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Elliott

Just frontman Chris Higdon remains from the initial lineup of Elliott, a Louisville emo band known because of its extreme stage presence, replete with piano and percussion samples. Higdon, bassist Jonathan Mobley, and drummer Ben Lord produced Elliott following the break up of their prior band, Falling Forwards. After launching …

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Lover Speaks

If Annie Lennox hadn’t covered the Fan Speaks’ “FORGET ABOUT I REALLY LIKE Yous,” the music group could’ve become another forgotten Uk new wave action in the ’80s. The Fan Speaks became a member of the set of one-hit miracles due mainly to record-label indifference; the general public didn’t listen …

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10cc

Deriving their name from the metric total of semen ejaculated by the common male, the tongue-in-cheek British art pop group 10cc comprised an all-star roster of Manchester-based musicians: vocalist/guitarist Graham Gouldman was a former person in the Mockingbirds and the writer of strikes for the Yardbirds, the Hollies, Herman’s Hermits …

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The Mindbenders

Remaining together following departure of frontman Wayne Fontana, the Mindbenders got off to 1 of the very most guaranteeing starts any music group could appreciate, when their debut solo “A Groovy Sort of Appreciate” soared to number 2 within the U.K. and topped the graph in the us. And got …

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Hotlegs

In 1970, Kevin Godley, Lol Crème, and Eric Stewart were, alongside songwriter Graham Gouldman, the home band in the Strawberry Studios set up in Stockport, Britain. Gouldman was spending a lot of his amount of time in New York, operating like a agreement songwriter for the Kasenatz/Katz bubblegum group — …

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Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders

Wayne Fontana as well as the Mindbenders initial emerged away from apprentice phone engineer Glyn Geoffrey Ellis’ daydreams to become an effective pop performer. Rechristening himself Wayne Fontana after Elvis Presley’s drummer, DJ Fontana, Fontana’s first music group was the Jets, a staple around the Manchester circuit through 1961-1962, but …

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Lol Creme

Guitarist, vocalist, and keyboard participant Lol Creme was, for a lot of the 1970s, one of the most prominent rock music artists in Britain, in tandem with Kevin Godley and his onetime 10cc bandmates Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart. He was created Lawrence Neil Creme in 1947 and was raised …

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Eric Stewart

Through the first fifty percent of the 1970s, Eric Stewart was among the stars of England’s pop/rock and roll scene, together with his bandmates from 10cc, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme. Created Eric Michael Stewart in early 1945, in Droylsden, near Manchester, he began in music like a …

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Graham Gouldman

Already established being among the most effective songwriters Britain had ever produced, Graham Gouldman launched his single career in 1966 following two successive band projects, the Whirlwinds as well as the Mockingbirds, met only failure. The Yardbirds, the Hollies, Herman’s Hermits, Wayne Fontana, Jeff Beck, Cher, the Shindigs, Jeff Beck, …

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Kim Fox

Vocalist/songwriter/keyboardist Kim Fox improvements the female vocalist/songwriter archetype of the first ’70s (think that Carole Ruler and, especially, Laura Nyro) in quite similar way because the indie-piano trio Suddenly, Tammy! — whom she credits with uplifting her move from opera and traditional music into pop — and her previous Bloomington, …

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