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  Barcelona, Spain
  Barcelona (English /bɑrsɨˈloʊnə/, Catalan: [bərsəˈɫonə], Spanish: [barθeˈlona]) is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of 101.4 km² (39 sq mi). The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of between 4,200,000 and 4,500,000 within an area of 803 km² (310 sq mi), being the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, the Ruhr, Madrid and Milan. About five million people live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is also Europe's largest metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the main component of an administrative area of Greater Barcelona, with a population of 3,218,071 in an area of 636 km² (density 5,060 hab/km²). It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge (512 m/1,680 ft).
  Founded as a Roman city, Barcelona became the capital of the County of Barcelona. After merging with the Kingdom of Aragon, Barcelona became one of the most important cities of the Crown of Aragon. Besieged several times during its history, Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination. Particularly renowned are the architectural works of Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech i Montaner, which have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean is located in Barcelona. The city is known for hosting the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as world-class conferences and expositions, including the 1888 Exposición Universal de Barcelona, the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition (Expo 1929), the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, and the 2004 World Urban Forum.
  
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  Basildon
  Coordinates: 51°34′34″N 0°29′19″E / 51.5761°N 0.4886°E / 51.5761; 0.4886
  Basildon ( /ˈbæzɪldən/)^{[citation needed]} is a town located in the Basildon District of the county of Essex, England.
  It lies 25 miles (40 km) east of Central London and 11 miles (18 km) south of the county town of Chelmsford. Nearby towns include Billericay to the north, Wickford northeast and South Benfleet to the east.
  It was designated as a new town after World War II in 1948 to accommodate the London population overspill, created from the conglomeration of four small villages, namely Pitsea, Laindon, Basildon and Vange (the new town took the name Basildon as it was the most central of the four villages).
  The local government district of Basildon, formed in 1974 was first led by Ryan O'Rourke and encapsulates a larger area than the town itself; the two neighbouring towns of Billericay and Wickford, as well as rural villages and smaller settlements set among the surrounding countryside, fall within its borders.
  Basildon Town is one of the most densely populated areas in the County of Essex, mostly due to its influx of families from the Boroughs of London. However, it is thought that Basildon's population will continue to increase as many people are re-locating to the Town from the Boroughs of London, Essex and the Country. This is mostly due to Basildon's booming economy in industrial areas, the Towns tertiary sector, and its close travel link to Central London.
  
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  Budapest
  Budapest ( /ˈbuːdəpɛst/, /ˈbuːdəpɛʃt/ or /ˈbʊdəpɛst/; Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbudɒpɛʃt] ( listen); names in other languages) is the capital and the largest city of Hungary, the largest in East-Central Europe and the seventh largest in the European Union. It is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre, sometimes described as the primate city of Hungary. According to 2011 Census, Budapest had 1.74 million inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2.1 million due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter Area is home to 3.3 million people. The city covers an area of 525 square kilometres (202.7 sq mi) within the city limits. Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the river Danube with a unification on 17 November 1873 of west-bank Buda and Óbuda with east-bank Pest.
  The history of Budapest began with Aquincum, originally a Celtic settlement that became the Roman capital of Lower Pannonia.Hungarians arrived in the territory in the 9th century. Their first settlement was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241-42. The re-established town became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture in the 15th century. Following the Battle of Mohács and nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule, development of the region entered a new age of prosperity in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Budapest became a global city after the 1873 unification. It also became the second capital of Austria-Hungary, a great power that dissolved in 1918. After the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, when Hungary lost 72% of its former territory, culturally and economically the country became wholly Budapest-dominated. The capital dominates the country both by the size of its population—which dwarfs those of Hungary's other cities Budapest was the focal point of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, Operation Panzerfaust in 1944, the Battle of Budapest of 1945, and the Revolution of 1956.
  
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  Canning Town
  Coordinates: 51°30′54″N 0°01′34″E / 51.515°N 0.026°E / 51.515; 0.026
  Canning Town is an area of east London, England. It is part of the London Borough of Newham and is situated in the area of the former London docks on the north side of the River Thames. It is the location of Rathbone Market. Despite being a neighbour to many Dockland developments, Canning Town remains among the 5 per cent most deprived areas in the UK with local people suffering from poor health, low education and poverty.
  The area is currently undergoing significant regeneration. According to Newham borough council: 'The Canning Town and Custom House Regeneration Programme includes the building of up to 10,000 new homes, creation of thousands of new jobs and two improved town centres. This £3.7 billion project aims to transform the area physically, socially and economically.'
  Prior to the 19th century, the district was largely marshland, and accessible only by boat, or a toll bridge. In 1809, an Act of Parliament was passed for the construction of the Barking Road between the East India Docks and Barking. A five span iron bridge was constructed in 1810 to carry the road across the River Lea at Bow Creek. This bridge was damaged by a collision with a collier in March 1887 and replaced by the London County Council (LCC) in 1896. This bridge was in turn replaced in 1934, at a site to the north and today's concrete flyover begun in smaller form in the 1960s, but successively modified to incorporate new road layouts for the upgraded A13 road and a feeder to the Limehouse Link tunnel, avoiding the Blackwall Tunnel. The abutments of the old iron bridge have now been utilised for the Jubilee footbridge, linking the area to Leamouth, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on the western bank of the Lea.
  
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  Colombia
  Colombia ( /kəˈlʌmbiə/ kə-LUM-biə, or /kəˈlɒmbiə/ kə-LOM-biə), officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish: República de Colombia [reˈpuβlika ðe koˈlombja]), is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Colombia has maritime borders with Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Colombia is the 26th largest country by area and the fourth largest in South America after Brazil, Argentina and Peru. With over 46 million people, Colombia is the 27th largest country in the world by population and has the second largest population of any Spanish-speaking country in the world, after Mexico. Colombia is a middle power, with the fourth largest economy in Latin America, and the third largest in South America. Colombia is famous for the production of coffee, flowers, emeralds, coal, and oil. All of these products make up the primary sector of economy.
  
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  East Germany
  The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik [ˈdɔʏtʃə demoˈkʀaːtɪʃə ʀepuˈbliːk] or DDR), informally known as East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland), was a socialist state established by the USSR in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city. The GDR had an area of 107,771 km² (41,610 mi²), bordering Czechoslovakia to the south, West Germany to the south and west, Poland to the east, and the Baltic Sea to the north. East Germany was dissolved upon joining the institutions of West Germany in the German reunification, on 3 October 1990.
  
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  Hamburg
  Hamburg ( /ˈhæmbɜrɡ/; German pronunciation: [ˈhambʊɐ̯k], local pronunciation [ˈhambʊɪç]; Low German/Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhaˑmbɔːx]), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany, the thirteenth largest German state, and the sixth-largest city in the European Union. The city is home to over 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (including parts of the neighbouring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) has more than 4.3 million inhabitants. Situated on the river Elbe, the port of Hamburg is the second largest port in Europe (after the Port of Rotterdam) and 11th-largest worldwide.
  Hamburg's official name, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg), reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.
  Hamburg is a major transport hub in Northern Germany and is one of the most affluent cities in Europe.  It has become a media and industrial centre, with plants and facilities belonging to Airbus, Blohm + Voss and Aurubis. The radio and television broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk and publishers such as Gruner + Jahr and Spiegel-Verlag are pillars of the important media industry in Hamburg. In total, there are more than 120,000 enterprises.
  
