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Pretty Things

Index Pretty Things

The Pretty Things are an English rock band, formed in 1963 in London. [1]

167 relations: A Saucerful of Secrets, A-side and B-side, Abbey Road Studios, Acetate disc, Album, AllMusic, Arrangement, Arthur Brown (musician), Australia, Balboa Island (album), Bass guitar, Bern Elliott and the Fenmen, Bertram Engel, Black Cat Bones, Blues, Bo Diddley, Brass section, Brian Jones, Brian Pendleton, Bryan Morrison, Carter-Lewis and the Southerners, Central School of Art and Design, Chicago, Chicken Shack, Columbia Graphophone Company, Columbia Records, Compact disc, Compilation album, Copyright infringement, Cover version, Cross Talk, Cry to Me, Dave Wintour, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Dawn of the Dead (1978 film), De Wolfe Music, Dick Taylor, Doctor Who, Don't Bring Me Down (The Pretty Things song), Drum kit, Dutch Top 40, DVD, Edgar Broughton Band, Eire Apparent, EMI, Emotions (The Pretty Things album), England, Film, Fontana Records, ..., Freakbeat, Freeway Madness, Garage rock, George A. Romero, George Paulus, Germany, Get the Picture? (The Pretty Things album), Hard rock, Harmonica, Harvest Records, Hit record, Instrumental, Jack Green (musician), Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page, Jimmy Reed, John Stax, Jon Langford, Keith Richards, Kent Music Report, Keyboard instrument, Lancashire, Laurie Records, Lead guitar, Lead vocalist, Led Zeppelin, London, Lung cancer, Luther Allison, Maidstone, Maraca, Marcq-en-Barœul, Matthew Fisher (musician), Melbourne, Mick Jagger, Misfits (The Kinks album), Mojo (magazine), Motown, Music video, Musical ensemble, Netherlands, New wave music, New Zealand, New Zealand Parliament, NME, Norman Smith (record producer), Parachute (The Pretty Things album), Peter Grant (music manager), Phil May (singer), Pin Ups, Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Pink Fairies, Pink Floyd, Pretty Thing, Procol Harum, Production music, Psychedelic music, Psychedelic pop, Psychedelic rock, Rainbow (rock band), Record label, Record producer, Repertoire Records, Rhythm and blues, Rhythm guitar, Road Runner (Bo Diddley song), Rock music, Rock opera, Rosalyn (song), RPM (magazine), S.F. Sorrow, Savage Eye, Saxophone, Sidcup Art College, Silk Torpedo, Simon Fox, Snapper Music, Softcore pornography, Solution (band), Soul music, Southern Hemisphere, Southport, Stage name, Stan Webb, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Steve Rowland (record producer), Swan Song Records, The Beatles, The Beatles (album), The Green Death, The Haunted House of Horror, The Inmates, The Kinks, The Mekons, The Monster Club, The Pretty Things (album), The Pretty Things/Philippe DeBarge, The Rolling Stones, The Sweet Pretty Things (Are in Bed Now, of Course...), The Waco Brothers, The Who, The Yardbirds, Tommy (album), Twink (musician), Ugly Things, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, Uncut (magazine), United Kingdom, United States, Viv Prince, Wally Waller, Warner Bros. Records, What's Good for the Goose, Willie Dixon, ... Rage Before Beauty, 100 Club. Expand index (117 more) »

A Saucerful of Secrets

A Saucerful of Secrets is the second studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on Monday, 01 July 1968 by EMI Columbia in the United Kingdom (following adverts in Melody Maker giving that date) and released on 27 July 1968 in the United States by Tower Records.

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A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly known as EMI Recording Studios) is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England.

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Acetate disc

An acetate disc is a type of phonograph (gramophone) record, a mechanical sound storage medium, widely used from the 1930s to the late 1950s for recording and broadcast purposes and still in limited use today.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.

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Arthur Brown (musician)

Arthur Wilton Brown (born 24 June 1942) is an English rock singer and songwriter best known for his flamboyant theatrical performances, and his powerful, wide-ranging operatic voice.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Balboa Island (album)

Balboa Island, released in 2007, is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band The Pretty Things.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bern Elliott and the Fenmen

Bern Elliott and the Fenmen were a British beat group, active between 1961 and 1964, and best known for their 1963 cover version of the song, "Money".

