'Mark Oliver Everett showed no talent for physics, or even mathematics. He was much more interested in the records his sister was playing in the house.

Everyday after school one year, Elizabeth played Neil Young's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH album over and over. Mark listened. He never would have dreamt that one day he would record an album (DAISIES OF THE GALAXY) playing the same upright piano that Neil Young played on AFTER THE GOLD RUSH....'

By the time he was 20, E was obsessed with writing songs and recording them on his secondhand 4 track cassette recorder. He wrote and recorded virtually every day of the next seven years.

Visit this site to read more about Mr E and the hauntingly beautiful music of The Eels.

Ante Bubalo has put together a site dedicated to Jimi Hendrix. Masses of information and quotations make this site special.

Initially a British folk-rock combo called Tyrannosaurus Rex, T. Rex was the primary force in glam rock, thanks to the creative direction of guitarist/vocalist Marc Bolan (born Marc Feld).

Bolan created a deliberately trashy form of rock & roll that was proud of its own disposability. T. Rex's music borrowed the underlying sexuality of early rock & roll, adding dirty, simple grooves and fat distorted guitars, as well as an overarching folky/hippie spirituality that always came through the clearest on ballads.

'John Lennon was born to the sound of Hitler's bombs in Liverpool on the night of October 9th 1940...

'... Liverpool College of Art allowed him to indulge in the teddy boy dress and behaviour of the time, much to Mimi's disapproval. Although Julia, his mother, was far more easy going about how he looked and behaved. She also encouraged his interest in music. John's visits to see Julia and his half sisters, Julia and Jackie, were frequent and were often musical sessions where Julia would sing and play the banjo, which she taught John to play. This led him to want a guitar.

He pestered his Aunt Mimi for one and it wasn't long before she gave in. From then on John would sit on his bed making up tunes and singing along. The noise often got on Mimi's nerves and she'd banish him to the front porch with the words that have since become immortal, "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it."'

Doherty, ex Libertines front man and now anarchist musician for the newly formed Baby Shambles, is a perfect illustration of the paradoxical nature of creativity: beautiful things have a tendency to be born from pain and torment.

Take his latest contribution to a free magazine called ‘Full Moon Empty Sports Bag’. Doherty, a regular contributor to the magazine which encourages young, intelligent writers, painted a figure with his own blood. He signs the image with a quote from Goethe, "any scrap of paper's good, for signature a drop of blood" - where Mephistopheles proposes the bargain that leads to the sale of Faust's soul to the devil.

The theme that Doherty suggests is 'the self destructiveness of fame.' It couldn’t be more fitting, for Doherty's rock and roll resume reads like a Hunter S. Thompson-Irvine Welsh car crash.

Doherty and Moss are apparently back on, however, he is charged with blackmail and robbery. He is reprimanded for yawning in court but granted a $150,000 bail and ordered to observe a 10pm to 7am curfew. Doherty’s label, Rough Trade, fail to come up with the bail money and he is transferred to Pentonville Prison. After two more failed attempts at coming up with the bail cash and six nights in jail, Doherty is finally released into a rehab clinic. He promises to come off the crack, ‘for Kate.’ A few days later the judge allows Doherty to play for a two hour gig. The gig ends in chaos with Doherty punching his guitarist.

Pete Doherty makes Courtney Love look like Sandra Bullock. But the river runs deeper than this. Besides assault, his other accolades include burglary, another 6 month jail sentence, selling poetry for drug money and spending time in the world toughest rehab clinic – a Thai monastery where he faced beatings with a bamboo cane.

But let’s not dwell on the negative shall we?

That Jarvis Cocker has decamped to Paris with his lady and their newborn is no indication that Britain's favourite lanky troublemaker is hankering for a cessation of musical activities. Indeed, seven months on from Pulp's supposed last ever live show at the Auto festival in Rotherham, Cocker's much loved pop presence again invades the public consciousness. Primarily with Relaxed Muscle (his perversely brooding electro rock project, alongside Fat Truckers and National Bandit colluder Jason Buckle), as well as The Nu Forest with indie stalwarts The Pastels. He’s also contributed vocals to “bastard pop” king Richard X’s debut album.

Jarvis formed Relaxed Muscle after Pulp, with whom he’s been playing since 1978 (it’s true — he was only 15), were dropped from Island Records after their last album, 2001’s We Love Life, failed to rock the sales charts. Eager to leave the stress of that disappointment behind him, Cocker reportedly formed the new band and adopted the new persona to rejuvenate his interest in music. Those close to the band claim that Cocker has not forsaken Pulp for Relaxed Muscle — rather, the new band is a side-project akin to Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz. Pulp are expected to return after Cocker releases an album with Relaxed Muscle.

Jarvis now lends his vocal panache to esteemed indie heroes The Pastels, too, under the guise The Nu Forest – the outfit’s new single, I Picked A Flower, being a joyous ode to straying from the path of fidelity. I Picked A Flower also appears on the soundtrack to David Mackenzie's recently released film The Last Great Wilderness.

"...I was at Fitzwilliam, Cambridge at the same time as Nick Drake and we were supervision partners in the second year.

He was always a somewhat mysterious figure and spent no time at all socializing with his year or the college. He came from his school (Marlborough, i think) and spent his time with friends either from there or musical friends. He did play quite a bit in Cambridge, and I heard him play on several occasions, including a May Ball at Cains. I shared supervisions with a don who used his wife's rooms in an old house in West Road, in the attics.

The remarkable thing was that however early I arrived for supervisions Nick was always there before me, standing waiting on the stairs gazing out of the window. I once got there 3/4 of an hour in advance and he was there ahead of me! The cover of Five Leaves Left bears an astonishing resemblance to his appearance. He would never say much, and he had never done the work for the supervisions, he was simply going through the motions."

' Donovan became a fan of the pop music idol Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers. He played drums with friends in a school band called "The Macabres". Together with a friend he took part in a talent contest in London but without result.

Influenced by his father's poetry books of poet adventurers like Robert Service, W.H. Davies and romantic poets such as Shelley, Keats and Coleridge, Donovan began writing his own poetry...'

Originally a gigging bass guitarist, in recent years Tony Thompson has worked as:a producer, recording and producing acts; a programmer - a specialist in MIDI and digital audio setups, editing and designing new sounds; a remixer, creating new, different versions of previously recorded songs; a sound engineer, simply recording live performances; a lecturer in Studio Recording Techniques; a composer of library and commercial music tracks, including for video and multimedia use.

Digital Dreams is run by Disabled Producer WAKEman. His love for music has kept him motivated through his illness... this is Transverse Myelitis and he has suffered from it since the age of 13, which paralyzed him from the neck downward... Now 31 he does his music for enjoyment and charity, and to prove that less abled people can create music....

"Though it does take me a long time to do a song, I do get there at the end of the day" -- WAKEman