Artists – Music Videos Club
Artists
These are the artists Music Videos Club covers most closely. Each featured page collects every article we have published on the artist into a single archive — with a full biography, member list, active years, and links to every song page we have built for them. The list grows as our coverage deepens. Use it as a starting point for an artist whose catalogue you want to read through in full, or as a way of discovering the kind of work we do.
ABBA
The Swedish quartet that turned the precise, melody-first songwriting of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus into one of the most successful catalogues in pop music history. Formed in Stockholm in 1972 and dissolved a decade later, ABBA — Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad — sold more than 400 million records worldwide off the back of a run that included Arrival, The Album, Voulez-Vous, and Super Trouper. They returned in 2021 with Voyage, their first new studio album in nearly forty years, and a London concert residency built around digital “ABBAtars” that has been packing out a purpose-built arena ever since.
The Beatles
The English rock band that rewrote what popular music could be. Formed in Liverpool in 1960 and dissolved a decade later, the four songwriters — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr — produced their last finished album in 1970 and have been the cultural reference point for everything else since. Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (the White Album), Abbey Road, and Let It Be redrew what a rock record could sound like, what a song could be about, and how a record could be made. They were the first major group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on first eligibility in 1988, and they remain the best-selling music act of all time.
The Doors
The Los Angeles band that brought poetry, blues, and barely-contained menace to American rock in the second half of the 1960s. Formed in Venice in July 1965 by UCLA film-school friends Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek, and filled out by guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, the Doors recorded six studio albums in five years before Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, at twenty-seven. Light My Fire was their only US number one in his lifetime; the catalogue — The Doors, Strange Days, Waiting for the Sun, The Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel, L.A. Woman — has continued to outsell most of what surrounded it. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
The Rolling Stones
The longest-running great rock band of them all. Formed in London in 1962, the Stones — Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and a rotating cast that has included Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood — turned blues, country, and American R&B into a body of work that runs from Out of Our Heads in 1965 through to Hackney Diamonds in 2023, and a touring operation that has yet to stop. Twenty-six studio albums. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. Charlie Watts died in 2021; Jagger, Richards, and Wood are still onstage. There is not really a comparison.
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Tina Turner
The American singer who turned a sharecropping childhood in Nutbush, Tennessee into the longest second act in popular music. Born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, Tina spent two decades as half of Ike & Tina Turner before walking away from that marriage in 1976 with thirty-six cents and a gas card. Her fifth solo album Private Dancer in 1984 produced What’s Love Got to Do with It, three Grammys, and a US number one at 44 — at that point the oldest woman to top the Hot 100 as a solo artist. Ten studio albums, twelve Grammys, two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, and an 180,000-strong Rio stadium show that holds a Guinness world record. She retired in 2009 and died in Switzerland on May 24, 2023.