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List of Britannia documentaries

Index List of Britannia documentaries

The Britannia series is a series of documentaries from BBC Four that began in 2005. [1]

275 relations: A Clockwork Orange (film), Alasdair Roberts (musician), Ali Campbell, Alison Moyet, Andy Fletcher (musician), Andy McCluskey, Andy Summers, Anne Briggs, Anne-Marie Duff, Antonio Pappano, Are "Friends" Electric?, Armando Iannucci, Arthur Brown (musician), Aswad, BBC Four, Bellowhead, Benjamin Woolley, Bernard Hill, Bernard Sumner, Beth Orton, Big Youth, Bill Bruford, Bill Paterson (actor), Bill Wyman, Billy Bragg, Blue Monday (New Order song), Blues Incorporated, Blues rock, Bob and Marcia, Bob Andy, Bob Brunning, Bob Harris (radio), Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Boy George, Brinsley Forde, British blues, British comics, British Invasion, Bunny Lee, Cabaret Voltaire (band), Caravan (band), Carl Palmer, Caron Wheeler, Carroll Thompson, Cars (song), Champion Jack Dupree, Chris Barber, Chris Blackwell, Chris Carter (British musician), ..., Chris Dreja, Chris Lowe, Classical music, Classics, Comic book, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Cream (band), Culture Club, Dance, Daniel Miller (music producer), Dave and Ansell Collins, Dave Barker, Dave Kelly (musician), Davey Graham, David Ball (musician), David Hinds, Dennis Alcapone, Dennis Bovell, Depeche Mode, Desmond Dekker, Dick Taylor, Documentary film, Don Letts, Donovan, E-mu Emulator, Eccentricity (behavior), Egg (band), Electric blues, Electronic dance music, Electronic music, Eliza Carthy, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Ewan MacColl, Fairport Convention, Fantasy, Fleetwood Mac, Folk music, Folk rock, Four-letter word, Game, Gary Brooker, Gary Numan, Genesis (band), George Alagiah, Giorgio Moroder, Hard rock, Heaven 17, Heavy metal music, Howlin' Wolf, Ian Anderson, Industrial music, Island Records, Israelites (song), Italy, J. G. Ballard, Jack Bruce, Jamaica, Janet Kay, Jazz, Jazzie B, Jerry Dammers, Jesse Fuller, Jethro Tull (band), Jim Moray, Joanne Catherall, Joe Boyd, John Bundrick, John Foxx, John Lee Hooker, John Mayall, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Jonathan Coe, Joy Division, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Keith Richards, King Crimson, Kraftwerk, Krautrock, Led Zeppelin, Levellers (band), Linton Kwesi Johnson, Little Red Rooster, Lord Creator, Lovers rock, LP record, Manfred Mann, Margaret Thatcher, Martin Carthy, Martin Gore, Martyn Ware, Matumbi (band), Max Romeo, Mellotron, Memphis Slim, Mick Abrahams, Mick Fleetwood, Middle class, Midge Ure, Mike Oldfield, Mike Rutherford, Mike Vernon (record producer), Millie Small, Mod (subculture), Mont Campbell, Muddy Waters, Multiracial, Music festival, Music genre, Musical Youth, Mute Records, My Boy Lollipop, Neil Tennant, Neville Staple, New Order (band), Nicky Thomas, Nigel Planer, Opera, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Paul Humphreys, Paul Jones (singer), Paul Simonon, Paul Weller, Pauline Black, Peggy Seeger, Pentangle, Pet Shop Boys, Pete Brown, Peter Capaldi, Peter Green (musician), Peter Sinfield, Phil Collins, Phil May (singer), Phil Ryan (musician), Philip Oakey, Pop music, Post-punk, Prince Buster, Procol Harum, Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock, Punk rock, Reggae, Republic of Ireland, Rhoda Dakar, Richard Coughlan, Richard H. Kirk, Rick Wakeman, Rico Rodriguez (musician), Robert Wyatt, Rock Against Racism, Rock music of the United Kingdom, Roger Dean (artist), Roger McGough, Roots reggae, Ruby Turner, Sampler (musical instrument), Satire, Science fiction, Sex Pistols, Simon Reynolds, Skiffle, Skinhead, Smiley Culture, Soft Cell, Soft Machine, Son House, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Soul II Soul, Soul music, Sound system (Jamaican), Southern United States, Steel Pulse, Steeleye Span, Steve Barrow, Steve Howe (musician), Stewart Copeland, Sugar Minott, Suite (music), Susan Ann Sulley, Sylvia Tella, Synth-pop, Synthesizer, Terence Stamp, The Animals, The Beatles, The Clash, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Groundhogs, The Human League, The Incredible String Band, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Nice, The Normal, The Pogues, The Police, The Rolling Stones, The Selecter, The Slits, The Specials, The Waterboys, The Wilde Flowers, The Yardbirds, Them (band), Throbbing Gristle, Tippa Irie, Tom McGuinness (musician), Tony Banks (musician), Tony McPhee, Toots and the Maytals, Trad jazz, Two-tone (music genre), UB40, UK Singles Chart, Ultravox, Val Wilmer, Vince Clarke, Viv Albertine, Wayne Perkins, Wendy Carlos, Winston Reedy, Wolfgang Flür, Yazoo (band), Yes (band). Expand index (225 more) »

