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124 relations: A&M Records, Acid jazz, AllMusic, Andy Connell, Avant-funk, Bandcamp, Barry Adamson, BBC, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 Music, Billboard (magazine), Biographical film, Biting Tongues, Brian Eno, Brighton, British Newspaper Archive, Brussels, Camden Town, Cameo (band), Canongate Books, Cassette tape, Castle Communications, Change the Station, Channel 4, Comedy drama, Corinne Drewery, Creation Records, Dance Club Songs, Dance-punk, Dance-rock, David Byrne, Demo (music), Disco, Dub music, Dublin, Early (A Certain Ratio album), Earth, Wind & Fire, Electric Ballroom, Extended play, Factory Records, Flixton, Greater Manchester, Force (A Certain Ratio album), Funk, Funkadelic, Good Together (album), Grand Theft Auto V, Greater Manchester, I'd Like to See You Again, Independent music, Industrial music, ... Expand index (74 more) »
- English funk musical groups
- Factory Benelux artists
- Musical groups from Greater Manchester
A&M Records
A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.
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Acid jazz
Acid jazz (also known as club jazz, psychedelic jazz, or groove jazz) is a music genre that combines elements of funk, soul, and hip hop, as well as jazz and disco.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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Andy Connell
Andrew John Connell (born 26 July 1961) is an English keyboardist and composer.
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Avant-funk
Avant-funk (also called mutant disco in the early 1980s) is a music style in which artists combine funk or disco rhythms with an avant-garde or art rock mentality.
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Bandcamp
Bandcamp is an American online audio distribution platform founded in 2007 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with headquarters in Oakland, California.
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Barry Adamson
Barry Adamson (born 11 June 1958)"".
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.
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BBC Radio 6 Music
BBC Radio 6 Music is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC, specialising primarily in alternative music.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Biographical film
A biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people.
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Biting Tongues
Biting Tongues were a post-punk band formed in Manchester, England in 1979, whose members went on to join Simply Red, Yargo, and 808 State. A Certain Ratio and Biting Tongues are English post-punk music groups and Factory Records artists.
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Brian Eno
Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.
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Brighton
Brighton is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England.
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British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
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Camden Town
Camden Town, often shortened to Camden, is an area in the London Borough of Camden, around north-northwest of Charing Cross.
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Cameo (band)
Cameo is an American funk band that formed in 1974.
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Canongate Books
Canongate Books (trading as Canongate) is an independent publishing firm based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Cassette tape
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.
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Castle Communications
Castle Communications, also known as Castle Music, was a British independent record label and home video distributor founded in 1983 by Terry Shand, Cliff Dane, and Jon Beecher.
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Change the Station
Change the Station is an album by English band A Certain Ratio, released under the acronym ACR in January 1997.
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Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.
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Comedy drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.
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Corinne Drewery
Corinne Drewery (born 21 September 1959) is an English singer-songwriter and fashion designer, best known for being the lead vocalist of the band Swing Out Sister.
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Creation Records
Creation Records Ltd. was a British independent record label founded in 1983 by Alan McGee, Dick Green, and Joe Foster.
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Dance Club Songs
Dance Club Songs was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by Billboard magazine.
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Dance-punk
Dance-punk (also known as punk-funk) is a post-punk subgenre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the disco, post-disco and new wave movements.
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Dance-rock
Dance-rock is a dance-infused genre of rock music.
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David Byrne
David Byrne (born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker.
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Demo (music)
A demo (shortened from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs typically recorded for limited circulation or for reference use, rather than for general public release.
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Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.
Dub music
Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
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Early (A Certain Ratio album)
Early is a 2002 compilation album by the English post-punk band A Certain Ratio.
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Earth, Wind & Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire (EW&F or EWF) is an American band whose music spans the genres of jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, Latin, and Afro-pop.
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Electric Ballroom
The Electric Ballroom is a 1,500-capacity performance venue (primarily for rock bands) and indoor market located at 184 Camden High Street in Camden Town, London, England.
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Extended play
An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.
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Factory Records
Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label founded in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus.
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Flixton, Greater Manchester
Flixton is a suburb and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.
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Force (A Certain Ratio album)
Force is the fifth studio album by the English post-punk band A Certain Ratio, released in November 1986 by Factory Records; their final release on the label.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
Funkadelic
Funkadelic was an American funk rock band formed in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1968 and active until 1982.
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Good Together (album)
Good Together is a 1989 album by English post-punk band A Certain Ratio (ACR).
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Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.
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Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England.
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I'd Like to See You Again
I'd Like to See You Again is the fourth studio album by the English post-punk band A Certain Ratio, released in 1982 by Factory Records.
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Independent music
Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties afforded by independent record labels.
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Industrial music
Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes.
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Intimacy (2001 film)
Intimacy is a 2001 erotic drama film directed by Patrice Chéreau from a screenplay he co-wrote with Anne-Louise Trividic, based on stories by Hanif Kureishi (who also wrote a novel of the same title).
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James Hayward (writer)
James Hayward is the pen name of James Nice (born 6 January 1966 in Essex), an English writer on military, modern art and post-punk musical history.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist.