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  Hansa Tonstudio
  Das Hansa Tonstudio is a recording studio located on Köthener Strasse in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany. Amongst English-performing musical acts it used to be known as 'Hansa Studio By the Wall', 'Hansa by the Wall', or 'The Great Hall by the Wall' in reference to the fact that it was adjacent to the Berlin Wall near Potsdamer Platz.
  The studios were originally founded in 1964 (3 years after the start of the Berlin Wall) by brothers Peter and Thomas Meisel in the western Halensee part of West Berlin. They moved to their present location in 1972. Notably, in the early to mid 80's, all productions were overseen by acclaimed British music producer Michael Blakey.
  Operated as the recording facility of Hansa Records, the studios played host to many well-known acts, including Tangerine Dream, David Bowie,Brian Eno,Iggy Pop,U2,Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,Claw Boys Claw,Depeche Mode,Marillion,Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, Boney M. and most recently Snow Patrol, Kent and Living Things. The roll of notable recordings and the darkly sonorous sound quality, at once rugged and spacious of many of them, have given the studio near legendary status, especially within the post-punk and synth pop genres.
  
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  Luxembourg
  Luxembourg (ⁱ/ˈlʌksəmbɜrɡ/ LUKS-əm-burg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg, French: Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, German: Großherzogtum Luxemburg, Dutch: Groothertogdom Luxemburg), is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland ("good country") in the south. Luxembourg has a population of over half a million people in an area of approximately 2,586 square kilometres (998 sq mi). A representative democracy with a constitutional monarch, it is ruled by a grand duke. It is now the world's only remaining sovereign grand duchy. The country has a highly developed economy, with the world's highest GDP (nominal) per capita according to the IMF. Its historic and strategic importance dates back to its founding as a Roman era fortress site and Frankish count's castle site in the Early Middle Ages. It was an important bastion along the Spanish Road when Spain was the principal European power influencing the whole western hemisphere and beyond in the 16th–17th centuries.
  
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  Madrid
  Madrid (English /məˈdrɪd/, Spanish: [ma'ðrid]) is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the third largest in the European Union after London and Paris. The city spans a total of 604.3 km² (233.3 sq mi).
  The city is located on the Manzanares river in the centre of both the country and the Community of Madrid (which comprises the city of Madrid, its conurbation and extended suburbs and villages); this community is bordered by the autonomous communities of Castile and León and Castile-La Mancha. As the capital city of Spain, seat of government, and residence of the Spanish monarch, Madrid is also the political centre of Spain. The current mayor is Ana Botella from the People's Party (PP).
  Madrid urban agglomeration has the 3rd largest GDP in the European Union and its influences in politics, education, entertainment, environment, media, fashion, science, culture, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities. Due to its economic output, high standard of living, and market size, Madrid is considered the major financial centre of Southern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula; it hosts the head offices of the vast majority of the major Spanish companies, such as Telefónica, Iberia or Repsol. Madrid is the most touristic city of Spain, the fourth-most touristic of the continent, and is the 10th most livable city in the world according to Monocle magazine, in its 2010 index. Madrid also ranks among the 12 greenest European cities in 2010. Madrid is currently a Candidate City for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
  
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  Milan
  Milan (Italian: Milano [miˈlaːno] ( listen); Lombard: [miˈlan]; Latin: Mediolanum) is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital of Lombardy as well as of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area is the 5th largest in EU and the largest in Italy with an estimated population of approximately 5 million. The growth of many suburbs and satellite settlements around the city proper, following the Italian economic miracle of 1950s–60s and massive commuting flows, suggest that socioeconomic linkages have expanded well beyond the boundaries of its administrative limits and its agglomeration, creating a region of approximately 9,3 million people. It has been suggested that the Milan metropolitan area is part of the so-called Blue Banana, the area of Europe with the highest population and industrial density. Its health care and education system is considered one of the best of Europe.
  
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  Palau Sant Jordi
  Palau Sant Jordi (Catalan pronunciation: [pəˈɫaw ˈsaɲ ˈʒɔrði], English: St. George's Palace) is an indoor sporting arena and multi-purpose installation that is part of the Olympic Ring complex located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The maximum seating capacity of the arena is 16,500 for handball, 17,000 for basketball, and 24,000 for musical events.
  It was opened in 1990 and designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.
  The Palau Sant Jordi was one of the main venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics hosting the artistic gymnastics, handball final, and volleyball final. Nowadays, it is used for all kinds of indoor sport events as well as for concerts and other cultural activities, due to its great flexibility.
  The arena was the venue of the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics.
  The arena was the venue of three Euroleague final four in 1998,2003 and 2011. It also hosted the EuroBasket 1997 from the quarter-finals.
  The final of 2000 Davis Cup was the 89th edition of the most important tournament between nations in men's tennis. Spain defeated Australia at Palau Sant Jordi on 8–10 December, giving Spain their first title. It also received the final of 2009 Davis Cup between Spain and Czech Republic with the victory for the Spaniards 5-0.
  
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  Pasadena, California
  Pasadena ( /ˌpæsəˈdiːnə/) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Although famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is also the home to many scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena City College (PCC), Fuller Theological Seminary, Art Center College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Norton Simon Museum of Art and the Pacific Asia Museum.
  As of 2010 United States Census, the population of Pasadena was 137,122, making it the 180th-largest city in the United States, down from 168th place in 2009. Pasadena is the ninth-largest city in Los Angeles County, and on June 19, 1886, became the fourth to be incorporated in Los Angeles County, after Anaheim (March 18, 1876) and Santa Ana (June 1, 1886), which were part of Los Angeles County until Orange County was formed in 1889. It is one of the primary cultural centers of the San Gabriel Valley.
  
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  Tel Aviv
  Tel Aviv, officially Tel Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew: תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ‎‎; Arabic: تل أبيب‎), is the second most populous city in Israel. It has a population of 404,400 within city limits, on a land area of 52 km² (20 sq mi). The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in central-west Israel. In 2010, it was the largest and most populous city in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area of 3,325,700 residents, known as Gush Dan. The city is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality, headed by Ron Huldai. Residents of Tel Aviv are referred to as Tel Avivim.
  Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 by the Jewish Community of Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ‎‎ Yafo; Arabic: يافا‎ Yāfā), on the outskirts of the ancient port city. The growth of Tel Aviv soon outpaced Jaffa, which had a majority Arab population at the time. Tel Aviv and Jaffa were merged into a single municipality in 1950, two years after the establishment of the State of Israel. Tel Aviv's White City, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, comprises the world's largest concentration of Bauhaus buildings.
  
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  The Hague
  The Hague (Dutch: Den Haag pronounced [dɛnˈɦaˑχ] ( listen), officially 's-Gravenhage pronounced [ˈsχraˑvə(n)ˌɦaˑɣə] ( listen)) is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants (as of 1 September 2011), and more than one million inhabitants including the suburbs, it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Located in the west of the Netherlands, The Hague is in the centre of the Haaglanden conurbation and lies at the southwest corner of the larger Randstad conurbation.
  The Hague is the seat of the Dutch government and parliament, the Supreme Court, and the Council of State, but the city is not the capital of the Netherlands which constitutionally is Amsterdam. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands lives at Huis ten Bosch and works at Noordeinde Palace in The Hague. Most foreign embassies in the Netherlands and 150 international organisations are located in the city, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, which makes The Hague one of the major cities hosting the United Nations, along with New York, Vienna and Geneva.
  
