The Idle Race were a British rock group from Birmingham who in the late 1960s and early 1970s had a cult following but never enjoyed mass commercial success...
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Idle Race is the second album by the Idle Race, the follow-up to the band's debut, The Birthday Party. Released in 1969, this record was the first to be...
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Dave Walker (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
guitarist who has been front-man for a number of bands; most notably The Idle Race, Savoy Brown and Humble Pie, he also served briefly with Fleetwood Mac...
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Trevor Burton. By 1972, The Move had been reduced to a trio consisting of Wood, Bevan and Jeff Lynne, formerly of the Idle Race. The band's later years saw...
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Electric Light Orchestra (redirect from The Electric Light Orchestra)
Lynne, frontman of fellow Birmingham group The Idle Race, was excited by the concept. When Trevor Burton left the Move in February 1969, Lynne was asked by...
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soon changed their name to the Idle Race. Despite recording two critically-acclaimed albums with the band and producing the second, success eluded him...
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Time Is (category The Idle Race albums)
Time Is is the final studio album recorded by The Idle Race. It was recorded in 1970 after Jeff Lynne had left the band. He was replaced by vocalist Dave...
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The Birthday Party is the debut album by psychedelic pop band The Idle Race, released in 1968. This quasi-concept album was the first to be composed almost...
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Mick Fleetwood (category English expatriate musicians in the United States)
Bob Weston and vocalist Dave Walker, formerly of Savoy Brown and the Idle Race. The resulting turmoil, however, negatively affected their next album,...
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Steve Gibbons (musician) (redirect from The Ugly's)
the breakup of Balls, Gibbons returned to Birmingham from London to join The Idle Race for three months in 1971. This band rapidly evolved into the Steve...
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Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English actor, comedian, songwriter, musician, screenwriter and playwright. He was a member of the British comedy...
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Trevor Burton (category The Idle Race members)
Gibbons joined the Birmingham group the Idle Race which eventually became the Steve Gibbons Band. Burton joined in April 1975, and the group enjoyed a...
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during the Bare Trees tour, the band added guitarist Bob Weston and vocalist Dave Walker (formerly of Savoy Brown and The Idle Race) in September 1972. Weston...
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Back to the Story is a 2-CD compilation set by Sixties/Seventies band The Idle Race released in 1996 on EMI's short-lived Premier series. It contains...
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Roy Wood (category The Idle Race members)
Sheridan and the Nightriders (the band later became the Idle Race). He attended the Moseley College of Art, but was expelled in 1964. The Move was formed...
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Birthday Party (redirect from The Birthday Party)
series The Birthday Party (band), a 1977–1983 Australian post-punk band The Birthday Party (The Birthday Party album), 1980 The Birthday Party (The Idle Race...
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Holding On" (The Action) – 3:39 "When the Night Falls" (The Eyes) – 2:33 "Sorry" (The Easybeats) – 2:35 "Imposters of Life's Magazine" (The Idle Race) – 2:19...
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List of Electric Light Orchestra members (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
Lynne, frontman of fellow Birmingham group The Idle Race, was excited by the concept. When Trevor Burton left the Move in February 1969, Lynne was asked by...
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Electric Light Orchestra discography (redirect from The ELO EP)
Electric Light Orchestra ELO Part II discography The Orchestra discography The Move discography The Idle Race discography Traveling Wilburys discography Armchair...
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1970. The Idle Race recorded a version of the song on their 1971 album Time Is. The song is a ballad about a woman who roams the hillsides above the town...
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Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
The All-Starr Band does not compose original music, but a number of live albums featuring the group have been released. The sole exception is the track...
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versions of work that Lynne has done with Traveling Wilburys, The Move and The Idle Race. "10538 Overture" – Bobby Sutliff & Mitch Easter (4:35) "Ma Ma...
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the War of the Grand Alliance, or especially the Williamite War in Ireland, after which the Irish Jacobite army was sent to France as agreed in the Treaty...
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Danny Kirwan (category Musicians from the London Borough of Lambeth)
permeated the band's optimism and vision." Walker had previously been a member of UK band the Idle Race, which opened a show for Fleetwood Mac at the Lyceum...
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Looking On (category The Move albums)
fronting (and producing) The Idle Race. Wood had wanted to launch a new group with Lynne that would feature rock and strings and retire the Move immediately....
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voices that The Paper Garden album was "Clearly influenced by the psychedelic hoodoo practiced by the Beatles, trickles of the Idle Race, and the Bee Gees...
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Ed Stewart (section Back to the BBC)
You". In 1968 he recorded the charity single "I Like My Toys", a cover of a song by The Idle Race, as "Stewpot And Save The Children Fund Choir". In 1972...
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were The Idle Race, the most important Birmingham band of the 1960s not to achieve significant commercial success, who formed from the remains of The Nightriders...
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Shazam (album) (category The Move albums)
join The Move because he wanted to stay with The Idle Race, agreed to join on the condition that they retire The Move and focus full-time on ELO. The cover...
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join The Idle Race, which within weeks evolved into The Steve Gibbons Band. LP Harvest SHVL 761 (1969) "Armchair Theatre" - 3:54 "Feel How So Cool The Wind"...
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