British Rock music

2000's

Coldplay

1970's

T-Rex

The band was formed in 1996 by Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland and have since been joined by Guy Berryman and Will Champion. Their debut album 'Parachutes' was released in 2000 and have also released about 14 more.

They have acheived :

Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Rock Album, Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video, Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video, Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction, MTV Video Music Award – Breakthrough Video, MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction, Billboard Music Award for Top Alternative Album, Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Album, Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Artist and Billboard Music Award for Top Alternative Artist

This band formed in 1967and was founded by Marc Bolan singer/sonwriter. They released four albums under the name tyrannosaurus Rex', but after using the shortened version as a nick-name, thay all agreed on renaming the band 'T-Rex'

Thin Lizzy

Lead by Phil Lynot, Thin Lizzy was founded in 1969 in Dublin and this band was one of the few mixed-race bands to make succes in its time. Also they unusually had fans and listeners from both Northern and Southern Ireland and the U.K and are still thought of as a 'classic rock' band. The Origin of their quirky name was when they saw the 'Blues Breakers and Eric Clapton' album cover in which Eric is holding a copy of the Beano comic book, and used this as inspiration. They thought of the name 'Tin Lizzy' (which was a character from another comic strip), but in the end agreed on 'Thin Lizzy' because of how the Irish accent pronounces them the same !

Genesis

This is the album cover that inspired the name of 'Thin Lizzie'

Although it was a pop group in the 60's, Genesis was a Rock band in the 70's. With influences from Pink Floyd and the Beatles, the band originally formed in 1967 from teen-bands (which both came from Charterhouse School in Surrey) 'Garden wall' (Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel and Chris stewart) and 'The anon' (Rivers Jobe , Richard MacPhail, Rob Tyrell , Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford and Mike Colman). The first gigs of 'the Anon' and 'Garden wall' were performed at the school in surrey and Peter Gabrel spent most of the afternoon picking Rose petals, which he showered the audience in. Later on Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford teamed up with Peter Gabriel , Anthony Phillips and Chris Stewart to form 'Genesis'

Kasabian

Muse

This band is from Leicester and formed in 1997. It consisted of Tom Meighan, Sergio Pizzorno, Christopher Karloff, Chris Edwards. Their debut album was called 'Kasabian' and was released in 2004 and 4 singles came from this '

It formed in 1994 and was made up of Matthew Bellamy, Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard. Their first number1 was 'Absolution' and they are still a very popular group an even performed at the Olympic opening ceremony.

Their debut album was called 'From Genesis to revelation' and

The Rolling Stones

In London1962, Brian Jones , Mick Jagger , Ian Stewart , Keith Richards, Mick Taylor and Tony Chapman formed The Rolling Stones. However just a few months after the bands' first gig, Mick Taylor was replaced by Bill Wyman, Tony Chapman was replaced by Charlie Watts and Ian Stewart was forced to leave, in order to keep the image of the group. Their first no.1 hit in the U.K was their cover of 'its' all over now'.

The famous 'lips and tongue' logo was created in 1970 and first featured on the cover of one of their albums in 1971

Pink Floyd

Procol Harlum

Pink Floyd was created in 1965, London and Cambridge. The original cast were Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright, but in the late 60's, Syd Barrett was replaced by David Gilmour. On October 31st 1966 they signed a record deal with Andrew King and Peter Jenner, by 13th December the same year, they had played their first gig at the Royal Albert hall.

In January 1967 they recorded 'Arnold Layne' and its back-up 'Candy and a aurrant bun' in Chelsea sound techniques studio.

Tears for Fears

Formed in Essex1967 , the band was most famous for its first single 'a whiter shade of pale'. the peculiar name of the band came from the band managers' friends' Burmese cat called 'Procul Harun'

This is part of 'Set controls for the heart of the sun' from 1968 album 'a saurcerful of secrets'.

1960's

The band formed in Bath 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith after previous bands 'Neon' and 'Graduate'. Their first full-length album 'the hurting' was released in 1983 and bought them great success (reaching number one in U.K charts) and their second album 'songs from the big chair' reached number one in the U.S too.

In studio 3, Abbey Road studios, Pink Floyd recorded their debut album on March 1st 1967, and on the 10th, 'Arnold Layne' (also known as 'Candy and a current bun') was released in the Uk and was rejected by the BBC for its strong lyrics about "a transvestite underwear theif".

1980's

British Rock

U2

THE BEATLES

Ringo Star, John Lennon, Paul Mcartney and George Harrison

Formed in 1976 in Dublin by Bono (A.K.A Paul David Hewson), Larry Mullen and The Edge (A.K.A David Howell Evans), Adam Clayton, and their first album 'boy' included their first U.K hit single 'I will follow'.

started off in 1957 as a skiffle group . This is a genre of music with folk, country, jazz and blues influences often using homemade, second hand or broken instruments. They became famous in the U.K in 1963.

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Radiohead

Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway formed the band in 1982. Despite this, their debut single 'Creep' was released in 1992 and is still very popular today. They have won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album and the MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction, but their website is a bit scary.

1990's

...now

Stereophonics

"I'm a weirdo..."

The Welsh rock band formed in 1992 consisting of Richard Jones, Kelly Jones and Stuart Cable. They are still making music and are currently on tour, but now the members are Kelly Jones, Richard Jones, Adam Zindani and Javier Weyler after Stuart split from the band in 2003. None of the members fell out for long after the split, but unfortunately, Stuart Cable died in his house in June 2010, aged just 40.

Oasis

In Manchester 1991 the group formed, (originally known as 'the rain') with Tony McCarroll, Paul McGuigan, Paul Arthurs and Liam Gallagher. Their debut album was 'Definatly Maybe' featuring 'slide away', 'Shaker maker', 'supersonic' and 'live forever'.