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  Warsaw
  Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa [varˈʂava] ( listen); see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly 260 kilometres (160 mi) from the Baltic Sea and 300 kilometres (190 mi) from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most populous city proper in the European Union. The area of the city covers 516.9 square kilometres (199.6 sq mi), while the city's agglomeration covers 6,100.43 square kilometres (2,355.39 sq mi).
  Warsaw is an Alpha- global city, a major international tourist destination and an important economic hub in Central Europe. It is also known as the "phoenix city" because it has survived many wars throughout its history. Most notably, the city had to be painstakingly rebuilt after the extensive damage it suffered from World War II, during which 80% of its buildings were destroyed. On 9 November 1940 the city was awarded Poland's highest military decoration for heroism, the Virtuti Militari, for the Siege of Warsaw (1939).
  
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  Alison Moyet
  Alison Moyet (born Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet 18 June 1961, Billericay) is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy voice.
  Her UK album sales have reached a certified 2.3 million, with over a million singles sold, All seven of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the Top 30 UK Album Chart, with two of the albums reaching number one. She has also achieved nine Top 30 singles and five Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart.
  Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet was born in the small Essex town of Billericay to a French father and English mother. She grew up in the nearby town of Basildon, where she attended Markhams Chase Junior School. Upon leaving school at 16, she worked as a shop assistant and trained as a piano tuner. She was involved in a number of punk rock, pub rock and blues bands in the South East Essex area during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the Vandals, the Screamin' Ab Dabs, the Vicars and the Little Roosters (the latter featuring Gary Lammin formerly of Cock Sparrer).
  
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  Andy Bell (singer)
  Andrew Ivan "Andy" Bell (born 25 April 1964) is the lead singer of the English synthpop duo Erasure. He also has a solo career, with the albums Non-Stop and Electric Blue.
  Andy Bell originates from the Dogsthorpe area in Peterborough. His family still resides in the city and surrounding areas such as Market Deeping.
  In 1985, he was working in a meat packing plant, when he responded to a newspaper advert that was looking for a singer. He was picked by Vince Clarke and together they formed the group Erasure. The pair has sold over 20 million albums worldwide.
  Apart from his work with Erasure, he has taken part in numerous charity recordings. These included Ferry Aid's cover of "Let It Be" (1987); a cover of Cole Porter's "Too Darn Hot", that was included in 1990s Red Hot + Blue album to raise funds for AIDS and HIV research; re-making Lene Lovich's "Rage" alongside her to be included in PETA's album (1991) in favour of a wildlife campaign; and performing twice on Big Spender's Red Hot and Dance events to support various AIDS projects (in both December 1994 and November 2004). Bell also performed on the True Colors Tour 2008.
  
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  Anton Corbijn
  Anton Corbijn (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔrˈbɛin]; born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for almost 3 decades. Some of his works include music videos for Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" (1990) and Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" (1993), as well as the Ian Curtis biopic Control (2007),George Clooney's The American (2010), and A Most Wanted Man (2012) based on John le Carré's 2008 novel of the same name.
  Corbijn was born in Strijen, the Netherlands. He started his career of music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing at a cafe in Groningen (the Netherlands) around 1975. He took a lot of photos of the 'rising star' Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. Because of the pictures taken by Corbijn, Brood's fame rose quickly, and as a result Corbijn's own exposure increased.
  Corbijn has photographed Joy Division, Depeche Mode, U2, Prāta Vētra, David Bowie, Peter Hammill, Miles Davis, Björk, Captain Beefheart, Kim Wilde, Robert De Niro, Stephen Hawking, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Morrissey, Clint Eastwood, Roxette and Herbert Grönemeyer, amongst others. He is famous for his work in black and white. In May 1989, he began taking pictures in color using filters: his first try was done for Siouxsie Sioux.
  
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  Bat for Lashes
  Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979), better known by her stage name Bat for Lashes, is an English singer-songwriter and musician. She sings and plays the piano, bass, guitar, harpsichord and the autoharp.
  Khan's debut album, Fur and Gold, released in 2006, peaked at number forty-eight on the UK Albums Chart and was shortlisted for the 2007 Mercury Prize. In 2008, Khan received two BRIT Award nominations for Best Breakthrough Artist and Best Female Solo Artist.
  Khan's second album, Two Suns, released in 2009, reached number five on the UK Album Chart and number seventeen on the Irish Album Chart. It produced her first UK top forty single, "Daniel", and was shortlisted for the 2009 Mercury Prize. Khan was nominated for Best Female Solo Artist at 2010 BRIT Awards.
  Khan was born in London on 25 October 1979. Until the age of five she was raised in Wembley where her parents had met and married several years before. She was born to a Pakistani father, Rehmat Khan (a former professional squash player from Peshawar) and to an English mother. Her father decided to relocate the family to the commuter town of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire to help with his coaching of future squash world open winner Jahangir Khan, Natasha's cousin.
  
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• Ben Hillier
  Ben Hillier is a British songwriter and pop-rock music producer who is part of the creative team 140dB. He has produced such popular and critically acclaimed albums as Playing the Angel and Sounds of the Universe by Depeche Mode, Think Tank by Blur, Some Cities by Doves and Cast of Thousands by Elbow.
  
  
  
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  Brandon Flowers
  Brandon Richard Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is an American musician, best known as the frontman of the Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers. He has also released a solo album titled Flamingo.
  Flowers, the youngest of six children, was born on June 21, 1981, in Henderson, Nevada, to Terry Flowers and Jean Flowers (née Barlow). His older siblings are his brother Shane and four sisters April, Shelly, Amy and Stephanie. His family lived in Henderson until Flowers was eight, when they moved to Payson, Utah, for two years before moving to Nephi, Utah, at which time he was in the 6th grade. Flowers lived in Nephi until his junior year at Juab High School. He moved to Las Vegas to live with his aunt and graduated from Chaparral High School in 1999.
  Brandon Flowers responded to an ad that Dave Keuning had placed in the paper in late 2001 whereupon they became The Killers. After several short-lived bassists and drummers, Flowers and Keuning were joined by bassist Mark Stoermer and drummer Ronnie Vannucci and the line up became official in August 2002.
  
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  Chester Bennington
  Chester Charles Bennington (born March 20, 1976) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Linkin Park.
  Bennington became known as a vocalist with Linkin Park's debut album, Hybrid Theory, in 2000, which was a massive commercial success. The album was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005, making it the best-selling debut album of the decade, as well as one of the few albums to ever hit that many sales. Linkin Park's following studio albums, Meteora, Minutes To Midnight, and A Thousand Suns, released in 2003, 2007, and 2010 respectively, continued the band's success. Bennington formed his own band, Dead by Sunrise as a side-project in 2005. The band's debut album, Out of Ashes was released on October 13, 2009.
  Bennington took interest in music at a young age, citing Depeche Mode and Stone Temple Pilots as early inspirations. Bennington's parents separated in the late 1980s. He later struggled with cocaine and methamphetamine addictions. Bennington eventually overcame his drug addiction, and would go on to denounce drug use in future interviews. He worked at a fast food restaurant before starting his career as a professional musician.
  
