Artists – Music Videos Club
Most artist pages online give you a discography and a date of birth. These give you the stories. Each featured hub below gathers every article we’ve written on the artist into one archive — a full biography, the members, the active years, and a link to every song page we’ve built — but the reason to read is what sits inside those song pages: how the record actually got made, who almost sang it instead, and what was really going on the day it was cut. Start with a name you love and read straight through, or pick one you only think you know and find out what you were missing.
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ABBAThe Swedish quartet that turned precise, melody-first pop into 400 million records — and came back forty years later as digital avatars.Visit the ABBA hub →
AC/DCThe Australian hard rock band that reduced rock and roll to its essentials and conquered the world with what was left.Visit the AC/DC hub →B
BlondieThe most commercially successful band to come out of CBGB — four Hot 100 No. 1s, and the first to carry rap vocals to the top of an American chart.Visit the Blondie hub →
Bon JoviThe New Jersey band that outlasted every act it was filed alongside — 130 million records, and a catalog that refused to stay in the decade that made it.Visit the Bon Jovi hub →D
Deep PurpleThe band that gave hard rock its blueprint — Blackmore’s guitar and Jon Lord’s Hammond organ over the loudest rhythm section of the early ’70s.Visit the Deep Purple hub →
Dire StraitsSix albums, one US No. 1, and the first record ever to sell a million copies on CD.Visit the Dire Straits hub →E
Elton JohnThirty-one studio albums, seven straight US No. 1s, and a fifty-year partnership with a lyricist he met by answering an advertisement.Visit the Elton John hub →
Elvis PresleyThe Tupelo-born singer who fused country, gospel, and rhythm and blues into rock and roll — and became the best-selling solo artist in history.Visit the Elvis Presley hub →F
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Rod StewartThat raspy voice and a chameleon’s instinct for reinvention — 120 million records and still going.Visit the Rod Stewart hub →
SweetThe glam rock band that hid real hard-rock muscle under the glitter — from “Block Buster!” to the self-written hit “Fox on the Run.”Visit the Sweet hub →T
The BeatlesThe band that rewrote what popular music could be — and remain the best-selling act of all time.Visit the Beatles hub →
The DoorsPoetry, blues, and barely-contained menace — six albums in five years before Paris, 1971.Visit the Doors hub →
Tina TurnerShe walked away with thirty-six cents and built the longest second act in popular music.Visit the Tina Turner hub →