List of music artists and bands from England
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This is a list of notable bands/musicians from England. Bands should be notable and linked to their articles which lists their English origins in the lead. References should be provided for any new entries on this list. Bands may be temporarily red-linked (while an article is developed) as long as the reference establishes their notability.
By Alphabet
- Abingdon
- Andover
- Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- Aylesbury
- Barnsley
- Basildon
- Batley
- Battle
- Beccles
- Bedford
- Bedworth
- Berwick-Upon-Tweed
- Bexhill on Sea
- Birkenhead
- Bingley
- Birmingham
- Anaal Nathrakh
- Au Pairs
- The Beat
- Benediction
- Black Sabbath
- Charged GBH
- Deluka
- Dexys Midnight Runners
- Duran Duran
- Editors
- Godflesh
- Electric Light Orchestra
- The English Beat
- Fashion
- Fine Young Cannibals
- Judas Priest
- Johnny Foreigner
- Laura Mvula
- Led Zeppelin
- Magnetophone
- The Moody Blues[1]
- The Move
- Musical Youth
- Napalm Death
- Oceans Ate Alaska
- Ocean Colour Scene
- Offlicence (music group)
- Spencer Davis Group
- Spunge
- Steel Pulse
- The Streets
- Swim Deep
- Traffic
- The Twang
- UB40
- Wizzard
- Bournemouth
- Bradford
- Braintree
- Brentwood
- Brighouse
- Brighton
- Architects
- As It Is
- Black Peaks
- Blood Red Shoes
- Brakes
- British Sea Power
- Clearlake
- Dead Swans
- Electrelane
- Freemasons
- Gnarwolves
- Huggy Bear
- Johnny Truant
- Moulettes
- My Device
- Passenger
- Peggy Sue
- Rex the Dog
- Rizzle Kicks
- Royal Blood
- Tall Ships
- TOY
- The Electric Soft Parade
- The Ghost of a Thousand
- The Go! Team
- The Kooks
- The Lambrettas
- The Levellers
- The Pipettes
- The Qemists
- Bristol
- Burnley
- Camberley
- Cambridge
- Carlisle
- Chelmsford
- Cheltenham
- Chester
- Chichester
- Chinnor
- Chorley
- Colchester
- Chelmsford
- Corby
- Cornwall
- Coventry
- Crawley
- Derbyshire
- Eastbourne
- Egremont
- Essex
- Frodsham
- Glastonbury
- Gloucestershire
- Godalming
- Greenford
- Guildford
- Halifax
- Hampshire
- Harrogate
- Harrow
- Hartlepool
- Hemel Hempstead
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Hemsley
- Hertford
- High Wycombe
- Hoylake
- Huddersfield
- Hull
- Hyde
- Ipswich
- Kent
- Isle of Wight
- King's Lynn
- Lancaster
- Leamington Spa
- Leeds
- Alt-J
- Bonobo
- Boyracer
- The Chevin
- Chumbawamba
- Classically Handsome Brutes
- Club Smith
- Delta 5
- Dinosaur Pile-Up
- The Dunwells
- Ellen and the Escapades
- ¡Forward, Russia!
- Gang of Four
- I Like Trains
- Hadouken!
- Hawk Eyes
- Hood
- Jellyfish Kiss
- Kaiser Chiefs
- To Kill A King
- Mekons
- Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
- The Edsel Auctioneer
- The Hollow Men
- The Mission
- The Music
- The Pale Saints
- The Parachute Men
- The Pigeon Detectives
- Pulled Apart By Horses
- The Rose of Avalanche
- Scritti Politti
- The Sisters of Mercy
- Soft Cell
- The Sunshine Underground
- The Utah Saints
- The Wedding Present
- Vessels
- Various Cruelties
- Leicester
- Blab Happy
- The Bomb Party
- Chrome Molly
- Circa Waves
- Cornershop
- Crazyhead
- The Deep Freeze Mice
- Delicatessen
- Diesel Park West
- Family
- Gaye Bykers on Acid
- Her Name is Calla
- The Hunters Club
- ist
- Kasabian
- Kyte
- Maybeshewill
- Misterlee
- Pacific Ocean Fire
- Perfume
- Po!