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  Chino Moreno
  Chino Moreno (born Camillo Wong Moreno; June 20, 1973) is an American musician. He is best known as the lead singer and contributing guitarist of Deftones. He is also a member of the side-project bands Team Sleep and Crosses.
  Moreno is well known for his distinctive screams, as well as his soothing tenor voice while singing melodically. In 2007, he was placed at number 51 in Hit Parader's "Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time".
  Moreno was born in Sacramento, California to a Mexican father and a Spanish/Chinese mother; the latter being the origin of his Spanish nickname Chino, which means "Chinese" in Spanish. He is the second of five children. He attended McClatchy High School, where he met Abe Cunningham and Stephen Carpenter, with whom he founded Deftones in 1988. Before becoming a professional musician, Moreno had a day job at Tower Records' shipping department.
  In relation to his often ambiguous yet image-heavy poetic lyrics, Moreno quotes: "[Sometimes] my lyrics don't deal with specific topics. I write down on paper the feelings of the moment, it's not easy to explain the contents of the lyrics or give a logical sense to the words. What I write is also a reaction to the music we make, so the Deftones' sound is not pop, it doesn't communicate happy feelings. Paradoxically my favorite songs of the album talk about love, in a clearly different view." Despite this, Chino has been known to write songs about social issues such as racism, prostitution, urban violence, and drugs. However, even these songs can be rather vague and cryptic.
  
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  Chris Lowe
  Chris Lowe (born Christopher Sean Lowe, 4 October 1959) is an English musician, who, with colleague Neil Tennant, makes up the pop duo Pet Shop Boys.
  Lowe attended Arnold School, an independent school in his home town of Blackpool, Lancashire. He also worked in the Solarium. While there, Lowe played trombone in a seven-piece dance band called One Under the Eight, that played old-time favourites like "Hello Dolly", "La Bamba" and "Moon River". Lowe's grandfather had been a trombonist and was a member of comedy jazz troupe The Nitwits. Lowe also became a skilled pianist.
  Lowe studied architecture at the University of Liverpool from 1978. During a work placement in 1981 at a London architectural practice, he designed a staircase for an industrial estate in Milton Keynes. It was at this time that he met Neil Tennant in a hi-fi shop on the Kings Road in London.
  Although Lowe has not been involved in many solo projects, in 1993 he wrote and produced the track "Do the Right Thing" for the footballer, Ian Wright (Lowe is a die-hard Arsenal F.C. fan). The song featured backing vocals by the long-time Pet Shop Boys’ backing singer, Sylvia Mason-James, and the single featured remixes by Rollo. In 2004 Lowe was commissioned to do music for an advertisement for the sunscreen brand Blockhead. The song ended up in a remixed version on a "Café Mambo" chill-out compilation. He has also written the music for the song "Streets of Berlin", featured in the revival of Bent at the Trafalgar Studios in Whitehall in 2006.
  
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  Chris Martin
  Christopher Anthony John "Chris" Martin (2 March 1977) is an English singer-songwriter, who is the lead vocalist, pianist and rhythm guitarist of the band Coldplay. He is well known by fans for his distinctive tenor voice. He is married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
  Chris Martin was born in Exeter, Devon and is the eldest of five children. His father, Anthony Martin, is a retired accountant, and his mother, Alison Martin, is a music teacher. Martin started his education at the pre-preparatory Hylton School and then went on to preparatory Exeter Cathedral School. It was at the prep school that Martin formed his first band, The Rocking Honkies, with Nick Repton & Iwan Gronow. Their debut performance was met with boos from the crowd. After Exeter Cathedral, Martin boarded at Sherborne School, a boys' independent school in Dorset. He also met future Coldplay manager Phil Harvey at the school. Martin continued his studies at University College London, staying at Ramsay Hall where he read Ancient World Studies and graduated with First Class honours in Greek and Latin. It is here he met future Coldplay bandmates Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Guy Berryman.
  
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  Christian Eigner
  Christian Eigner (born 3 March 1971 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian drummer, composer, live and session musician.
  He has been performing with Depeche Mode's live band since 1997, as drummer, occasional backing vocalist and, more recently, occasional keyboard player on 2009's Tour of the Universe, notably on the encore track "Waiting for the Night". He has played drums on DM's albums Exciter, Playing the Angel and Sounds of the Universe, as well as the non-album single/EP Only When I Lose Myself. He has also co-written Depeche Mode tracks with singer Dave Gahan and programmer Andrew Phillpott since 2005, most notably the Grammy-nominated Depeche Mode single "Suffer Well" together with "Nothing's Impossible" and "I Want It All" from the album Playing the Angel, as well as Gahan's 2007 solo effort Hourglass, which he and Phillpott co-produced. On the 2009 release of "Sounds of the Universe," he co-wrote three tracks with Gahan and Phillpott, called "Hole to Feed", "Come Back" and "Miles Away/The Truth Is".
  
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  D. A. Pennebaker
  Donn Alan Pennebaker (born July 15, 1925) is an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema/Cinéma vérité. Performing arts and politics are his primary subjects.
  Pennebaker (known as "Penny" to his friends) was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Lucille Levick (née Deemer) and John Paul Pennebaker, who was a commercial photographer. Pennebaker served in the Navy and later worked as an engineer, founding Electronics Engineering (the makers of the first computerized airline reservation system) before beginning his film career.
  After falling under the influence of experimental filmmaker Francis Thompson, Pennebaker directed his first film, Daybreak Express, in 1953. Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording of the same name, the five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City is the earliest known example of Pennebaker's penchant for blending together documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques.
  
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• Daryl Bamonte
  Daryl Bamonte is known for working for Depeche Mode and The Cure. His company Bamonte Artist Management (founded in 2005) represents the bands Das Shadow and Compact Space, as well as artists Producer/Mixer/Engineer/Programmer Paul "P-Dub" Walton, Songwriter/Musician/Producer Andrew Phillpott, and Musician/Songwriter/Producer Christian Eigner. In Berlin in 2009 he launched a new record label We Collect Enemies with Phillpott and Glen Brady to release tracks from Das Shadow, DJ Wool and new signing Broad Bean Band.
  He started off, according to the commentary of Depeche Mode 101, setting up and taking down equipment for the band, in their early days. He stayed with them, after they gained success, as the road manager. He is also credited in the film's commentary, as the 5th member of Depeche Mode. He's seen in many parts of the film, including one in which, he sings "I Saw Her Standing There," accompanied by Dave Gahan on harmonica and Martin Gore on guitar.
  In 1994, Andrew Fletcher had to leave the tour and Daryl replaced him for the second leg of the US Tour, as well as six shows in South America.
  
