Before They Were Stars!!

A 14-year-old Björk! Billy Joel goes heavy metal ! Tori Amos goes big hair '80s! Debbie Harry of Blondie in a '60s hippie band that should have been called "Bland-ie"! Nick Lowe rips off The Who! Neil Young and that superfreak Rick James in the same band!



It's all strange-but-true, some of it awful, some surprisingly great. Hey, you gotta start somewhere...



Before They Were Stars (A MusicForManiacs Collection)



01 Tony Sheridan [w/"The Beat Brothers": John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney] - Sweet Georgia Brown [1961]

02 Rory Storm & The Hurricanes [w/Ringo Starr] - America [1963]

03 Arthur Lee and the LAGs [pre-Love] - The Ninth Wave [1963]

04 The Primitives [Lou Reed] - The Ostrich [1964]

05 The Wailers [w/Bob Marley, Peter Tosh] - simmer down [1965]

06 Bluesology [w/Elton John] - Come Back Baby [1965]

07 Shotgun Express [w/Rod Stewart-Mick Fleetwood] - I could feel the whole world turn round [1966]

08 The Mynah Byrds [w/Neil Young, Rick James] - Go On And Cry [1966]

09 The Spiders [Alice Cooper] - Don't Blow Your Mind [1966]

10 John's Children [w/Marc Bolan] - Desdemona [1967]

11 Wind In The Willows [w/Debbie Harry] - Djini Judy [1968]

12 Flaming Youth [w/Phil Collins] - Changes [1969]

13 Attila [w/Billy Joel] - Rollin' Home [1970]

14 Fraternity [w/Bon Scott] - Jupiter's Landscape [1971]

15 Brinsley Schwarz [w/Nick Lowe] - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding [1974]

16 Kilburn & the High Roads [w/Ian Dury & some Blockheads] - Rough Kids [1974]

17 Hawkwind [w/Lemmy Kilmester] - Motorhead [1975]

18 The 101ers [w/Joe Strummer] - Letsagetabitarockin' [1975]

19 Björk - Alta Mira [1977]

20 The Nipple Erectors [w/Shane MacGowan] - So Pissed Off [1978]

21 The Coachmen [w/Thurston Moore] - Thurston's Song [1979]

22 Boys Next Door [Nick Cave & the Birthday Party] - Dive Position [1979]

23 Bruce Woolley And The Camera Club [w/Thomas Dolby, The Buggles] - Video Killed The Radio Star [1979]

24 Material [w/Whitney Houston] - Memories [1982]

25 Y Kant Tori Read [w/Tori Amos] - The Big Picture [1988]