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

WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

Category: British rock music groups

Category: British soft rock music groups

A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.

Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form.

Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provided song texts, Whitman's the texts for larger choral works.

Category: British dance music groups

Category: British electronic music groups

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

Henry Purcell's last major work, composed in 1695, was music for play entitled Bonduca, or the British Heroine ( Z.

Bubbles, who also sketched and painted privately, is best known for his distinctive contribution to the design practices associated with the British independent music scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

The British arts and music festival Bestival cancelled its planned clown theme in 2006 after many adult ticketholders contacted the organizers expressing a fear of clowns.

* Canterbury scene, the British progressive music genre

Category: British music video directors

* Commodore Ballroom, a nightclub and music venue in Vancouver, British Columbia

Category: British styles of music

* 1948 – Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist

* Electric Light Orchestra, a British rock music group

* Freestylers, a British electronic music group

* 1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer ( d. 1988 )

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.

* Gramophone ( magazine ), a British publication devoted to classical music