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Last Dance

Last Dance were one of six acts who featured on 4AD's first-ever compilation 12" Presage(s), released in September 1980. They promptly vanished into obscurity, though their track "Malignant Love" was resurrected for a full-length label compilation titled Natures Mortes – Still Lives, which was initially released on vinyl only in Japan, then eventually reissued as a mail-order CD. They are different from the more recent band The Last Dance.

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Anggun

Anggun (born Anggun Cipta Sasmi on April 29, 1974 in Jakarta, Indonesia) is an Indonesian singer/songwriter. She started singing in 1986. Her father, Darto Singo, was a famous singer and producer in Indonesia and Anggun decided to follow in her father's footsteps. At the tender age of 7 years she recorded her first album with children's song. At 12, after becoming interested in rock music, she recorded her second heavily rock influenced album, "Dunia Aku Punya", that in the indonesian language mean "World of mine".

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Eliza

There are several artists/bands using this name: 1) Japanese heavy metal band from Hokkaido. They formed in 1983 and released two full-length studio albums, plus several vinyl singles, one vhs video and a compilation album. 2) Chilean Visual Kei band. 3) Eliza Lord is a young, talented individual performing locally around Massachusetts has yet to hit it big, though all she needs is time for a record company to catch on to her and rise her to stardom. She typically performs songs by The Spill Canvas, but also writes some of her own music.

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Michael Palin

Member of the British comedy group Monty Python, Michael Palin is the inventor of the threat "If you don't cooperate, I will get nasty and start using some Dutch words". He wrote and appeared in the "Do Not Adjust Your Set" show in the 1960s with Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Eric Idle, before the quartet was eventually joined by John Cleese and Graham Chapman to form Monty Python. Michael is known as the nicest Python.

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Hidden Charms

There have been more than one band called Hidden Charms: 1 - A Swedish power pop band of the 1980's, who released at least one album, "Volume" in 1986. 2 - The Hidden Charms is a three-piece garage punk band from Muenster, Germany. Their first LP "The Square Root
of Love" was releaed on Alien Snatch in 2006.

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Adam Ant

Adam Ant is the stage name of Stuart Leslie Goddard (born November 3, 1954, London, England), lead singer of 1980s pop group Adam and the Ants and also a solo artist. Adam, as Stuart, was a member of Bazooka Joe the band that The Sex Pistols opened for in the Pistol's first live appearance. Adam and the Ants began as a punk band, but by the early 80's they had taken a different path making poppy "Antmusic" and by 1981 were one of the biggest bands in Britain.

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chemikill

There are at least two bands by the name of Chemikill. 1. Baltimore, Maryland based thrash metal group. They released three demos: Impending Doom (1989); Consumed By Hate (1990); Of Mind And Body (1992) Later changing their name to "CLICK." By adding a period at the end of their name " Click." 2. Cleveland, Ohio based heavy/speed metal group. They released two demos: Guilty As Charged (1989); Untitled (1990). The band reformed on December 2nd, 2006, after many years of inactivity.

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Keel

KEEL – the band that gave you “The Right To Rock” – unleashed their brand new album “Streets Of Rock & Roll” on Frontiers Records in 2010. This recording contains twelve new anthems in the tradition of KEEL’s classic “The Final Frontier,” “KEEL,” and “Lay Down The Law” albums – commercial hard rock featuring the twin-guitar attack of Marc Ferrari and Bryan Jay, drummer Dwain Miller’s rock solid groove, Ron Keel’s powerful vocals, and a collection of songs which the band - and their fans and critics - feel is their best ever.

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