Madchester

Madchester - Musical legacy. The immediate influence of Madchester was in inspiring the wider baggy movement in the UK, with bands from various parts of the country producing music in the early 1990s heavily influenced by the main Madchester players. These bands included Flowered Up (from London), The Farm (from Liverpool), the Soup Dragons (from Glasgow) and Ocean Colour Scene (from Birmingham). Blur, from Colchester, certainly adopted a baggy style in their early career, although in an interview with Select Magazine in 1991 they claimed, rather imp ...

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Madchester, Madchester - Before Madchester, Madchester - Madchester artists' early careers, Madchester - Madchester begins, Madchester - Baggy, Madchester - Madchester hits the big time, Madchester - Commercial success, Madchester - Decline, Madchester - Legacy, Madchester - Musical legacy, Madchester - Impact on Manchester, Madchester - Discography, Madchester - Key Madchester recordings, Madchester - Madchester-era best of compilations

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Acid house is a variant of house music characterized by the use of simple tone generators with tempo-controlled resonant filters. It began in the mid-1980s, when producers of house music discovered that they could create interesting sounds with the Roland TB-303 analogue bass synthesizer by tweaking the resonance and frequency cut-off dials as they played. Acid house music became a central part of the early rave scene in the U.K., and the yellow smiley became its emblem. Acid house - Etymology. There are co ...

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• Acid house - Notable acid house artists

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There are conflicting accounts about how the term "acid" came to describe this new style of house music. The explanations that have surfaced include the following: It is a celebratory reference to LSD — some feel that early producers of the new style of house music, as well as people at nightclubs where the music was played, enjoyed the drug and its interaction with the music. No citations are available to confirm or deny this explanation. Genesis P-Orridge, principal member of the experimental music collective Psychic ...

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Acid house, Acid house - Etymology, Acid house - Notable acid house artists

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Britpop was a British alternative rock movement from the mid 1990s, characterised by the appearance of bands who were influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. Though these bands did not on the whole have a single unifying sound they were grouped together by the media first as a 'scene' and later as a national cultural movement. The movement developed as a reaction against various musical trends in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Acid house and the rise of Hip hop had led to an renewed interest in groove- a ...

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• Britpop - Roots and Influences
• Britpop - History
• Britpop - The Modfather and Modern Life is Rubbish 1991 – 1993
• Britpop - Britpop and Cool Britannia 1994 – 1996
• Britpop - Deceleration of the movement 1997 – 1999
• Britpop - Legacy
• Britpop - Britpop bands

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Music from the United Kingdom has achieved great international popularity since the 1960s, when a wave of British musicians helped to popularize rock and roll. Since then, the UK has produced numerous popular performers in far-ranging fields from heavy metal to folk-rock and drum n bass, as well as undergoing a renaissance in the ancient forms of folk music indigenous to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Anguilla - Bermuda - Cayman Islands - Gibraltar - Montserrat - Turks and Caicos - Virgin Islands Mu ...

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• Music of the United Kingdom - Folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - English folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Irish folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Scottish folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Welsh folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Early British popular music
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1950s and 60s: Importation and Exportation
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1970s: Rock splinters Jamaican and Indian music
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1980s
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1990s: Britpop and techno
• Music of the United Kingdom - Samples

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Doves are a British indie rock band from Manchester, England. The band is known for its large, epic sound, and has been compared with contemporaries such as Radiohead as well as classic Manchester bands such as The Stone Roses, New Order and The Smiths and experimental acts such as Talk Talk and Sigur Ros. The three members of Doves are brothers Jez Williams (guitar) and Andy Williams (drums and occasional vocals), and Jimi Goodwin (vocals, bass, guitar and occasionally drums), who met at school in Wilmslow when they were 15. T ...

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• Doves - Discography
• Doves - Studio Albums
• Doves - EPs
• Doves - Singles
• Doves - Lives and DVDs

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Country rock is a musical genre formed from the fusion of rock and roll with country music. While such cross-pollination has occurred throughout the history of both genres, the term is usually used to refer to the wave of groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began to record country flavored records, including Neil Young, The Byrds, Gram Parsons and Bob Dylan with The Band. The term is also used for those who came after them, such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Eagles, and the many bands they in ...

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The terms alternative rock and alternative music[1] were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time. At times it was used as catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s and rock music in general in the 1990s and 2000s. More specifically, it is made up mostly of genres that appeared in the 1980s and became popular or well known by t ...

