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Steve Miller Band

Steve Miller (born 5 October 1943) is a blues and rock and roll guitarist and performer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin but attended high school in Dallas. While at St. Mark's School of Texas, he formed his first band, The Marksmen. Miller taught one of his classmates, Royce Scaggs, a few guitar chords so that he could join the band; Scaggs became better known by his nickname, Boz. Miller attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the 1960s, where he formed The Ardells. Scaggs joined the Ardells the next year.

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Bob James

Bob James (born December 25, 1939) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist. Though he has recorded a couple of straight jazz albums, most of his recordings contain "pop-jazz" which is a type of instrumental pop music. Bob James was an important figure in turning 1970s fusion jazz more commercial. For their album One on One, Earl Klugh and Bob James received a Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance of 1981.

Sugar Hill Gang

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Taman Shud

Taman Shud is a carapaced biological entity playing cave music from Olympus Mons. Influences: Faygo, egyptology, paraphilia, The Necronomicon, vivisepulture, Cotard's Syndrome, dinosaurs, Volvos, megafauna, Lucifer, the Orient, scaphism, Crom Cruach, black holes, Kabbalah, the singularity, segways, small-scale agriculture, Mokele-Mbembe, cannibalism, the Marianas Trench, phrenology, Red Stripe. Not the one from Australia.

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Supertramp

Supertramp is a British progressive rock and pop band that had a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s. The band was formed in the United Kingdom in 1969, and split in 1988. In 1997, Supertramp re-formed with former members plus several new musicians, and remained active until 2003. Music in their early period consisted of ambitious concept albums, but they are best known for their pop songs including Dreamer, Give A Little Bit, Goodbye Stranger, and The Logical Song. The band's name was taken from W.H. Davies' 1908 novel The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp.

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Nacional

Nacional are a relaxing indie band from Glasgow not to be confused with The National. They formed in November 2006. They are on the Leeds label Art Goes Pop. Band members are Robert Armstrong, Jamie Hamilton, Michael O’Hara, Jonny McGiffen and Colin Healy.

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Solipsism

Solipsism is Craig Murphy, an Experimental Musician and Recording Artist from Glasgow in Scotland. His cross-genre style incorporates elements of Ambient, Techno, IDM, Electro and Experimental Music and his releases have been featured on various Radio Stations from across the Globe, including BBC Radio 1, BBC6 Music, XFM London and Digital Nimbus (U.S.A).
He is also a member of the Psychedelic/Folk band Shoosh, alongside Ed Drury and Neil Carlill. The latter who had several Top 40 hits in the UK with his band Delicatessen (Rough Trade, Big Life).

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The Osmonds

The Osmonds are an American family pop group who achieved enormous worldwide success as teenage music idols in the 1970s. The group originally comprised brothers Alan Ralph Osmond (born June 22, 1949), (Melvin) Wayne Osmond (born August 28, 1951), Merrill Davis Osmond (born April 30, 1953), Jay Wesley Osmond (born March 2, 1955) and Donny (Donald) Clark Osmond (born December 9, 1957). They were later joined by younger siblings (Olive) Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959) and Jimmy (James) Arthur Osmond (born April 16, 1963).

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Carlinhos Brown

Carlinhos Brown is a Brazilian musician from Salvador, Bahia. He took the surname Brown from the Black Panther, H. Rap Brown. His music is a mixture of Brazilian and rock and soul music. The music features heavy percussion rhythms and Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian-influenced musical styles.

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