Justin Steward Furstenfeld (born December 14, 1975 in Houston, Texas) is a record producer, artist, and the lead singer, guitarist, lyricist and frontman of the American rock band Blue October.

Growing up, Furstenfeld listened to hip-hop, rock, country, dance; his favorite artists included Marvin Gaye, The Smiths, Red House Painters and Pink Floyd.He has written over 500 songs and counts among his influences: Michael Stipe, The Cure, The Smiths, The Pixies, Peter Gabriel, Idaho, Elliott Smith, Blue Miller, George Winston, Jean Michel Basquiat and U2. His first musical memory was Roy Orbison’s ballad, "Crying".During his high school years at Houston’s prestigious The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, he met Ryan Paul Delahoussaye, to which they played in a band, The Last Wish, from the age of 13 until 1995 When performing solo, Furstenfeld uses the moniker 5591; the number 5591 was his patient number when he was admitted to a mental institution following a breakup with his then-girlfriend Amanda. He tells this story in the confessionals on the Argue With a Tree DVD.

When not touring with his band, Furstenfeld resides with his wife Lisa and daughter Blue (born in 2007) in San Marcos, Texas. He is the brother of Blue October drummer, Jeremy Furstenfeld.

Justin Furstenfeld has battled with bipolar disorder through most of his life. He has his condition under control, saying in an interview that "“I’m not a danger to myself"  While running the bases at a minor league baseball field in Clearwater, Florida, he broke his leg and required surgery, which resulted in the postponement of several concert dates and had many stand-ins playing guitar while he just sang. According to a VH1 online article about the band, "Into the Ocean" has had an impact on many listeners who may have been contemplating suicide.

In August of 2008, Furstenfeld toured with Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series, in a sold out 4-city book/concert tour.

Edgar Wilmar Froese (born 6 June 1944) is a German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for co-founding the electronic music group, Tangerine Dream. Although most of his solo and group recordings name him as "Edgar Froese", his most recent solo albums bear the artist name "Edgar W. Froese".

Edgar Froese has declared himself to be a non-smoker, non drug user, and vegetarian.

Froese was born in Tilsit, East Prussia, during World War II. After showing an early aptitude for art, Froese enrolled at the Academy of the Arts in West Berlin to study painting and sculpture.  Froese’s encounter with Salvador Dalí was highly influential, inspiring him to pursue more experimental directions with his music. The Ones disbanded in 1967, having released only one single.In 1965, he formed a band called The Ones, which played rock and R&B standards at popular bohemian nightclubs. While playing in Spain, The Ones were invited to perform at Salvador Dalí’s villa in Cadaqués.

After returning to Berlin, Froese began recruiting musicians for the free-rock band that would become Tangerine Dream.
 

Richard Fortus (born November 17, 1966) is a professional guitarist who is most famous for being rhythm guitarist in Guns N’ Roses.

Originally from Saint Louis, Fortus cut his teeth throughout the Midwest with his band, The Eyes. The four-piece alternative band independently released "Freedom in a Cage", which was produced by David Probst.  Drawing from the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, the flamboyant and original Fortus led The Eyes into being a premiere act dominated by their dark image, high energy, and fantastically produced sound. They became hugely popular for their live shows as they mixed their originals with underground covers from such bands as Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bauhaus.They were eventually signed by Atlantic Records, where they changed their name to Pale Divine and subsequently toured the U.S. with The Psychedelic Furs in support of their only album, ‘Straight to Goodbye’.

After The Psychedelic Furs split up, Fortus formed Love Spit Love with Richard Butler and Tim Butler. When The Furs reformed in 2000, Fortus joined the group as second guitarist and played on the live album ‘Beautiful Chaos: Greatest Hits Live’.

On November 5, 2005, Richard’s wife, Jen Fortus, gave birth to a baby daughter. Her name is Paisley Piper Fortus.

Fortus has since left The Furs and is now a member of Guns N’ Roses, replacing Axl Rose’s childhood friend Paul Tobias. In Guns N’ Roses, Richard plays both rhythm and lead guitar. Axl is very pleased with Richard’s work and has said, "He’s an amazing lead player and very technically skilled. He really likes the pocket that Brain sets and the two of them click with Tommy so we finally have the real deal rhythm section, as Richard is a proven professional. Basically, Richard’s the guy that we always were looking for."

On March 2008 it was announced that Richard was one of the guest guitarist on the upcoming shows of X Japan at the Tokyo Dome.

Christopher John Foreman (born 8 August 1956, London), nicknamed Chrissy Boy, is an English guitarist, best known as a member of a second wave ska band, Madness.

Chris Foreman started Madness with Mike Barson and Lee Thompson in 1976. Although always modest about his ability, Foreman was one of the group’s main songwriters, mostly writing music with other members, usually Suggs or Lee Thompson, providing lyrics. After Madness disbanded in 1986 he formed a new band The Madness with Thompson, Suggs and Chas Smash but it was not successful and broke up after one album, also titled The Madness. Then he, alongside Thompson, created another group, The Nutty Boys with Thompson on vocals, who released an album called Crunch! The band are now known as Crunch, and play in London every couple of years. Foreman reunited with all seven original Madness members in 1992, but in 2005 announced that he was leaving the band.