- Public Relations Exercise
- Prolapse
- Ruth's Refrigerator
- Showaddywaddy
- Volcano The Bear
- Yeah Yeah Noh
- Leighton Buzzard
- Littlehampton
- Lincoln
- Lincolnshire
- Liverpool
- Anathema
- Atomic Kitten
- The Bandits
- BBMak
- The Beatles[3]
- Bicycle Thieves (band)
- The Boo Radleys
- Carcass
- Cast
- Crucial Three
- The Crescent
- The Christians
- Dead or Alive
- Echo and the Bunnymen
- The Farm
- Gerry and the Pacemakers[4]
- Hot Club De Paris
- The Icicle Works
- A Flock of Seagulls
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- The La's
- Ladytron
- Lawson
- The Lightning Seeds
- The Mighty Wah!
- Multi Purpose Chemical
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- The Real Thing
- Rebecca Ferguson
- Space
- The Stairs
- The Stands
- The Teardrop Explodes
- The Zutons
- Wave Machines
- The Wombats
- WSTR
- London
- Above & Beyond
- Adam and the Ants
- Add N to (X)
- Adele
- The Adverts
- Akercocke
- Alabama 3
- The Alan Parsons Project
- Alien Sex Fiend
- All Saints
- AlunaGeorge
- Amy Winehouse
- Angel Witch
- The Apostles
- Archive
- Athlete
- Babyshambles
- Bad Company
- Barbarossa
- Bark Psychosis
- Basement Jaxx
- Bastille
- Bat For Lashes
- Banco de Gaia
- Benga
- Ben Howard
- Big Bang
- The Big Pink
- Billy Idol
- Blackcube
- Blancmange
- Bleech
- Bloc Party
- Blues Incorporated
- The Bluetones
- Blur
- The Bolshoi
- Bombay Bicycle Club
- Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
- Bow Wow Wow
- Breton
- Bronski Beat
- Bush
- Busted
- Callender's Cableworks Band
- Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
- Chad & Jeremy
- Chase & Status
- Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds
- The Chords
- The Clash
- To Kill A King
- Classix Nouveaux
- Clement Marfo & The Frontline
- Client
- The Clique
- Coldplay
- Cream
- The Creatures
- Crystal Fighters
- Culture Club
- Daisy Chainsaw
- The Damned
- Darkstar
- Daughter
- David Bowie
- The Dave Clark Five[4]
- Days in december
- Death in Vegas
- Deep Purple
- The Defiled
- Delilah
- Devil Sold His Soul
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Dizzee Rascal
- Django Django
- DragonForce
- Dry the River
- Dot Rotten
- Dumpy's Rusty Nuts
- Dusty Springfield
- Ebony Bones
- The Edge
- The Echoes (English group)
- Eliza Doolittle
- Ella Mai
- Elvis Costello
- Engineers
- Erasure
- Eurythmics
- Example
- The Faces
- The Fades
- The Feeling
- Fightstar
- Five
- Fleetwood Mac
- Florence + the Machine
- Foghat
- Future Signal
- Gay Dad
- Ghostpoet
- Goldfrapp
- Goldheart Assembly
- Gold Panda
- Gorillaz
- Go West
- Groove Armada
- Hadouken!
