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McCluskey founded pop group Atomic Kitten the following year, and co-wrote several of their hit singles, including international 2001 chart-topper " Whole Again ".
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McCluskey and founded
The group was founded in 1978 by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys who remain, and were perceived as, the core members.
The second album Organisation ( perhaps a reference to the band which preceded Kraftwerk, founded by Kraftwerk's original members Florian Schneider-Esleben and Ralf Hütter ) followed later that year, recorded as a 3 piece with Humphreys, McCluskey and Holmes.
Electric Honey, founded in 1992, is Stow College's ( Glasgow, Scotland ) in-house record label run by Ken McCluskey ( The Bluebells ), Douglas MacIntyre ( Creeping Bent ) and formerly Alan Rankine ( The Associates ) along with students from the HNC / D Music Business course.
McCluskey and pop
* Andy McCluskey, Lead singer of eighties pop band ' Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ' and founder of Atomic Kitten
McCluskey and group
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ( OMD ) are a British New Wave group formed in 1978, whose founding members, Andy McCluskey ( vocals, bass guitar ) and Paul Humphreys ( keyboards, vocals ), are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England.
By the mid 1990s, electronic music had become unfashionable amid the heady Britpop climate, and McCluskey disbanded the group in 1996 due to dwindling popularity.
The group began to gig regularly in the Merseyside area, performing original material ( largely written by McCluskey and Humphreys ).
McCluskey recruited Liverpool musicians Lloyd Massett and Stuart Kershaw as collaborators on Sugar Tax, though not as full-fledged group members — writing credits carefully distinguished between songs written by OMD ( i. e. McCluskey ) and songs written by OMD / Kershaw / Massett.
The songwriting and production agreement with Andy McCluskey was an increasing source of tension within the group, and the girls decided to terminate the contract with McCluskey halfway through the recording of the album.
The group began to gig regularly in the Merseyside area, performing original material largely written by McCluskey and Humphreys.
During this time Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark founder members Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys played there as members of the short lived Wirral group The Id.
In 1997, while McClarnon was still in secondary school, her music teacher arranged for her to take part in an audition with musician Andy McCluskey, who was aiming to create a new girl group.
McCluskey and Atomic
Post-1996, McCluskey decided to focus on songwriting for such Liverpool based acts as Atomic Kitten and The Genie Queen, and trying to develop new Merseyside artists from his Motor Museum recording studio.
Atomic Kitten was first conceived in 1997 by Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
McCluskey and year
McCluskey signed a one year contract with St. Mirren on 24 September 2010.
Dundee signed McCluskey on a one year deal in July 2011.
McCluskey and several
* There were several fanzines about the band, including Winston and the successful Telegraph, ( which McCluskey was heavily involved in ) that were active during the post-split period.
Uddingston has been home to several successful footballers: Jimmy Johnstone and George McCluskey both of Celtic ; Tommy McQueen who played for Aberdeen, West Ham, Clyde and Falkirk ; Iain Munro, a football player, coach and manager ; Lindsay Hamilton, who was goalkeeper with Stenhousemuir, Rangers, St Johnstone and Dunfermline, and John Robertson who most notably played at Nottingham Forest.
McCluskey and their
By the mid-1970s McCluskey had formed Equinox, as bassist and vocalist, alongside schoolmate Malcolm Holmes on drums, while Humphreys was their roadie.
During that time McCluskey and Humphreys discovered their electronic style influenced by Kraftwerk.
In September 1978, the same month he left Dalek I Love You, McCluskey rejoined Humphreys and their VCL XI project was renamed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
Though both Liberator and Universal produced minor hits and the latter also spawned their first Top 20 hit in five years with " Walking On The Milky Way ", McCluskey retired the OMD name in late 1996, due to waning public interest in an 80's synth band at the height of the guitar-based Britpop era.
For their 1980 Spanish language album / compilation " Gracias Por La Música ", ABBA recorded a Spanish version of " Dancing Queen ", renamed " Reina Danzante ", with Spanish lyrics provided by Buddy and Mary McCluskey.