A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name.

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Alasdair Roberts (musician)

Alasdair Roberts (born 8 August 1977) is a Scottish folk musician.

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Ali Campbell

Alistair Ian Campbell (born 15 February 1959) is an English singer and songwriter who was the lead singer and a founding member of the English reggae band UB40.

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Alison Moyet

Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet (born 18 June 1961) is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy contralto voice.

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Andy Fletcher (musician)

Andrew John Leonard "Andy" Fletcher (born 8 July 1961), popularly known as "Fletch", is an English keyboard player and one of the founding members of the electronic band Depeche Mode.

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Andy McCluskey

George Andrew McCluskey (born 24 June 1959 in Heswall, Cheshire) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer who is best known as the singer, bass guitarist and co-founder of synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD).

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Andy Summers

Andrew James Somers (born 31 December 1942), known professionally as Andy Summers, is an English guitarist who was a member of the rock band The Police.

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Anne Briggs

Anne Patricia Briggs (born 29 September 1944) is an English folk singer.

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Anne-Marie Duff

Anne-Marie Duff (born 8 October 1970) is an English actress.

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Antonio Pappano

Sir Antonio "Tony" Pappano (born 30 December 1959) is an English-Italian conductor and pianist and music director of the Royal Opera House since 2002.

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Are "Friends" Electric?

"Are 'Friends' Electric?" is a 1979 song by the English band Tubeway Army.

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Armando Iannucci

Armando Giovanni Iannucci, (born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, and radio producer.

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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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Aswad

Aswad are a long-lasting British reggae group, noted for adding strong R&B and soul influences to the reggae sound.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.

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Bellowhead

Bellowhead was an English contemporary folk band, active from 2004 to 2016.

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Benjamin Woolley

Benjamin Woolley is an author, media journalist and television presenter.

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Bernard Hill

Bernard Hill (born 17 December 1944) is an English film, stage and television actor.

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Bernard Sumner

Bernard Sumner (born 4 January 1956) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.

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Beth Orton

Elizabeth Caroline Orton (born 14 December 1970) is an English singer-songwriter, known for her 'folktronica' sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica.

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Big Youth

Manley Augustus Buchanan (born 19 April 1949, Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica),Thompson, Dave (2002) "Reggae & Caribbean Music", Backbeat Books, better known as Big Youth (sometimes called Jah Youth), is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s.

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Bill Bruford

William Scott Bruford (born 17 May 1949) is an English retired drummer, percussionist, songwriter, producer, and record label owner who first gained prominence as the original drummer of the rock band Yes, from 1968 to 1972 and again from 1989 to 1992.

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Bill Paterson (actor)

Bill Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish actor and commentator, best known for playing the lead role in the BBC One paranormal, mystery drama Sea of Souls between 2004 and 2007.

