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Celebrity Skin (band)

Index Celebrity Skin (band)

Celebrity Skin were a post-punk, glam influenced, hard rock band from Los Angeles, They were active from the mid-1980s till the early '90s. [1]

96 relations: ABBA, Alice Cooper, All the Young Dudes, AllMusic, Atomic Rooster, Babes in Toyland (band), BAM (magazine), Black Flag (band), Brand X, Bull, California Institute of Technology, Cheap Trick, D.I. (band), Darby Crash, David Bowie, Dead Kennedys, Dickies, Don Bolles (musician), Donita Sparks, Dukey Flyswatter, Earle Mankey, Ethyl Meatplow, Flipside (fanzine), Freddie Mercury, Gary Glitter, Gazzarri's, Germs (band), Geza X, Glam metal, Glam rock, Green Jellÿ, Grunge, Gwar, Haunted Garage, Helmet (band), Iggy Pop, Jane's Addiction, Jayne County, John Goodsall, Johnny Thunders, Josie and the Pussycats (album), KC and the Sunshine Band, KDLD, L.A. Guns, L7 (band), LA Weekly, Legal Weapon, Los Angeles Times, Lulu (singer), Lynyrd Skynyrd, ..., Mott the Hoople, New York Dolls, Oingo Boingo, Pat Smear, Perry Farrell, Pigmy Love Circus, Poison (American band), Psychic TV, Punk rock, Queen (band), Redd Kross, Rhino 39, Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood), Shane West, Shonen Knife, Slade, SOS (ABBA song), Sparks (band), SST Records, Steel Pole Bath Tub, Substitute (The Who song), T. Rex (band), Tad (band), The Cramps, The Dickies, The Kinks, The Muffs, The Quick (U.S. band), The Runaways, The Skulls (American band), The Three O'Clock, The Weirdos, The Who, Thelonious Monster, Thirtysomething, This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us, Tiny Tim (musician), Tony Millionaire, Triple X Records, Verbal Abuse (band), Warrant (American band), What We Do Is Secret (film), Whisky a Go Go, Wishbone Ash, Zolar X, 45 Grave. Expand index (46 more) »

ABBA

ABBA are a Swedish pop group, formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

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Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over fifty years.

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All the Young Dudes

"All the Young Dudes" is a song written by David Bowie, originally recorded and released as a single by Mott the Hoople in 1972.

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AllMusic

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

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Atomic Rooster

Atomic Rooster are a British rock band, originally formed by members of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, organist Vincent Crane and drummer Carl Palmer.

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Babes in Toyland (band)

Babes in Toyland is an American punk rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1987.

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BAM (magazine)

BAM (Bay Area Music) was a free bi-weekly music magazine founded and published by Dennis Erokan in the San Francisco Bay Area starting in January 1976 and continuing on for 23 years until 1999.

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Black Flag (band)

Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California.

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Brand X

Brand X are a multi-national jazz fusion band formed in London in 1975.

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Bull

A bull is an intact (i.e., not castrated) adult male of the species Bos taurus (cattle).

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California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as.

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Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1974.

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D.I. (band)

D.I. is a Southern California punk band featuring ex-Adolescents and Social Distortion drummer Casey Royer on vocals.

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Darby Crash

Darby Crash (formerly Bobby Pyn; born Jan Paul Beahm; September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980) was an American punk rock vocalist and songwriter who, along with longtime friend Pat Smear (born Georg Ruthenberg), co-founded the punk rock band the Germs.

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David Bowie

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

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Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California, in 1978.

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Dickies

Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Company, more commonly referred to as Dickies (after its product brand), is an American company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas that manufactures and sells work-related clothing and other accessories, including back packs, steel-toe boots, and belts.

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Don Bolles (musician)

Jimmy Michael Giorsetti (born July 30, 1956), also known by the moniker Don Bolles, is an American drummer who was involved in the 1970s and 1980s punk scene in Los Angeles, California, performing with Germs, Nervous Gender, 45 Grave and Celebrity Skin.

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Donita Sparks

Donita Sparks (born April 8, 1963) is an American vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and creative director most notable for being the co-founder of the band L7.