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• Alternative rock - Overview
• Alternative rock - Influences
• Alternative rock - Styles
• Alternative rock - Footnotes

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Blur is the name of a British rock band. Originally called Seymour, Blur formed in London in 1989 from the remnants of a band called Circus. Vocalist/keyboardist Damon Albarn, guitarist/backing vocalist Graham Coxon and drummer Dave Rowntree, with bassist Alex James joining the lineup. Blur - History. Blur - Roots and Influence. Blur were one of the British bands who appeared in the wake of the Stone Roses's eponymous album, mixing psychedelic pop rock with very loud guit ...

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• Blur - History
• Blur - Roots and Influence
• Blur - Breakthrough and rising to success 1991-1993
• Blur - Britpop and the Height of Fame 1994-1998
• Blur - Post Britpop 1999-present
• Blur - Music
• Blur - Discography
• Blur - Studio Albums
• Blur - Compilations & Live Albums and Box Sets
• Blur - Fanclub CDs
• Blur - Samples

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24 Hour Party People is a 2002 film about Manchester's popular music community from 1977 to 1997, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and was directed by Michael Winterbottom. It begins with the punk rock era, and moves through the 1980s into the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The main character is Tony Wilson, the head of Factory Records (played by comedian Steve Coogan), and the narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, ...

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A nightclub (often shortened to club) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. In most other languages, night clubs are referred to as "discos" or "discothèques" (French: discothèque; German: Disko; Japanese: ディスコ, disuko or クラブ, kurabu). Nightclubs are always associated with music and have a dance floor, however small: a drinking establishment without music is a saloon or bar, pub or tavern. Though a nightclub may have a floor show or other enterta ...

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Wagnerian rock is a musical genre that was created by Jim Steinman due to his love for the music of Richard Wagner and Phil Spector. The genre is a merger (almost a musical hybrid) of twentieth century Rock & Roll and nineteenth century Opera reminiscent that of Wagner's and Spector's, and not to say the least, with a major distinctive touch of Steinman's own musical skills. The genre can be argued to be a subform of Rock opera. See also. anthem rock Holly Sherwood Fire I ...

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The precursor to Sun Dial was Ramon's the Modern Art, formed in the mid-'80s with a loose lineup that never played gigs but did see the release of two studio albums. Ramon disbanded the group out of a desire "to make a more live-sounding group that could go out and play". The band gained prominence after the release of their first album, Other Way Out, which quickly sold out its initial run through word of mouth alone. The album was near-universally praised in the independent music press, winning several awards and accolades. H ...

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Sun Dial, Sun Dial - History, Sun Dial - Members, Sun Dial - Discography, Sun Dial - Albums, Sun Dial - Singles, Sun Dial - EPs, Sun Dial - Videos

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Guitarist and vocalist Artur Rojek (born 1972) started the band in 1992 as "The Freshmen", taking the initial name from the movie The Freshman starring Marlon Brando - which indicates a fascination with cinema that would become a characteristic feature throughout the band's career. The early phase was characterised by a somewhat debonair punk attitude, as Rojek admits: "I started Myslovitz in 1992. I was twenty then and I had no idea how to make good music. Surely, I was a big fan of a few British groups (Ride, Stone Roses, My Bloo ...

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Myslovitz, Myslovitz - Lineup, Myslovitz - Band history, Myslovitz - Myslovitz and Mysłowice, Myslovitz - Awards, Myslovitz - Discography, Myslovitz - Albums, Myslovitz - Singles, Myslovitz - DVD

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NME - 1950s. The papers first issue was published on the 7th March 1952 after the Musical Express was bought by London music promoter Maurice Kinn and relaunched as the New Musical Express (commonly shortened to NME). It was initially published in a non-glossy, tabloid format on standard newsprint. Later the same year, taking its cue from the US Billboard Magazine, it created the first UK Singles Chart. The first of these was, in contrast to more recent charts, a top twelve.

NME, NME - History, NME - 1950s, NME - 1960s, NME - 1970s, NME - 1980s, NME - 1990s, NME - 2000s, NME - NME Originals, NME - NME.COM, NME - Miscellaneous, NME - NME Awards, NME - NME Awards tour, NME - Notable NME journalists

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Definitely Maybe, Definitely Maybe - Track listing, Definitely Maybe - Personnel, Definitely Maybe - Charting singles, Definitely Maybe - DVD

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Manchester is situated in a bowl-shaped land area, bordered to the north and east by the Pennine moors and to the south by the Cheshire Plain. The city centre is located on the River Irwell, near the confluence of two other rivers, the River Medlock and the River Irk. The River Mersey also flows through the south of the city. Much of the inner city is flat, offering extensive views of the moors from the floors of many tall buildings. It has some geographic features which were influential in its early development as an industrial city. These are its climate, its proximity to a sea port at Liverpool, the availabilty of wa ...

