ROCK
/ POP
ABC made it big in
the 1980s with hits such as Look of Love and Shoot That Poison
Arrow. Best known album was Lexicon of Love. Lead singer was Martin
Fry. See ABC.
ARCTIC MONKEYS
New
rock group The Artic Monkeys - "I
Bet you Look Good On The Dancefloor" and their second single
"When The Sun Goes Down" have both gone to #1 in the
charts.
See The Arctic Monkeys page
Baby
Bird ("You're Gorgeous").
South Yorkshire heavey rockers Bring Me The Horizon
who have just won the Best British Newcomers at the
Kerrang Awards.
Boy On A Dolphin
Paul Carrack - see Paul Carrack page.
Joe Cocker OBE - See Joe Cocker page.
Def Leppard - See Def Leppard page.
Gomez ("Whippin'
Picadilly").
Heaven 17 are
another popular 80's Sheffield group, their best known hit being
Temptation. See Unofficial
Heaven 17 Site
Clip of Temptation 
Human League - Phil Oakey et al had hits with Don't You
Want Me Baby and the album Dare and were successful in the 1980s.
Clip of Don't You Want Me Baby
Blind Youth - site covering
the early days of the Human League.
Eliot Kennedy songwriter, who has enjoyed great success
including on behalf of the Spice Girls and Bryan Adams.
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Dance diva Kelly Llorenna is a product of the city of Sheffield.
She used to be the lead singer with N-Trance ("Stayin' Alive",
"Set You Free") before becoming a solo artist. Her hits
include "Tell It To My Heart", "True Lover Never
Dies", "Forever" and the recent release of "This
Time I Know It's For Real". She was the biggest selling UK
female artist in 2002.
Shefield duo Roisin
Murphy and Mark Brydon who are better known as Moloko
with hits such as "The Time Is Now", "Sing It Back" and the single
"Indigo".
Clip of Sing It Back
Former Pop-Idol contenstant Sam
Nixon hails from Barnsley. He has recently teamed up with
fellow Pop Idol singer Mark Rhodes to do a version of the Beatles'
"With A Little Help From My Friends".
The 1990's saw the birth of Pulp whose lead singer is Jarvis
Cocker. Best known for the song Disco 2000 and for an
altercation with Michael Jackson at The Brits.
Clip of Disco
2000
Barnsley rock group Saxon.
Supersister
The
Longpigs
Sheffield groups The
Thompson Twins ("Hold Me Now", "Doctor!
Doctor!", "You Take Me Up" and "Sister Of
Mercy").
Tony Christie - See Tony
Christie page. ("Walk Like A Panther Tonight", "Do
You Know The Way To Amarillo?", "Las Vegas") was
born on April 25th 1943 in Conisbrough.
Singers - John Parr was born in Worksop and brought up
in Doncaster. Dave Berry is from Sheffield. Iron Maiden's
lead singer, Bruce Dickinson is also local. Johnny Shentall,
formerly of Hear'Say is from Bentley, near Doncaster. Paul
Weller also hails from Sheffield.
Indie band Reverend
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