We thought we’d start with a gentle reminder, especially for those folk not from Birmingham, of some of the Birmingham artists who have had top 40 records. There are a few missing but we are working on the list and will update as we go along but it’s a good reminder of why it’s always good to know what’s going on in town as there is always something musically exciting about to happen around here:
Albert Ketèlbey *
Apache Indian *
Applejacks *
Au Pairs
B15 project *
Babylon Zoo *
Bentley Rythym Ace *
Black Sabbath *
Broadcast *
Chicken Shack *
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra *
DCS *
Dexys Midnight Runners *
Diamond Head
Donna Lewis *
Duran Duran *
Electribe 101
Elo *
Fashion *
Fine Young Cannibals *
Fleetwood Mac *
Fuzzbox
General Public
Groove corporation *
Jack Webster *
Jamelia *
Jasper Carrot
Joan Armatrading *
King Adora *
Maisonettes *
Magnum *
Moody Blues *
Mousse t *
Move *
Musical Youth
Nick Mason *
Nightingales
Ocean Colour Scene *
Pato Banton *
Phyl Lynott *
Pop Will Eat Itself *
Power Station
Pram *
Rene and Renato *
Ruby Turner *
Soweto Kinch *
Spencer Davies Group *
Spizz *
Steel pulse *
Stephen “Tin Tin” Duffy *
Steve Winwood *
Suburban Studs
The Beat *
The Honeycombes
The Idle Race *
The Steve Gibbons Band *
The Streets*
The Twang
Traffic
Toyah Wilcox *
T’pau
UB40 *
Wizzard *
Ok so what have we missed?