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Bertram Engel

Bertram Lutz Wilhelm Passmann, known by the stage name Bertram Engel, (born 27 November 1957 in Burgsteinfurt) is a German rock drummer.

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Black Cat Bones

Black Cat Bones were a British heavy blues rock group from London.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bo Diddley

Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll.

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Brass section

The brass section of the orchestra, concert band, and jazz ensemble consist of brass instruments, and is one of the main sections in all three ensembles.

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Brian Jones

Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician, best known as founder and the original leader of the Rolling Stones.

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Brian Pendleton

Brian Pendleton (13 April 1944 – 16 May 2001) was a British guitarist, and a founder member of the 1960s pop group The Pretty Things.

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Bryan Morrison

Bryan Morrison (14 August 1942 – 27 September 2008) was an English businessman, music publisher and polo player.

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Carter-Lewis and the Southerners

Carter-Lewis and the Southerners were an early-1960s rock band, formed by the Birmingham-born musicians Ken Lewis (guitarist, singer, songwriter) and John Carter (producer, singer, songwriter).

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Central School of Art and Design

The Central School of Art and Design was a public school of fine and applied arts in London, England.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicken Shack

Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (McVie) (vocals and keyboards) in 1967.

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Columbia Graphophone Company

The Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Copyright infringement

Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission, infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Cross Talk

Cross Talk, released in 1980, is the ninth studio album by the English rock band The Pretty Things.

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Cry to Me

"Cry to Me" is a song written by Bert Berns (listed as "Bert Russell") and first recorded by American soul singer Solomon Burke in 1961.

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Dave Wintour

Dave Wintour is a bass guitarist and session musician.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour, (born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)

Dawn of the Dead (also known internationally as Zombi or Zombie) is a 1978 American independent zombie horror film directed by George A. Romero.

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De Wolfe Music

De Wolfe Limited (Previously known as Music de Wolfe, often referred to as De Wolfe Music) is a British music production company, recognised as the originator of what has become known as library music.

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Dick Taylor

Richard Clifford Taylor (born 28 January 1943) is an English musician, best known as the guitarist and founder member of the Pretty Things.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Don't Bring Me Down (The Pretty Things song)

"Don't Bring Me Down" is a song written by Johnny Dee (road manager for British band The Fairies) and first performed by the rock band The Pretty Things in 1964.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Dutch Top 40

The Dutch Top 40 (Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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Edgar Broughton Band

The Edgar Broughton Band, founded in 1968 in Warwick, England, was an English psychedelic rock group.

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Eire Apparent

Eire Apparent were a band from Northern Ireland, noted for launching the careers of Henry McCullough and Ernie Graham, and for having Jimi Hendrix play on, and produce, their only album.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Emotions (The Pretty Things album)

Emotions is the third album by the English rock group The Pretty Things, released in 1967.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Fontana Records

Fontana Records is a record label which was started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records.

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Freakbeat

Freakbeat is a subgenre of rock and roll music developed mainly by harder-driving British groups, often those with a mod following during the Swinging London period of the mid to late 1960s.

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Freeway Madness

Freeway Madness is the sixth album by the English rock band Pretty Things.

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called 60s punk or garage punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced various revivals in the last several decades.

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George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.

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George Paulus

George Paulus (April 23, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, United States – November 15, 2014 in Downers Grove, Illinois) was an American record producer, plus the founder and owner of Barrelhouse Records, Negro Rhythm Records, and St. George Records.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Get the Picture? (The Pretty Things album)

Get the Picture? is the second album by the English rock group The Pretty Things, released in 1965.

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Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Harvest Records

Harvest Records is a British record label belonging to Capitol Music Group, originally created by EMI, active from 1969 to present.

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Hit record

A hit record is an audio recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" (appeared on) one of the popular chart listings.

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Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a Big Band setting.

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Jack Green (musician)

Jack Green (born 12 March 1951, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British musician and songwriter.

