Category: British pop music groups

Category: British indie pop groups

* 1955 – Howard Jones, British pop singer

By the 1960s, the Hammond became popular with pop groups and was used on the British pirate station Radio 390.

Although modern Harappa has a train station left from the British times, it is today just a small ( pop.

Brown appeared at Edinburgh 50, 000 – The Final Push, the final Live 8 concert on July 6, 2005, where he performed a duet with British pop star Will Young on " Papa's Got A Brand New Bag ".

He also performed a duet with another British pop star, Joss Stone, a week earlier on the United Kingdom chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.

He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie pop, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, electronic music and dance music.

* King ( band ), a British New Wave pop band of the mid-1980s

* Madness ( band ), a British ska / pop band

* 1954 – John Parr, British pop singer

* 1978 – Alesha Dixon, British pop singer ( Mis-Teeq )

* Republica, a British pop group

Pop music has been dominated by the American and ( from the mid-1960s ) British music industries, whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture, but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music, sometimes producing local versions of wider trends, and lending them local characteristics.

Both movies contained the Bill Haley & His Comets hit " Rock Around the Clock ", which first entered the British charts in early 1955 – four months before it reached the US pop charts – topped the British charts later that year and again in 1956, and helped identify rock and roll with teenage delinquency.

Known for their distinctive jangle and chime, Rickenbacker guitars tended to be favoured by Jangle Pop, Power pop and British Invasion-style groups-bands such as The Who, The Byrds and The Beatles.

They soon established themselves as the second most popular UK band ( after The Beatles ) and led a second wave of the " British Invasion " of the US pop charts.

The Spice Girls are a British pop girl group formed in 1994.

A British 1980s pop band took the name Thompson Twins after the Tintin characters.

* " Work " ( The Saturdays song ), a 2008 song by British pop group The Saturdays

* 1978 – Myleene Klass, British singer, pianist, and model ( Hear ’ Say )

* 1940 – Billy Fury, British singer ( d. 1983 )

* 1945 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer, and dancer ( d. 2000 )

* Alexandra Burke ( born 1988 ), British singer

British singer Kate Bush featured the balalaika, played by her brother Paddy Bush in two of her Top-40 singles, " Babooshka " and " Running Up That Hill ".

British rapper Plan B released a concept album titled The Defamation of Strickland Banks in which he plays a soul singer named Strickland Banks.

( British singer Vera Lynn reached the top of the chart in August 2009 at age 92, but with the greatest hits album, We'll Meet Again – The Very Best of Vera Lynn.

* 1945 – Lemmy, British singer, bassist ( Motörhead )

* 1986 – Ellie Goulding, British singer

* 1939 – Eric Flynn, British actor and singer ( d. 2002 )

* 1944 – Marti Webb, British actor and singer

In addition to performing for the Pope, the singer participated in a live broadcast on British television for Christmas Eve in 1997, before she flew home to County Donegal to join her family at midnight Mass.

* 1978 – Jenny Frost, British singer / presenter / model / DJ ( Precious and Atomic Kitten )

* 1966 – Rick Astley, British singer

* 1949 – Emma Kirkby, British singer

* 1916 – John Reed, British actor and singer ( d. 2010 )

* 1949 – Judy Dyble, British singer / songwriter ( Fairport Convention )

* 1971 – Sonia, British singer

* 1960 – Holly Johnson, British singer ( Frankie Goes to Hollywood )

British singer Morrissey shot the video for his single " Suedehead " in Fairmount, tracing the steps of James Dean.

He befriended Elton John when the British singer was staying in California in 1972, insisting on calling him " John Elton.

He is also a fan of the British singer Phil Collins ; Collins claimed he was " incredibly flattered " when he learned this.

* John Ford ( musician ) ( born 1948 ), English singer, songwriter and guitarist in rock genre ; long career lasting from British Invasion to 21st century

* 1982 – Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor and singer ( allSTARS *)