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Forming in past due-’60s Chicago, the Flock forever languished within the shadow from the Chicago Transit Authority (later on famous as just plain Chicago), whose peculiar method of art rock and roll — incorporating horns as well as other unorthodox instrumentation into rock and roll and jazz forms — in …

b. 14 Apr 1949, Brentwood, Essex, Britain. Following a demise of her previous band Curved Air flow, vocalist Kristina created the hard rocking Get away and released a single recording in 1980 around the Chopper Information label. Relationship to her aged music group’s drummer Stewart Copeland, (who experienced since became …

Holland’s R.J. Stips is usually among rock’s great unfamiliar keyboardists and tunesmiths. From his early Zappa-esque prog-pop ditties to complete blown symphonic rock and roll, his creativity ranged all over thematically.

Produced in 1979 as the result of classical guitarist John Williams’ 1971 Shifts album where he ventured into soft rock and roll for the very first time, Sky was an effort to meld the worlds of classical music and rock and roll instrumentals, with benefits that echoed the U.S.-structured work …