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The Smiths

Index The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. [1]

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Arnold, Panic (The Smiths song), Pat Phoenix, Patti Smith, Paul Arthurs, Pedophilia, Pentangle, Pet Shop Boys, Pete Townshend, Pete Wylie, Peter Hook, Phil Spector, Phonograph record, Piccadilly Palare, Playland (album), Post-it Note, Post-punk, Power chord, Premiership of Margaret Thatcher, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Primal Scream, Proud Mary (band), Psilocybin mushroom, Pub, Public Image Ltd, Q (magazine), Radio City Music Hall, Radio X (United Kingdom), Rank (album), Rickenbacker, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rock music, Roger McGuinn, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Rory Gallagher, Rough Trade Records, Rowetta, Rusholme, Sandie Shaw, Sergei Prokofiev, Session musician, Shakespeare's Sister (song), Shakespears Sister, Shaun Duggan, Sheila Take a Bow, Shelagh Delaney, Shoplifters of the World Unite, Simon Goddard, Simon Reynolds, Simon Wolstencroft, Sinéad O'Connor, Singles (The Smiths album), Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie Sioux, Sire Records, Social realism, Sounds (magazine), Spandau Ballet, St. Petersburg, Florida, Stephen Street, Stop Me, Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before, Strangeways, Here We Come, Suede (band), Suffer Little Children, Suggs, Supergroup (music), Synthesizer, T. 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Aamer Haleem

Aamer Haleem is a Canadian radio and television personality, who was a co-host of the Vancouver edition of CTV Morning Live.

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Academic publishing

Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship.

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AFI (band)

AFI (abbreviation for A Fire Inside) is an American rock band from Ukiah, California, formed in 1991.

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Alain Delon

Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (born 8 November 1935) is a French actor and businessman.

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Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and author.

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Alex Broun

Alex Broun (born 16 March 1965) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter, who has worked extensively with Short+Sweet, a series of theatre festivals for productions of ten minutes or less.

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Andrew Collins (broadcaster)

Andrew Collins is an English writer and broadcaster.

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Andy Rourke

Andrew Michael Rourke (born 17 January 1964) is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the Smiths.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

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Arpeggio

A broken chord is a chord broken into a sequence of notes.

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Ask (song)

"Ask" is a song recorded by the English rock band the Smiths.

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Aziz Ibrahim

Aziz-Ur-Rahman Ibrahim (born March 1964) is a British musician.

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Aztec Camera

Aztec Camera were a Scottish pop/new wave band formed by Roddy Frame, the group's singer, songwriter, and only consistent member.

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Badly Drawn Boy

Damon Michael Gough (born 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire), known by the stage name Badly Drawn Boy, is an English indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Band Aid (band)

Band Aid is a charity supergroup featuring mainly British and Irish musicians and recording artists.

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Bands Reunited

Bands Reunited was a television program produced by VH1 in 2004.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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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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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live (also known as just 5 Live) is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, interviews and sports commentaries.

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BBC Radio 6 Music

BBC Radio 6 Music (also still known as BBC 6 Music or BBC 6) is one of the BBC's digital radio stations.

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Beck

Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970), known professionally as Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Bengali in Platforms

"Bengali in Platforms" is a Morrissey song from his debut album Viva Hate.

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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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Bert Jansch

Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle.

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Best... I

Best...

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Bigmouth Strikes Again

"Bigmouth Strikes Again" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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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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Billy Duffy

William Henry Duffy (born 12 May 1961) is a British rock musician, most well known as the lead guitarist of the band The Cult.

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Black Grape

Black Grape are a rock band from England, featuring former members of Happy Mondays and Ruthless Rap Assassins.

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Blue Rondo à la Turk (band)

Blue Rondo à la Turk was an early 1980s British musical ensemble, whose music featured elements of salsa, pop and cool jazz.

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Blur (band)

Blur are an English rock band, formed in London in 1988.