The same year he moved out of his Kentish Town home, and settled on the South Coast with his wife and 3 children.

However, on Thursday 30 November 2006 it was confirmed that Foreman was returning to play on Madness’ forthcoming UK Christmas tour, and he has been recording some new songs with Madness.

John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. He was born in Berkeley, California and is the younger brother of Tom Fogerty.

John Fogerty began a solo career, originally under the name The Blue Ridge Rangers for his 1973 LP debut. Fogerty played all of the instruments on covers of others’ country music hits, such as "Jambalaya". Prior to performing country & western tunes he released a rock & roll single in late 1973, also as The Blue Ridge Rangers. The two John Fogerty penned songs were "You Don’t Owe Me" b/w "Back In The Hills".

In early 1974 John Fogerty released two rock & roll tunes on a 7"-single. The two songs were the vocal "Comin’ Down The Road" b/w the instrumental "Ricochet". His second solo album John Fogerty was released in 1975. Sales were slim and legal problems delayed a followup, though it yielded "Rockin’ All Over the World", a top 40 hit for Fogerty in North America.

Fogerty finished an album called Hoodoo in 1976. A single, "You Got The Magic" b/w "You Evil Thing", preceded the album’s release, but it performed poorly. The album, for which covers had already been printed, was rejected by Asylum Records on the eve of its release.He stated that he instructed Asylum Records to destroy the master tapes for "Hoodoo" sometime in the 1980s. Fogerty is something of a perfectionist, often destroying unreleased material. Fogerty says that he was unable to write music during this period of his life.

Fogerty’s legal problems continued to dog him for much of his career. His music publisher, Jondora Music, filed a suit against him, claiming that his song "Old Man Down the Road" on 1985’s Centerfield album sounded too much like his earlier compositions as songwriter for CCR, notably "Run Through the Jungle."

Fogerty completed his first new country and rock album in three years, Revival, which was released on October 2, 2007.Heavily promoted by the label, Revival debuted at number 14 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart with sales about 65,000 copies in its first week. Revival was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album of 2008 but lost to Foo Fighters.

On March 16, 2008, Fogerty kicked off an Australian tour. On March 22 in Point Nepean, Australia, surprise guest Keith Urban joined Fogerty on stage, performing two songs: "Broken Down Cowboy," off Fogerty’s newest album Revival, and "Cotton Fields," from CCR’s album Willy & the Poor Boys.

On February 10, 2008, he appeared with Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard on the Grammy Award’s Show. Along with these rock icons and his regular touring band, he played his ultra-rare 1973 single "Comin’ Down The Road" leading into Lewis and Richard’s performances of "Great Balls Of Fire," and "Good Golly Miss Molly," respectively.

Brandon Richard Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is the American vocalist, keyboardist, lyricist and occasional bassist of the Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers.

Flowers, the youngest of six children, was born on June 21, 1981 in Henderson, Nevada to parents of partial Belgian, Scottish and Lithuanian ancestry. He has one older brother and four older sisters. Flowers’s family lived in Henderson until he was eight and then moved to Payson, Utah for a year and then to Nephi, Utah. Brandon lived in Nephi until his junior year in high school, when he moved back to Las Vegas. His mother was a homemaker and his father worked for a grocery store. His parents raised Brandon and the rest of the family as active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Flowers remains a devout member of the faith. He has since attributed his fashion sense to his doting sisters.

 Flowers is a practicing Mormon. He has described his personal faith as a "very important" part of his life. He has joked that "I don’t think the make-up would go down so well at church." He is also a golf fanatic and his cousin, Craig Barlow, is a professional golfer.

On August 2, 2005, Flowers married his girlfriend, Tana Munblowsky, in a private ceremony in Hawaii, after dating for approximately four years. Brandon met Tana at a vintage clothing store in Vegas where the band first picked outfits for their looks. He claims that she was wearing a pink trench coat. They welcomed their first boy, Ammon Richard Flowers, on July 14, 2007.

Flowers, after dropping out of college, was a bellhop for a while at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. In 2001, he was abandoned by the first band that he was in, a synth pop band known as The Blush Response, after he declined to move with the rest of them to Los Angeles, California. Shortly thereafter, Flowers attended an Oasis concert, and realizing that he wanted to make the transition from a keyboard band to a true rock band, began searching for a guitarist.  He had the same shoes Oasis had - Clarks!". After several short-lived bassists and drummers, Flowers and Keuning were joined by bassist Mark Stoermer and drummer Ronnie Vannucci and they became the Killers in August 2002.He responded to an ad that Dave Keuning had placed in the paper that listed, among other bands, The Cure and Oasis as influences. Keuning later stated that his first impression of Flowers was "I thought he had weird shoes… Vannucci later said that, even with songs like "little dwarf versions of what we have now, Brandon wasn’t afraid to just get up there and just do it. You need that when you’re trying to get something off the ground. As far as the drive goes, Brandon was never half-assed."