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Dukey Flyswatter

Michael David Sonye (pronounced, born April 22, 1954), best known by his stage name Dukey Flyswatter, is an American actor, screenwriter and musician, recognized for his work on numerous low-budget B movies and as singer for the Los Angeles horror punk band Haunted Garage.

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Earle Mankey

Earle Mankey (sometimes misspelled "Earl" in credits) (born March 8, 1947 in Washington, USA) is an American musician, producer and recording engineer.

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Ethyl Meatplow

Ethyl Meatplow was an American alternative/industrial music band best known for their sole album, Happy Days, Sweetheart, released in 1993 by Dali Records, a division of Chameleon Music Group and distributed by Elektra Entertainment.

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Flipside (fanzine)

Flipside, originally known as Los Angeles Flip Side, was a punk zine published in Whittier and Pasadena, California from 1977 to 2000.

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Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 194624 November 1991) was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen.

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Gary Glitter

Paul Francis Gadd (born 8 May 1944), known by the stage name Gary Glitter, is an English former glam rock singer who achieved popular success in the 1970s and 80s.

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Gazzarri's

Gazzarri's was a nightclub on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States.

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Germs (band)

The Germs were an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States, originally active from 1977 to 1980.

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Geza X

Geza Gedeon (born September 28, 1952), professionally known as Geza X, was a personality in the Los Angeles punk scene in the late 1970s.

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Glam metal

Glam metal (also known as hair metal and often used synonymously with pop metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal, which features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, and borrows from the fashion of 1970s glam rock.

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.

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Green Jellÿ

Green Jellÿ (pronounced "green jello") is an American comedy rock band formed in 1981.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Gwar

Gwar, often styled as GWAR, is an American heavy metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia in 1984, composed of and operated by a frequently rotating line-up of musicians, artists and filmmakers collectively known as Slave Pit Inc..

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Haunted Garage

Haunted Garage is a horror punk/heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1985.

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Helmet (band)

Helmet is an American alternative metal band from New York City formed in 1989.

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Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop, and designated the "Godfather of Punk", is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor.

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Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1985.

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Jayne County

Jayne County (born 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and record producer whose career has spanned five decades.

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John Goodsall

John Goodsall (born 15 February 1953) is a progressive rock & jazz fusion guitarist most noted for his work with Brand X, Atomic Rooster and The Fire Merchants.

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Johnny Thunders

John Anthony Genzale (July 15, 1952 – April 23, 1991), better known by his stage name Johnny Thunders, was an American rock and roll/punk rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Josie and the Pussycats (album)

Josie and the Pussycats is a 1970 bubblegum pop album by a girl group designed to be the real-life incarnation of a fictional band in Archie Comics and Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

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KC and the Sunshine Band

KC and the Sunshine Band are an American disco and funk band, founded in 1973 in Hialeah, Florida.

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KDLD

KDLD is a commercial FM radio station in Santa Monica, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area on 103.1 MHz.

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L.A. Guns

L.A. Guns are an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1983.

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L7 (band)

L7 is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States.

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LA Weekly

LA Weekly is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California.

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Legal Weapon

Legal Weapon are a Southern California punk band, initially composed of singer Kat Arthur and guitarist Brian Hansen (both previously of the Silencers), bassist Patricia Morrison (formerly of Bags and later of the Gun Club, the Sisters of Mercy and the Damned), drummer Charlie Vartanian and guitarist Mike R. Livingston.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lulu (singer)

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer-songwriter.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd, or informally shortened to Skynyrd, is an American rock band best known for having popularized the Southern rock genre during the 1970s.

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Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople are an English rock band with strong R&B roots, popular in the glam rock era of the early to mid-1970s.

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New York Dolls

The New York Dolls were an American hard rock band formed in New York City in 1971.

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Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band, formed by songwriter Danny Elfman in 1979.

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Pat Smear

Georg Albert Ruthenberg (born August 5, 1959), better known by the stage name Pat Smear, is a Grammy-winning American musician and occasional actor.

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Perry Farrell

Perry Farrell (born Peretz Bernstein; March 29, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the frontman for the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction.

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Pigmy Love Circus

Pigmy Love Circus is a Los Angeles rock band that has existed since the mid 1980s era of the Hollywood underground rock scene.

