label, Four Sounds Productions.
The King Blues are one of the UK punk underground’s best loved bands, and they’re now primed for an assault on the wider world having signed to new label Field Recordings. Their first break came in early 2006 when a demo of ‘Mr. Music Man’ made it into the hands of Mike Davies of Radio 1’s The Lock Up, who gave the band repeated plays. Support from Zane Lowe soon followed and The King Blues grabbed the attention of the UK’s biggest punk label, Household Name...
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Born in South London 12th December 1960 Peter Hunnigale was to develop into one of Britain's most formidable Reggae artist of our time.
It was clear at a tender age Peter's main interest was in music and being born of Jamaican parentage he was exposed and influenced by music of West Indian culture.
Growing up in Britain meant that Peter was also opened to other genre's in music and with seeing the popular acts of the day performing on Television and hearing the songs on Radio, Peter knew what he wanted to be.
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Batida is the name of a radio show that, since 2007, promotes DJ Dj Mpula's favourites on everything Afro or Afro inspired urban music. Stuff like Kwaito, Kuduro, Brazilian Funk, Dancehall, Pretoria and other Afro House, etc, on the national station Antena 3. Radio Fazuma is now presenting “Dance Mwangolé”, to make you move your hips like a Mwangolé. The story of the record goes like this: Dj Mpula did a research on archives of old Angolan Music...
The Black Country is one of the more unlikely places to find a band whose influences try to avoid heavy metal and men in long shorts. At least one of the groups from Dudley have tried to - Mitch and Murray. The band comprises of Benjamin Jones, Peter Coulthard, Mel Balham and Paul Of The Dead (from prog legends Andromeda Circle). Promisingly soulful songs loom out of the guitar influences of Red House Painters and Galaxie 500, the classic Blues and Folk Benjamin was raised on, and continuing forays into Soul and Pop.
Multiple artists are known as Jimmy James. 1. Jimmy James (born Michael James, 13 September 1939, Jamaica) is a soul music singer. "The Vagabonds" was the name of Jimmy James backing group. They signed a recording contract with Pye Records and released their best known studio album, The New Religion in 1966. He's particularly known for his cover of Neil Diamond's "Red Red Wine". In the 1970s the band had hit singles in the UK Singles Chart with " I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me" and "Now Is The Time".