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Curved Air

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Curved Air are a pioneering English progressive rock group formed in 1970 by musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds, including classical, folk, and electronic sound. [1]

106 relations: A Rainbow in Curved Air, Air Conditioning (album), Air Cut, Airborne (Curved Air album), Alive, 1990, Ö3 Austria Top 40, B.B. King, Baby, Please Don't Go, Back Street Luv, Billboard Hot 100, Black Sabbath, Butts Band, Caravan (band), Carl Orff, Cherry Red Records, Chislehurst, Classical music, Colosseum (band), Composer, Curved Air, Curved Air – Live, Darryl Way, Dartington College of Arts, David Bedford, De facto, Deram Records, Dream Theater, East of Eden (band), Eddie Jobson, Electronic music, Extended play, Faces (band), Florian Pilkington-Miksa, Folk music, Folk rock, Francis Monkman, GfK Entertainment Charts, Gloucestershire, Greenslade, Hair (musical), High Tide (band), High Voltage Festival, In C, Isle of Wight Festival, It's a Beautiful Day, Jazz fusion, Jeff Beck, Jethro Tull (band), Johnny Winter, Kate Bush, ..., Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Kiki Dee, Kirby Gregory, Lewis Carroll, Live at the BBC (Curved Air album), London, London Forum, London Underground, Lou Reed, Lovechild (Curved Air album), Malta, Marc Bolan, Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash, Marvin Ayres, Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate, Midnight Wire, Mike Wedgwood, Miles Copeland III, Naturopathy, New Orleans, North Star (Curved Air album), Notting Hill Gate, Ogg, Orange Music Electronic Company, Phantasmagoria (Curved Air album), Planet Rock (radio station), Playboy Club, Progressive rock, Queensrÿche, Roxy Music, Roy Guest, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Second Album (Curved Air album), Single (music), Sky (band), Soft Machine, Sonja Kristina, Sound recording and reproduction, Spirit (band), Spock's Beard, Stewart Copeland, Strawbs, Stretch (band), Switzerland, Terry Riley, The Flock (band), The Police, The United States of America (band), Tony Brainsby, Tony Reeves, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, Value-added tax, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Records. Expand index (56 more) »

A Rainbow in Curved Air

A Rainbow in Curved Air is the third album by experimental music artist and keyboard virtuoso Terry Riley.

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Air Conditioning (album)

Air Conditioning is the first studio album by British progressive rock band Curved Air.

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Air Cut

Air Cut is the fourth studio album by Curved Air and was recorded in 1973, following the departure of three of the band's founding members.

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Airborne (Curved Air album)

Airborne is the sixth studio album by Curved Air and was recorded in 1976.

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Alive, 1990

Alive, 1990 is a recording from the Curved Air reunion concert 23 September 1990.

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Ö3 Austria Top 40

Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Baby, Please Don't Go

"Baby, Please Don't Go" is a blues song that has been called "one of the most played, arranged, and rearranged pieces in blues history" by music historian.

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Back Street Luv

"Back Street Luv" is a song by British rock band Curved Air, written by band members Ian Eyre, Sonja Kristina and Darryl Way.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.

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Butts Band

Butts Band was a British and American group formed by ex-Doors members John Densmore and Robby Krieger that was active from 1973-1975.

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Caravan (band)

Caravan are an English band from the Canterbury area, founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings and Richard Coughlan in 1968.

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Carl Orff

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (–) was a German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937).

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Cherry Red Records

Cherry Red Records is a British independent record label founded by Iain McNay in 1978.

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Chislehurst

Chislehurst is an affluent suburban district in south east London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Colosseum (band)

Colosseum were a pioneering English progressive jazz-rock band,Larkin C 'Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music' (Muze UK Ltd, 1997) p69 - in which he states 'the commercial acceptance of jazz rock in the U.K. was mainly due to Colossseum.' mixing blues, rock and jazz-based improvisation.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Curved Air

Curved Air are a pioneering English progressive rock group formed in 1970 by musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds, including classical, folk, and electronic sound.

