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Jimmy Cliff OM (Jamaican Order of Merit) (born James Chambers in St. Catherine, Jamaica, on 1 April 1948; died 24 November 2025) was a Jamaican reggae musician remembered for songs like "Sittin' in Limbo", "You Can Get It If You Really Want," "Many Rivers to Cross" and the title track from "The Harder They Come", a film soundtrack which helped popularise reggae across the world. At the time of his death, he was the only living reggae musician to hold the Order of Merit Read more on Last.fm

Winston Rodney (born March 1, 1945), also known as Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer and musician. Like many famous Jamaican reggae artists, Burning Spear is known for his Rastafari movement messages. Rodney was born in Saint Ann's Bay, St. Ann, Jamaica, as were Bob Marley and Marcus Garvey; who both had a great influence on Rodney's life. Garvey in his philosophy, which Burning Spear greatly took to, and Marley in directly helping Burning Spear get started in the music industry. Read more on Last.fm

Cardiacs, originally called Cardiac Arrest, were an English band formed in 1977 and led by Tim Smith (1961-2020). Noted for their complex, varied and intense compositional style and for their eccentric, theatrical stage shows, they have been hailed as an influence by many newer groups and artists. As well as Smith, around 23 musicians were part of the Cardiacs over the years, including Smith's brother, Jim, and multi-instrumentalist, Sarah Cutts, who married Tim Smith in 1983. Read more on Last.fm

Frank Vincent Zappa (born December 21, 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States – December 4, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, bandleader and producer. He was one of the most prolific musicians of his time, releasing over fifty albums of original material spanning over a thirty-five year career. Zappa's earliest influences were 1950s pop and rock (such as doo-wop and rhythm and blues), and 20th-century classical composers including Igor Stravinsky and Edgard Varèse. Read more on Last.fm

There are multiple artists that perform under the name Valve: 1) Generalized moniker for music used in games by Valve Corporation 2) Finnish electronic music project 3) Brazilian rock band 4) French sludge band 5) British grunge band 6) Australian post-hardcore band 1) Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It is the developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the Half-Life Read more on Last.fm

Robert Calvert is best known as the on-off frontman of influential rock group Hawkwind. Robert was born in 1945 in Pretoria, South Africa. His family moved to Kent in England in 1947. He grew up wanting to be a fighter pilot but ended up a writer, an enthusiastic participant in the 1960s London psychedelia subculture. After meeting Hawkwind co-founder Dave Brock in 1970, Robert joined the underground icons as resident poet, reading his work amid strobes and light cascades on stage. Read more on Last.fm

There are at least two artists by the name of Tim Smith; one was a member of the short-lived American country-rock band Smith Perkins Smith of the early 70s. Another is a member of British band Cardiacs. 1/ Tim Smith (1961-2020) was the singer, guitarist and principal songwriter for underground British eccentrics, Cardiacs. Tim's music is equal parts punk, prog, psychedelia and downright disturbing noise. He was also a member of The Sea Nymphs with ex-Cardiacs William D. Read more on Last.fm

Robert Wyatt, born Robert Ellidge, in Bristol, UK on 28 January 1945, is an English musician, and a former member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine. As a teenager, he lived with his parents in a fourteen-room Georgian guest-house, Wellington House, in Lydden near Canterbury. Here he was taught the drums by visiting American jazz drummer George Niedorf. In 1962, Wyatt and Niedorf moved to Majorca where they stayed with the poet Robert Graves. Read more on Last.fm

Bob Drake (born December 6, 1957 in Cleveland, United States) is an American avant-garde musician. He was a founding member of avant-prog band Thinking Plague in the early 1980s and was later part of 5uu's, The Science Group (with Chris Cutler and Fred Frith) and Hail. Drake has released a number of solo albums written, performed and recorded by himself, starting with What Day Is It? in 1994. His engineering credits include Ice Cube's 1990 debut album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted. Read more on Last.fm

Davey Graham (also known as Davy Graham) was a widely influental, eclectic guitarist most famous for his instrumental song Anji (also spelt Angi or Angie), mastery of which, for a period in the 1960s, was the prerequisite of joining many British folk clubs. Davey is also cited as an influence by guitarists such as John Martyn, Bert Jansch, Paul Simon and Jimmy Page, and was a major factor behind the British folk-rock revolution of the 1960s. Davey's own style is impossible to neatly categorise Read more on Last.fm