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Bowdon, Greater Manchester

Bowdon is a village and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

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British Hit Singles & Albums

British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives.

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Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry CBE (born 26 September 1945) is an English singer and songwriter.

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Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band, formed in Bolton, England, in 1976 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Chord progression

A chord progression or harmonic progression is a succession of musical chords, which are two or more notes, typically sounded simultaneously.

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Chorlton-cum-Hardy

Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a suburban area of the city of Manchester, England, known locally as Chorlton.

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Chrissie Hynde

Christine Ellen "Chrissie" Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician who is best known as a founding member of the rock band The Pretenders.

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Cilla Black

Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), known by her stage name Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress and author.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly referred to as Coachella or the Coachella Festival) is an annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, located in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert.

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Complete (The Smiths album)

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Corporal punishment

Corporal punishment or physical punishment is a punishment intended to cause physical pain on a person.

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Craig Gannon

Craig Gannon (born 30 July 1966) is an English guitar player, best-known as the second guitarist in The Smiths.

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Crazy Horse (band)

Crazy Horse is an American rock band best known for their association with Neil Young.

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Crowded House

Crowded House are a rock band formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1985.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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D.A.R.K.

D.A.R.K. is an alternative rock band formed in New York City in early 2009.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Dance-pop

Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s.

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Danny Kelly (journalist)

Danny Kelly (born 23 December 1956) is a British music journalist, sports presenter, and internet publisher.

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Davey Havok

David Paden Marchand (born November 20, 1975), known professionally as Davey Havok, is the lead vocalist of the American rock band AFI, the electronic music band Blaqk Audio, hardcore band XTRMST, and new wave band Dreamcar.

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David Bret

David Bret (born 8 November 1954) is a French-born British author of showbiz biographies.

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David Jensen

David Alan "Kid" Jensen (born 4 July 1950) is a Canadian-born British radio DJ.

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Douglas Coupland

Douglas CouplandSteve Lohr, "No More McJobs for Mr.

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Duotone

Duotone is a halftone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting color halftone over another color halftone.

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Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978.

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Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s.

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East London

East London is a popularly and informally defined part of London, capital of the United Kingdom, lying east of the ancient City and north of the River Thames.

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East Village Radio

East Village Radio (EVR) is an Internet radio station which broadcasts from a storefront studio in the East Village of Manhattan, in New York City.

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Easterhouse (band)

Easterhouse was a British indie rock group from the mid to late 1980s, known for jangly guitars and leftist political leaning.

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Electronic (band)

Electronic was an English alternative dance supergroup formed by New Order singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner and ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI (born 10 November 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists.

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Factory Records

Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Northside, and (briefly) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and James.

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Freebass

Freebass were an English rock supergroup consisting of, originally, three bassists Andy Rourke (formerly of The Smiths), Peter Hook (formerly of Joy Division & New Order) and Gary "Mani" Mounfield (of The Stone Roses and Primal Scream) and singer Gary Briggs (formerly of Haven).

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Garry Bushell

Garry Bushell (born 13 May 1955, Woolwich, South East London) is an English newspaper columnist, rock music journalist, television presenter, author and political activist.

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Geoff Travis

Geoff Travis (born 2 February 1952) is the founder of both Rough Trade Records and the Rough Trade chain of record shops.

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George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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Girl group

A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together.

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Guitar solo

A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music written for a classical guitar, electric guitar or an acoustic guitar.

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Guitar tunings

Guitar tunings assign pitches to the open strings of guitars, including acoustic guitars, electric guitars and classical guitars, among others.

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Guy Pratt

Guy Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, comedian and actor.

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Hand in Glove

"Hand in Glove" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr.

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Happy Mondays

Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester.

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Hatful of Hollow

Hatful of Hollow is a compilation album by English rock band the Smiths.

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Haven (band)

Haven were an English indie rock band, formed in Cornwall in 1996.

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Heathen Chemistry

Heathen Chemistry is the fifth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 1 July 2002 by Big Brother Records.