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Curved Air – Live

Curved Air – Live was the first official live album by the British progressive rock band Curved Air.

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Darryl Way

Richard Darryl Way (born 17 December 1948 in Taunton, Somerset) is an English rock and classical musician who was a founding member of Curved Air and co-writer of their only hit single, "Back Street Luv".

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Dartington College of Arts

Dartington College of Arts was a specialist institution near Totnes in Devon, southwest England, offering education in music and the arts.

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David Bedford

David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician.

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De facto

In law and government, de facto (or;, "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, even if not legally recognised by official laws.

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Deram Records

Deram Records was a subsidiary record label of Decca Records established in the United Kingdom in 1966.

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Dream Theater

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

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East of Eden (band)

East of Eden was a British progressive rock band, who had a Top 10 hit in the UK with the single, "Jig-a-Jig", in 1971.

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Eddie Jobson

Edwin "Eddie" Jobson (born 28 April 1955) is an English keyboardist and violinist noted for his use of synthesizers.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Faces (band)

Faces were an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of Small Faces after lead singer/guitarist Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie.

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Florian Pilkington-Miksa

Florian M Pilkington-Miksa (born 3 June 1950 in Paddington, London) is an English rock drummer.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Francis Monkman

Francis Monkman (born 9 June 1949, in Hampstead, North London, England) is an English rock, classical and film score composer, and a founding member of both the progressive rock band Curved Air and the classical/rock fusion band Sky.

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GfK Entertainment Charts

The GfK Entertainment Charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH (formerly Media Control GmbH and Media Control GfK International GmbH) on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (Federal Association of Phonographic Industry).

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Greenslade

Greenslade were an English progressive rock band, formed in the autumn of 1972 by keyboard-player Dave Greenslade and bassist Tony Reeves.

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Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.

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High Tide (band)

High Tide was a band formed in 1969 by Tony Hill (guitar and vocals), Simon House (violin and keyboards), Peter Pavli (bass guitar) and Roger Hadden (drums).

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High Voltage Festival

High Voltage was a music festival, held twice in Victoria Park, London.

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In C

In C is a musical piece composed by Terry Riley in 1964 for an indefinite number of performers.

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Isle of Wight Festival

The Isle of Wight Festival is a British music festival which takes place annually on the Isle of Wight in Newport, England.

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It's a Beautiful Day

It's a Beautiful Day is an American band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1967, featuring vocalist Pattie Santos along with violinist David LaFlamme and his wife, Linda LaFlamme, on keyboards.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist.

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967.

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Johnny Winter

John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014), known as Johnny Winter, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.

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Kate Bush

Catherine "Kate" Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer.

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Kawasaki, Kanagawa

is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kiki Dee

Pauline Matthews (born 6 March 1947), better known by her stage name Kiki Dee, is an English singer born in Little Horton, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire.

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Kirby Gregory

Graham Patrick "Kirby" Gregory, often credited simply as Kirby (born 11 March 1953 in Wallingford, Berkshire) is an English musician best known for playing with rock bands Curved Air and Stretch.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.

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Live at the BBC (Curved Air album)

Live at the BBC is a compilation live album of the British progressive rock band Curved Air from sessions on.

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London

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

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London Forum

The London Forum, formerly known as the Town & Country Club, is a concert venue in Kentish Town, London, England owned by MAMA & Company.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Lou Reed

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter.

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Lovechild (Curved Air album)

Lovechild is the seventh studio album credited to progressive rock band Curved Air, though only half the tracks are actually performed by the group.

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Malta

Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, and poet.

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Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash

Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash was formed in 2004 by Martin Turner, original bassist, lead vocalist and one of the songwriters of Wishbone Ash Mark 1 and Mark 2 Line up.

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Marvin Ayres

Marvin Ayres (born 1950s) is a British composer, cellist, violinist and producer.