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  Dave Gahan
  Dave Gahan ( /ˈɡɑːn/; born 9 May 1962) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the baritone lead singer for the British electronic music band Depeche Mode since their debut in 1980. He is also an accomplished solo artist, releasing albums in 2003 (Paper Monsters) and 2007 (Hourglass). Despite his bandmate Martin Gore continuing to be the main Depeche Mode songwriter, Gahan has contributed a number of songs to the band's most recent albums, Playing the Angel (2005) and Sounds of the Universe (2009). Two of these songs were released as singles, including "Suffer Well" in 2006 and "Hole to Feed" in 2009. Q magazine ranked Gahan no. 73 on the list of the "100 Greatest Singers" and no. 27 on "The 100 Greatest Frontmen".
  David Gahan was born into a working class family, to parents Len Callcott^{[citation needed]} (a bus driver) and his wife Sylvia (a conductress or "clippy" on London's buses), Dave was six months old when his father left the family. Sylvia and Len divorced two years later and his mother moved Dave and sister Sue (born 1960) to Basildon, Essex, after Sylvia met and married her second husband Jack Gahan (an administrator with Shell Oil). The Gahan family continued to grow with the birth of two more brothers Peter (born 1966) and Phil (born 1968). Dave and Sue were raised under the impression that their mother's second husband, Jack, was their natural father.
  
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  David Bowie
  David Bowie ( /ˈboʊ.i/ BOH-ee; born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth and eclecticism of his work.
  Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, "challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day" and "created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture." The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention, musical innovation and striking visual presentation.
  
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  Dermot O'Leary
  Dermot O'Leary (born Seán Dermot Fintan O'Leary, Jr.) (born 24 May 1973) is a television and radio presenter. He established himself as a presenter of Big Brother's Little Brother on Channel 4 before moving on to The X Factor on ITV. O'Leary has also presented on the BBC and has his own radio show on BBC Radio 2. He is also notable for being the last person to introduce Michael Jackson in public before his death.
  O'Leary was born in Colchester, Essex, England to Wexford-born Irish parents Sean and Marie,He is "extremely proud" of his Irish roots and he carries an Irish passport. He attended primary school in Marks Tey and later St Benedict's Catholic College in Colchester, graduating with two General Certificates of Secondary Education, and Colchester Sixth Form College.
  O'Leary studied at Middlesex University, achieving a degree in Media and Television with Politics. He achieved a 2:2.^{[citation needed]} Whilst at Middlesex University he developed an interest in comedy and was involved in various gigs in the students' union. He was also a member of the university's chess society.
  
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  Eric Prydz
  Eric Sheridan Prydz (born July 19, 1976) is a Swedish DJ and producer based in London, United Kingdom. The pronunciation of his surname is often questioned; it is pronounced "prids", but when under his alias, Pryda, it is pronounced "pride-ah". In October 2011, DJ Magazine announced the results of their annual Top 100 DJ Poll, where Prydz placed at #46.
  Until recently, Prydz had only played shows in and around Europe as he has a fear of flying. In December 2008, Prydz was forced to cancel several dates in Australia, New Zealand and Malta after panic attacks prevented him from boarding the outbound flight.
  On Armin van Buuren's radio show "A State of Trance" in February 2011, it was announced that Prydz recently became a father.
  His debut live show called "EPIC" (Eric Prydz in Concert) was held on April 2nd, 2011 at the O2 Brixton Academy Arena in London where he played most of his own production, as well as unfinished and upcoming tracks. The second show was at Global Gathering on July 29th and the third instalment at the Alexandra Palace on November 26th.
  
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• Eric Radcliffe
  Eric Radcliffe (often credited as E.C. Radcliffe) is a recording engineer and producer who worked with New Wave and synthpop bands in the early 1980s in Basildon, England. He later became owner of Blackwing Studios.
  Eric Radcliffe is believed to have had a huge part in the success of Yazoo (Yaz in the US), and the duo's first album named after him (Upstairs at Eric's). In March 1984 Radcliffe gave an interview to Electronics and Music Maker in which he mentioned how he got into the business:
  When I was about fifteen the group I was in was booked into a four-track studio to do some demos, and I got a taste for recording then. I got an Akai reel-to-reel at home and I built a studio in the front room, with multi-core cable running into my bedroom which acted as the control room... it snowballed... eventually I was able to afford a eight-track Teac and it was with that machine that I came up to London and set-up the studio here, which I called Blackwing and it took off in earnest...
  And a snippet on his contribution to the Yazoo sound^{[clarification needed]}:
  
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• Flood (producer)
  Flood is the professional pseudonym of Grammy Award-winning British post punk and alternative rock record producer and audio engineer Mark Ellis. Flood's long and varied list of work includes projects with recording acts like U2, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sigur Rós, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers, and many others. His co-production collaborations have included projects with Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Steve Lillywhite, and longtime collaborator Alan Moulder, with whom he co-founded the Assault & Battery studio complex. In 2006, his work with U2 led to his sharing of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
  Mark Ellis was born on August 16, 1960 in London, England. As a child, Ellis attended St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington, England. He began his music career as the vocalist for the band Seven Hertz. From 1978-79 he was also the bassist for the Mod revival band The Lambrettas. During that same time, he began his professional studio career as a runner at Morgan Studios in London. Ellis also was a runner at Battery Studios in London and held apprenticeships at Marcus Studios and Trident Studios.'
  
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• François Kevorkian
  François Kevorkian, alias François K, (born 10 January 1954) is a French DJ of Armenian origin, remixer, producer and record label owner. Having started his career in renowned clubs such as the Paradise Garage and Studio 54, the New York City resident is widely considered as one of the forefathers of house music.^{[citation needed]}
  Born and raised in France, Kevorkian's passion for music led to playing the drums during his teen years. He moved to the United States in 1975, where he hoped to find more challenging situations than those back home. Due to the heavy competition for any gig as a drummer in those days, he instead tried his hand at becoming a DJ in underground New York City clubs, around 1976. His career then skyrocketed, and he quickly made this his full-time occupation, although some work was at more commercial venues such as the club New York, New York in 1977. He taught himself tape editing and started making disco medleys, some of which are still popular to this day, such as Rare Earth's "Happy Song". He was offered a position doing A&R for a nascent dance indie record label, Prelude Records, which allowed him to go into the studio and do remixes. His first remix, of a Patrick Adams production, "In The Bush" by Musique became a wild success both in clubs and on the radio. It was the first of many remixes that helped Prelude define the sound of New York's dance music, including many memorable songs, including "You're The One For Me' and "Keep On" by D-Train, and "Beat The Street" by Sharon Redd. His stint at Prelude ended in 1982, the same year where he had the most number one singles in Billboard's Dance Music Chart, which included his remixes of now-classic songs such as "Situation" by Yazoo, and "Go Bang" by Dinosaur L.
  
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• Funeral for a Friend
  Funeral for a Friend are a Welsh post-hardcore band, from Bridgend. Formed 2001, they have released five studio albums, seven EPs, sixteen singles, one DVD, and one compilation album.
  because when we started out we didn't think we'd reach the level we've reached. It was basically just something to call the band, as we figured we'd just play a couple of shows and then that would be it and even then it isn't that important. A band makes a name, a name doesn't make a band. So no, there's not really anything more to it than the song.
  When Michael Davies, one of January Thirst's original vocalists, quit in December 2001, Matthew Evans (vocals) and Johnny Phillips (drums) invited Matt Davies (later Davies-Kreye) to try out for the vacated singer position. Soon afterward the band reformed as Funeral for a Friend, the name is derived from a song by Planes Mistaken for Stars, one of Davies favourite bands at the time.
  During the start of the New Year they parted ways with second guitarist Kerry Roberts (Kris Coombs-Roberts's brother) and found a suitable replacement in Darran Smith (ex-Tripcage). The band recorded four tracks at Mighty Atom Studios for a proposed self financed EP with another Welsh band From This Moment On. Upon hearing the tracks, Mighty Atom Records approached the band and offered a two album deal, resulting in their debut EP, Between Order and Model (2002). Before the EP's release, Andi Morris (bass) quit, with Phillips and Evans also leaving. The band then recruited Gareth Davies (later Ellis-Davies) on bass and Ryan Richards on drums. Matt Davies became the band's only primary vocalist, with Gareth Davies performing backing melodies and Richards taking over Evans' screaming role.
  
