• The Wild Swans are a post-punk band from Liverpool, England, formed in 1980 shortly after Paul Simpson left The Teardrop Explodes. The band's personnel...
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  • Wild Swans is a 1991 autobiographical novel by Jung Chang. Wild Swan or Wild Swans may also refer to: Swan, a bird "The Wild Swans", a 1838 fairy tale...
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  • Paul Simpson (musician) (category The Wild Swans members)
    left the Teardrops in 1979 to form his own band the Wild Swans in 1980. Between the two incarnations of the band, he was also co-founder of the duo Care...
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  • Swans Way were a three-piece English pop group formed in Birmingham in late 1981. The band comprised Robert Shaw (vocals), Maggie De Monde (vocals and...
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    connection of "The Six Swans" tale with a story of seven swans published in the Feenmärchen (1801) and the swan-ride of the Knight of Swan (Lohengrin)....
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    Chris Sharrock (category The Wild Swans members)
    has been a member of the Icicle Works, the La's, the Wild Swans, World Party, the Lightning Seeds, Robbie Williams's live band, Oasis, and Beady Eye...
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  • The Old Swan Band is a long-established and influential English country dance band. Its origins lie in the early 1970s with the English country dance...
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  • The Gate is a 2015 limited-edition live album by American experimental rock band Swans. The album was released on October 1, 2015 on band leader Michael...
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  • English new wave band formed by Paul Simpson and Ian Broudie in 1983 in Liverpool, England. Care was created after the split of the Wild Swans when singer...
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  • up Swan, swan, or swanling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A swan is a bird of the genus Cygnus (true swans) or Coscoroba (coscoroba swans). Swan, swans...
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  • Pete de Freitas (category The Wild Swans members)
    founding members of the band The Heart Throbs. His brother Frank is the bass player of the Woodentops. 27 Club The Colourfield The Wild Swans Bourke, Fionnuala...
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    co-founded the Wild Swans in 1980. Peter Coyle had previously been in the Jass Babies. Joined by ex-Wild Swans member Ged Quinn on keyboards, the Jass Babies...
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    included the famous Leitmotif, the "Swan's Theme" or "Song of the Swans". He also made use of material from The Voyevoda, an opera he had abandoned in...
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  • rock band from Liverpool, signed to Island Records in the early 1990s. Top's drummer, Alan Wills, had played with The Wild Swans in the 1980s. The group...
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    Ian Broudie (category The Wild Swans members)
    Michael Sutton. "Original Mirrors". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 July 2015. "The Wild Swans with Paul Simpson in conversation | C86 Show - Indie Pop". C86show.org...
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    of the Aarne–Thompson type include The Six Swans, The Twelve Wild Ducks, Udea and her Seven Brothers, The Wild Swans, and The Twelve Brothers. The 1937...
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    Hollywood Undead is an American rap rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2005. All of the band members use pseudonyms and previously wore...
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  • Swan Song Records was a record label that was launched by the English rock band Led Zeppelin on 10 May 1974; however, its first record releases (in UK...
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    respectively. After Swan's death in 1995, Baker created The Unknown Hinson Show, a direct spin-off of The Wild Wild South. The Unknown Hinson Show won...
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    Les Pattinson (category The Wild Swans members)
    for the newly reunited Liverpudlian 1980s band, the Wild Swans.[citation needed] They performed two shows at the Static Gallery in Liverpool in July of that...
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    included in Demme's 1986 film Something Wild. In the late 1980s, she moved to London to form an Aerosmith-style rock band and stayed there for five years. In...
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    also called the bird-maiden or sky-maiden motif, since not always they are swans: the properly called swan maiden appear in stories of the northernmost...
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  • airplay by Shannon in 1958. Buffalo band The Rebels reworked it as an instrumental that was released as "Wild Weekend" on the Marlee label in 1960 without national...
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    session, under the name War & Peace as The Flesh and Blood Sessions. In the early 1990s, Pilson also worked as a session bassist with the band Wild Horses (not...
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  • Near to the Wild Heart (Perto do coração selvagem) is Clarice Lispector's debut novel, written from March to November 1942 and published around her twenty-third...
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    Michael Monarch (category Steppenwolf (band) members)
    guitarist. He is best known for his work with the band Steppenwolf. Monarch was born in Los Angeles. As the original lead guitarist with Steppenwolf (1967...
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    Bird ringing (redirect from Bird band)
    ringing (UK) or bird banding (US) is the attachment of a small, individually numbered metal or plastic tag to the leg or wing of a wild bird to enable individual...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Geese are waterfowl of the family Anatidae. Goose or geese may also refer to: One of several wild bird species in the family...
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  • Spoon The Staves St. Vincent Strand Of Oaks Suuns Moses Sumney Swan Lake Swans Sybris Sky Ferreira Tegan and Sara Thao and the Get Down Stay Down The Thermals...
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    Gira of Swans, MGMT, Sky Ferreira, Sonic Boom, Loop, The Fleshtones (both of whom have recorded cover versions of "Rocket USA"), Ric Ocasek of The Cars,...
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