- Haken
- Hawkwind
- Heaven's Basement
- Hell Is for Heroes
- The Hoosiers
- Hot Chip
- The House of Love
- The Hurt Process
- Ikara Colt
- Imogen Heap
- Infadels
- Iron Maiden
- James Blake
- James Blunt
- Jamiroquai
- Japan
- Jazz Jamaica
- Jessie J
- Jessie Ware
- The Jim Jones Revue
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Johnny Panic
- Kano
- Kate Nash
- Katie Melua
- Katy B
- Killing Joke
- The King Blues
- King Charles
- King Crimson
- King Krule
- The Kinks[5]
- Kissing the Pink
- Klaxons
- La Roux
- Labrinth
- Led Zeppelin
- The Libertines
- Lily Allen
- Little Mix
- Lo Fidelity Allstars
- London Grammar
- Loveable Rogues
- Love Affair
- Lush
- The Maccabees
- Madness
- The Magic Numbers
- Manfred Mann
- Mark Ronson
- McFly
- Meat Beat Manifesto
- The Members
- The Merton Parkas
- M.I.A.
- Michael Kiwanuka
- Mika
- Million Dead
- Modestep
- Morcheeba
- The Moths!
- The Motors
- Motörhead
- Mount Kimbie
- Mud
- Mumford and Sons
- Mystery Jets
- My Vitriol
- Nero
- The Nice
- Noah and the Whale
- Noisettes
- Nurse with Wound
- Oh Wonder
- One Direction
- The One Hundred
- The Others
- P.C.T
- Palma Violets
- The Passions
- Pet Shop Boys
- Pink Floyd
- Placebo
- Plan B
- The Pogues
- The Police
- The Pretenders
- Procol Harum[1]
- Psapp
- The Psychedelic Furs
- Public Image Ltd.
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Pure Love
- Pure Reason Revolution
- PVT
- Queen
- The Raincoats
- The Rakes
- Razorlight
- Regular Fries
- The Rifles
- Robin Scott
- Rod Stewart
- The Rolling Stones[6]
- Rudimental
- The Ruts
- Sade
- Saint Etienne
- Savages
- Scouting For Girls
- Secret Affair
- Seefeel
- Senser
- Sex Pistols
- Sham 69
- Shola Ama
- Siouxsie and the Banshees
- Sisteray
- Pixie Lott
- Skinny Lister
- The Skints
- Skunk Anansie
- Slash
- Small Faces
- Spandau Ballet
- Spector
- Spice Girls
- Splashh
- Squeeze
- Status Quo
- Stereolab
- Stereo MC's
- Skream
- Stooshe
- Stormzy
- Strawbs
- Suede
- Sugababes
- Supertramp
- Sweet
- T. Rex
- Talk Talk
- The Tears
- Tempa T
- Ten Benson
- The Temperance Movement
- Test Icicles
- Theatre of Hate
- The The
- Thompson Twins
- Tinie Tempah
- Tomorrow
- Tom Vek
- Tribes
- Tubeway Army
- Ugly As Sin
- U.K. Subs
- UFO
- Ultravox
- Underworld
- UNKLE
- Uriah Heep
- The Vaccines
- The Vamps
- Vaughan King
- Veronica Falls
- Visage
- Voice of the Beehive
- Vondelpark
- White Lies
- Whitesnake
- The Wanted
- The Who[1]
- Wiley
- Wire
- The Wiseguys
- Wolf Alice
- Wretch 32
- The xx
- The Yardbirds[5]
- Years & Years
- Yes
- Young Guns
- Zero 7
- 21 Savage
- Lowestoft
- Luton
- Macclesfield
- Manchester
- 10cc[7]
- The 1975
- 52nd Street
- 808 State
- The 1975
- A II Z
- A Certain Ratio
- Amplifier
- Audioweb
- Autechre
- Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds
- Barclay James Harvest
- Beecher
- The Bee Gees[1]
- Big Flame
- Billy Ruffian
- Black Grape
- Blak Twang
- Blue Orchids
- Bugzy Malone
- Brassy
- Buzzcocks
- Blossoms
- The Chameleons
- The Chemical Brothers
- Cleopatra
- The Clint Boon Experience
- Cohesion
- The Courteeners
- Crispy Ambulance
- Daley
- Delphic
- Doves
- Dutch Uncles
- The Durutti Column
- Easterhouse
- Elbow
- Electronic
- Everything Everything
- The Fall
- Fingathing
- Freddie and the Dreamers
- Freeloaders
- Future Sound of London