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Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

"Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (or; c. 10 September 1659According to Holman and Thompson (Grove Music Online, see References) there is uncertainty regarding the year and day of birth. No record of baptism has been found. The year 1659 is based on Purcell's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey and the frontispiece of his Sonnata's of III. Parts (London, 1683). The day 10 September is based on vague inscriptions in the manuscript GB-Cfm 88. It may also be relevant that he was appointed to his first salaried post on 10 September 1677, which would have been his eighteenth birthday. – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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HIT Entertainment

HIT Entertainment Ltd. (styled "HiT") is a British–American entertainment company owned by Mattel and originally established in 1982 as Henson International Television (formerly styled "hit!").

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HitQuarters

HitQuarters was an international music industry publication and contact database founded in 1999.

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How Soon Is Now?

"How Soon Is Now?" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr.

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I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got is the second album by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor, released in March 1990 on Ensign/Chrysalis Records.

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I-D

i-D is a British bimonthly magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture.

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Ian Brown

Ian George Brown (born 20 February 1963) is an English musician.

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Ignore the Ignorant

Ignore the Ignorant found release on 7 September 2009 as the fourth studio album by British indie rock band The Cribs via Wichita Recordings, following the release of first single 'Cheat on Me' on 31 August.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Interlude (Morrissey and Siouxsie song)

"Interlude" is a single by Morrissey and Siouxsie Sioux released in August 1994.

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Isaac Brock (musician)

Isaac Kristofer Brock (born July 9, 1975) is the lead singer, guitarist, banjoist, and songwriter for the American indie rock band Modest Mouse, as well as his side project band, Ugly Casanova.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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James Dean

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor.

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James Honeyman-Scott

James "Jimmy" Honeyman-Scott (4 November 1956 – 16 June 1982) was an English rock guitarist, songwriter and founding member of the band The Pretenders.

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James Williamson (musician)

James Robert Williamson (born October 29, 1949) is an American guitarist, songwriter, record producer and electronics engineer.

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Jangle pop

Jangle pop is a subgenre of pop rock that emphasizes trebly, ringing guitars (usually 12-string electrics) and 1960s-style pop melodies.

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Jean Marais

Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais, also known as Jean Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), was a French actor, writer, director and sculptor.

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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Lyricist Jerome "Jerry" Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Mike Stoller (born Michael Stoller; March 13, 1933) were American songwriting and record producing partners.

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Jim French (photographer)

Jim French (July 14, 1932 – June 16, 2017) was an American photographer, filmmaker and publisher who, under the pseudonym Rip Colt,Blasius, Mark; Phelan, Shane (1997).

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Jim Morrison

James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer-songwriter and poet, best remembered as the lead vocalist of the Doors.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Joe Dallesandro

Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro III (born December 31, 1948), better known as Joe Dallesandro, is an American actor and Warhol superstar.

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John Lydon

John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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John McGeoch

John Alexander McGeoch (25 August 1955 – 4 March 2004) was a Scottish guitarist who played with several bands of the post-punk era, including Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Visage, the Armoury Show and Public Image Ltd.

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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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John Porter (musician)

John Porter (born 11 September 1947, in Leeds) is an English musician and record producer.

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John Squire

Jonathan Thomas Squire (born 24 November 1962)Larkin, Colin (ed.) (1998) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave, Virgin Books, is an English musician, songwriter and artist.

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John Walters (broadcaster)

John Walters (11 July 1939 – 30 July 2001) was a British radio producer, presenter and musician.

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Johnny Marr

Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher; 31 October 1963) is an English musician, songwriter and singer, best known as the guitarist and – with Morrissey – co-songwriter of the Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987.

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Johnny Rogan

Johnny Rogan is an author of Irish descent best known for his books about music and popular culture.

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Joy Division

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

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Jukebox

A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media.