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Bill Wyman

Bill Wyman (born William George Perks Jr., 24 October 1936) is an English musician, record producer, songwriter and singer.

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Billy Bragg

Stephen William "Billy" Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing political activist.

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Blue Monday (New Order song)

"Blue Monday" is a song by the British rock band New Order.

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Blues Incorporated

Blues Incorporated were an English blues band formed in London in 1961, led by Alexis Korner and including at various times Jack Bruce, Charlie Watts, Terry Cox, Davy Graham, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Ronnie Jones, Danny Thompson, Graham Bond, Cyril Davies, Malcolm Cecil and Dick Heckstall-Smith.

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock.

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Bob and Marcia

Bob and Marcia were a Jamaican vocal duo, that consisted of Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths.

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Bob Andy

Keith Anderson CD (born 1944),Harris, Craig "", Allmusic, retrieved 12 January 2010 better known by the stage name Bob Andy, is a Jamaican reggae vocalist and songwriter.

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Bob Brunning

Robert Brunning (29 June 1943 – 18 October 2011) was a British musician who was, as a small part of a long musical career, the original bass guitar player with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac.

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Bob Harris (radio)

Robert Brinley Joseph Harris, OBE (born 11 April 1946), known as "'Whispering Bob Harris", is an English music presenter known for being a host of the BBC2 music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test, and as a co-founder of the listings magazine Time Out.

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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter who became an international musical and cultural icon, blending mostly reggae, ska, and rocksteady in his compositions.

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Bob Marley and the Wailers

Bob Marley and the Wailers was a Jamaican reggae band led by Bob Marley.

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Boy George

Boy George (born George Alan O'Dowd; 14 June 1961) is an English singer, songwriter, DJ and fashion designer.

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Brinsley Forde

Brinsley Forde MBE (born 16 October 1953, Islington, North London) is best known as the founder member of the reggae band Aswad and as a child actor in the children's television series Here Come the Double Deckers (1970–71).

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British blues

British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s and which reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s, when it developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar and made international stars of several proponents of the genre including The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin.

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British comics

A British comic is a periodical published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips.

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British Invasion

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States and significant to rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Bunny Lee

Edward O'Sullivan Lee OD (born 23 August 1941), better known by the name Bunny "Striker" Lee, is a Jamaican record producer and one of the major forces in the Jamaican music industry.

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Cabaret Voltaire (band)

Cabaret Voltaire are an English music group formed in Sheffield in 1973 and initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, and Chris Watson.

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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 Palmer

Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer (born 20 March 1950) is an English drummer and percussionist, credited as one of the most respected rock drummers to emerge from the 1960s.

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Caron Wheeler

Caron Melina Wheeler (born 19 January 1963) is a British singer, songwriter, record producer and musician.

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Carroll Thompson

Carroll Thompson (born 1960) is a British lovers rock singer, best known for her work in the 1980s.

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Cars (song)

"Cars" is a song by English musician Gary Numan.

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Champion Jack Dupree

William Thomas "Champion Jack" Dupree (July 23, 1909 or July 4, 1910 – January 21, 1992) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer.

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Chris Barber

Donald Christopher Barber OBE (born 17 April 1930) is an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist.

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Chris Blackwell

Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell (born 22 June 1937) is an English businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels".

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Chris Carter (British musician)

Chris Carter is an English musician, best known for being a synthesist and member of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey.

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Chris Dreja

Christopher Walenty Dreja (born 11 November 1945 in Surbiton, Surrey) is an English musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist and bassist for The Yardbirds.

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Chris Lowe

Christopher Sean Lowe (born 4 October 1959) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and co-founder of the synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys which he formed with Neil Tennant in 1981.

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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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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Cosey Fanni Tutti

Cosey Fanni Tutti (born Christine Carol Newby; 4 November 1951) is an English performance artist, musician, and writer, best known for her time in the avant-garde groups Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey.

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Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s British rock power trio consisting of drummer Ginger Baker, guitarist/singer Eric Clapton and lead singer/bassist Jack Bruce.