- Happy Mondays
- Haven
- Herman's Hermits
- Tom Hingley and the Lovers
- The Hollies[8]
- Hurts
- I Am Kloot
- Inspiral Carpets
- James
- Joy Division
- Kinesis
- King Kong
- King of the Slums
- Lamb
- The Longcut
- Liam Gallagher
- Longview
- Ludus
- Luxuria
- M People
- Magazine
- Man From Delmonte
- Marconi Union
- John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
- Mazes
- The Mindbenders[7]
- Mint Royale
- Molly Half Head
- Monaco
- Morrissey
- The Mothmen
- N-Trance
- New Order
- Nine Black Alps
- Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
- Northside
- Oasis
- Oceansize
- Omerta
- The Other Two
- Pale Waves
- Paris Angels
- The Passage
- Puressence
- Quando Quango
- Rae & Christian
- The Railway Children
- Ruthless Rap Assassins
- Sad Café
- The Seahorses
- Simply Red
- Slaughter & The Dogs
- The Smirks
- The Smiths
- Sonic Boom Six
- Space Monkeys
- Spookey
- Starsailor
- Sub Sub
- The Stone Roses
- Sweet Sensation
- Swing Out Sister
- Take That
- Theatre of Hate
- The Cygnet Ring
- The Ting Tings
- Van der Graaf Generator
- The Verve
- The Waltones
- The Whip
- World of Twist
- Middlesbrough
- Milton Keynes
- Moretonhampstead
- Nantwich
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newcastle-Under-Lyme
- Newton-le-Willows
- Norwich
- Northampton
- Northwich
- Nottingham
- Nuneaton
- Oxford
- Pinner
- Portsmouth
- Poulton-le-Fylde
- Preston
- Reading
- Redditch
- Salisbury, Wiltshire
- Sheffield
- 65daysofstatic
- ABC
- A.C. Temple
- All Seeing I
- Arctic Monkeys
- Artery
- Babybird
- Bal-Sagoth
- Black Spiders
- Blameless
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Bromheads Jacket
- Cabaret Voltaire
- The Comsat Angels
- The Crookes
- Def Leppard
- Drenge
- Fat Truckers
- Heaven 17
- Hiem
- Hoggboy
- The Human League
- I Monster
- In the Nursery
- Kings Have Long Arms
- The Last Shadow Puppets
- LFO
- Little Man Tate
- Living in a Box
- The Long Blondes
- Longpigs
- The Lovers
- Milburn
- Moloko
- Monkey Swallows the Universe
- Pink Grease
- Pulp
- Reverend and The Makers
- Rolo Tomassi
- Slow Club
- Smokers Die Younger
- While She Sleeps
- Southampton
- Southport
- South Shields
- Staines
- Stevenage
- St Helens
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stourbridge
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sussex
- Swindon
- Tavistock
- Teignmouth
- Telford
- Tetney
- Tewkesbury
- Torquay
- Tyne And Wear
- Wellington
- Weybridge
- Weymouth
- Whitley Bay
- Wigan
- Woking
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
- Worthing
- York
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References
- ^ a b c d Gilliland 1969, show 49.
- ^ a b "Harrogate Advertiser – Harrogate bands".
- ^ Gilliland, John (1969). "The British Are Coming! The British Art Coming!: The U.S.A. is invaded by a wave of long-haired English rockers" (audio). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries.
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(help) Shows 27–28, 39, 45. - ^ a b Gilliland 1969, show 29.
- ^ a b Gilliland 1969, shows 29, 38.
- ^ Gilliland 1969, shows 30, 38, 46.
- ^ a b "Official 10cc Fan Club/Pre 10cc articles". Retrieved 21 October 2014.
- ^ Gilliland 1969, show 38.
- ^ Gilliland 1969, shows 29, 49.
- ^ "Biography : EltonJohn.com". Retrieved 21 October 2014.