• Location: Manchester, UK
• Real Name: Chris
• Age: 57
• Marital status: Complicated (divorced, re-partnered, separating)
• Occupation: Retired?
• Joined RR Community: Late 2007
• Favourite Artists: Grateful Dead, Pavement/Stephen Malkmus, Talking Heads, PJ Harvey, Throwing Muses, Velvet Underground/John Cale, Ry Cooder, Richard Thompson, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Fatima Mansions, Gomez, Beck, Little Feat and a few others.
• Least Favourite Music: X-factor-style power ballads, dull rap, showtunes
• First A-list: VU's The Gift, Songs With A Twist, April 2008
• Proudest RR contribution: Founded GTDITL (Get The Dead In The List), which had its first success in June, 2008; re-naming this great resource The Marconium.

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Ravi Raman

• Location: Madras (or Chennai for the pedants), India
• Real name: Ravi Raman
• Age: 55
• Marital status: Single. Again.
• Occupation: Writer. 
• Music I like: Pretty much anything though I confess to a partiality to Blues and a special weakness to women strutting their stuff on stage like Koko Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi. All time favourite band  is The Allman Brothers Band with their Live at Filmore East being the one I've played the most in my life.
• First time on the RR  A List: Koko Taylor's I'm a woman on Deep Voices.
• Best thing about RR: the way nobody trashes another person's taste. 

RockingMitch

• Name: Mitch Mitchell (no one gets my real first name!)
• Age: 62
• Residing: Mainly now in March, Cambridgeshire, but also Sarf London.
• Occupation: Musician, Rock and Roll Historian, Bouncer at Mothercare.
• Favourite Artists: Gene Vincent, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Joe Turner, The Everly Brothers, Lavern Baker, Sam Cooke, Solomon Burke, Arthur Alexander, Connie Francis, Wanda Jackson, kd lang, Brenda Lee, Jimmy Reed, Ronnie Hawkins, Dion, Chuck Jackson, Garnett Mimms, The Coasters, Jerry Lee Lewis and many doo-wop bands.
• Totally dislike: Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Queen, what now passes for R & B, Celine Dion
• Best Career Moment: Appearing at the Albert Hall supporting Bill Haley & Duane Eddy with members of the Beatles and Rolling Stones in the audience (May 1968)
• Status: Widowed with one son.
• Proudest moment on RR: Dorian described me as "our resident rock & roll expert".

RollinDanny

• Location: London, South of the river.
• Real Name: Well...It isn't "Danny"
• Age:  42
• Occupation: Actor/ Writer
• Joined RR Community: I forget exactly when I joined, but my mate RockingMitch persuaded me to have a go.Glad I did. It's great fun. Recently got my first A lister and 2 B's in the same week, for songs about Uncertainty.
• Favourite Artists: My all time favourite is Jackie Wilson, but also Little Willie John; Percy Mayfield; Clyde McPhatter; Elvis Presley; Dinah Washington; Sarah Vaughan; Louis Jordan; Marvin Gaye; Sam Cooke. Generally into good, 50's R&B, Rock & Roll, early Soul and early to mid 60's Pop. Also good Reggae by the likes of Matumbi, The Mighty Diamonds and Bob Marley. I'm a big fan of swing Jazz by the likes of Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman or even earlier stuff like Fletcher  Henderson. I'm a keen guitarist myself, so I enjoy the likes of Django Reinhardt and Barney Kessell. Early and Capitol era Frank Sinatra is also a big favourite, as well as Mel Torme; Sammy Davis Jr; Barbra Streisand; Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole Trio. Grew up listening to my dad's collection of 50's and 60's Country records, so I enjoy Don Gibson; George Jones; Willie Nelson; certain Jim Reeves etc.
• Least Favourite Music: I love all forms of popular music from the 30's onwards, but I can't abide Hip Hop, Techno or Heavy Metal.
• Proudest RR Moment: Any time I have been able to introduce someone to 
  a record that they have enjoyed.
• RR Goals: To keep on introducing folks to, and discovering new (to me) 
  artists and recordings.