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Culture Club

Culture Club are an English new wave band that formed in London in 1981.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Daniel Miller (music producer)

Daniel Otto Junius Miller (born 14 February 1951 in Marylebone, London) is a British music producer and founder of Mute Records.

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Dave and Ansell Collins

Dave and Ansell Collins are a Jamaican vocal/instrumental duo (sometimes billed as Dave and Ansil Collins or Dave and Ansel Collins).

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Dave Barker

Dave Barker (born David John Crooks, 10 October 1948, Franklyn Town, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae and rocksteady singer who has made a string of solo albums along with recordings as a member of The Techniques and as half of the duo Dave and Ansell Collins.

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Dave Kelly (musician)

David William 'Dave' Kelly (born 13 March 1947), is a British blues singer, guitarist and composer, who has been active on the British blues music scene since the 1960s.

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Davey Graham

David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham (originally spelled Davy Graham) (26 November 1940 – 15 December 2008) was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival.

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David Ball (musician)

David James Ball (born 3 May 1959) is an English producer and electronic musician, who has played in bands such as Soft Cell and The Grid, and collaborated with other producers including Ingo Vauk and Chris Braide.

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David Hinds

David "Dread" Hinds (born 15 June 1956) is an English musician, the founding member, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning reggae band Steel Pulse.

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Dennis Alcapone

Dennis Alcapone (born Dennis Smith, 6 August 1947, in Clarendon, Jamaica) is a reggae DJ and producer.

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Dennis Bovell

Dennis Bovell (born 22 May 1953)Huey, Steve,, Allmusic.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Desmond Dekker

Desmond Dekker (16 July 1941 – 25 May 2006Thompson, Dave (2002) "Reggae & Caribbean Music", Backbeat Books,, Note: some sources list year of birth as 1942 or 1943) was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician.

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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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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Don Letts

Donovan "Don" Letts (born) is a British film director, DJ and musician.

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Donovan

Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish-born singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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E-mu Emulator

The Emulator is the name given the series of digital sampling synthesizers using floppy disk storage, manufactured by E-mu Systems from 1981 until the 1990s.

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Eccentricity (behavior)

Eccentricity (also called quirkiness) is unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual.

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Egg (band)

Egg were an English progressive rock band formed in January 1969.

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Electric blues

Electric blues refers to any type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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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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Eliza Carthy

Eliza Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing fiddle.

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Eurythmics

Eurythmics were a British music duo consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.

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Ewan MacColl

James Henry Miller (25 January 1915 – 22 October 1989), better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was an English folk singer, songwriter, communist, labour activist, actor, poet, playwright and record producer born in Lancashire to Scottish parents.

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Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are a British folk rock band.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967.

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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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Four-letter word

The phrase four-letter word refers to a set of English-language words written with four letters which are considered profane, including common popular or slang terms for excretory functions, sexual activity and genitalia, terms relating to Hell or damnation when used outside of religious contexts or slurs.

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Game

A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.

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Gary Brooker

Gary Brooker, MBE, (born 29 May 1945) is an English singer, songwriter, pianist and founder and lead singer of the rock band Procol Harum.

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Gary Numan

Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.

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Genesis (band)

Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967.

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George Alagiah

George Maxwell Alagiah (born 22 November 1955) is a British newsreader, journalist and television news presenter.

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Giorgio Moroder

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (born 26 April 1940) is an Italian singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer.

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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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Heaven 17

Heaven 17 are an English new wave and synth-pop band that formed in Sheffield in 1980.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi.

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Ian Anderson

Ian Scott Anderson (born 10 August 1947) is a British musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as the lead vocalist, flautist and acoustic guitarist of British rock band Jethro Tull.

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Industrial music

Industrial music is a fusion genre of electronic and experimental music which draws on harsh, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Israelites (song)

"Israelites" is a song written by Desmond Dekker and Leslie Kong that became a hit for Dekker's group, Desmond Dekker & The Aces, peaking in 1969.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Wind from Nowhere (1961) and The Drowned World (1962).