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  Gary Numan
  Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958) is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" (as Tubeway Army) and "Cars". His signature sound consisted of heavy synthesiser hooks fed through guitar effects pedals.
  Numan is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music. His use of themes from science fiction, and his combination of aggressive punk energy with electronics, have been widely imitated.
  Born in Hammersmith, Gary Anthony James Webb was the son of a British Airways bus driver based at Heathrow Airport. Webb was educated at Town Farm Junior School Stanwell, Ashford County Grammar School, Middlesex, Slough Grammar School and Brooklands Technical College. He joined the Air Training Corps as a teenager. He then briefly did various jobs including fork lift truck driver, air conditioning ventilator fitter and clerk in an accounts department. A guitar was purchased for him at an early age and he began writing songs when he was about 15 years old. He played in various bands, including Mean Street and The Lasers, before forming Tubeway Army with his uncle, Jess Lidyard, and Paul Gardiner. His initial pseudonym was "Valerian", probably in reference to the hero in French science fiction comic series Valérian and Laureline. Later he picked the name "Numan" from an advert in the "Yellow Pages" for a plumber "A. Neumann".
  
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  Kevin Saunderson
  Kevin Saunderson (born Kevin Maurice Saunderson, September 5, 1964, Brooklyn, New York) is an American electronic music producer. At the age of nine he moved to Belleville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit where he attended Belleville High School and befriended two students, Derrick May and Juan Atkins. Saunderson, with Atkins and May, (often called the "Belleville Three"), is considered to be one of the originators of techno, specifically Detroit techno. He is married to Sharmeela Lamarsha Saunderson.
  Although frequently associated with Detroit, Kevin Saunderson spent the early years of his life in Brooklyn, New York, before moving to Belleville, Michigan, a rural town some 30 miles from Detroit. As teenagers attending Belleville High School, Atkins, May, and Saunderson were fans of DJ Charles "The Electrifying Mojo" Johnson and the pop, disco, and funk music he played. Atkins and May soon became serious about mixing others' music and creating their own, but Saunderson pursued other goals first, studying telecommunications and playing American football at Eastern Michigan University. Atkins had begun recording with Cybotron in 1981, but it was not until 1985 that May followed suit and made a record. Initially concentrating on becoming a DJ, Saunderson watched the six-month-long process as May completed "Let's Go;" he was inspired to create his own music.
  
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• Kruder & Dorfmeister
  Kruder & Dorfmeister, named after members Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister, is an Austrian duo most known for their downtempo-dub remixes of pop, hip-hop and drum and bass songs.
  Their mixes are usually flavored with sampler-processed vocals, deep bassline dub, trip-hop elements, bossa grooves and smoothly-shaped echoes. Some of their better-known works include "High Noon," "Original Bedroom Rockers," and remixes of Madonna's "Nothing Really Matters," Depeche Mode's "Useless," Count Basic's "Speechless" and Roni Size's "Heroes". Many of their remixes are collected on the double album The K & D Sessions.
  Although best known internationally for their remixing work, the duo gained their primary reputation in Europe for their live DJ performances and their DJ mix album for the DJ Kicks series DJ-Kicks: Kruder & Dorfmeister. Kruder and Dorfmeister have their own recording studio in Vienna, and label G-Stone Recordings through which they release many of their own albums.
  Richard Dorfmeister vs. Madrid De Los Austrias (w/ Heinz Tronigger & Michael "Pogo" Kreiner)
  
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• LFO (band)
  LFO is an English electronic music act on the Warp Records label. LFO were pioneers of the bass-heavy techno, IDM, and acid house music of the late 1980s to mid-1990s. Originally, the group was composed of Gez Varley and Mark Bell. LFO is now Bell alone.
  The group's name is derived from the abbreviation for the term low-frequency oscillator; a synthesizer function widely used in electronic music, especially dubstep.
  Varley and Bell met while studying at Leeds and gave their first track, the eponymous "LFO", to Nightmares on Wax. The popularity of the demo in clubs led to the track being released by the Sheffield-based Warp Records in 1990, and it was a Top 20 hit in the U.K., reaching number 12 in the singles charts in July.
  Their follow-up single, "We Are Back", was released in the summer of 1991.
  DJ Martin (Martin Williams) is credited as a cowriter and coproducer of the track "LFO" but was not a member of the group. Mark Bell explains:
  "We gave a tape of our recordings to DJ Martin who helped loads with arranging our tracks so it'd work on the dancefloor. We'd just been messing around with drum machines since we were like thirteen, tapping away at them like they were arcade games, making tapes to play our mates at school. Anyway, DJ Martin would play our cassettes in his sets and people would go mental - in a good way - cos they were totally raw."
  
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  Magne Furuholmen
  Magne 'Mags' Furuholmen (Norwegian pronunciation: [mɑŋnə fu:ɾuhɔlmən]) (born 1 November 1962) is a Norwegian musician. He is best known as the guitarist and keyboardist of the pop band A-ha.
  Furuholmen has been the keyboardist with A-ha since their formation in 1982, though he also plays guitar. He has co-written many of the band's hits with Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, including "Stay On These Roads", "Manhattan Skyline", and the band's first and biggest hit "Take on Me". When A-ha went on hiatus in 1994, Furuholmen began working on other music projects. The band reconvened in 2000, though announced they would split in 2010.
  Furuholmen's projects outside of A-ha include Timbersound, formed in 1994 with Kjetil Bjerkestrand, and later, Swedish singer, Freddie Wadling. Their work has been used on film soundtracks such as Ti Kniver I Hjertet (1994), "Hotel Oslo" (1997) which also featured vocals by Anneli Drecker, 1732 Høtten (1998) where the album Hermetic is featured.
  Furuholmen also recorded "Past Perfect Future Tense" in 2004, with appearances from Guy Berryman and Will Champion of Coldplay, and from Andy Dunlop of the Scottish band Travis.
  
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  Martin Gore
  Martin Lee Gore (born 23 July 1961) is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist, keyboardist, remixer and DJ. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode and has written the vast majority of their songs. His work now spans over three decades. He is probably best known as the composer of hits such as "Personal Jesus", "Enjoy the Silence" and "I Feel You".
  In addition to composing music and writing lyrics of the Depeche Mode songs, he has also sung some of them as the lead vocalist, and usually solo, (for example, "Somebody", "A Question of Lust", "One Caress", "Home", "The Things You Said", "Jezebel" and "Sweetest Perfection"), as evidenced by most of the Depeche Mode concerts, and has been a backing vocalist on many of the others.
  In 1999 Gore received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for "International Achievement".
  Gore was born at Dagenham, Essex, England. He left Nicholas School, Basildon, in 1977 and took a job as a bank cashier. During evenings, weekends and any other spare time, he was involved with the local band Norman and the Worms with school friend Phil Burdett who later went on to become a singer/songwriter himself.
  
