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Musician Sid Vicious was born on May 10, 1957 in London in the family of a father - a security guard and a mother - a drug-addicted hippie. At birth, he was given the name John Simon Ritchie. There are different versions of the appearance of the musician's pseudonym. But the most popular is this - the name was given in honor of the musical composition […]

Pascal Obispo was born on January 8, 1965 in the city of Bergerac (France). Dad was a famous member of the Girondins de Bordeaux football team. And the boy had a dream - to also become an athlete, but not a football player, but a world-famous basketball player. However, his plans changed when the family moved to the city of […]

Andrey Sapunov is a talented singer and musician. For a long creative career, he changed several musical groups. The artist preferred to work in the rock genre. The news that the idol of millions died on December 13, 2020 shocked fans. Sapunov left a rich creative heritage behind him, which will preserve the brightest [...]

Kate Bush is one of the most successful, unusual and popular solo artists to come from England in the second half of the XNUMXth century. Her music was an ambitious and idiosyncratic combination of folk rock, art rock and pop. The stage performances were bold. The lyrics sounded like skillful meditations filled with drama, fantasy, danger and wonder at the nature of man and […]

Pop fashion icon, national treasure of France, one of the few female vocalists performing original songs. Françoise Hardy became the first girl to perform songs in the style of Ye-ye, known for romantic and nostalgic songs with sad lyrics. A fragile beauty, an icon of style, an ideal Parisian - all this is about a woman who made her dream come true. Childhood of Françoise Hardy Little is known about the childhood of Françoise Hardy […]