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Julian Cope

Julian David Cope (born 21 October 1957) is an English musician, author, antiquarian, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator. Originally coming to prominence in 1978 as the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes, he has followed a solo career since 1983 and worked on musical side projects such as Queen Elizabeth, Brain Donor and Black Sheep. Cope is also an author on Neolithic culture, publishing The Modern Antiquarian in 1998, and an outspoken political and cultural activist with a noted and public interest in occultism and paganism. He has written two volumes of autobiography; Head-On (1994) and Repossessed (1999); two volumes of archaeology; The Modern Antiquarian (1998) and The Megalithic European (2004); and three volumes of musicology; Krautrocksampler (1995), Japrocksampler (2007); and Copendium: A Guide to the Musical Underground (2012).

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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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Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English actor, best known for his comedy roles and in later life as a raconteur and diarist.

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Kirsty MacColl

Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was an English singer and songwriter.

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Kitchen sink realism

Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film, and television plays, whose protagonists usually could be described as "angry young men" who were disillusioned with modern society.

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Klaus Nomi

Klaus Sperber (January 24, 1944 – August 6, 1983), better known as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona.

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Last of the Independents

Last of the Independents is the sixth album by rock group The Pretenders, released in 1994.

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Liam Gallagher

William John Paul Gallagher (born 21 September 1972), better known as Liam Gallagher, is an English singer and songwriter.

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List of Newspeak words

A list of words from the fictional language Newspeak that appears in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television (LWT) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm until 1982) to Monday mornings at 6:00 am.

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Louder Than Bombs

Louder Than Bombs is a compilation album by English rock band The Smiths.

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Madness (band)

Madness are an English ska band from Camden Town, north London, who formed in 1976.

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Magazine (band)

Magazine were an English post-punk band active from 1977 to 1981, then again from 2009 to 2011.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manchester Evening News

The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England.

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Manchester v Cancer

Manchester v Cancer was a benefit concert that was held on 28 January 2006 at Manchester's MEN Arena, in aid of cancer research at the Christie Hospital in Manchester, Europe's largest cancer research and treatment centre.

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Mani (musician)

Gary "Mani" Mounfield (born 16 November 1962Warshaw, Aaron.. allmusic.com) is an English rock bassist, best known for being a member of the Stone Roses and Primal Scream.

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Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, and poet.

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Marc Riley

Marc Riley (born 10 July 1961 in Manchester) is an English radio DJ, alternative rock critic and musician.

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Marc Spitz

Marc Spitz (October 2, 1969 – February 4, 2017) was an American music journalist, author and playwright.

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Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer, songwriter and actress.

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Mark Simpson (journalist)

Mark Simpson is an English journalist, writer, and broadcaster specialising in popular culture, media, and masculinity.

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Meat Is Murder

Meat Is Murder is the second studio album by English rock band the Smiths.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943), known professionally as Mick Jagger, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.

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Mike Joyce (musician)

Michael Adrian Paul Joyce (born 1 June 1963) is an English drummer.

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Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1992 in Issaquah, Washington (a suburb of Seattle), and currently based in Portland, Oregon.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Monarchy of the United Kingdom

The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the constitutional monarchy of the United Kingdom, its dependencies and its overseas territories.

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Montagues and Capulets

Montagues and Capulets is a work of classical music written by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.

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Moors murders

The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England.

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Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author.

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My Love Life

"My Love Life" was a single by Morrissey released in September 1991.

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National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) is the name used for each of the public health services in the United Kingdom – the National Health Service in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland – as well as a term to describe them collectively.

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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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Neil Young

Neil Percival Young, (born November 12, 1945), is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter.

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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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New Romantic

The New Romantic movement was a pop culture movement that originated in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.

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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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New York Dolls

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

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Noel Gallagher

Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is a British singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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O2 Apollo Manchester

The O2 Apollo Manchester (known locally as The Apollo and formerly Apollo Theatre, Manchester Apollo and Carling Apollo Manchester) is a concert venue located in Ardwick Green, Manchester, England.

