The Birds (band) The Birds (band) The Birds were an English rhythm and blues band, formed in 1964 in London. They recorded fewer than a dozen songs and released only four singles. Starting out with a hard R&B sound, they later began infusing it with Motown-style vocal harmonies. The best known former member of The Birds is Ronnie Wood, who went on to join the Jeff Beck Group, The Creation, Faces and later The Rolling Stones. Several members of The Birds grew up in the same neighbourhood in Yiewsley, west London, and began playing together in 1964, while still in their teens. At
The Spinners (American R&B group) R&B hit with "Right or Wrong", from that year's "Cross Fire" album. They would go on to release a pair of albums, in addition to performing the title track to the 1987 hit film "Spaceballs", during the latter half of the 1980s, though none of these efforts were commercially successful. After some years spent collaborating with Parliament/Funkadelic and working solo, Wynne died of a heart attack while performing in Oakland on July 14, 1984. In a 2014 interview, Henry Famborough, the group's last surviving original member stated: "Bobby (Smith) was "always" our "major" lead singer for all those years. Had