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Academy

An unfortunately short-lived music group that had some interesting folk elements, like the charmingly named and sweet-voiced Polly Perkins, named for “Very Polly Perkins,” a normal folk music. Academy lasted lengthy enough to create a single recording, Pop Lore Based on the Academy, where the folk components had been adulterated …

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Polly Perkins

b. Gillian Arnold, 1943, Britain. Although UK vocalist Polly Perkins didn’t have popular one, she was a continuous feature of pop documents and television due to many, crafted promotion stunts. Her on/off engagement with rock and roll ‘n’ roll vocalist Terry Dene – itself a fabrication – produced the nationwide …

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