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Widowmaker (U.K. band)

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Widowmaker were a British hard rock group, active from 1975 to 1977. [1]

36 relations: Blues rock, Bob Daisley, Bobby Tench, Castle Communications, Chicken Shack, Don Arden, Electric Light Orchestra, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, England, Hammond organ, Hard rock, Hawkwind, Humble Pie, Huw Lloyd-Langton, Jet Records, Lindisfarne (band), Little Feat, Love Affair (band), Luther Grosvenor, Mott the Hoople, Mungo Jerry, Nazareth (band), Rainbow (rock band), Recording studio, Rock music, Spooky Tooth, Steve Ellis (musician), Streetwalkers, Supergroup (music), The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Who, Too Late to Cry (Widowmaker album), United Artists Records, United Kingdom, Widowmaker (album), Zoot Money.

Blues rock

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

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Bob Daisley

Robert John Daisley (born 13 February 1950) is an Australian musician, songwriter and author.

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Bobby Tench

Robert Tench also known as Bobby Tench, is a British vocalist, guitarist, sideman, songwriter and arranger.

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Castle Communications

Castle Communications was a British independent record label and British home video distributor founded in 1983 by Terry Shand, Cliff Dane, and Jon Beecher.

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Chicken Shack

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

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Don Arden

Don Arden (born Harry Levy; 4 January 1926 – 21 July 2007) was an English music manager, agent, and businessman.

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Electric Light Orchestra

The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970, by songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan.

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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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England

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

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Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.

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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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Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band and one of the earliest space rock groups.

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Humble Pie

Humble Pie were an English rock band formed by Peter Frampton in Essex during 1969.

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Huw Lloyd-Langton

Richard Hugh "Huw" Lloyd-Langton (6 February 1951 - 6 December 2012) was an English guitarist, best known as the guitarist for Hawkwind.

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Jet Records

Jet Records was a British record label set up by Don Arden, with artists such as Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Roy Wood, Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Alan Price, Adrian Gurvitz, Riot and Magnum.

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Lindisfarne (band)

Lindisfarne are an English folk rock band from Newcastle upon Tyne established in 1968 (originally called Brethren).

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Little Feat

Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles.

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Love Affair (band)

Love Affair was a London-based pop and soul group formed in 1966.

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Luther Grosvenor

Luther James Grosvenor (born 23 December 1946 in Evesham, Worcestershire) is an English rock musician, who played guitar in Spooky Tooth, briefly in Stealers Wheel and, under the pseudonym Ariel Bender, in Mott the Hoople and Widowmaker.

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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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Mungo Jerry

Mungo Jerry are a British rock group who experienced their greatest success in the early 1970s, with a changing line-up that has always been fronted by Ray Dorset.

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Nazareth (band)

Nazareth are a Scottish hard rock band formed in 1968, that had several hits in the United Kingdom, as well as in several other West European countries in the early 1970s, and established an international audience with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog, which featured their hits "Hair of the Dog" and a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts".

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Rainbow (rock band)

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

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Recording studio

A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.

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Rock music

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

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Spooky Tooth

Spooky Tooth was an English rock band principally active between 1967 and 1974.

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Steve Ellis (musician)

Stephen John Ellis (born 7 April 1950, Edgware, Middlesex) is an English rock/pop singer, who now lives in Brighton.

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Streetwalkers

Streetwalkers were an English rock band formed in late 1973 by two former members of Family, vocalist Roger Chapman and guitarist John "Charlie" Whitney.

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Supergroup (music)

A supergroup is a music group whose members have successful solo careers or are part of other groups or well known in other musical professions.

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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band was one of the most unconventional bands that were part of the 1970s glam rock era.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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Too Late to Cry (Widowmaker album)

Too Late to Cry is the 1977 second and final album by the English hard rock group Widowmaker.

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United Artists Records

United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 to issue movie soundtracks.

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United Kingdom

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

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Widowmaker (album)

Widowmaker was debut album by the English hard rock band Widowmaker, which was released in February 1976.

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Zoot Money

George Bruno "Zoot" Money (born 17 July 1942 in Bournemouth, Hampshire) is an English vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widowmaker_(U.K._band)

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