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ShivSidecar

• Location: Redbridge, Essex
• Real Name: anag. [5,6]
• Age: 52
• Marital status: Married, DINK (Dual Income, No Kids)
• Occupation: Rock’n’Roll Reference Librarian. There, I’ve said it.
• Joined RR Community: lurked for a while; didn’t contribute 'til I had broadband. First contribution: RRSA Homosexuality, June 29^th, 2007.
• Favorite Artists: I always thought I’d grow out of my dependence on skinny young people playing electric guitars semi-competently, but it hasn’t happened yet… Byrds, Beatles, Velvets, Who, Move, Jam, Clash, Wire, XTC, Beat, Smiths, Hornets Attack Victor Mature… iconoclasts: Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Cale, Eno, Wyatt, Cope, Rundgren, Kate Bush, Richard Thompson, Bevis Frond, White Stripes, Banhart, anybody who can sing in Welsh… folkies: M.Carthy, E.Carthy, S.Collins, many more. 60s psychedelia, 70s reggae, classic soul, Paisley Underground, power pop, Americana, African music. Despite appearances I do listen to a lot of contemporary stuff, but on current form it’ll be another 10-20 years before I start to retain it.
• Favourite artists introduced to by RR: Angelique Kidjo, Beausoleil, Drive-By Truckers, Okkervil River,
• Proudest RR moments: First A-listing after 4 weeks with a very obscure song indeed, and two A-listers the following week! That’s how Dorian got ‘em hooked… oh, and Amy Rigby owes me big time.
• Least favourite RR moment: KingCroat.
• Our Song (my wife's and mine special song): birdsong. [Mrs Sidecar & I have no musical tastes in common at all…]

sourpus

• Location: Budapest, Hungary
• Real Name: Loretta Blumfeld
• Joined RR Community: Sometime in 2007
• Favorite Artists: Oh, all of them.
• Favorite RR Topic so far: Great middle eights

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ToffeeBoy

• Location: Watford, England
• Real Name: Dave
• Age: In my late 30s - well I am if you can argue that 51 is your late 30s...
• Marital status: Married with two daughters who are older than they used to be
• Joined RR Community: January 2008
• Favorite Artists: Prefab Sprout, Jonathan Richman, The Decemberists, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds, The Go-Betweens, Sufjan Stevens, Death Cab For Cutie, 10,000 Maniacs, The High Llamas, Elbow, Shack, The Blue Nile, Everything But The Girl, Microdisney, Azure Ray, James Taylor, The Cardigans, The Wedding Present, REM, Steely Dan, Martin Stephenson, Elvis Costello, Eels, Teenage Fanclub, Gene, McCarthy, Crowded House, Badly Drawn Boy, Danny WIlson, Babybird, Squeeze, Midlake, Cocteau Twins, The Dentists, Flaming Lips, XTC, Orange Juice, Caravan, Grandaddy, Frazier Chorus, Arctic Monkeys, Richard Hawley, Camera Obscura, The Smiths
• Proudest RR moment: Nominating the only two Prefab Sprout tracks ever to make it on to the A-List. Although I have to confess that one of them was ToffeeGirl's idea.
• RR goal: Getting another song on an A-List - sometime.  Who knows? It might happen.
• Our Song (my wife's and mine special song): Without You - Nillson.  I know ...

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treefrogdemon

• Location: Milton Keynes, UK
• Real name: Jocelyn
• Age: 63
• Marital status: Divorced, three grownup children, three grandsons
• Occupation: Free Girl Now, aka retired and having lots of fun
• Joined RR community: Nov 9 2007 – end of Illness, start of Smiling and Laughter
• Favourite artists: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Richard Thompson, Bruce Springsteen, the Gourds, Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, Gillian Welch, Diana Jones, Mary Gauthier, the Who, Bob Dylan, the Band, Sandy Denny, June Tabor, Shirley Collins, Show Of Hands, Neil Young, Oysterband, Maggie Holland, REM
• Son’s band: The In And Outlaws

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