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Charisma Records
Charisma Records was a record label founded by former journalist Tony Stratton-Smith in 1969. Tony Stratton-Smith was at that time a manager for The Nice, the Bonzo Dog Band and Van der Graaf Generator. He was unable to find a record company that would release an album by one of his favourite...
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The Alan Parsons Project
The Alan Parsons Project were a British progressive rock band active between 1975 and 1990, founded by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons.
Englishman Alan Parsons met Scotsman Eric Woolfson in the canteen of Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1974....
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- 1975
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- 1987
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Hawkwind
Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures.
Formed...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1969
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The Residents
The Residents is an American avant-garde music and visual arts group who have been active since 1969. Their first official release under the name of The Residents was in 1972, and since then the band have gone on to release over sixty albums,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1966
Genesis
Genesis are an English rock band that formed in 1967. The band currently comprises the longest-tenured members Phil Collins (lead vocals and drums), Mike Rutherford (guitar and bass guitar), and Tony Banks (keyboards). Peter Gabriel and Steve...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1967
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English musician and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flutist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. More...
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- Feb 13, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Rick Wakeman
Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949 in Perivale, London) is an English keyboard player, composer, and songwriter known as the keyboardist for progressive rock group Yes. Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the use...
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- May 18, 1949 (age 60 years)
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Van der Graaf Generator
Van der Graaf Generator, sometimes known by the shorter Van der Graaf, are an English progressive rock band. They were the first act signed to Charisma Records. The band achieved considerable success in Italy during the 1970s. In 2005 they embarked...
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- 1967
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Tony Banks
Anthony George "Tony" Banks (born 27 March 1950) is an English composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist. He is one of the founding members of progressive rock group Genesis and one of only two members (the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Jellyfish
Jellyfish were a power pop band from San Francisco. The core members were drummer/singer/songwriter Andy Sturmer and keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist/singer/songwriter Roger Joseph Manning Jr. Although their career was short, the band has become...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1994
Die Toten Hosen
Die Toten Hosen is a German punk band from Düsseldorf. They have enjoyed decades-long mass appeal in Germany.
The band's name literally means "The Dead Pants" (i.e. trousers) in English, although the phrase "tote Hose" is a German expression meaning...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
Peter Hammill
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948, in Ealing, west London) is an English singer-songwriter, and a founding member of sixties underground (often described as progressive rock) band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal...
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- Nov 5, 1948 (age 61 years)
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Saxon
Saxon are an English heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums. Saxon also had numerous...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
Enigma
Enigma is an electronic musical project founded by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived of the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has been based at his recording studio A.R.T. Studios...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
Steve Hackett
Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. He gained prominence as a member of the British progressive rock group Genesis, which he joined in 1970. Hackett remained with the band for eight albums...
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- Feb 12, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Mike Rutherford
Michael John Cleote Crawford Rutherford (born 2 October 1950 in Guildford, Surrey) is an English musician. He was a founding member of Genesis, initially as a bassist and backup vocalist. In later incarnations of Genesis, he assumed the role of lead...
Date of birth:
- Oct 2, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Bert Jansch
Herbert Jansch (born 3 November 1943), known as Bert Jansch, is a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and, in the 1960s, he was heavily influenced by the guitarist Davey Graham and folk singers...
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- Nov 3, 1943 (age 66 years)
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Nik Turner
Nik Turner (born Nicholas Turner, 28 August 1940, in Oxford, Oxfordshire) is a British musician, best known as a founding member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. Turner plays saxophones, flute, sings and is a composer. While with Hawkwind, Turner...
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- Aug 28, 1940 (age 69 years)
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Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche, brother of Sloan Wainwright, and the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 5, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Brand X
Brand X is a Jazz Fusion/Progressive Rock band who were active between 1975–1980 and 1983-1999. Important members were Phil Collins (drums), Percy Jones (bass), John Goodsall (guitar) & Robin Lumley (keyboards). In 1992 original members John...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1976
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1982
Right Said Fred
Right Said Fred are an English pop band, formed in 1989 by brothers Richard Fairbrass and Fred Fairbrass, later joined by their friend Rob Manzoli, all from East Grinstead. The group is named after a song of the same name which was a hit for Bernard...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
Patrick Moraz
Patrick Philippe Moraz (born June 24, 1948 in Villars-Ste-Croix, Morges, Switzerland) is a progressive rock keyboard player. He is best known as the keyboardist for the progressive rock band Yes, from 1974 to 1976, and the Moody Blues from 1978 to...
Date of birth:
- Jun 24, 1948 (age 61 years)
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Le Orme
Le Orme (translation: The Footprints) is an Italian progressive rock band formed in 1966 in Marghera, a frazione of Venice. The band was one of the major groups of the Italian progressive rock scene in the 1970s. They are one of few Italian bands to...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1966
Graham Oliver
Graham Oliver (born 6 July 1952, Mexborough, South Yorkshire) is an English guitarist.