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Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. A Certain Ratio and Joy Division are English post-punk music groups, Factory Records artists and musical groups from Greater Manchester.
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Kalima (band)
Kalima was a Manchester-based Factory Records band who were active from 1980 to 1991 and in 2001 after a reformation, playing in a funk, Latin and jazz style. A Certain Ratio and Kalima (band) are English funk musical groups, Factory Benelux artists and Factory Records artists.
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Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.
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Lancashire Telegraph
The Lancashire Telegraph, formerly the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, is a local tabloid newspaper distributed in East Lancashire, England.
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Latin music
Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America, which encompasses Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino population in Canada and the United States, as well as music that is sung in either Spanish and/or Portuguese.
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Les Disques du Crépuscule
Les Disques du Crépuscule is an independent record label founded in Belgium in 1980 by Michel Duval and Annik Honoré.
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Letter to Brezhnev
Letter to Brezhnev is a 1985 British romantic comedy film about working-class life in Liverpool, written by Frank Clarke and directed by Chris Bernard.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Louder Than War
Louder Than War is a music and culture website and magazine focusing on mainly alternative arts news, reviews, and features.
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LTM Recordings
LTM Recordings (originally les temps modernes) is a British independent record label founded in 1983, and best known for reissues of artists and music from 1978 to the present day, as well as modern classical and avant-garde composition.
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M People
M People (stylised as MPeople) is an English dance music band that formed in 1990 and achieved success throughout most of the 1990s.
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Magazine (band)
Magazine were a British rock band formed in 1977 in Manchester in England by singer Howard Devoto and guitarist John McGeoch. A Certain Ratio and Magazine (band) are English new wave musical groups, English post-punk music groups and musical groups established in 1977.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.
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Marc Riley
Marc Riley (born 10 July 1961 in Manchester) is an English radio DJ, alternative rock critic, musician, and former music businessman.
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Martin Hannett
James Martin Hannett (31 May 1948 – 18 April 1991) was a British record producer, musician and an original partner/director at Tony Wilson's Factory Records. A Certain Ratio and Martin Hannett are Factory Records artists.
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Mike Pickering
Mike Pickering is an English musician, DJ, songwriter, A&R Executive from Manchester, UK.
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Mind Made Up
Mind Made Up is the ninth studio album by English post-punk band A Certain Ratio.
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Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
italic (French) or italic (Dutch), often simply called Molenbeek, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
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Mute Records
Mute Records is a British independent record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller.
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New Century House
New Century House is a high-rise office building with an attached conference hall, in the NOMA district of Manchester, England.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
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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. A Certain Ratio and New Order (band) are dance-rock musical groups, English new wave musical groups, English post-punk music groups, Factory Benelux artists and Factory Records artists.
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New wave music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.
Offset Festival
Offset Festival was a musical festival held at Hainault Forest Country Park, just outside London, from 2008 to 2010.
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Opening act
An opening act, also known as a warm-up act, support act, supporting act or opener, is an entertainment act (musical, comedic, or otherwise), that performs at a concert before the featured act, or "headliner".
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Parliament (band)
Parliament was an American funk band formed in the late 1960s by George Clinton as a flagship act of his P-Funk collective.
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Patrice Chéreau
Patrice Chéreau (2 November 1944 – 7 October 2013) was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer.
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Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu is an American rock group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975.
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Pitchfork (website)
Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.
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Post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock.
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Prestwich
Prestwich is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, north of Manchester, north of Salford and south of Bury.
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Quando Quango
Quando Quango were a British electronic music group, formed by The Haçienda DJ and Factory Records A&R man Mike Pickering, Hillegonda Rietveld and Reinier Rietveld. A Certain Ratio and Quando Quango are English new wave musical groups, Factory Benelux artists and Factory Records artists.
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Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
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RhythmOne
RhythmOne, previously known as Blinkx, and also known as RhythmOne Group, is an American digital advertising technology company which owns and operates the web properties AllMusic, AllMovie, and SideReel.
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Rob Gretton
Robert Leo Gretton (15 January 1953 – 15 May 1999) was the manager of Joy Division and New Order.
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Rockstar Games
Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City.
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Romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles.
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Section 25 (band)
Section 25 are an English post-punk and electronic band, best known for the 1984 single "Looking from a Hilltop", associated with Manchester record label Factory Records. A Certain Ratio and Section 25 (band) are English new wave musical groups, English post-punk music groups, Factory Benelux artists, Factory Records artists and musical groups established in 1977.
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Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975.
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Sextet (A Certain Ratio album)
Sextet is the third studio album by the English post-punk band A Certain Ratio, released in January 1982 by Factory Records.
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Slicing Up Eyeballs
Slicing Up Eyeballs is an American website dedicated to rock music, in particular 1980s college rock.
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Soul Jazz Records
Soul Jazz Records is a British record label based in London.
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Steve Coogan
Stephen John Coogan (born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter.
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Stockport
Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield.
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Swing Out Sister
Swing Out Sister are a British pop group, best known worldwide for the 1986 song "Breakout".
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Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is the second solo studio album by Brian Eno (mononymously credited as "Eno"), released in November 1974 by Island Records.
