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Be-Bop Deluxe

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was an English band who achieved critical acclaim and moderate commercial success during the mid to late 1970s. [1]

47 relations: Andy Clark (musician), Art rock, Axe Victim, BBC Radio 1, Bebop, Bill Nelson (musician), Bill Nelson's Red Noise, Blues, Charlie Tumahai, Dave Sturt, David Bowie, Drastic Plastic, EMI Records, England, Esoteric Recordings, Futurama (Be-Bop Deluxe album), Glam rock, Harvest Records, Ian Nelson (musician), Ian Parkin, John Leckie, John Peel, Mississippi (band), Modern Music (Be-Bop Deluxe album), New wave music, Pan Am Flight 103, Paul Jeffreys, Progressive rock, Proto-punk, Punk rock, Queen (band), Rock and roll, Rock music of the United Kingdom, Roy Thomas Baker, Science fiction, Simon Fox, Sound on Sound, Sound-on-Sound, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Sunburst (finish), Sunburst Finish (album), Theo Travis, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, Virgin Records, Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

Andy Clark (musician)

Simon Andrew Clark is an English keyboard and synthesizer player best known for working alongside guitarist Bill Nelson in art rock band Be-Bop Deluxe and their synthpop offshoot Red Noise.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Axe Victim

Axe Victim is the debut album by art rock band Be-Bop Deluxe, released in June 1974.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Bill Nelson (musician)

Bill Nelson (born William Nelson, 18 December 1948, Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is an English singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, video artist, writer and experimental musician.

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Bill Nelson's Red Noise

, or more simply, was 's umbrella term for what effectively became a British band, formed by, his brother (saxophone), (keyboards) and (bass), around 1978, briefly employing (drums) before adding (drums).

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Charlie Tumahai

Charles Turu Tumahai (14 January 1949 – 21 December 1995) was a New Zealand singer, bass player and songwriter who was a member of several noted rock groups in New Zealand, Australia and the UK.

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Dave Sturt

Dave Sturt (born 1960, Middlesbrough) is an English bassist and record producer.

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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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Drastic Plastic

Drastic Plastic is the last album by band released in February 1978.

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EMI Records

EMI Records was a British record label founded by the music company of the same name in 1972 as its flagship label, and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia and Parlophone record labels.

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England

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

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Esoteric Recordings

Esoteric Recordings is a UK independent record label specialising in 1970s progressive rock, folk, psychedelic, and jazz-rock reissues as part of Cherry Red Records.

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Futurama (Be-Bop Deluxe album)

Futurama is the second album by the band released in 1975.

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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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Harvest Records

Harvest Records is a British record label belonging to Capitol Music Group, originally created by EMI, active from 1969 to present.

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Ian Nelson (musician)

Ian Walter Nelson (Wakefield, Yorkshire, England on 23 April 1956 - 23 April 2006) was an English new wave musician, and younger brother of Be-Bop Deluxe singer and guitarist Bill Nelson, whom he accompanied in different musical projects.

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Ian Parkin

Ian Parkin (1950 – 1 July 1995) was a musician who played rhythm guitar with the first incarnation of Bill Nelson's Be-Bop Deluxe.

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John Leckie

John William Leckie (born 23 October 1949) is an English record producer and recording engineer.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

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Mississippi (band)

Mississippi were an Australian soft rock band (1972–1975), which included Graham Goble on lead vocals and guitar, Beeb Birtles on lead vocals and guitar, and Derek Pellicci on drums.

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Modern Music (Be-Bop Deluxe album)

Modern Music is the fourth studio album by the British progressive rock group Be-Bop Deluxe.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Pan Am Flight 103

Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York.

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Paul Jeffreys

Paul Avron Jeffreys (13 February 195221 December 1988) was an English rock musician and bassist.

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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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Proto-punk

Proto-punk (or protopunk) is the rock music played by garage bands from the 1960s and early 1970s that presaged the punk rock movement.

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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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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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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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Roy Thomas Baker

Roy Thomas Baker (born 10 November 1946) is an English record producer, songwriter, arranger, and Recording Academy governor, who has produced pop and rock records since the 1970s.

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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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Simon Fox

Simon Andrew David Fox (born 12 July 1949) is an English rock drummer, who played in different rock bands during the 1970s and the 1980s, most notably the progressive rock group Be-Bop Deluxe.

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Sound on Sound

Sound on Sound is an independently owned monthly music technology magazine published by SOS Publications Group, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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Sound-on-Sound

Sound-on-Sound is the sole album by English new wave band Bill Nelson's Red Noise, released in February 1979 by record label Harvest.

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Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel are an English glam rock band from the early 1970s.

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Sunburst (finish)

Sunburst is a style of finishing for musical instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars and electric basses.

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Sunburst Finish (album)

Sunburst Finish is the third studio album by art rock band Be-Bop Deluxe, released in February 1976.

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Theo Travis

Theo Travis (born 7 July 1964 in Birmingham, England) is a British saxophonist, flautist and clarinetist.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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Wakefield

Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be-Bop_Deluxe

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