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Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.

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P. P. Arnold

Patricia Ann Cole (born October 3, 1946), known professionally as P. P. Arnold, is an American soul singer who enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom from the 1960s onwards.

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Panic (The Smiths song)

"Panic" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, released in 1986 and written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr.

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Pat Phoenix

Patricia Frederica Phoenix (born Patricia Frederica Manfield; 26 November 1923 – 17 September 1986) was an English actress who became one of the first sex symbols of British television through her role as Elsie Tanner, an original cast member of Coronation Street.

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Patti Smith

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.

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Paul Arthurs

Paul Benjamin "Bonehead" Arthurs (born 23 June 1965) is an English musician and one of the founder members of the English rock band Oasis, best known as their rhythm guitar and occasional keyboard player from 1991–1999.

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Pedophilia

Pedophilia, or paedophilia, is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.

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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 Townshend

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Who.

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Pete Wylie

Peter James Wylie (born 22 March 1958) is an English singer/songwriter and guitarist, best known as the leader of the band variously known as Wah!, Wah! Heat, Shambeko! Say Wah!, JF Wah!, The Mighty Wah! and Wah! The Mongrel.

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Peter Hook

Peter Hook (born Peter Woodhead; 13 February 1956) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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Phil Spector

Phillip Harvey Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector, December 26, 1939) is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter who developed the Wall of Sound, a music production formula he described as a "Wagnerian" approach to rock and roll.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Piccadilly Palare

"Piccadilly Palare" was a single released by Morrissey in October 1990.

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Playland (album)

Playland is the second studio album by English musician Johnny Marr.

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Post-it Note

A Post-it Note (or sticky note) is a small piece of paper with a re-adherable strip of glue on its back, made for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces.

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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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Power chord

In guitar music, especially electric guitar, a power chord (also fifth chord) is a colloquial name for a chord that consists of the root note and the fifth.

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Premiership of Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1979 to November 1990.

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Pretty Girls Make Graves

Pretty Girls Make Graves was a post-punk band, formed in Seattle in 2001, named after The Smiths song of the same name (which itself was named after a quote from Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums).

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Primal Scream

Primal Scream are a British rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie.

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Proud Mary (band)

Proud Mary are an English blues/rock band from Royton, Oldham, Greater Manchester.

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Psilocybin mushroom

A psilocybin mushroom is one of a polyphyletic group of fungi that contain any of various psychedelic compounds, including psilocybin, psilocin, and baeocystin.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Public Image Ltd

Public Image Ltd (abbreviated as PiL) are an English post-punk band formed by singer John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten), guitarist Keith Levene, bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker.

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Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located at 1260 Avenue of the Americas at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Radio X (United Kingdom)

Radio X is a commercial radio station brand focused on alternative music, primarily indie rock, which is owned by Global.

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Rank (album)

Rank is the only live album by English band the Smiths.

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Rickenbacker

Rickenbacker International Corporation is an electric string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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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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Roger McGuinn

James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942), known professionally as Roger McGuinn and previously as Jim McGuinn, is an American musician.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a 2003 special issue of American biweekly magazine Rolling Stone, and a related book published in 2005.

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Rory Gallagher

William Rory Gallagher (2 March 1948 – 14 June 1995) was an Irish blues and rock multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer.

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Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England.

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Rowetta

Rowetta Idah (born 5 January 1966 in Manchester), also known as Rowetta or Rowetta Satchell, is an English singer.

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Rusholme

Rusholme is an inner-city area of Manchester, England, about two miles south of the city centre.

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Sandie Shaw

Sandie Shaw, MBE (born Sandra Ann Goodrich; 26 February 1947) is an English singer.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Shakespeare's Sister (song)

"Shakespeare's Sister" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths.

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Shakespears Sister

Shakespears Sister is a pop-rock act, formed by Irish-born singer–songwriter Siobhan Fahey in 1988.