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• Matt "Money" Smith
  Matt "Money" Smith (born April 26, 1973 in East Chicago, Indiana) is a nationally syndicated sports radio personality.
  Smiths baseball career was as a bat boy in his childhood for his hated Chicago White Sox. In 1994, his junior year of college, Smith took a job as the "sports guy" for Los Angeles modern rock radio station KROQ-FM. Smith has said that his nickname dates back to college, when he had a bit of a gambling problem.
  After he graduated college, Smith left KROQ-FM to work at Polygram Records and later Dreamworks Records. Between 1998 and 2003, in an effort to pay back his student loans, Smith again took up radio work with KROQ-FM in tandem with his employment with Dreamworks.
  He returned to radio full-time in 2004 when KROQ-FM program director Kevin Weatherly offered him a more prominent role in the station's morning show and the title of music director for the station. In 2006, KLAC AM-570 in Los Angeles lured Smith away from KROQ-FM to host "The Lakers Zone" prior to and following every Laker game. Soon after beginning his duties hosting the Lakers pre- and post-game shows on their local flagship station, Smith also lent his voice to a new KLAC programming venture. On January 8, 2007 Smith began co-hosting The Petros and Money Show, with Petros Papadakis, which currently runs Monday-Friday from 4pm to 7pm. On January 20, 2009, The Petros & Money Show went from a L.A.-based show to a nationally distributed show on Fox Sports Radio.
  
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  Mike Shinoda
  Michael Kenji "Mike" Shinoda (born February 11, 1977) is a Japanese American musician, record producer, and artist. He is best known as the rapper, principal songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda is also noted as a solo rapper in his side-project, Fort Minor. He also provides artwork, production, and mixing for both projects.
  Shinoda was born and raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Agoura Hills. His father is Japanese American and his mother is Caucasian. He also has a younger brother, Jason. Shinoda attended Parkman Elementary and Lindero Canyon Middle School.
  Following his mother's wishes, Shinoda began his classical piano training with lessons around the age of six. His enthusiasm grew eventually and at the age of thirteen, he expressed the desire to move toward playing jazz, blues, and even hip-hop. During his middle school and high school years, he added the guitar and, eventually, rap-style vocals to his repertoire.
  After his teens, Mike Shinoda's rap interests found a source of encouragement in Brad Delson, with whom he started to write and record songs in a makeshift studio set up in his bedroom. Shinoda attended Agoura High School with Linkin Park bandmates Brad Delson and Rob Bourdon as well as with members of the band Hoobastank. By the end of high school, Bourdon had become involved in their musical ventures. The trio formed the band Xero, and began to make a more serious attempt to pursue a career in the music industry.
  
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  Neil Tennant
  Neil Francis Tennant (born 10 July 1954) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, who, with bandmate Chris Lowe, makes up the electronic dance music duo Pet Shop Boys.
  Tennant was born in North Shields, near Newcastle upon Tyne to William Tennant (1923–2009) and Sheila Tennant (1923–2008). He has a sister, Susan, and two brothers, Simon and Philip.
  As a child, Tennant attended St. Cuthbert's Grammar School, an all-boys' Roman Catholic school in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Tennant's songs "This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave" and "It's a Sin" refer to his early life in Catholic school and the strict Catholic upbringing there. "It's a Sin" caused controversy with its implicit criticism of Catholic education.^{[citation needed]}
  While at school, Tennant played guitar and cello. At age sixteen, he played in a group called Dust, whose most popular song was called "Can You Hear the Dawn Break?". They were heavily influenced by The Incredible String Band. During his teenage years, he was a member of the youth theatre at the People's Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne.
  
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  Nick Rhodes
  Nick Rhodes (born Nicholas James Bates, 8 June 1962) is an English musician, is best known as the keyboardist of the pop rock band Duran Duran. Rhodes is the youngest band member.
  He has also released albums with Arcadia in 1985 (a Duran Duran side-project), as well as The Devils in 2002 with Stephen Duffy.
  Bates was the only child of well-off parents, the owners of a Birmingham toyshop. In 1978, Bates left school at the age of sixteen, and founded Duran Duran with his art school friends Stephen Duffy and John Taylor. At about the same time as the name Duran Duran was chosen for the band, he decided to change his name, which was given to him by John Taylor before the first interview they had together for their band.http://www.duranduran.com/wordpress/page/2/?s=rhodes&cat=12
  While in Woodrush, he and John Taylor formed a band called 'RAF' with other classmates.
  As the band coalesced into its final lineup in 1979-80, Duran Duran started playing at a local Birmingham club called "The Rum Runner". The club owners became the band's managers, and Rhodes began working at the club as a disc jockey.
  
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• Raymond Herrera
  Raymond Herrera (born December 18, 1972) is the drummer for industrial metal band Arkaea. He is a former member of the industrial metal band Fear Factory and Mexican metal band Brujeria.
  Raymond Herrera is an award winning composer and producer of music for video games, television, feature films and transmedia. An RIAA certified Platinum-Selling recording artist, Herrera recorded his commercial album debut with his first band Fear Factory in 1992, Soon after the album's release, Herrera began a nearly two decade long recording and touring schedule that included over twelve commercial album releases and numerous world tours.
  In 1996 Herrera started to secure music licensing of Fear Factory's music for dozens of video game titles, this allowed Herrera to branch out and create Herrera Productions (Became 3volution Productions in 2003 with videogame industry veteran Laddie Ervin) as cross-genre composer-producer working on numerous videogame projects. His experience writing and producing rock, metal, industrial and rap music combined with orchestral, techno and other genres lead him to work on projects for many top videogame publishers and developers in North America, Japan and Europe including Microsoft, SEGA, Sony, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, THQ, Midway, Capcom, Namco, Atari, Majesco and others.
  
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  Ricardo Villalobos
  Ricardo Villalobos (born 1970) is a Chilean-German electronic music producer and DJ. He is well known for his work in the minimal techno and microhouse genres, and is one of the most significant figures in today's minimal techno scene.
  Villalobos was born in Santiago, Chile in 1970. In 1973 he moved to Germany with his family to escape the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, who had seized power that year.
  When Ricardo was around 10 or 11 he started to play conga and bongos. Though he loved music, he could never see himself as a musician.^{[citation needed]} He began making electronic music in the late 80s. From a very young age he has been a big fan of Depeche Mode, even following their tours around Europe to listen to them.
  Villalobos began to play his music at parties while he was studying at university, but this was only for his own enjoyment. He started a label, Placid Flavour, in 1993 but this was unsuccessful. His first record was released on the German Playhouse label in 1994 and he began DJing as a professional in 1998.
  