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Jim McCarty

James Stanley McCarty (born 25 July 1943) is an English musician, best known as the drummer for the Yardbirds and Renaissance.

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Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Jimmy Reed

Mathis James Reed (September 6, 1925August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter.

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John Stax

John Stax (born April 6th,1944) is an English musician best known as original bassist for The Pretty Things.

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Jon Langford

Jonathan Denis Langford (born 11 October 1957) is a prolific Welsh musician and artist based in Chicago, USA.

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Keith Richards

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician and songwriter, best known as a guitarist and founder member of the Rolling Stones.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Laurie Records

Laurie Records was a record label started in 1958 by brothers Robert and Gene Schwartz, and Allan I. Sussel.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lung cancer

Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung.

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Luther Allison

Luther Allison (August 17, 1939 – August 12, 1997) was an American blues guitarist.

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Maidstone

Maidstone is a large, historically important town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town.

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Maraca

Maraca, sometimes called rumba shaker, shac-shac, and various other names, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.

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Marcq-en-Barœul

Marcq-en-Barœul is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.

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Matthew Fisher (musician)

Matthew Charles Fisher (born 7 March 1946) is an English musician, songwriter and producer.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943), known professionally as Mick Jagger, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.

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Misfits (The Kinks album)

Misfits is the sixteenth studio album by the English rock band The Kinks.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Music video

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand Parliament

The New Zealand Parliament (Pāremata Aotearoa) is the legislature of New Zealand, consisting of the Queen of New Zealand (Queen-in-Parliament) and the New Zealand House of Representatives.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Norman Smith (record producer)

Norman "Hurricane" Smith (22 February 1923 – 3 March 2008) – accessed March 2011 was an English musician, record producer and engineer.

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Parachute (The Pretty Things album)

Parachute, released in 1970, is the fifth studio album by the English rock band The Pretty Things, following S.F. Sorrow and preceding Freeway Madness.

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Peter Grant (music manager)

Peter James "G" Grant (5 April 1935 – 21 November 1995) was an English music manager.

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Phil May (singer)

Phil May (born Philip Arthur Dennis Wadey 9 November 1944 in Dartford, Kent) is an English vocalist.

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Pin Ups

Pin Ups (also referred to as PinUps) is the seventh studio album by David Bowie, containing cover versions of songs, released in 1973 on RCA Records.

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Pine Valley Cosmonauts

Pine Valley Cosmonauts are a musical ensemble from Chicago, Illinois.

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Pink Fairies

Pink Fairies are an English rock band initially active in the London (Ladbroke Grove) underground and psychedelic scene of the early 1970s.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pretty Thing

"Pretty Thing" is a 1955 song written by Chess Records bassist-songwriter Willie Dixon and originally performed by Bo Diddley.

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Procol Harum

Procol Harum is an English rock band formed in 1967.

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Production music

Production music (also known as stock music or library music) is the name given to recorded music that can be licensed to customers for use in film, television, radio and other media.

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Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music (sometimes psychedelia) covers a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline and DMT to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.

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Psychedelic pop

Psychedelic pop is a pop music subgenre in which musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music are applied to pop songs.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Rainbow (rock band)

Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) is a British rock band led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, active from 1975 until 1984, 1993 until 1997, and 2015 until present.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Repertoire Records

Repertoire Records is a German record label from Hamburg, Germany, specialising in reissues of classic pop and rock albums originally issued in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Road Runner (Bo Diddley song)

"Road Runner" is a 12-bar blues song performed by American rock and roll performer Bo Diddley, originally released as a single by Checker Records in January 1960, and later released on the LP record Bo Diddley in the Spotlight.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rock opera

A rock opera is a collection of rock music songs with lyrics that relate to a common story.

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Rosalyn (song)

"Rosalyn" is a song by British rhythm and blues band The Pretty Things.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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S.F. Sorrow

S.F. Sorrow is the fourth album by the English rock group The Pretty Things. Released in 1968, it is one of the first rock concept albums. Based on a short story by singer Phil May, the album is structured as a song cycle, telling the story of the main character, Sebastian F. Sorrow, from birth through love, war, tragedy, madness, and the disillusionment of old age. Although the album is a rock opera, it has been stated by members of The Who that the record had no major influence on Pete Townshend and his writing of Tommy (1969). The Pretty Things, however, have suggested otherwise, as have some critics.

