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The Madness

The popular Uk ska-pop band Madness split up in 1986, but the majority of its personnel hardly ever quite seemed content to call it quits. In 1988 four of its seven associates formed a fresh band, that they differentiated from the initial only with the addition of the term “The” …

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Sean Blackburn and Liz Masterson

The cowboy songs of 1940s Hollywood are resurrected through the performances and recordings of Sean Blackburn and Liz Masterson. Dressed up in traditional western garb and harmonizing on tunes by Gene Autry, Hank Williams, Roy Rogers, and Patsy Montana, the duo catches the spirit from the American frontiers. Masterson was …

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Banjophobia

Banjophobia was the name to get a short-lived group comprising Dutch banjoist Tom Stuip, Ronald Jansen Heijtmajer (who have tripled on bass sax, alto and C-melody) and Guido Nielsen (doubling on violin and piano). The flexible group, which generally presented the banjo in the lead, performed music through the 1920s …

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Cesar Bresgen

Bresgen studied on the Munich Music Academy. He provides taught composition on the Mozarteum in Salzburg since 1939, the same calendar year that he founded a people’s conservatory for the reason that town. He examined with Hindemith in 1950 and produced some tests in composing with 12-build serialism. His compositions …

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Kenneth Leighton

Leighton was educated in Queen’s University, Oxford and in 1951 won the Mendelssohn Scholarship or grant, enabling him to keep his research in Rome. He received many distinguished awards and was appointed as lecturer and Fellow of Worcester University in 1968. In 1970 he was produced Reid Teacher of Music …

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Xero Slingsby

b. Matthew Coe, 23 November 1957, Skipton, Yorkshire, Britain, d. 16 August 1988. Coe’s name transformation emerged in the middle-70s when punk rock and roll produced colourful stage-names de rigueur. He was raised in Bradford, where a major accident at age 10 broken his left hands: he used the bass …

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Pie Plant Pete

b. Claud J. Moye, 9 July 1906, on the plantation, near Shawneetown, Gallatin State, Illinois, USA, d. 7 Feb 1988. He discovered to play electric guitar as a kid and in his early teenagers, added harmonica. In 1927, with a significant repertoire from the old-time music his mom sang, he …

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Junior Pettis

b. Coleman Pettis Jnr., c.1935, Alabama, USA, d. Apr 1988. Pettis worked well under a number of pseudonyms including Daddy Rabbit, Alabama Junior, and Junior Pettis. He discovered to play acoustic guitar at age eight and relocated to Chicago in 1952. He was highly affected by Lee Jackson, with whom …

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Haze

The Uk neo-progressive band Haze was formed in 1978 by Chris and Paul McMahon. The Sheffield group continued to be quite inconspicuous during its ten-year lifestyle, playing basically a few times in the U.K. and liberating only two accurate albums, both which had been vinyl-only. Within THE UK, nevertheless, Haze …

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Wolfmen

Since the launch of their 1989 debut EP that was a break up with Lähtevät Junat, the Pori, Finland-based quintet from the Wolfmen have already been performing out their garage area punk romp of rock and roll & move that looks up to the Stooges and MC5. Comprising Jallu Korpi …

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