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Poison (American band)

Poison is an American rock band that achieved great commercial success in the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s.

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Psychic TV

Psychic TV (also referred to as PTV, Psychick TV, as well as several other aliases) is an English experimental video art and music group, formed by performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and video director Peter Christopherson in 1981 after the break-up of Throbbing Gristle.

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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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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.

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Redd Kross

Redd Kross is an American alternative rock band from Hawthorne, California, who had their roots in 1978 in a punk rock band called the Tourists, which was started by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald while they were still in middle school.

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Rhino 39

Rhino 39 was among the wave of punk bands originating in the Los Angeles, California area in the late 1970s.

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Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood)

The Roxy Theatre (often just the Roxy) is a nightclub on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, owned by Lou Adler and his son, Nic, who operates it.

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Shane West

Shane West (born Shannon Bruce Snaith) is an American actor, punk rock musician, and songwriter.

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Shonen Knife

is a Japanese pop punk band formed in Osaka, in 1981.

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Slade

Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton.

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SOS (ABBA song)

"SOS" was the third single from Swedish pop group ABBA's self-titled 1975 album, their third for Polar Music and their second for Epic and Atlantic.

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Sparks (band)

Sparks are an American pop and rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1972 by brothers Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals).

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SST Records

SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn.

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Steel Pole Bath Tub

Steel Pole Bath Tub was an American rock band, formed in 1986 in Bozeman, Montana by Mike Morasky (guitar/vocals) and Dale Flattum (bass/vocals).

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Substitute (The Who song)

"Substitute" is a song by the English rock band The Who, written by Pete Townshend.

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T. Rex (band)

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Tad (band)

Tad (often styled as TAD) was an American grunge band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1988 by Tad Doyle.

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The Cramps

The Cramps were an American punk rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009.

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The Dickies

The Dickies are an American punk rock band formed in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles in 1977.

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The Kinks

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

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The Muffs

The Muffs are an American punk rock band based in Southern California, formed in 1991.

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The Quick (U.S. band)

The Quick were a mid-1970s power pop band based in Los Angeles.

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The Runaways

The Runaways were an all-female teenage American rock band that recorded and performed in the second half of the 1970s.

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The Skulls (American band)

The Skulls were a Los Angeles punk band formed in 1976.

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The Three O'Clock

The Three O'Clock is an American alternative rock group associated with the Los Angeles 1980s Paisley Underground scene.

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The Weirdos

The Weirdos are an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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Thelonious Monster

Thelonious Monster is a punk rock band from Los Angeles, led by singer-songwriter Bob Forrest.

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Thirtysomething

Thirtysomething (stylized as thirtysomething) is an American drama television series created by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz for ABC that aired from 1987 to 1991.

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This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us

"This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" is a song written by Ron Mael of the American pop group Sparks.

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Tiny Tim (musician)

Herbert Buckingham Khaury (April 12, 1932 – November 30, 1996), known professionally as Tiny Tim, was an American singer, most of the time ukulele player, and musical archivist.

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Tony Millionaire

Tony Millionaire (born Scott Richardson in 1956) is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author known for his syndicated comic strip Maakies and the Sock Monkey series of comics and picture books.

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Triple X Records

Triple X Records was an LA-based record company started by three former employees of the bankrupt Greenworld Distribution: Dean Naleway, Peter Heur and Charlie Brown.

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Verbal Abuse (band)

Verbal Abuse is one of the founding and defining bands of the hardcore punk subgenre of punk rock.

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Warrant (American band)

Warrant is an American glam metal band formed in 1984 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, that experienced success from 1989 to 1996 with five albums reaching international sales of over 10 million.

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What We Do Is Secret (film)

What We Do Is Secret is a 2007 American biographical film about Darby Crash, singer of the late-1970s Los Angeles punk rock band the Germs.

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Whisky a Go Go

Whisky a Go Go is a nightclub in West Hollywood, California.

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Wishbone Ash

Wishbone Ash are a British rock band who achieved success in the early and mid-1970s.

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Zolar X

Zolar X is an American glam rock band, founded in 1973.

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45 Grave

45 Grave are an American deathrock and punk rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1979.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Skin_(band)

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