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Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate

The Mercury Theatre was a small theatre on Ladbroke Road, Notting Hill Gate, London, notable for the productions of poetic dramas between 1933 and 1956, and as the home of the Ballet Rambert until 1987.

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Midnight Wire

Midnight Wire is the fifth studio album by Curved Air and was recorded in 1975.

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Mike Wedgwood

Mike Wedgwood (born 19 May 1950 in Derby) is an English bassist and singer.

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Miles Copeland III

Miles Axe Copeland III (born May 2, 1944) is an American music and entertainment executive and former manager of The Police.

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Naturopathy

Naturopathy or naturopathic medicine is a form of alternative medicine that employs an array of pseudoscientific practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", and as promoting "self-healing".

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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North Star (Curved Air album)

North Star is a studio album by Curved Air and was released on 17 March 2014.

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Notting Hill Gate

Notting Hill Gate is one of the main thoroughfares of Notting Hill, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Orange Music Electronic Company

Orange Music Electronic Company is an English amplifier manufacturing company, famous for its distinctive sound and bright orange Tolex-like covering on amplifier heads and speaker cabinets.

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Phantasmagoria (Curved Air album)

Phantasmagoria is a 1972 album by Curved Air.

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Planet Rock (radio station)

Planet Rock is a radio station in the United Kingdom owned by Bauer Radio.

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Playboy Club

The Playboy Club was initially a chain of nightclubs and resorts owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Queensrÿche

Queensrÿche performing at the Sauna Open Air Metal Festival on June 11, 2011, in Tampere, Finland. Left to right: bassist Eddie Jackson, lead vocalist Geoff Tate, drummer Scott Rockenfield and guitarist Michael Wilton. Queensrÿche is an American heavy metal band.

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Roxy Music

Roxy Music were an English rock band formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry, who became the band's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson.

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Roy Guest

Roy Guest (13 March 1934 – 23 September 1996) was a folk singer and impresario.

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Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas Bochsa.

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Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK.

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Second Album (Curved Air album)

Second Album was the second album released by British rock group Curved Air.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Sky (band)

Sky were an English/Australian instrumental rock group that specialised in combining a variety of musical styles, most prominently rock, classical and jazz.

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Soft Machine

Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs.

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Sonja Kristina

Sonja Kristina (born Sonja Christina Shaw, 14 April 1949, in Brentwood, Essex) is an English songwriter, musician and actress, best known for starring in the seminal 1960s musical, Hair, and for being the lead vocalist of the 1970s progressive rock band, Curved Air.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Spirit (band)

Spirit was an American rock band founded in 1967 and based in Los Angeles, California.

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Spock's Beard

Spock's Beard is an American progressive rock band formed in Los Angeles.

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Stewart Copeland

Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer.

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Strawbs

Strawbs (or The Strawbs) are an English rock band founded in 1964.

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Stretch (band)

Stretch were a 1970s British rock band that grew from the collaboration between Elmer Gantry (real name Dave Terry) and Kirby (real name Graham) Gregory.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Terry Riley

Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music, of which he was a pioneer.

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The Flock (band)

The Flock was an American, Chicago-based progressive rock band, that released two records on Columbia records in 1969 (The Flock) and 1970 (Dinosaur Swamps).

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The Police

The Police were a British rock band formed in London in 1977.

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The United States of America (band)

The United States of America was an American experimental rock band whose works, recorded in late 1967, are an early example of the use of electronic devices in rock music.

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Tony Brainsby

Tony Brainsby (Born 1945 - Died 2000) - Was a British publicist of the 1960s.

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Tony Reeves

Anthony "Tony" Reeves (born 18 April 1943, New Eltham, South East London) is an English bass guitarist/contrabassist, noted for his "extremely prominent and complex bass sound" and use of electronic effects.

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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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Value-added tax

A value-added tax (VAT), known in some countries as a goods and services tax (GST), is a type of tax that is assessed incrementally, based on the increase in value of a product or service at each stage of production or distribution.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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References

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

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