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Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) was a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter known primarily for his contributions to the British supergroup Cream, which also included the guitarist-singer Eric Clapton and the drummer Ginger Baker.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Janet Kay

Janet Kay (born 17 January 1958) is a British vocalist best known for her 1979 lovers rock hit "Silly Games".

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazzie B

Trevor Beresford Romeo OBE (born 26 January 1963), better known by his stage name Jazzie B, is a British DJ, music producer and entrepreneur.

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Jerry Dammers

Jeremy David Hounsell "Jerry" Dammers (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra.

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Jesse Fuller

Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".

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Jethro Tull (band)

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

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Jim Moray

Jim Moray (born 1981) is an English folk singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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Joanne Catherall

Joanne Catherall (born 18 September 1962) is one of the two female vocalists of the English synthpop band The Human League.

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Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and writer.

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John Bundrick

John Douglas "Rabbit" Bundrick (born November 21, 1948 in Houston, Texas) is an American rock keyboardist, pianist and organist.

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John Foxx

John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh, 26 September 1947) is an English singer, artist, photographer and teacher.

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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917; retrieved August 22, 2017. – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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John Mayall

John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, guitarist, organist and songwriter, whose musical career spans over fifty years.

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John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers was an English blues rock band, led by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, OBE.

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Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe (born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer.

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Joy Division

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester.

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Julian Rhind-Tutt

Julian Alistair Rhind-Tutt (born 20 July 1968) is an English actor.

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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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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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Krautrock

Krautrock (also called " ", cosmic music") is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s.

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Led Zeppelin

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

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Levellers (band)

Levellers are an English folk rock band formed in Brighton, England in 1988, consisting of Mark Chadwick (guitar and vocals), Jeremy Cunningham (bass guitar), Charlie Heather (drums), Jon Sevink (violin), Simon Friend (guitar) and Matt Savage (keyboards).

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Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson (aka LKJ, born 24 August 1952) is a Jamaican dub poet who has long been based in the UK.

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Little Red Rooster

"Little Red Rooster" (or "The Red Rooster" as it was first titled) is a blues standard credited to arranger and songwriter Willie Dixon.

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Lord Creator

Lord Creator (born Kentrick Patrick, circa 1940, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago)Walters, Basil (2012) "", Jamaica Observer, 3 June 2012, retrieved 2012-06-03 is a calypso, r&b, ska and rocksteady artist.

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Lovers rock

Lovers rock is a style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

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Manfred Mann

Manfred Mann were an English rock band, formed in London in 1962.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Martin Carthy

Martin Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and later artists such as Richard Thompson since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival.

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Martin Gore

Martin Lee Gore (born 23 July 1961) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, remixer, and DJ.

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Martyn Ware

Martyn Ware (born 19 May 1956) is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and music programmer.

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Matumbi (band)

Matumbi were one of the top British reggae bands of the 1970s and early 1980s, and are best known as the first successful band of guitarist and record producer Dennis Bovell.

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Max Romeo

Max Romeo (born Maxwell Livingston Smith, 22 November 1944), Jamaica Observer, 23 November 2014.

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Mellotron

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England, in 1963.

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Memphis Slim

Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988) was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer.

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Mick Abrahams

Michael Timothy 'Mick' Abrahams (born 7 April 1943) is a guitarist and band leader, best known as being the original guitarist for Jethro Tull.

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Mick Fleetwood

Michael John Kells Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician and actor, best known for his role as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band Fleetwood Mac.

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Middle class

The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy.

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Midge Ure

James "Midge" Ure (born 10 October 1953) is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter and producer.

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Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English musician and composer.

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Mike Rutherford

Michael John Cloete Crawford Rutherford (born 2 October 1950) is an English songwriter and musician.

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Mike Vernon (record producer)

Michael William Hugh "Mike" Vernon (born 20 November 1944) is an English music executive studio owner, and record producer from Harrow, Middlesex.

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Millie Small

Millicent Dolly May "Millie" Small, CD (born 6 October 1946), is a Jamaican singer-songwriter, best known for her 1964 recording of "My Boy Lollipop".

