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Parlophone
Parlophone is a record label, founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company. The ₤ trademark is a German L, for Lindström. It also resembles the British pound sign (£), which itself is derived from the letter L for Libra, meaning pound in Latin. Parlophone is best known for its...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and, colloquially, as "The Bonzos") are a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz,...
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George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison...
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- Feb 25, 1943
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- Nov 29, 2001 (age 58 years)
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Gorillaz
Gorillaz is an English virtual band created in 1998 by Damon Albarn of Britpop band Blur, and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl. The band is composed of four animated band members: 2D (vocals, keyboard), Murdoc (bass guitar),...
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Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk ("power plant" or "power station", German pronunciation: [ˈkʁaftvɛɐk]) is a pioneer and a highly influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy...
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- 1970
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Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours...
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- May 28, 1968 (age 41 years)
The Beatles
The Beatles are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music.
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- 1957
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- Apr 10, 1970
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, beats), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboard, other instruments), Ed O'Brien ...
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- 1986
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Queen
Queen are a British rock band formed in 1970. Queen consisted of vocalist Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor. The band became popular with audiences via their hit singles, live performances,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Jun 27, 1970
Brian May
Doctor Brian Harold May CBE (born 19 July 1947 in London, England) is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home built guitar, "Red Special", and has...
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- Jul 19, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Blur
Blur were an English alternative rock band. Formed in London in 1989 as Seymour, the group consisted of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Blur's debut album Leisure (1991) incorporated the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1989
Supergrass
Supergrass are an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band consists of brothers Gaz (guitar and lead vocals) and Rob Coombes (keyboards), Danny Goffey (drums and backing vocals), and Mick Quinn (bass and backing vocals).
The main trio...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1993
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are a British electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasionally guitar and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally backing vocals.
Pet Shop Boys have sold close to 100 million...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Aug 1981
George Martin
Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926) is a British record producer, arranger, composer and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"—a title that he owes to his work as producer of all but one of The Beatles' original...
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- Jan 3, 1926 (age 84 years)
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Coldplay
Coldplay are an English alternative rock band, formed in London in 1998. The group comprises Chris Martin (lead vocals, keyboards, guitar), Jonny Buckland (lead guitar), Guy Berryman (bass guitar), and Will Champion (drums, backing vocals, other...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Jan 1996
Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English rock band from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States. Since the 1980s they have placed 14 in...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1978
The Action
The Action were an English band of the 1960s.
They were part of the mod subculture, and played soul music-influenced pop music. The band were formed as The Boys in August 1963, in Kentish Town, North London. After Peter Watson joined them as an...
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Arcadia
Arcadia were the pop group formed in 1985 by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran, during a break in that band's schedule. However, Roger Taylor appeared in only a few band photographs and in none of the music videos, and stated...
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- 1985
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1986
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Joe Meek
Joe Meek (born Robert George Meek; 5 April 1929 Newent, Gloucestershire — d. 3 February 1967 in London) was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter. His work and popular success in the music field is more remarkable since it is known he...
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- Apr 5, 1929
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- Feb 3, 1967 (age 37 years)
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Kajagoogoo
Kajagoogoo are a British pop band, best known for their hit single, "Too Shy", which reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart (#5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100) in 1983.
The band was originally founded in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, in 1979, as a four...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1985
Talk Talk
Talk Talk were a British musical group that were active from 1981 to 1991. The group had a string of international hit singles including; "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It" and "Living in...
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Mike McCartney
Mike McCartney (born Peter Michael McCartney, 7 January 1944, at Walton General Hospital, Liverpool), known professionally as Mike McGear, is a British performing artist and rock photographer and the younger brother of Paul McCartney. He attended...
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- Jan 7, 1944 (age 66 years)
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Jonny Greenwood
Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood (born 5 November 1971) is a BAFTA and Grammy-nominated musician and composer-in-residence for the BBC, best known as a member of English alternative rock group Radiohead. Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist, but...
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- Nov 5, 1971 (age 38 years)
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Chris Martin
Christopher Anthony John "Chris" Martin (born 2 March 1977) is an English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Coldplay. He is the husband of Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow, with whom he has fathered...
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- Mar 2, 1977 (age 32 years)
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The Easybeats
The Easybeats were a rock and roll band from Australia. They formed in Sydney in late 1964 and split at the end of 1969. They are widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s and were the first Australian rock and roll act to...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1964
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1969
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Richard Ashcroft
Richard Paul Ashcroft (born 11 September 1971 in Billinge, Wigan, England) is an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer and occasional guitarist of rock band The Verve from their formation in 1990 until their split in 1999. After this, he...
