Born as Charlotte Franklin Hatherley on 20 June 1979. During her West London high school days she was already playing loud, scungy gigs in the London club scene with the group Nightnurse. After two tough years of gigging, a growing fan base and a first record deal followed. But her A levels (English and Music) were still not in the bag when an established young Northern Irish rock trio and their manager slipped unnoticed into a Nightnurse gig at the Blue Moon, Putney. The group Ash were looking for a fourth member, a guitarist to add beef to their heavy schedule of live performances. They spotted Charlotte and added her to the group almost instantly.

Her live debut with Ash followed at the V97 Festival before an audience of 50,000. Her first studio recording was on the 1997 single ‘A Life Less Ordinary’ and the accompanying album ‘Nu-Clear Sounds’ (1998). Inspired by band member Tim Wheeler, Charlotte began to compose. Her first song ‘Taken Out’ appeared as a B-side on the 1998 Ash single ‘Jesus Says’. Three years later the striking song ‘Grey will fade’ appeared on the single ‘There’s a star’. The positive response from fans provoked her to start writing more songs. In 2004, she finally releases her first solo album called ‘Grey will fade’. Before its release, Charlotte makes a download-only single available on her official website. The title was Kim Wilde.

A year later, Charlotte does a live tour, performing at Reading Festival and Leeds Festival among others, playing the song Kids in America.
Kim Wilde and Charlotte Hatherley get together in the spring of 2006 when Kim is recording Never Say Never. Kim asks Charlotte to play guitar on Kids in America (2006), but when Charlotte appears for the recording, she is asked to sing on the track as well. Charlotte agrees, but only if Kim isn’t around when she records the vocals.

Born 30 March 1930, Perth, Australia. A talented cartoonist and artist, Harris moved to London in the late ’50s to pursue a showbusiness career. A regular on children’s television, he was instantly recognizable with his horn-rimmed spectacles, goatee, fast-talking manner and lightning sketching abilities. In 1960, his novelty recording “Tie Me Kangeroo Down, Sport”, complete with exaggerated Australian accent, was a worldwide Top 10 hit and million seller. Two years later, Harris struck again with the atmospheric “Sun Arise”, based on an aboriginal chant. Awarded the MBE and later the OBE, Harris was a distinguished representative of British Variety but seemed an unlikely figure for further ’60s chart success.
Amazingly, however, he brought the decade to an end with the best-selling UK single of 1969: “Two Little Boys”. Written as early as 1903 by USA songwriters, Edward Madden and Theodore Morse, the song topped the UK charts for a sterling six weeks.
The song is mentioned in Kim Wilde & Mel Smith‘s 1987 version of Rockin’ around the Christmas tree.

Harris never gave up on making music himself. He reached the UK charts in the 90’s with his Australian-style version of “Stairway to heaven”. He also appeared on Kate Bush’s albums “The Dreaming” (1982) and “Aerial” (2005).

Following an appearance on the British children’s television program “Jigsaw” Harris moved into a new career on television, hosting a variety of programs on the BBC, including “The Rolf Harris Show”, “It’s Rolf On Saturday OK?”, “Cartoon Time”, “Rolf’s Walkabout”, “Rolf’s Cartoon Club”, “Animal Hospital” and “Animal Hospital Week”. In 1977, Rolf Harris was awarded the OBE, and in 1989 was awarded the Order of Australia.

Harris’s career as a popular entertainer ended when he was convicted and imprisoned for sexual offences. In 2014, at the age of 84, he was jailed on twelve counts of indecent assault that took place between 1968 or 1969 and 1986, on four female victims then aged between eight and nineteen. As a result, he was stripped of many of the honours he had been awarded during his career, including the  OBE. He was released from HMP Stafford in May 2017.

Sonja Ann Hardie was born on 24 August 1946 in Australia, and came to the UK in 1970 to work as Terry Walker’s secretary during his time as an EMI label manager. She then moved to the accounts office of the HMV store in Oxford Street. In 1973 she was invited by Mickie Most to come work at RAK Records.

When Kim Wilde had her first hits with RAK Records, Sonja was soon appointed to accompany her during promotional tours around the world, representing RAK but also looking out for Kim. They travelled together for three years until Kim’s contract with RAK ended.

Sonja passed away on 5 January 2012 after having been diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2009.

Born as Jean-Philippe Smet on 15 June 1943. Hallyday’s father, Léon Smet (1908–1989), was Belgian; his mother, Huguette Clerc (1920–2007), was French. Hallyday took his stage name from his aunt Desta’s husband and dance partner Lee Hallyday, a pseudonym for Lee Ketcham, an expatriate Oklahoman, performer, and MC at the Café de Paris where Johnny began his singing career. Johnny was raised by Desta and Lee from a very young age, with Lee being his first manager.

Influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock n’ roll revolution, Hallyday became famous in the 1960s for singing Rock ‘n’ Roll in French. His debut single, ‘Laisse les filles’ was released on the Vogue label in March 1960. His first album, Hello Johnny, was released in 1960. In 1961 his cover of ‘Let’s Twist Again’ sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. He appeared on the American The Ed Sullivan Show with American singing star Connie Francis in a show that was taped at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris. He also staged many appearances in the Paris Olympia under the management of the late Bruno Coquatrix. For their first concert, The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for Johnny Hallyday in Évreux on 13 October 1966.

In 1982, Kim and Johnny performed the Elvis song Teddy Bear in the French TV programme Formule 1+1. According to French reports at the time, Johnny was very impressed with Kim’s talent.

Hallyday completed 181 tours, had 18 platinum albums, and sold more than 110 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time. Hallyday has been called “the French Elvis”. He remains largely unknown outside the Francophone world, thus earning the nickname “the biggest rock star you’ve never heard of” in English-speaking countries.

In March 2017, the singer revealed that he was being treated for lung cancer, diagnosed a few months earlier. Despite rumours that he wouldn’t perform live anymore he toured in Belgium, Switzerland and Paris in June. The last performance took place on 5 July 2017. During the night of 5/6 December 2017, Hallyday died at age 74.