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Shaun Duggan

Shaun Duggan (born 1970) is a BAFTA nominated writer based in the UK.

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Sheila Take a Bow

"Sheila Take a Bow" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths.

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Shelagh Delaney

Shelagh Delaney, FRSL (25 November 1938 – 20 November 2011) was an English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for her debut work, A Taste of Honey (1958).

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Shoplifters of the World Unite

"Shoplifters of the World Unite" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths.

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Simon Goddard

Simon Goddard (born Cardiff, 21 December 1971) is a British author and music journalist.

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Simon Reynolds

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

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Simon Wolstencroft

Simon John Wolstencroft (born 19 January 1963 in Altrincham, Cheshire) is an English rock drummer, known for playing with The Fall from 1986 to 1997.

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Sinéad O'Connor

Magda Davitt (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor, 8 December 1966) is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra.

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Singles (The Smiths album)

Singles is the seventh compilation album by English rock band The Smiths, pitched as a compilation of previously issued singles.

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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.

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Siouxsie Sioux

Susan Janet Ballion,Paytress, mark.

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Sire Records

Sire Records is an American record label that is owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

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Social realism

Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the everyday conditions of the working class and to voice the authors' critique of the social structures behind these conditions.

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Sounds (magazine)

Sounds was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991.

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Spandau Ballet

Spandau Ballet are an English band formed in Islington, London in 1979.

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St. Petersburg, Florida

St.

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Stephen Street

Stephen Brian Street (born 29 March 1960 in Hackney, London) is an English music producer best known for his work with The Smiths, The Cranberries and Blur.

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Stop Me

Stop Me is a compilation album by English band The Smiths.

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Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

"Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr.

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Strangeways, Here We Come

Strangeways, Here We Come is the fourth and final studio album by English rock band the Smiths.

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Suede (band)

Suede are an English alternative rock band formed in London in 1989.

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Suffer Little Children

"Suffer Little Children" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr.

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Suggs

Suggs is a surname.

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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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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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T. Rex (band)

T.

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Talking Heads

Talking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.

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Terence Stamp

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

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That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths.

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That What Is Not

That What Is Not was Public Image Ltd's eighth album, released in 1992.

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The Adult Net

The Adult Net was a British indie pop band formed by British-based American singer and guitarist Brix Smith in 1985, while she was a member of The Fall.

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The Beatles

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

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The Boy with the Thorn in His Side (song)

"The Boy with the Thorn in His Side" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths.

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The Byrds

The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.

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The Cookies

The Cookies were an American R&B girl group in the 1950s to 1960s.

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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 Cribs

The Cribs are an English indie rock band originally from Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

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The Cult

The Cult are a British rock band formed in 1983.

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The Durutti Column

The Durutti Column are an English post-punk band formed in 1978 in Manchester, England.

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The Face (magazine)

The Face was a British music, fashion and culture monthly magazine published from 1980 to 2004 and launched in May 1980 in London by Nick Logan, the British journalist who had previously been editor of New Musical Express and Smash Hits.

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The Haçienda

The Haçienda was a nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England, which became famous in the Madchester years of the 1980s and early 1990s.

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The Jam

The Jam were an English mod revival/punk rock band during the 1970s and early 1980s, which formed in 1972 at Sheerwater Secondary School in Woking, in the county of Surrey.

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The Libertines

The Libertines are an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar).

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The Messenger (Johnny Marr album)

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The Old Grey Whistle Test

The Old Grey Whistle Test (usually abbreviated to Whistle Test or OGWT) was a British television music show.

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The Pretenders

The Pretenders are an English-American rock band formed in Hereford, England, in March 1978.

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The Queen Is Dead

The Queen Is Dead is the third studio album by English rock band the Smiths.

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The Revolution (radio station)

Revolution 96.2 (formerly known as 96.2 The Revolution) is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the areas of Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside in Greater Manchester, England.