However, Michael convinces Sonny that since McCluskey is a corrupt police officer serving as Sollozzo's bodyguard, he has crossed into their world and is fair game.
Michael persuades Sonny to allow him to avenge their father by killing Sollozzo and McCluskey himself, arguing that no one would suspect him due to his longtime non-involvement in Mafia business.
However, Sonny ultimately gives Michael the clearance to carry out the hit after Michael convinces him that since McCluskey is serving as Sollozzo's bodyguard, he has crossed into their world and is fair game.
After suggesting the idea and title to Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Saville carried the theme over to the sleeve design of their album Dazzle Ships.
McCluskey and 2001
The judge, Neil McCluskey sided with Lewis and on November 17, 2001, in Las Vegas, the two men met again.
founded and pop
Still, in the early 2000s the town founded the pop music festival " Fucking Åmål Festival ".
Epitaph Records, founded by Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion, was the base for many future pop punk bands, including NOFX, with their third wave ska – influenced skate punk rhythms.
* Liberty, a pop group founded on British reality show, Popstars, later renamed Liberty X
John Sebastian founded the pop music group The Lovin ' Spoonful and later continued as a successful solo artist.
The Magnetic Fields ( named after the André Breton novel Les Champs Magnétiques ) is an American indie pop group founded and led by Stephin Merritt.
* Magic Mushroom Band, a psychedelic pop band founded in 1982 appearing on the compilation album A Psychedelic Psauna
The Independent Group ( IG ), founded in London in 1952, is regarded as the precursor to the pop art movement.
In the 1980s, Hall, Staple and Golding founded the pop band Fun Boy Three and enjoyed commercial success from 1981 to 1983 with hits such as " Tunnel of Love ", " Our Lips Are Sealed " and " The Lunatics ( Have Taken Over the Asylum )".
* The Manhattan Transfer, a jazz, swing, R & B and pop group founded in 1969
The Pat Metheny Group, which was founded in 1977, made both the jazz and pop charts with their second album, American Garage ( 1980 ).
Notable Illinois pop and rock bands include, Styx ( whose members originally lived in the Chicago suburbs ), Chicago ( the original members of which were students at DePaul University in Chicago and hailed from the area, though they moved to Los Angeles before becoming famous ), Jim Peterik ( who founded Chicago-area band the Ides of March and was later a member of Survivor ).
The Dot / Paramount catalog is now owned by Universal Music Group, with Geffen Records ( which absorbed MCA Records, and was founded by David Geffen, who become a co-founder of Paramount's one-time sister studio DreamWorks ) managing the pop / rock back catalog, and MCA Nashville Records managing the country back catalog.
Colorblind James Experience were an alternative roots / pop / rock band founded in 1980 in San Francisco, California.
The Belle Stars were an all female British pop / rock band, founded in London in 1980 by former members of the 2 Tone ska revival band, The Bodysnatchers.
In 1963 Gott was offered a place at the recently founded Prague Semafor theater, which was then at the forefront of the emerging Czechoslovakian pop music scene.
Nits ( until 1992 The Nits ) are a Dutch pop group, founded in 1974.
* Boy ( Swiss-German band ), a Swiss-German pop duo founded 2007
DRO ( Discos Radiactivos Organizados ) was a record company founded in the ' 80s as Spain's first independent record label by members of the Aviator Dro techno pop outfit.
Newsboys are a Christian pop rock band founded in 1985 in Mooloolaba, Australia.
Las Ketchup is a Spanish pop group, founded by flamenco producer, Manuel Ruiz.
Di Derre is a Norwegian pop / rock band, founded in 1992.
Was ( Not Was ) is an American eclectic pop group founded by David Weiss ( a. k. a. David Was ) and Don Fagenson ( a. k. a. Don Was ).
* The System ( band ), an American synth pop duo founded in 1982
Armed with the mandate of supporting independent releases for great touring bands lacking label support in Canada, Indica has since grown by leaps and bounds and has expanded its repertoire to encompass a variety of genres beyond the rock / punk / alternative music on which the label was founded, including folk, pop, indie, world and electro-rock.
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