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Chord Wonders’, an incisive comment on punk, demonstrated Smith’s lyrical skill as did the Top 20 hit ‘Gary Gilmore’s Eyes’. The first album Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts (1978) is an unsung classic, but The Adverts split after the disastrous reception that greeted the adventurous Cast Of Thousands (1979). Styles & Forms | Seventies | Rock Personalities ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

AC/DC have stuck to a winning formula, eschewing the vagaries of fashion in favour of direct, audience-pleasing rock’n’roll. Styles & Forms | Seventies | Rock Personalities | The Adverts | Seventies | Rock ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

The five members of Radiohead are the same today as they were on the day they formed. Thom Yorke (born 7 October 1968, vocals, guitar, piano), Jonny Greenwood (born 5 November 1971, lead guitar, effects), Ed O’Brien (born 15 April 1968, guitar, vocals), Phil Selway (born 23 May 1967, drums) and Colin Greenwood ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

‘Inside’, 1994 ‘Inside’ made Stiltskin a worldwide name after it featured in an extremely successful advertising campaign for Levi’s jeans. Written by Peter Lawlor, who believed he had a hit song on his hands, he convinced the clothing company to use it to soundtrack one of their adverts. Auditions were then held to assemble the band that would front ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

(Vocal/instrumental group, 2001–present) Vegas’ Killers – Brandon Flowers (vocals), Dave Keuning (guitar), Mark August Stoermer (bass) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (drums) – were formed from a variety of wanted adverts after Flowers was thrown out of his first band. Influenced by the mass singalongs of Oasis, the technological edge of New Order (their name even came from a fictional ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

another. This is a third. Now form a band.’ Sideburns fanzine Leading Exponents The Sex Pistols The Clash The Jam The Stranglers The Damned The Buzzcocks Elvis Costello The Adverts X-Ray Spex British Punk Style The raw aggression of punk is created by physically striking the guitar hard, to produce crashing chords. Most tunes are restricted to three chords ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

punk scene now led by The Clash. In London, new punk clubs sprang up and found no shortage of bands to book: Generation X, X-Ray Spex, The Adverts, Subway Sect and Wire. In New York the diversity of bands on display meant that there was something for almost every taste, from the cerebral Television and Talking ...

Source: Punk: The Brutal Truth, by Hugh Fielder and Mike Gent

of Poly Styrene and her memorable anthem, ‘Oh Bondage, Up Yours!’. Arriving in London from rural Devon, punk couple TV Smith and Gaye Advert formed The Adverts, who had another ready-made punk anthem, ‘Bored Teenagers’. October The Sex Pistols Sign To EMI In October 1976 The Sex Pistols signed to EMI Records, the biggest ...

Source: Punk: The Brutal Truth, by Hugh Fielder and Mike Gent

on the live album, The Roxy London WC2, featuring low-fi versions of punk classics ‘Oh Bondage, Up Yours!’ by X-Ray Spex, ‘Bored Teenagers’ by The Adverts and ‘1 2 X U’ by Wire. The tracks were segued by eavesdropped conversations in the bar and toilets. February Television Shoot For The Moon With the punk ethic exerting ...

Source: Punk: The Brutal Truth, by Hugh Fielder and Mike Gent

Biggs, luring Vicious to Paris to film a barrel-scraping version of ‘My Way’, all of which would turn up on the aptly named Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle movie. February The Adverts Cross The Red Sea They may have progressed from simplistic ‘One Chord Wonders’ to the more complex ‘Gary Gilmore’s Eyes’, but The Adverts never lost sight of their basic, ...

Source: Punk: The Brutal Truth, by Hugh Fielder and Mike Gent
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