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Mod (subculture)

Mod is a subculture that began in London in 1958 and spread throughout Great Britain and elsewhere, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries, and continues today on a smaller scale.

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Mont Campbell

Dirk Campbell (born Hugo Martin Montgomery Campbell, 30 December 1950, and previously known as Mont Campbell) is a British multi-instrumental musician, composer and energy company executive.

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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Multiracial

Multiracial is defined as made up of or relating to people of many races.

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Music festival

A music festival is a community event oriented towards live performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, or locality of musicians, or holiday.

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Musical Youth

Musical Youth is a British Jamaican reggae band.

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Mute Records

Mute Records (simply known and stylized as mute) is a British independent record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller.

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My Boy Lollipop

"My Boy Lollipop" (originally "My Girl Lollypop") is a song written in the mid-1950s by Robert Spencer of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs, and usually credited to Spencer, Morris Levy, and Johnny Roberts.

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Neil Tennant

Neil Francis Tennant (born 10 July 1954) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, music journalist and co-founder of the synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981.

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Neville Staple

Neville Eugenton Staple (born 11 April 1955) is a Jamaican born English singer for the two-tone ska band, The Specials as well as his own combo, The Neville Staple Band.

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New Order (band)

New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.

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Nicky Thomas

Nicky Thomas (born Cecil Nicholas Thomas, 30 May 1949 – 1990) was a reggae singer who enjoyed considerable chart success in Jamaica and in the United Kingdom at the start of the 1970s.

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Nigel Planer

Nigel George Planer (born 22 February 1953) is an English actor, comedian, novelist and playwright who is best known for his role as Neil in the cult BBC comedy The Young Ones and as Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic music band formed in Wirral, Merseyside in 1978.

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Paul Humphreys

Paul David Humphreys (born 27 February 1960 in London) is a British musician and songwriter who is best known for his contributions to Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), a new wave band which he founded alongside Andy McCluskey in 1978.

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Paul Jones (singer)

Paul Jones (born Paul Pond, 24 February 1942) is an English singer, actor, harmonica player, radio personality and television presenter.

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Paul Simonon

Paul Gustave Simonon (born 15 December 1955) is an English musician and artist best known as the bassist for the punk rock band The Clash.

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Paul Weller

John William "Paul" Weller, Jr. (born 25 May 1958) is an English singer-songwriter and musician.

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Pauline Black

Belinda Magnus (23 October 1953), better known as Pauline Black, is an English singer, actress and author.

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Peggy Seeger

Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935) is an American folksinger.

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Pentangle

Pentangle (or The Pentangle) are a British folk-jazz band with an eclectic mix of folk, jazz, blues and folk rock influences.

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Pet Shop Boys

The Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant (lead vocals, keyboards, occasional guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards, vocals).

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Pete Brown

Peter Ronald Brown (25 December 1940) is an English performance poet, lyricist, and singer best known for his collaborations with Cream and Jack Bruce.

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Peter Capaldi

Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director.

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Peter Green (musician)

Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum, 29 October 1946) is a British blues rock guitarist.

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Peter Sinfield

Peter John Sinfield (born 27 December 1943) is an English poet and songwriter, most famously known as the lyricist and co-founder member of early incarnations of King Crimson, whose debut album In the Court of the Crimson King is regarded by some critics as one of the most influential progressive rock albums released.

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Phil Collins

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English drummer, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor.

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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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Phil Ryan (musician)

Phil Ryan (21 October 1946 – 30 April 2016) was a Welsh keyboardist and composer, best known for his work with Man and Pete Brown.

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Philip Oakey

Philip Oakey (born 2 October 1955) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Prince Buster

Cecil Bustamente Campbell OD (24 May 1938 – 8 September 2016), known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer.

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Procol Harum

Procol Harum is an English rock band formed in 1967.

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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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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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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Rhoda Dakar

Rhoda Dakar (born 1959) is a British singer and musician, best known as the lead singer of The Bodysnatchers, who were signed to the 2 Tone record label.

