Gordon Haskell was born on 27th April 1946 at a nursing home in the village of Verwood, just north of Bournemouth. His death was announced on 18th October 2020. Taking an interest in music from an early age, Gordon loved to play the family piano and also enjoyed playing an […]
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There are many more musicians and other people from the music industry who have a connection to Bournemouth or the surrounding area than you might imagine.
These are the notable people from the music industry with a connection to Bournemouth that we are aware of.
Born in the Bournemouth area, brothers Michael Giles and Peter Giles formed Giles Giles And Fripp in 1967, with Michael Giles on drums and vocals, Peter Giles on bass guitar and vocals, and Robert Fripp on guitar. The band only released an album, The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles Giles And […]
Robert Fripp was born in Wimborne Minster, a few miles northwest of Bournemouth in 1946. He began his career playing with hotel dance bands while he was studying economics, and moved to London in 1967 having joined with brothers Michael and Peter Giles. Together they formed Giles Giles And Fripp […]
Lou Brown is a singer-songwriter from Bournemouth. Lou was born in 1978, and has earned a lot of respect in the UK music industry, being awarded the Southwest’s Young Achiever of the Year Award in 2003 and taking part in the Prince’s Trust “Soundlive” programme. She has released 2 albums, […]
Tony Brock was born in Poole in 1954 and became the drummer for Spontaneous Combustion in the early 1970’s. Spontaneous Combustion lived up to their name, and split up in 1973, after releasing two albums, which were produced by Greg Lake (of Emerson Lake and Palmer), who is also from […]
Born in 1922 Max Bygraves was a singer and entertainer who was popular throughout the UK for many years. Those of us who grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s will remember those classic songs of his that were always on the radio, including “Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen By The […]
Tony Blackburn is best known for being one of the original Radio Caroline DJ’s in the 1960’s, and his breakfast show was the first show to be broadcast on BBC Radio One when it was launched on 30th September 1967. Tony was born in 1943 in Guildford in Surrey, but […]