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The Ritz (Manchester)

The O2 Ritz (originally known as The Ritz) is a live music venue on Whitworth Street West, Manchester, England.

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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 Smiths (album)

The Smiths is the debut studio album by English rock band the Smiths, recorded in 1983 and released on 20 February 1984 by record label Rough Trade.

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The Smiths Singles Box

The Smiths Singles Box is a box set by The Smiths.

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The Sound of The Smiths

The Sound of The Smiths is a Smiths compilation released on 10 November 2008.

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The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show.

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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 Stone Roses

The Stone Roses are an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1983.

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The Stooges

The Stooges, also known as Iggy and the Stooges, were an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander.

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The Sun (United Kingdom)

The Sun is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

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The Teardrop Explodes

The Teardrop Explodes were an English post-punk/neo-psychedelic band formed in Liverpool in 1978.

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The The

() are an English post-punk band.

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The Tube (TV series)

The Tube was a United Kingdom music television programme, which ran for five series, from 5 November 1982 to 26 April 1987.

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The Very Best of The Smiths

The Very Best of The Smiths is a compilation album by The Smiths.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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The World Is Yours (Ian Brown album)

The World is Yours is the fifth solo album by Ian Brown, released on 15 October 2007.

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The World Won't Listen

The World Won't Listen is a compilation album by English rock band The Smiths.

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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

"There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by guitarist Johnny Marr and singer Morrissey.

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This Charming Man

"This Charming Man" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by guitarist Johnny Marr and singer Morrissey.

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Three Rivers Press

Three Rivers Press is the trade paperback imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House.

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Timi Yuro

Rosemary Timothy Yuro (August 4, 1940 – March 30, 2004), professionally known as Timi Yuro, was an American singer and songwriter.

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Tony Wilson

Anthony Howard "Tony" Wilson (20 February 1950 – 10 August 2007) was an English record label owner, radio and television presenter, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC.

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Troy Tate

Troy Tate is an English musician and record producer who was a member of several bands including The Teardrop Explodes and Fashion as well as working as a solo artist, for which he is best known for the single "Love Is...".

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Twinkle (singer)

Lynn Annette Ripley (15 July 1948 – 21 May 2015), better known by the stage name Twinkle, was an English singer-songwriter.

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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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UK Top 40 (TV series)

UK Top 40 was a charts-based programme which aired on Sundays at 6pm on the CBBC channel from 2002 to 2005.

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Uncut (magazine)

Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London.

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University of London Union

The University of London Union (commonly referred to as ULU, pron. 'yoo-loo') was Europe's largest students' union, with over 120,000 students as the focus of its activities.

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Versus Cancer

Versus Cancer was an annual concert, reportedly then the largest annual charity concert in the United Kingdom.

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VH1

VH1 (originally an initialism of Video Hits One) is an American cable and satellite television network based in New York City operated by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks, a division of Viacom.

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Vini Reilly

Vincent "Vini" Gerard Reilly (born 4 August 1953) is an English musician and leader of the post-punk group The Durutti Column.

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Viv Nicholson

Vivian Nicholson (3 April 1936 – 11 April 2015) was a British woman who became famous when she told the media she would "spend, spend, spend" after her husband Keith won £152,319 (equivalent to £3,167,827.29 adjusted for inflation) on the football pools in 1961.

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Viva Hate

Viva Hate is the debut solo studio album by English singer Morrissey.

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Wapping

Wapping is a district in London Docklands, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Modest Mouse, released in 2007.

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What Difference Does It Make?

"What Difference Does It Make?" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr.

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William, It Was Really Nothing

"William, It Was Really Nothing" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths.

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Yootha Joyce

Yootha Joyce Needham (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980), credited as Yootha Joyce, was a British actress best known for playing Mildred Roper opposite Brian Murphy in the sitcom Man About the House and its spin-off George and Mildred.

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...Best II

...Best II is a compilation album by The Smiths.

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References

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

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