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Richard Coughlan

Richard Coughlan (2 September 1947 – 1 December 2013) was an English musician, best known as the drummer and percussionist of the Canterbury scene progressive rock band Caravan.

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Richard H. Kirk

Richard Harold Kirk (born 21 March 1956) is an English musician who has specialised in electronic music since the 1970s.

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Rick Wakeman

Richard Christopher "Rick" Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist, songwriter, television and radio presenter, and author.

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Rico Rodriguez (musician)

Emmanuel "Rico" Rodriguez (17 October 1934Jason Alkeny,, Allmusic.com. – 4 September 2015), also known as simply Rico, Reco or El Reco, was a Cuban-born Jamaican ska and reggae trombonist.

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Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career.

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Rock Against Racism

Rock Against Racism (RAR) was a campaign set up in the United Kingdom in 1976 as a response to an increase in racial conflict and the growth of white nationalist groups such as the National Front.

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Rock music of the United Kingdom

British rock describes a wide variety of forms of music made in the United Kingdom.

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Roger Dean (artist)

William Roger Dean (born 31 August 1944), known as Roger Dean, is an English artist, designer, and publisher.

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Roger McGough

Roger McGough CBE, FRSL (born 9 November 1937) is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright.

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Roots reggae

Roots reggae is a subgenre of reggae that deals with the everyday lives and aspirations of the artists concerned, including the spiritual side of Rastafari and the honoring of God, called Jah by Rastafari.

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Ruby Turner

Francella Ruby Turner MBE (born 22 June 1958) is a British Jamaican R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist, critic, and author.

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Skiffle

Skiffle is a music genre with jazz, blues, folk and American folk influences, usually using a combination of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments.

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Skinhead

The skinhead subculture originated among working class youths in London, England in the 1960s and soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdom, with a second working class skinhead movement emerging worldwide in the 1980s.

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Smiley Culture

David Victor Emmanuel (10 February 1963 – 15 March 2011), better known as Smiley Culture, was a British reggae singer and DJ known for his 'fast chat' style.

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Soft Cell

Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball.

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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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Son House

Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902His date of birth is a matter of some debate. House alleged that he was middle-aged during World War I and that he was 79 in 1965, which would make his date of birth around 1886. However, all legal records give his date of birth as March 21, 1902. – October 19, 1988) was an American delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing.

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Sonny Boy Williamson II

Alex or Aleck Miller (né Ford, possibly December 5, 1912 – May 24, 1965), known later in his career as Sonny Boy Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Soul II Soul

Soul II Soul are a British musical group formed in London in 1988.

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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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Sound system (Jamaican)

In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse is a roots reggae musical band from the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England, which has a large number of Afro-Caribbean, Indian and other Asian migrants.

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Steeleye Span

Steeleye Span are an English folk rock band formed in 1969.

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Steve Barrow

Steve Barrow (born 29 September 1945) is a British reggae historian, writer and producer.

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Steve Howe (musician)

Stephen James Howe (born 8 April 1947) is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known as the guitarist in the rock band Yes across three stints since 1970.

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Stewart Copeland

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

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Sugar Minott

Lincoln Barrington "Sugar" Minott (25 May 1956 – 10 July 2010)Campbell, Howard (2010) "", Associated Press, 11 July 2010, retrieved 2010-07-12Peru, Yasmine (2010) " ", Jamaica Observer, 12 July 2010, retrieved 2010-07-12 was a Jamaican reggae singer, producer and sound-system operator.

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Suite (music)

A suite, in Western classical music and jazz, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces.

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Susan Ann Sulley

Susan Ann Sulley (born 22 March 1963), formerly known as Susanne Sulley and Susan Ann Gayle, is a British singer and one of the two female vocalists of the synthpop group the Human League.

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Sylvia Tella

Sylvia Tella (born Silifatu Mornii Wehabie Tella in 1961) is a British lovers rock singer, who after working as a vocalist for Boney M embarked on a successful solo career, releasing her first album in 1981.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Terence Stamp

Terence Henry Stamp (born 22 July 1938) is an English actor.

