David Bowie was born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 in Brixton, south London.

He first caught the public’s attention in the autumn of 1969 when ‘Space Oddity’ reached the top five of the UK singles chart but this was only after a few years of flirtation with the London music scene.

In 1963, having moved to more suburban Bromley he joined The King Bees. He is also to be in a number of other bands in the ’60s, such as The Konrads, The Manish Boys, George And The Dragons, and, most famously, The Lower Third.

However, his first appearance on British TV came, aged 17, in 1964, when he was defending his choice of growing long hair. In the same year, Davy Jones And The King Bees released the single “Liza Jane’ which didn’t chart.

David regularly appeared at London’s legendary Marquee club, at this venue, David and The Lower Third supported The High Numbers, later to become The Who.

In 1966, now named, David Bowie joined the trendy British label, Deram, in 1966 – made famous by The Moody Blues. ‘Rubber Band’ was his strange first single on this label, and the B-side, ‘The London Boys’, related to drugs, peer pressure, and teenage angst.

Other tracks recorded at this time also, included ‘Sell Me A Coat’, ‘When I Live My Dream’, ‘There Is A Happy Land’, ‘Karma Man’, ‘The Laughing Gnome’, ‘Love You Till Tuesday’ and ‘Please Mr Gravedigger’.

“I never got the feeling from David that he was ambitious. I remember he’d buy antiques if he had a hit, when he should have saved the money.” – Marc Bolan.

All was to change in 1969, David’s father died and had to sort out his dad’s estate at the tender age of 22. This was also the year Bowie first met his future wife Angie. He had a small role in the film, ‘The Virgin Soldiers’, and ‘Space Oddity’ reached number 5 in the UK charts – the week man first walked on the moon.

No idea about where the above picture came from. Why Manchester Square? All I know is that EMI’s headquarters were there at the time, the site of the “famous up the stairs” shots of the Beatles was taken in 1963 and again in 1969 that adorned the Beatles Red and Blue compilation albums.

Led Zeppelin formed in September 1968. Led Zeppelin consisted of Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals), John Paul Jones (bass guitar/keyboards) and John Bonham (drums).

Keith Moon and John Entwistle suggested that a possible supergroup containing themselves, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck would go down like a lead zeppelin, a term Entwistle used to describe a bad gig. The group deliberately dropped the ‘a’ in Lead to aid pronunciation. Jimmy Page had already been a bassist and guitarist in the Yardbirds, John Paul Jones was a session musician, John Bonham and Robert Plant were musicians from the Birmingham area. They came together through mutual connections.

Their manager, Peter Grant, secured an advance deal of $200,000 from Atlantic Records in November 1968, then the biggest deal of its kind for a new band. Atlantic signed Led Zeppelin without having ever seen them, largely on the recommendation of Dusty Springfield. Under the terms of the contract, the band alone would decide when they would release albums and tour, and had final say over the contents and design of each album. They also would decide which (if any) tracks to select as singles. “Stairway to Heaven” was never released as a single, although others were without the band’s consent.

Led Zeppelin I, the band’s first album, cost £1,750 to produce (including artwork) and by 1975, it had grossed $7,000,000.

During much of the seventies the group was considered the biggest and best rock group around.

On 10 December 2007 the surviving members of Led Zeppelin reunited for a one-off concert in memory of Ahmet Ertegün, with Jason Bonham (the late John Bonham’s son) on drums. The concert was to help raise money for the Ahmet Ertegün Education Fund, which pays for university scholarships in the UK, US and Turkey.

Recently both Robert Plant and Jimmy Page have both revealed that they are prepared to embark upon a world tour with Led Zeppelin or at least the odd gig, however due to Robert Plant’s tour commitments with Alison Krauss, such plans will not be announced until at least September 2008.

Amy Jade Winehouse was born in the Southgate area of Enfield, north London on 14 September 1983.

She has dominated the 50th Grammy Awards – the Oscars of the music industry – taking home five of the most prestigious awards, including three of the “Big Four”: Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

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Kisean Anderson (Sean Kingston) was born February 3, 1990 in Miami, Florida. Although he was born in the United States, he was predominantly raised in Kingston, Jamaica, after moving there at the age of six. His stage name “Sean Kingston” pays homage to Kingston, Jamaica.

“Beautiful girls” was the first single from his debut album Sean KingstonThe song uses digital pitch correction technology on the vocals. The beat for the song is derived from Ben E. King’s “Stand by Me”.

“Me Love” was the second single. It is produced by J. R. Rotem and is actually a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “D’yer Mak’er”.

Having celebrated his 18th birthday on Sunday, February 3, Sean Kingston has created a new version of Alice Cooper’s song, “I’m Eighteen” and his fifth single. Sean recorded the song in Los Angeles for the national nonpartisan, nonprofit youth voting initiative, Declare Yourself, to encourage America’s 18-year-olds to register and vote in the 2008 presidential primaries and general election. The single is currently available as a free download on iTunes.

This is the song that Johnny Rotten mimed to at the Sex boutique, which got him the job of lead singer of the Sex Pistols.