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Manchester, Manchester - Geography and climate, Manchester - History, Manchester - Earlier history, Manchester - Recent history, Manchester - Culture, Manchester - Art, Manchester - Museums, Manchester - Classical music, Manchester - Popular music, Manchester - Literature, Manchester - Theatre, Manchester - Media, Manchester - Television and radio, Manchester - Newspapers, Manchester - Gay and lesbian, Manchester - Education, Manchester - Universities, Manchester - Sport, Manchester - Transport and infrastructure, Manchester - Air, Manchester - Road, Manchester - Railway, Manchester - Metrolink, Manchester - Buses, Manchester - Water, Manchester - Commerce, Manchester - Shopping, Manchester - Food and drink, Manchester - Places of interest, Manchester - Architecture, Manchester - Skyline, Manchester - Public monuments, Manchester - Streets and plazas, Manchester - Religion, Manchester - Government, Manchester - Greater Manchester, Manchester - Political divisions, Manchester - Law enforcement, Manchester - Photo Gallery, Manchester - Notes

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Manchester - Nightlife. Like any large city there has always been a thriving nightclub culture here but Manchesters place in the history of modern clubbing surpasses every other city in the UK with the possible exception of London UK broadcaster Jimmy Savile is credited as being the first modern DJ by using twin turntables for continuous play after got two domestic record decks welded together. The first place he used this device to play to the public in 1946 was a nightclub called The Ritz on Whitworth St ...

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Manchester, Manchester - Geography and climate, Manchester - History, Manchester - Earlier history, Manchester - Recent history, Manchester - Culture, Manchester - Nightlife, Manchester - Art, Manchester - Museums, Manchester - Classical music, Manchester - Popular music, Manchester - Literature, Manchester - Theatre, Manchester - Venues, Manchester - Media, Manchester - Television and radio, Manchester - Film, Manchester - Newspapers, Manchester - Gay and lesbian, Manchester - Education, Manchester - Universities, Manchester - Sport, Manchester - Transport and infrastructure, Manchester - Air, Manchester - Road, Manchester - Railway, Manchester - Metrolink, Manchester - Buses, Manchester - Water, Manchester - Commerce, Manchester - Shopping, Manchester - Food and drink, Manchester - Places of interest, Manchester - Architecture, Manchester - Skyline, Manchester - Public monuments, Manchester - Streets and plazas, Manchester - Spinningfields, Manchester - Religion, Manchester - Government, Manchester - Greater Manchester, Manchester - Political divisions, Manchester - Law enforcement, Manchester - Twin Cities, Manchester - Foreign consulates and commissions, Manchester - Photo Gallery, Manchester - Notes

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The Kinks - Formation and first years 1963-1965. The musically inclined Davies brothers were born in Muswell Hill, London into a large family. Ray Davies (b. Raymond Douglas Davies, 21 June 1944; vocals/guitar/piano) studied at Hornsey College of Art and gained an experience in music as a guitarist with the Soho-based Dave Hunt Band in 1963. Meanwhile Ray's brother Dave (b. 3 February 1947; guitar/vocals) and his schoolmate Pete Quaife (b. 31 December 1943, Tavistock, Devon, England; bass) formed a band. Soon after that, they invited Ray to participate and Ray immediately accepted. Like the Davies brothers Quaife ...

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The Kinks, The Kinks - History, The Kinks - Formation and first years 1963-1965, The Kinks - Golden Age 1966-1972, The Kinks - Failure of rock operas 1973-1976, The Kinks - Second Golden Age 1977-1984, The Kinks - Fall in popularity 1985-1996, The Kinks - Disintegration and solo work 1997-present, The Kinks - Influence, The Kinks - Line-ups, The Kinks - 1964-1984, The Kinks - 1984-1997, The Kinks - Discography, The Kinks - Reference

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Credit for starting the Glam genre is often given to David Bowie or Marc Bolan of T. Rex. Proponents included Slade, Mud, Gary Glitter, Sweet, and at the more cerebral end of the scale, early Roxy Music including Brian Eno. In America, glam rock was most prominently represented by the proto-punk New York Dolls, whose sleazy Rolling Stones-influenced rawk-n-roll was matched by the wildly feminine look of the band. A sensation in New York City. Earlier, in 1968-69, Alice Cooper had arguably sketched the first hints of glam rock when they used a transvestite look and an overtly sexual ...

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Glam rock, Glam rock - Progenitors, Glam rock - Glam rock in Theatre and Cinema, Glam rock - Subsequent Influence, Glam rock - Glam rock acts

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