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- Sep 11, 1971 (age 38 years)
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The Hollies
The Hollies are an English rock group from Manchester formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style (which influenced many other groups) they became one of the leading British groups of the era, and they enjoyed...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1963
Athlete
Athlete are an Ivor Novello Award winning English indie rock band formed in Deptford, London, comprising Joel Pott (lead vocals and guitar), Carey Willetts (bass and backing vocals), Stephen Roberts (drums and backing vocals) and Tim Wanstall ...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Mar 2002
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy are a chamber pop band from Northern Ireland, fronted by Neil Hannon.
Neil Hannon has been the only ever-present member of the band, being its founder in 1989 when he was joined by John McCullagh and Kevin Traynor. Their first...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
Jamelia
Jamelia Niela Davis (born on 11 January 1981), best known mononymously as Jamelia, is a British singer-songwriter and model, most famous for her use of a capella and prolific work in the R&B; genre. She has released three studio albums, each of...
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- Jan 11, 1981 (age 28 years)
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Paul Simonon
Paul Gustave Simonon (born 15 December 1955) is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for punk rock band The Clash. His most recent work is his involvement in the album The Good, the Bad & the Queen with Damon Albarn, Simon Tong and...
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- Dec 15, 1955 (age 54 years)
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All Saints
All Saints were a British all-female vocal group. Founded at the end of 1993 as All Saints 1.9.7.5, the group consisted of founding members Melanie Blatt and Shaznay Lewis, and sisters Nicole Appleton and Natalie Appleton. They became one of the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1993
Interpol
Interpol is an American indie rock band formed in 1997 in New York City. The band's line-up is Paul Banks (vocals, guitar), Daniel Kessler (guitar, vocals), Carlos Dengler (bass guitar, keyboards) and Sam Fogarino (drums, percussion).
Interpol is...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1998
Matt Monro
Matt Monro (1 December 1930 – 7 February 1985) was an English singer who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1960s. Throughout his 30-year career, he filled cabarets, nightclubs, music halls, and...
Date of birth:
- Dec 1, 1930
Date of death:
- Feb 7, 1985 (age 54 years)
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Finn Brothers
The Finn Brothers is the name of the musical project of New Zealand brothers Neil and Tim Finn.
The brothers started off making music together from a very young age, and Neil joined his big brother Tim in Split Enz at the age of eighteen. Both...
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Bentley Rhythm Ace
Bentley Rhythm Ace (BRA) are a duo formed in Birmingham, England in the late 1990s consisting of Mike Stokes and Richard March.
The band was formed in Birmingham, in 1995 by March, former members of the group Pop Will Eat Itself (with guest...
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Twink
John Charles Alder (born 29 November 1944), better known as Twink, is an English drummer, singer and song writer who was a central figure in the English psychedelic movement, and an actor.
Alder was born in Colchester, Essex, England, into a musical...
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- Nov 29, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Babyshambles
Babyshambles are an English indie rock band established in London. The band was formed by Pete Doherty during a hiatus from his former band The Libertines, but Babyshambles has since become his main project (Although recently he has been focusing on...
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- 2004
Helen Terry
Helen Terry (born 25 May 1956) is a British singer, known for her backing vocal work with Culture Club. As a solo performer, she scored a Top 40 hit single in 1984 with "Love Lies Lost", and released one album in 1986, Blue Notes.
She then pursued a...
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- May 25, 1956 (age 53 years)
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Dirty Vegas
Dirty Vegas is a Grammy Award-winning British house music trio made up of Ben Harris and Paul Harris (no relation) on instruments and production and Steve Smith on vocals. The group formed in 2001, then broke up in 2005 before reforming in December...
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Naked Eyes
Naked Eyes is a British synthpop band that first became popular in the 1980s. The duo is known for their singles: a cover of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David standard "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" (Bacharach himself has cited the cover...
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Mansun
Mansun were an English indie band formed in Chester in 1995. The band comprised vocalist/rhythm guitarist Paul Draper, bassist Stove King, lead guitarist/backing vocalist Dominic Chad, and drummer Andie Rathbone. The band broke up in May 2003....
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Max Merritt
Max Merritt (born Maxwell James Merritt in Christchurch, New Zealand on 30 April 1941) is a New Zealand-born singer-songwriter and guitarist who is renowned as an interpreter of soul music and R&B.; As leader of Max Merritt & The Meteors his best...
