* The Animals, a British rock band

* Atomic Rooster, a British progressive rock band

Category: British rock music groups

Category: British progressive rock groups

Category: British soft rock music groups

During the 1st World War British prisoners of war who had been captured at Gallipoli were housed here in an empty Armenian church at the foot of the rock.

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

* Urban Blitz ( born 1951 ), British rock musician

* Blitz ( band ), a British punk rock band

Based on a study of the British rock succession, it was the first of the modern ' system ' names to be employed, and reflects the fact that many coal beds were formed globally during this time.

* Cyan was a British progressive rock band from the 1980s and 1990s.

Sorrow ( released in December 1968 ) by British group the Pretty Things is generally considered to be among the first creatively successful rock concept albums-in that each song is part of an overarching unified concept – the life story of the main character, Sebastian Sorrow.

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

In the 1970s and 80s, The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock group which specialized entirely in concept albums.

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

" It has been noted that British punk rock critics of disco were very supportive of the pro-black / anti-racist reggae genre.

Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.

* Electric Light Orchestra, a British rock music group

* Forth ( album ), album by British rock band The Verve

The 1978 British comedy film The Rutles was done in the style of rock documentary which treated the fake band The Rutles as if they were a real band.

The 1988 British made-for-TV movie More Bad News was another mocumentary about a rock band, in this case an incompetent heavy metal band.

* Fugazi ( album ), a 1984 studio album by the British rock band Marillion, featuring a song also named " Fugazi "

The Japanese music group ALI Project created the song " Gesshoku Grand Guignol " as the opening for the Bee-Train anime Avenger, while British rock band Duels also named an instrumental track after the theater.

Independent from the British scene, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw death rock branch off from American punk in California.

( Howerd went on to star in Up Pompeii !, a 1969 British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii, as the slave Lurcio, whose character was based on Pseudolus.

Today, the film is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's " great features ", while David Robinson says it shows the star at " his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy.

The latter series starred Dirk Bogarde, probably the British industry's most popular star of the 1950s.

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.

In 1868, British astronomer William Huggins was the first to determine the velocity of a star moving away from the Earth by this method.

The British award-winning actor Chiwetel Ejiofor will star as Solomon Northup.

Pitt is referred to in the Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", where Barney and guest star Wade Boggs get into a bar fight debating the greatest British prime minister of all time.

* November 30 – Mary Millington, British porn star ( d. 1979 )

** Mary Millington, British porn star ( b. 1945 )

The movie found box-office favour abroad as well as at home, and within two years its star was invited to make his English-language debut in the British film The Wilby Conspiracy ( 1975 ).

It received mixed reviews: Allmusic gave it a four star rating, the NME 8 out of 10, and Music Week and MOJO were equally positive, but it received much weaker reviews from some of the British press.

The tremendous success of Tom Jones saw British exhibitors vote Finney the ninth most popular star at the box office in 1963.

Mayall was the star of The New Statesman ( 1987 – 92 ), a series created by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, whose biggest success, Birds of a Feather ( 1989 – 98 ), also deviated from British practice in being scripted by a team of writers.

* The Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell star the character Richard Sharpe, a soldier in the British Army, who fights throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

His decision to put off the election, at the time, seen by many as a sign of his domination of the political scene and he ridiculed his opponents by singing old-time music hall star Vesta Victoria's song " Waiting at the Church " at that month's Trades Union Congress meeting: now seen as one of the greatest moments of hubris in modern British politics, but celebrated at the time.

In addition, Goldberg has a British Academy Film Award, four People's Choice Awards, and has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 1917, Chevalier became a star in le Casino de Paris and played before British soldiers and Americans.

The success of the film version of Up Pompeii in 1971 saw British exhibitors vote him the ninth most popular star at the British box office that year.

Project Daedalus was a study conducted between 1973 and 1978 by the British Interplanetary Society ( BIS ) to design a plausible interstellar unmanned spacecraft that could reach a nearby star within one human scientist's working lifetime or about 50 years.

During this period the band gained their first international recognition when rising British pop star Donovan, who saw them during his stint on the US West Coast in early 1966, mentioned the Airplane in his song " The Fat Angel ," which subsequently appeared on his Sunshine Superman LP.

British film star Will Hay was a familiar face in Falmouth in 1935 whilst filming his comedy Windbag the Sailor.

* 1944 – most popular British star

* 1945 – most popular British star ( 7th most popular overall )