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Pretty Boy Floyd

There are 2 bands with the name Pretty Boy Floyd:
- A glam metal band from Los Angeles, California, fronted by Steve "Sex" Summers. They are most famous for their debut album Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz. They formed in 1988 in Hollywood, CA. After 8 shows they were snapped up by MCA Records and had two of their promotional videos featured on MTV. The Pretty Boy Floyd line-up is constantly a revolving door scenario, with many Glam metal musicians passing through the ranks. Vocalist Steve Summers remains the sole original member.

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Culture Club

Culture Club was a popular 1980s pop group, perhaps most noticeable for their gender-bending frontman Boy George. The other members of the band were Roy Hay on guitars and keyboards, Mikey Craig playing bass and Jon Moss (ex Damned, London, Adam and the Ants) on drums. Their first album, 1982's Kissing to Be Clever, became a major international hit, spawning the hit singles "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" (which went 'all the way' in the BBC-Charts in late 1982), "Time (Clock of the Heart)", and "I'll Tumble 4 Ya".

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Showaddywaddy

Showaddywaddy were a popular 1970's pop group from Leicester, UK. They specialised in cover versions of US pop songs from the 1950s, and dressed as Teddy Boys. Similar to the American act, Sha Na Na. The band was formed in 1973 by the amalgamation of two groups, Choise and The Golden Hammers. This led to an eight member band, with the unusual feature of having two vocalists, two drummers, two bassists and two guitarists.

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Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945 in Washington, Tyne and Wear) is a British singer, musician and songwriter, famed for his suave visual and vocal style, who came to public prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist with Roxy Music. He is also noted for his alternative highly successful solo career.

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The Glitter Band

"The Glitter Band" started life in 1972 as backing and session musicians for Gary Glitter, providing the backing music not only for Gary's chartbusters but also providing 'The Leader' with the unique powerful, and gutsy big beat for his concerts around the world. The original band members were: John Rossall (Sax, Trombone & Musical Director), Gerry Shephard (lead guitar and vocals), Pete Gill (Drums), Tony Leonard (Drums), Pete Phipps (Drums and Keyboards), John Springate (Bass & Vocals) and Harvey Ellison (sax)

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Adam Bomb

Adam Bomb (born Adam Brenner, 1962) is a guitarist and singer who has worked with several bands. In 1979, when Adam Bomb was 17 years old, he and Geoff Tate started a coverband called Tyrant. Later he joined the band TKO, with whom he recorded the album, In Your Face. In 1982, at age 20, Adam auditioned for Kiss. He flew to Los Angeles and played three songs with them, but was not invited to join the band.

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Lordi

Lordi is a hard rock / heavy metal band from Finland, formed in 1996 by 'Mr. Lordi' of Rovaniemi, Finland. They're known for their monster costumes and lyrical themes. In the beginning of the 1990s, Mr. Lordi played in a small band from Rovaniemi. He left the band when the other members didn't agree with the introduction of theatrical elements and KISS-style rock. Mr. Lordi started producing demos under the name Lordi in 1991 and continued to do so for a few years. The rest of the band members met each other for first time in 1996 in Stockholm, where they had gone to see KISS perform.

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Sisters

There are at least eight bands called Sisters: 1) Sisters is a guitar/vocal and drums two piece out of the Death by Audio music collective in Brooklyn. Matt Conboy is the drummer, keyboard player. Aaron Pfannebecker sings and plays guitars. Sisters is the best of your 90’s rock pop collection with garage fallout. Noisy guitars with melody and screeching beautiful vocals over the hardest hitting drums. Crooked guitar sounds creating fragmented pop songs. --- www.myspace.com/sisterssound

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