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Rosemary's Baby

There is more than one artist with this name. 1) Rosemary's Baby was an italian industrial band active in the mid '80s. It was connected with Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth when Genesis P. Orridge was still involved with it: they founded Centro Ricerche Studi Babalon, an italian branch of TOPY.
They released "Magia Sexualis" demotape, "Love Songs By Rosemary's Baby" and "Andrew Woodhouse" LPs. 2) Rock band from France.

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Return to Mono

San Francisco trio Return to Mono are anything but monophonic. Their catchy guitar riffs, strong vocals, and solid synths form a fully fledged and fully phonic electro rock sound. On their new album Framebreaker (Audio Villain) crunched beats are supported with warps and thick slabs of sizzling Moog bass, along with the occasional shredding guitar riff. Leading lady Tanya Kelleher lends indie pop dynamics to the mix with her vocal style sitting somewhere between Garbage's Shirley Manson and the Noisettes' Shingai Shoniwa.

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Doctor & The Medics

The band was formed, in order to win a £5 bet, in 1982 by ex scout leader, The Doctor and Steve Mcguire (The name "The Doctor," was assumed after the man had failed to gain entry into Medical School). 15 years later the Doctor is still waiting for his fiver!
At the time the Doctor was a top London DJ at his club "The Clinic," where he was single handedly responsible/ guilty for the "Psychedelic revival" of the period.

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Fist

There are at least 3 artists known under this name: 1) Fist (originally called Axe) was one of several early NWOBHM bands who were signed to MCA records at about the same time (others in this group were Quartz, Tygers Of Pan Tang, and White Spirit). Their sound wasn't too different from their contemporaries, with the exception being they had a slightly more melodic feel to their songs. Two albums were released, and like many other NWOBHM bands, they faded away soon after, disbanding in 1984.

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Boulevard

There are at least 4 bands with the name Boulevard. One from Germany/Canada, one from New Zealand, one from Finland and one from Denmark. 1) Randy Burgess (bass) Mark Holden (saxophone, vocals) David Forbes (lead vocals) Andrew Johns (keyboards) Randy Gould (guitar) Randall Stoll (drums) Tom Christianson (bass; replaced Burgess) Holden had been working in a recording studio in Frankfurt, Germany and an offer to open a new, multi-million dollar recording studio in Calgary gave him reason to return to Canada.

Read more about Boulevard on Last.fm.

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Money

There are multiple artists recording under the name “Money” 1. Finnish hip-hop artist, also known as Julma-Henri. 2. Rock Band: Money 3. Money is a DIY recording artist currently based in Toronto, Canada. He has been self-releasing LPs & EPs via CD-R and the internet since the late 90’s. Aided and abetted solely by Doktor Rhythm 666 (his anthropomorphic drum machine), Money has produced diverse tracks ranging from post-grunge/pre-electroclash noise pop to deconstructive free-form soundscapes.

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Mark Cheesley

Mark joined the band Backbeat in March 2008 after a 30 years break from gigging. He joined the band as a lead singer and rhythm guitarist, and he enjoys a wide variety of styles of music. Mark loves playing in a band, as well as a solo vocalist and guitarist. Headteacher of a large primary school in Weymouth, his pupils say 'Our Head rocks'. He loves the 'buzz' of live music and watching people enjoying themselves, and has recently started gigging as a solo artist.

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Starship

Starship is an American rock band that operated from 1985 to 1989, reforming in 1992. In 1984, Paul Kantner left Jefferson Starship (San Francisco, California, USA). His former bandmates wanted to continue as Jefferson Starship, but Kantner, as the last founding member of Jefferson Airplane, took legal action over the "Jefferson" name. Kantner settled out of court and signed an agreement that neither party would use the names "Jefferson" or "Airplane" unless all members of Jefferson Airplane, Inc.

Read more about Starship on Last.fm.

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