Date of birth:
- Apr 30, 1941 (age 68 years)
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The Sundays
The Sundays were an English alternative rock group. The band, formed in the mid-1980s, released three albums in the late 1980s and 1990s. Their music is characterised by singer Harriet Wheeler's dreamy voice, David Gavurin's rich and jangly guitar...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1987
George Bellamy
George Bellamy (born 8 October 1941, in Sunderland) was the rhythm guitarist from The Tornados; and father of Matthew Bellamy, frontman of British rock band, Muse.
Bellamy encouraged his son Matthew (in the highly successful band Muse) to learn...
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- Aug 10, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Gaz Coombes
Gaz Coombes (born Gareth Michael Coombes, 8 March 1976 in Oxford) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band, Supergrass. He first entered the music scene aged...
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- Mar 8, 1976 (age 33 years)
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Mick Quinn
Mick Quinn (born Michael Milton Quinn, 17 December 1969 in Oxford, England) is the bass player for English rock band, Supergrass.
In his late teens and early twenties Quinn had attempted unsuccessfully to forge a career as a musician. However,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Danny Goffey
Daniel Robert Goffey (born 7 February 1974 in Berkshire) is an English musician and singer-songwriter best known as the drummer and backing vocalist for the English Britpop band, Supergrass.
Goffey started his music career as a child when he formed...
Date of birth:
- Feb 7, 1974 (age 35 years)
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Rob Coombes
Rob Coombes (born Robert Joseph Coombes, 27 April 1972, Oxford, England) is the keyboard player for Supergrass.
He is the older brother of Gaz Coombes and is the newest member of Supergrass, officially joining in 2002. He has a second younger...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1972 (age 37 years)
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Idlewild
Idlewild are a Scottish rock band, formed in Edinburgh, in 1995, comprising Roddy Woomble (lead vocals), Rod Jones (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Newton (drums), Allan Stewart (guitar) and Gareth Russell (bass). To date, Idlewild have released six...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Dec 1995
Siobhán Donaghy
Siobhán Emma Donaghy (born 14 June 1984 in London), is an English singer songwriter. She attended the Douay Martyrs school in Ickenham, in the London Bourogh of Hillingdon. She was a founding member of English pop group the Sugababes, although she...
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- Jun 14, 1983 (age 26 years)
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Jonny Buckland
Jonathan Mark Buckland (born 11 September 1977), known as Jonny Buckland, is an English guitarist and musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the band Coldplay.
Buckland was born in Islington, London, and lived there until the age of four,...
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- Sep 11, 1977 (age 32 years)
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Will Champion
William "Will" Champion (born 31 July 1978) is a multi-instrumentalist and the drummer of English rock band Coldplay.
Will was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England, and was brought up in a small urban area called Chandlers Ford, just outside...
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- Jul 31, 1978 (age 31 years)
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The Departure
The Departure was an English rock band from Northampton, formed in January 2004. Their debut album, Dirty Words, was released 13 June 2005 by Parlophone. A second album, Inventions, was expected to be released in early 2008, but was not (due to...
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- 2004
Spacemonkeyz
Spacemonkeyz (also spelled Space Monkeyz) are a musical group consisting of Darren Galea, Richie Stevens and Gavin Dodds. They came together when Galea created a dub remix of the Gorillaz' "Tomorrow Comes Today" ("Tomorrow Dub", which was released...
Andy Leek
Andy Leek (1964- ) is an English musician, noted for his work with Dexys Midnight Runners.
Andy began his musical career while still at school fronting progressive punk band The Wailing Cocks. The band attracted a modicum of publicity via two...
Date of birth:
- 1964 (age 46 years)
Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore (also known as Anthony More) (born 1948) is a British experimental music composer, performer and producer. He was a founding member of the band Slapp Happy, worked with Henry Cow and has made a number of solo albums, including Flying...
Date of birth:
- 1948 (age 62 years)
Sound Team
Sound Team was an American band based in Austin, Texas that formed in 2000 around principal songwriters Bill Baird and Matt Oliver. For most of their recording career, Sound Team consisted of Bill Baird (bass, guitar, vocals), Matt Oliver (guitar,...
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Morning Runner
Morning Runner was an alternative rock band from Reading, England. They released one album, Wilderness Is Paradise Now, following top 20 single "Burning Benches", before their split in late 2007 due to commercial pressures from their record label,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2003
Noodle
Noodle (born October 31, 1990) is a fictional member of the virtual band Gorillaz. She provides the guitar as well as some main and backing vocals for the band. She, like all other Gorillaz members, was created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.
At...
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Skin
Skin are a UK hard rock band active during the 1990s who reformed in 2009
Skin were formed in the early 1990s by ex-Jagged Edge members Myke Gray and Andy Robbins (also formerly of Tokyo Blade & Shogun) along with former Kooga vocalist Neville...