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The Animals

The Animals are an English rhythm and blues and rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s.

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The Beatles

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

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown are an English psychedelic rock band formed by singer Arthur Brown in 1967.

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The Groundhogs

The Groundhogs are a British rock band founded in late 1963, that toured extensively in the 1960s, achieved prominence in the early 1970s and continued sporadically into the 21st century.

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The Human League

The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.

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The Incredible String Band

The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a psychedelic folk band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron in Scotland in 1966.

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The Men They Couldn't Hang

The Men They Couldn't Hang (TMTCH) are a British folk punk group.

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The Nice

The Nice were an English progressive rock band active in the late 1960s.

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The Normal

The Normal is the recording artist name used by English music producer Daniel Miller, a film editor at the time, who is best known as the founder of the record label Mute Records.

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The Pogues

The Pogues were an Irish-British Celtic punk band formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan.

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The Police

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

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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 Selecter

The Selecter are a 2 Tone ska revival band from Coventry, England, formed in mid-1979.

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The Slits

The Slits were a British punk rock band formed in London in 1976 by members of the groups The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators.

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The Specials

The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, are an English 2 Tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry.

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The Waterboys

The Waterboys are a Scottish/Irish folk rock band formed in Edinburgh in 1983 by Scottish musician Mike Scott.

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The Wilde Flowers

The Wilde Flowers were the archetypal Canterbury scene music group based in the vicinity of Canterbury, England.

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The Yardbirds

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

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Them (band)

Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard "Gloria" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career.

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Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle were an English music and visual arts group, officially formed on 3 September 1975 in Kingston upon Hull.

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Tippa Irie

Tippa Irie (real name Anthony Henry) is a British reggae singer and DJ from Brixton, South London.

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Tom McGuinness (musician)

Thomas John Patrick "Tom" McGuinness (born 2 December 1941) is a guitarist, songwriter, author, record and TV producer.

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Tony Banks (musician)

Anthony George Banks (born 27 March 1950) is an English musician, songwriter, singer, and film composer primarily known as the keyboardist and founding member of the rock band Genesis.

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Tony McPhee

Anthony Charles McPhee (born 23 March 1944) is an English blues guitarist, and founder of The Groundhogs.

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Toots and the Maytals

Toots and the Maytals, originally called The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups.

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Trad jazz

Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is the Dixieland and ragtime jazz styles of the early 20th century, which typically used a front line of trumpet, clarinet and trombone in contrast to more modern styles which usually include saxophones, and the revival of these styles in mid 20th-century Britain before the emergence of beat music.

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Two-tone (music genre)

Two-tone (or 2 tone) is a genre of British music that fuses traditional ska with musical elements of punk rock.

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UB40

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham, England.

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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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Ultravox

Ultravox (earlier stylized as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in 1973 as Tiger Lily.

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Val Wilmer

Valerie Sybil Wilmer (born 7 December 1941, Harrogate, England) is a British photographer and writer specialising in jazz, gospel, blues, and British African-Caribbean music and culture.

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Vince Clarke

Vince Clarke (born Vincent John Martin; 3 July 1960) is an English synthpop musician and songwriter.

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Viv Albertine

Viviane Katrina Louise "Viv" Albertine (born 1 December 1954) is an Australian-born British singer and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for the English punk group the Slits.

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Wayne Perkins

David Wayne Perkins (born 1951 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a rock and R & B guitarist, singer, songwriter and session musician.

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Wendy Carlos

Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos; November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores.

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Winston Reedy

Winston Reedy (born July 13, 1950) is a Jamaican reggae singer.

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Wolfgang Flür

Wolfgang Flür (born 17 July 1947) is a German musician, formerly a member of the electronic group Kraftwerk from 1973 to 1987, playing electronic percussion.

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Yazoo (band)

Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America for legal reasons involving Yazoo Records) were a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex, England, consisting of former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke (keyboards) and Alison Moyet (vocals).

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Yes (band)

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford.

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References

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

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