Buffalo Springfield 

was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California by Canadian

musicians Neil Young, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin and American musicians Stephen
Stills and Richie Furay. The group, widely known for the song "For What It's Worth",[1] released three
albums and several singles from 1966–1968. Their music combined elements of folk
music and country music with British Invasion and psychedelic rock influences. Like contemporary
band the Byrds, they were key to the early development of folk rock. The band took their name from
a steamroller parked outside their house.
Buffalo Springfield formed in Los Angeles in 1966 with Stills (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Martin
(drums, vocals), Palmer (bass guitar), Furay (guitar, vocals) and Young (guitar, harmonica, piano,
vocals).[2] The band signed to Atlantic Records in 1966 and released their debut single "Nowadays
Clancy Can't Even Sing", which became a hit in Los Angeles.[3] The following January, they released
the protest song "For What It's Worth", which became their only US top 10 hit and
a counterculture anthem.[1] Their second album, Buffalo Springfield Again, marked their progression
to psychedelia and hard rock[1] and featured other well-known songs such as "Bluebird" and "Mr.
Soul".
After several drug-related arrests and line-up changes, the group disbanded in 1968. Stephen Stills
went on to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash with David Crosby of the Byrds and Graham
Nash of The Hollies. Neil Young launched his solo career and later joined Stills in Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young in 1969. Furay, along with Jim Messina, went on to form the country-rock band Poco.
[4]
 Buffalo Springfield was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.[3]
Neil Young and Stephen Stills met in 1965, at the Fourth Dimension in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Young
was there with The Squires, a Winnipeg group he had been leading since February 1963, and Stills
was on tour with The Company, a spin-off from the Au Go Go Singers. When Stills' band broke up at
the end of that tour, he moved to the West Coast, where he worked as a session musician and
auditioned unsuccessfully for, among other bands, The Monkees.[5] Told by record producer Barry
Friedman there would be work available if he could assemble a band, Stills invited fellow Au Go Go
Singers alumnus Richie Furay and former The Squires bass player Ken Koblun to come join him in
California. Both agreed, although Koblun chose to leave before very long and joined the group 3's a
Crowd.
While in Toronto in early 1966, Young met Bruce Palmer, a Canadian who was playing bass for The
Mynah Birds. In need of a lead guitarist, Palmer invited Young to join the group, and Young
accepted. The Mynah Birds were set to record an album for Motown Records when their singer
Ricky James Matthews—James Ambrose Johnson, Jr., later known as Rick James—was tracked
down and arrested by the U.S. Navy for being AWOL.
With their record deal cancelled, Young and Palmer pawned The Mynah Birds' musical equipment
and bought a 1953 Pontiac hearse, which they drove to Los Angeles.[6] Young and Palmer arrived in
L.A. hoping to meet Stephen Stills, who, as Young had learned, was living in the city. However, after
almost a week of searching clubs and coffeehouses, the pair had been unable to find Stills.
Consequently, on April 6, 1966, Young and Palmer decided to leave Los Angeles and drive north
to San Francisco. While the two were stuck in traffic on Sunset Boulevard, they were spotted by
Stills and Richie Furay, who were heading the other direction down Sunset. Stills and Furay
managed to switch lanes and maneuver behind Young's hearse, at which point the musicians pulled
off the road and reunited.[6]
Drummer Dewey Martin, who had played with garage rock group The Standells and country artists
such as Patsy Cline and The Dillards, joined at the suggestion of The Byrds’ manager, Jim Dickson.
The group's name was taken from a brand of steamroller made by the Buffalo-Springfield Roller
Company. The new group debuted on 11 April 1966, at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, five
days after the chance encounter on Sunset Boulevard. A few days later, they began a short tour of
California as the opening act for The Dillards and The Byrds.
Sonny & Cher were an American pop duo of entertainers made up of husband and wife Sonny
Bono and Cher in the 1960s and 1970s. The couple started their career in the mid-1960s
as R&B backing singers for record producer Phil Spector.
The pair first achieved fame with two hit songs in 1965, "Baby Don't Go" and "I Got You Babe".
Signing with Atco/Atlantic Records, they released three studio albums in the late 1960s, as well as
the soundtrack recordings for two unsuccessful movies, Good Times[1] and Chastity, with Cher
contributing vocals to one cut, "Chastity's Song (Band of Thieves)".[2] In 1972, after three years of
silence, the couple returned to the studio and released two other albums under the MCA/Kapp
Records label.
In the 1970s, they also positioned themselves as media personalities with two top ten TV shows in
the US, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and The Sonny & Cher Show. The couple's career as a
duo ended in 1975 following their divorce. In the decade they spent together, Sonny and Cher were
nominated for two Grammy Awards and sold over 40 million records worldwide.[3][4] Rolling
Stone ranked them No. 18 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time.[5]
Performing under her first name, Cher went on to a highly successful career as a solo singer and
actress, while Sonny Bono was e