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Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band. It was formed in Los Angeles in 1981 by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. The band's fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the founding "big four" bands of thrash metal, alongside Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer. Metallica's current lineup comprises founding members and primary songwriters Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, and bassist Robert Trujillo. Former members of the band are bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff B
Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa is an English singer and songwriter. Her accolades include seven Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards.
Black Sabbath
British heavy metal band
Bon Jovi
American rock band
Kiss (band)
Kiss was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. Known for their face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid-1970s with shock rock–style live performances that featured fire-breathing, blood-spitting, smoking guitars, shooting rockets, levitating drum kits and pyrotechnics. The band went through several lineup changes, starting with drummer Eric Carr replacing original drummer Peter Criss in 1980, with only Stanley and Simmons remaining the only consistent members. The final lineup consisted of Stanley, Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer.
Dire Straits
English rock band
Scorpions
German rock band
Rod Stewart
English singer and songwriter (born 1945)
The Prodigy
English electronic dance music group
The Killers
American musical group; rock band
Genesis
English rock band
Soundgarden
Soundgarden was an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Scott Sundquist was brought in to play drums in 1985 so that Cornell could focus solely on vocals. Sundquist was soon replaced on drums by Matt Cameron in 1986. Yamamoto left in 1989 and was replaced initially by Jason Everman and shortly thereafter by Ben Shepherd. Soundgarden disbanded in 1997 and reformed in 2010. Following Cornell's death in 2017, Thayil declared in October 2018 that Soundgarden had disbanded a second time.
Uriah Heep
British band
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk (, ) is a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk was among the first successful acts to popularise the genre. The group began as part of West Germany's experimental krautrock scene in the early 1970s before embracing electronic instrumentation, including synthesizers, drum machines, and vocoders. Wolfgang Flür joined in 1973 and Karl Bartos in 1975.
Amy Macdonald
Scottish singer-songwriter
Def Leppard
British musical group; rock band
Mark Knopfler
British musician
King Crimson
English progressive rock band
Rush
Canadian rock band
Tears for Fears
English pop/rock band
Status Quo
British musical group; rock band
Thin Lizzy
Irish rock band
Lewis Capaldi
Lewis Marc Capaldi is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. In March 2019, his single "Someone You Loved" (2018) topped the UK Singles Chart where it remained for seven weeks, and in November 2019, it reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100; it was nominated at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and won the 2020 Brit Award for Song of the Year. "Someone You Loved" was the bestselling single of 2019 in the UK. He was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award at the 2019 Brit Awards. Capaldi also won the 2020 Brit Award for Best New Artist. In May 2020, it was announced that Capaldi's song "Someone You Loved" had become the longest-running top 10 UK single of all time by a British artist.
Dio
American heavy metal band
Doro
German singer and frontwoman of Warlock
Phil Lynott
Irish rock musician (1949–1986)
Texas
Scottish musical group; alternative rock band
Alan Stivell
Breton musician
The Platters
American music group
Gentle Giant
British band
Van der Graaf Generator
English musical group; rock band
Aphrodite's Child
Greek progressive rock band
Marc Almond
British singer
L.A. Guns
American hard rock band
Fairport Convention
British folk rock group
Razorlight
Razorlight are an English indie rock band, formed in 2002 in London by lead singer and guitarist Johnny Borrell. Along with Borrell, the current line-up of the band is composed of founding members Björn Ågren on guitar and bassist Carl Dalemo, as well as drummer Andy Burrows. This lineup is a reunion of the lineup from the band's second and third albums.
Yello
Yello is a Swiss electronic music band, which formed in Zürich in 1979. For most of the band's history, Yello has been a duo consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank; founding member Carlos Perón left in 1983.
Maxïmo Park
English band
Graham Bonnet
British vocalist and songwriter
One Night Only
band
John Illsley
English musician
IQ
British neo-progressive rock band
Big Country
Scottish musical group; rock band
Paul Carrack
British musician
Colosseum
British band
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
British rock group
Paul Jones
British singer, actor, harmonica player, radio personality and television presenter (born 1942)
Warlock
German musical group; heavy metal band
Chase & Status
British electronic music band
Dirty Pretty Things
British rock band
Graham Parker
British singer
Noah and the Whale
British indie rock band
Noisettes
Noisettes are an English indie rock band from London, currently composed of singer and bassist Shingai Shoniwa and guitarist Dan Smith. The band first achieved commercial success and nationwide recognition with the second single of their second album, "Don't Upset the Rhythm (Go Baby Go)" which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in 2009.
Brand X
British musical group; jazz fusion band
The Notting Hillbillies
band
Iain Matthews
English musician and songwriter
The Mission
English gothic rock band
Lucifer's Friend
German rock band
Alex Harvey
Scottish rock musician (1935–1982)
Nucleus
British band