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Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American new wave band formed in 1975 in New York City. A Certain Ratio and Talking Heads are dance-rock musical groups.
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The Echo (venue)
The Echo is an American music venue and nightclub, located in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.
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The Graveyard and the Ballroom
The Graveyard and the Ballroom is the debut album by English band A Certain Ratio, released in January 1980 by record label Factory.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Names (band)
The Names are a Belgian post-punk band from Brussels, Belgium, formed in 1978 around bassist, vocalist and songwriter Michel Sordinia. A Certain Ratio and The Names (band) are Factory Benelux artists and Factory Records artists.
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The Pop Group
The Pop Group are an English rock band formed in Bristol in 1977 by vocalist Mark Stewart, guitarist John Waddington, bassist Simon Underwood, guitarist/saxophonist Gareth Sager, and drummer Bruce Smith. A Certain Ratio and The Pop Group are English post-punk music groups and musical groups established in 1977.
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The Quarto Group
The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976.
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The Quietus
The Quietus is a British online music and pop culture magazine founded by John Doran and Luke Turner.
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The Slits
The Slits were a punk rock band based in London, formed there in 1976 by members of the groups the Flowers of Romance and the Castrators. A Certain Ratio and the Slits are English post-punk music groups.
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The Tube (1982 TV series)
The Tube is a United Kingdom music television programme, which ran for five series, from 5 November 1982 to 24 April 1987.
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1964.
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The Wake (UK band)
The Wake are a British post-punk, synth-pop and later indie pop band, formed in Glasgow in 1981 by Gerard "Caesar" McInulty (formerly of Altered Images), Steven Allen (drums) and Joe Donnelly (bass), the latter replaced by Bobby Gillespie. A Certain Ratio and the Wake (UK band) are Factory Benelux artists and Factory Records artists.
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To Each...
To Each... is the second album and debut LP by English band A Certain Ratio, released in 1981 by record label Factory.
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Tony Wilson
Anthony Howard Wilson (20 February 1950 – 10 August 2007) was a British record label owner, radio and television presenter, nightclub manager and impresario, and a journalist for Granada Television, the BBC and Channel 4.
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Trouser Press
Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who, Dave Schulps, and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and an acronymic play on the British TV show Top of the Pops).
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UK Albums Chart
The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.
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UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts
The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom.
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UK singles chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) 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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Wire (band)
Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar), George Gill (lead guitar) and Robert Grey (aka Robert Gotobed; drums). A Certain Ratio and Wire (band) are English post-punk music groups.
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24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British biographical comedy drama film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records.
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See also
English funk musical groups
- 52nd Street (band)
- A Certain Ratio
- Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra
- Atmosfear (band)
- Beatbullyz
- Big Boss Man (band)
- Central Line (band)
- Curiosity Killed the Cat
- Cymande
- Electric Guitars
- Everyday People (band)
- First Light (band)
- Floy Joy (band)
- Franc Moody
- Freak Party
- Freeez
- Funk Division
- Gonzalez (band)
- Heatwave (band)
- Hi-Tension
- Hot Chocolate
- Imagination (band)
- Incognito (band)
- Jamiroquai
- Jungle (band)
- Kalima (band)
- Level 42
- Living in a Box
- Mr Smith & The B Flat Band
- Nick Pride and the Pimptones
- No Hot Ashes
- Roogalator
- Shakatak
- Shuffler
- Smoove & Turrell
- Sweetback (band)
- Ten Millennia (band)
- The Brand New Heavies
- The Cool Notes
- The Heavy (band)
- The Heliocentrics
- The Higsons
- The Mad Cows
- The New Mastersounds
- Total Contrast
Factory Benelux artists
- A Certain Ratio
- Blurt
- Cabaret Voltaire (band)
- Crispy Ambulance
- Kalima (band)
- Lavolta Lakota
- Mark Reeder
- Minny Pops
- New Order (band)
- Nyam Nyam (band)
- Quando Quango
- Section 25 (band)
- Stanton Miranda
- Stockholm Monsters
- The Durutti Column
- The Names (band)
- The Wake (UK band)
Musical groups from Greater Manchester
- A Certain Ratio
- Autechre
- Black Grape
- Black Swan Lane
- Blackout Crew
- Blossoms (band)
- Blue Zone (band)
- Buzzcocks
- Cabbage (band)
- Cherry Ghost
- Claire and Friends
- Cottontown Chorus
- Courteeners
- Drama (British band)
- Easterhouse (band)
- Elbow (band)
- Electro Hippies
- Fairey Band
- Houghton Weavers
- Joy Division
- Kaliphz
- Kinesis (band)
- Northern Uproar
- Paris Angels
- Rick Tomlinson
- Rivers & Robots
- Salford Symphony Orchestra
- St Winifred's School Choir
- Stockport Youth Orchestra
- The Chameleons
- The Clouds (Manchester band)
- The Fall (band)
- The Invisible Girls
- The Lottery Winners
- The Mock Turtles
- The Railway Children (band)
- The Ramblers (choir)
- The Tansads
- The Ting Tings
- The Verve
- ToTheBones
- Tractor (band)
- Witness (UK band)
References
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