He played with the heavy metal band Saxon from 1977 to 1994. After leaving the band he initially reformed his old band Son of a Bitch with former Saxon bassist...
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- Jul 6, 1952 (age 57 years)
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Tom Baxter
Tom Baxter (born Thomas Baxter Gleave on 29 October 1973) is an English singer-songwriter based in London. He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, and grew up in Cornwall with his sister Vashti Anna, two brothers, Joe Spencer and Charlie Winston, and...
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- Oct 29, 1973 (age 36 years)
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Scars
Scars (originally known as The Scars) were a Post-punk band that hailed from Edinburgh, Scotland, and were a part of that city's bustling music scene of the late 70s - early 80s.
Fronted by Robert King and featuring Paul Research on lead guitar,...
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Maria Vidal
Maria Vidal (born Maria Elena Fernandez-Vidal on August 1, 1960) is an American singer who had one hit single with the song, "Body Rock" (#48 on the Hot 100) (the theme song to the film Body Rock) in 1984; it also reached #8 on the US dance charts,...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1957
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 1960 (age 3 years)
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Julian Lennon
John Charles Julian Lennon (born 8 April 1963), known usually as Julian Lennon, is the first son of John Lennon, and is a singer, songwriter and musician in his own right. He is the only child of Lennon's first marriage to Cynthia Powell, and his...
Date of birth:
- Apr 8, 1963 (age 46 years)
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Something Happens
Something Happens were an Irish pop-rock band whose heyday was the late 1980s – early 1990s. An earlier incarnation of the band was called 'The Dazzmen' and was fronted by singer Martin Lynch who left the band and became the frontman for another...
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Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne were a British folk/rock group established in 1970 (renamed from Brethren), fronted by singer/songwriter Alan Hull. Their music combined a strong sense of yearning, often for home, with an even stronger sense of fun. Hit singles included...
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The Golden Palominos
The Golden Palominos were an American musical group headed by drummer and composer Anton Fier, first formed in 1981. Aside from Fier, the Palominos membership was wildly elastic, with only bassist Bill Laswell and guitarist Nicky Skopelitis...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1981
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The Nice
The Nice were an English progressive rock band from the 1960s, known for their unique blend of rock, jazz and classical music. Their debut album, The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack was released in 1967 to immediate acclaim. It is often considered the...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1967
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1970
Rik Emmett
Richard Gordon (Rik) Emmett (born July 10, 1953 in Toronto, Ontario) is a vocalist, guitarist, and founding member of the Canadian rock band Triumph. Emmett left Triumph in 1988 to pursue a solo career. His first solo album, Absolutely, was released...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1953 (age 56 years)
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Delta 5
Delta 5 were a post-punk band from Leeds, England.
The original members of Delta 5, Julz Sale (vocals/guitar), Ros Allen (bass) and Bethan Peters (bass), formed the band "on a lark" , but soon became a part of the thriving Leeds post-punk scene, and...
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Vivian Stanshall
Vivian Stanshall (born Victor Anthony Stanshall, 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995) was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 21, 1943
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 1995 (age 51 years)
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Catherine Feeny
Catherine Feeny (born 1976) is an American singer/songwriter based in Portland, Oregon.
She grew up in Norristown, Pennsylvania, studied in Washington, D.C., and finally relocated to Los Angeles, where she started seriously writing her own songs....
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- 1976 (age 34 years)
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Maxi Priest
Max Alfred "Maxi" Priest (born 10 June 1961) is a reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with a R&B; influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion, and became one of the first international successes who...
Date of birth:
- Jun 10, 1961 (age 48 years)
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String Driven Thing
String Driven Thing were a 1970s folk-rock band from Scotland, led by husband and wife Chris Adams and Pauline Adams and featuring the electric violin of Graham Smith.
String Driven Thing formed as a three part harmony folk band in 1967 with the...
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The Ferrets
The Ferrets were an Australian pop / rock band from Melbourne and Sydney, formed in 1975 and disbanded in 1979. They are best known for their début #2 hit single "Don’t Fall in Love" in 1977. Philip Eizenberg (guitar), Kenneth Firth (bass guitar,...
The Magic Lanterns
The Magic Lanterns were an English pop rock group formed in Warrington, Lancashire. They formed in 1962 as The Sabres, playing locally in Manchester and changing their name a few years later. They signed to CBS Records after releasing the single, ...
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Darling
Darling were a British band from the late 1970s whose music was a mixture of New Wave and Hard Pop. The band's singer, Alice Spring, had been the vocalist of the band Slack Alice on their eponymously titled album of 1974. Drummer Paul Varley had...