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Savage Eye

Savage Eye is the eighth album by the English rock band The Pretty Things, released in 1976.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Sidcup Art College

Sidcup Art College was an art college in Grassington Road, Sidcup, London Borough of Bexley, a suburb of Greater London, England.

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Silk Torpedo

Silk Torpedo is the seventh album by the English rock band The Pretty Things.

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Simon Fox

Simon Andrew David Fox (born 12 July 1949) is an English rock drummer, who played in different rock bands during the 1970s and the 1980s, most notably the progressive rock group Be-Bop Deluxe.

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Snapper Music

Snapper Music is an independent record label founded in 1996 by former head of Castle Communications Jon Beecher, Dougie Dudgeon and funded by Mark Levinson from Palan Music Publishing.

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Softcore pornography

Softcore pornography or softcore porn is commercial still photography or film that has a pornographic or erotic component.

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Solution (band)

Solution were a Dutch progressive rock band that existed from 1970 to 1983, during which time they released six studio albums and one live album.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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Southport

Southport is a large seaside town in Merseyside, England.

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Stage name

A stage name is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers, such as actors, comedians, singers and musicians.

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Stan Webb

Stanley Frederick "Stan" Webb (born 3 February 1946) is the frontman and lead guitarist with the blues band Chicken Shack.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine (born June 18, 1973) is an American music critic and senior editor for AllMusic.

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Steve Rowland (record producer)

Steve Rowland (born Stephen Jacob Rowland, 3 September 1932, Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American singer, columnist, record producer and actor.

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Swan Song Records

Swan Song Records was a record label launched by the English rock band Led Zeppelin on 10 May 1974.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Beatles (album)

The Beatles, also known as "The White Album", is the ninth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 22 November 1968.

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The Green Death

The Green Death is the fifth and final serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 19 May to 23 June 1973.

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The Haunted House of Horror

The Haunted House of Horror, also titled Horror House and The Dark is a 1969 British film, an early type of teen "slasher film".

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The Inmates

The Inmates are a British pub rock band, which formed after the split up of The Flying Tigers in 1977.

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The Kinks

The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Mekons

The Mekons are a British-American rock band.

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The Monster Club

The Monster Club is a 1981 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Vincent Price and John Carradine.

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The Pretty Things (album)

The Pretty Things is the self-titled 1965 release by the English rock band The Pretty Things, which features mostly R&B and rock and roll cover versions.

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The Pretty Things/Philippe DeBarge

The Pretty Things/Philippe DeBarge is an album recorded by the English rock band The Pretty Things with French playboy Philippe DeBarge in September 1969, but not released until 2009.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Sweet Pretty Things (Are in Bed Now, of Course...)

The Sweet Pretty Things (Are in Bed Now, of Course...) is the twelfth studio album by the English rock band The Pretty Things.

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The Waco Brothers

The Waco Brothers are an alternative country band in Chicago, Illinois.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an English rock band, formed in London in 1963.

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Tommy (album)

Tommy is the fourth studio album by the English rock band The Who, a double album first released in May 1969.

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Twink (musician)

John Charles Edward Alder (born 29 November 1944), better known as Twink, is an English drummer, singer and songwriter who was a central figure in the English psychedelic movement, and an actor.

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Ugly Things

Ugly Things (UT) is a music magazine established in 1983, based in La Mesa, California.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Uncut (magazine)

Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Viv Prince

Vivian Martin Prince (born 9 August 1941) is an English drummer.

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Wally Waller

Wally Waller or Wally Allen (born 9 April 1944) is an English bassist and producer.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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What's Good for the Goose

What's Good For The Goose, also known as Girl Trouble, is a 1969 British comedy film, starring Norman Wisdom.

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Willie Dixon

William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer.

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... Rage Before Beauty

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100 Club

The 100 Club is a music venue located at 100 Oxford Street, London, England, which has been hosting live music since 24 October 1942.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Things

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