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  Richard Z. Kruspe
  Richard Zven Kruspe (born 24 June 1967) is a German musician and the lead guitarist of the German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, as well as the leader of the band Emigrate. He also used to be named "Bernstein", after his South African ex-wife Caron Bernstein. They were together for five years until separating in 2004, filed for divorce, which was finalized in 2006, after which his name reverted to Kruspe.
  On 10 October 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was riding through the subway. When he came above ground, he found himself in the middle of a political demonstration. He was hit on the head and arrested just for being there, and thrown in jail for six days. Once out of jail, he decided to leave East Germany. Because of the Eastern Bloc, he entered West Germany through Hungary. When the Berlin Wall came down, he moved back east of Berlin, Germany.
  Rammstein was formed back in 1994 when Richard, who lived with Oliver and Schneider at the time, was looking for a new band in which to create a new style of music. He had left his first band, 'Orgasm Death Gimmick' in search of new band mates.
  
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• Robert Marlow
  Robert Marlow (born Robert Allen, 21 October 1961) is a synthpop musician and songwriter.
  Robert Marlow grew up in Basildon with future Depeche Mode members Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, and Andy Fletcher. He is also tied to Alison Moyet, with whom he played in a band, The Vandals. He knew Andy and Vince from the Basildon chapter of the Boys' Brigade. He and Vince would occasionally get together to play music. Vince on guitar, and Robert on the church's piano. Like Vince, he played in many local bands, and ended up playing in a band, with Vince, called "The Plan," and later "French Look," with Martin Gore and Paul Redmond.
  After the release of "Calling All Destroyers," Marlow shifted between acting and bands.
  He recorded the album The Peter Pan Effect with his best friend, Vince Clarke in 1983, around the end of Yazoo. The project came around when Marlow was in a band called Film Noir, with now-former keyboardist and guitarist for the Cure, Perry Bamonte. This band supported Depeche Mode on one tour date in Basildon.
  
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  Röyksopp
  Röyksopp (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈɾøʏksɔp]) is a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø, formed in 1998. Since their inception, the band's line-up has included Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland.
  Berge and Brundtland were introduced to each other through a mutual friend in Tromsø, Norway. They both enjoyed the same films, music and both shared an interest in electronics. The two experimented with various forms of electronic music, and bought a drum machine together during the Tromsø techno scene before going their separate ways. Several years later, the two met up again and formed Röyksopp during the Bergen Wave. After experimenting with different genres of electronic music, the band solidified their place in the electronica scene with their 2001 debut album, Melody A.M., released on the Wall of Sound record label.
  Röyksopp has consistently experimented with various genres pertaining to electronica. Stylistically, the band makes use of various genres, including ambient, house music, synthpop and African-American sounds. The band is also known for its elaborate concert performances, which often feature eccentric outfits.
  
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  Shakira
  Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll ( /ʃəˈkɪərə/,Spanish: [t͡ʃaˈkiɾa]; born February 2, 1977),known mononymously as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira began performing in school, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Arabic influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese as well as some Italian, French, Catalan and Arabic.
  After a poor commercial reception with local producers on her first two albums, and being little-known outside Colombia, Shakira decided to produce her own brand of music. In 1995 she released Pies Descalzos, which brought her great fame in Latin America and Spain, and her 1998 album Dónde Están los Ladrones? was a critical success selling over 7 million copies worldwide. In 2001, aided by the worldwide success of her first English single "Whenever, Wherever" that became the best selling single of 2002, she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold over 13 million copies worldwide. Four years later, Shakira released two album projects called Fijación Oral Vol. 1 and Oral Fixation Vol. 2. Both reinforced her success, particularly with the best selling song of the 2000s, "Hips Don't Lie". In 1997, Shakira founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation. It is a Colombian charity with special schools for poor children all around Colombia. During her career, Shakira has performed at a large number of benefit concerts. Among the most famous are the Live 8 benefit concert in July 2005, the Live Earth concert, Hamburg where she headlined the show, as well as the "Clinton Global Initiative" created by former US President Bill Clinton. She was also invited to the Oval Office by President Barack Obama in February 2010 to discuss early childhood development.
  
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  Stephen Carpenter
  Stephen (Stef) Carpenter (born August 3, 1970 in Sacramento, California) is an American musician known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative metal band Deftones. His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings, as well as stock power chords in polyrhythms. Carpenter is a noted 7 and 8 string guitar player, being influenced by such bands as Fear Factory and Meshuggah.
  Stephen Carpenter was born on August 3, 1970 in Sacramento, California to a North American father and a Mexican mother. With his family consisting of his mother Maria and his sister Marci. He grew up in the Sacramento area and pursued many hobbies, including skateboarding.
  When Carpenter was 15 years old, he was hit by a car while skateboarding. He used a wheelchair for several months. It was at this point that he began teaching himself guitar by playing along with bands such as Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death and Metallica. It has been reported that the driver paid Carpenter a cash settlement that allowed the band to purchase equipment, but drummer Abe Cunningham commented in an interview that this was "a myth about how our band was started."
  
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• The Assembly
  The Assembly were a British synthpop project formed in 1983 in Basildon, England, by Vince Clarke (songwriting, keyboards, backing vocals) and Eric Radcliffe (songwriting, production).
  Feargal Sharkey was hired as a guest vocalist for the A-side of the group's only single, "Never Never". Clarke and Radcliffe had planned to use a different singer on each track the group recorded, but the group disbanded after the release of "Never Never", and no other vocalists were employed by the duo.
  Clarke founded The Assembly shortly after disbanding Yazoo (featuring vocalist Alison Moyet), upon completion and distribution of Yazoo's 1983 album, You and Me Both.
  The Assembly marked the most-involved phase of Clarke's long-term professional relationship with sound engineer Radcliffe, who had contributed significant influences to the recordings of Clarke's previous bands, Depeche Mode and Yazoo. However, the Assembly project never became a full-fledged band and resulted in only one single release, the UK hit "Never Never". It featured a sampled guitar track triggered note for note on a Fairlight CMI). The sound was augmented by session musician Clem Clempson on electric guitar.
  
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  The Crystal Method
  The Crystal Method is an American electronic music duo that was created in Las Vegas, Nevada by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland in the early 1990s. The Crystal Method's music has appeared in numerous TV shows, films, video games, and advertisements. Their best-selling album, Vegas, was certified platinum in 2007.
  The Crystal Method is made up of two members, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland. Before The Crystal Method was formed, Ken and Scott started working on music while working at the grocery store and while Ken was a local DJ in Las Vegas as well as the college radio program director at UNLV. Ken taught Scott how to DJ, and when Ken moved to L.A. to work for a producer, Scott took over his job DJ'ing at the local club. Scott would follow Ken out to L.A., and they formed The Crystal Method in 1993.
  By the early '90s, both Ken and Scott had moved from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland bought a house together, in Glendale, California, which had a small underground shelter beneath the front lawn. Originally intending to turn the shelter into a studio, it proved to be an unrealistic idea and the duo set up a studio in their house (which was located under a Los Angeles Overpass. They subsequently named their studio The Bomb Shelter.The Crystal Method (interview) (1999). Better Living Through Circuitry (Motion picture). United States: Cleopatra Pictures. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0207998/. 
  
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  The Cure
  The Cure are an English alternative rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with its debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre.
  After the release of Pornography (1982), the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired. With the 1982 single "Let's Go to Bed" Smith began to place a pop sensibility into the band's music (as well as a unique stage look). The Cure's popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States where the songs "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" and "Friday I'm in Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart. By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world. The band is estimated to have sold 27 million albums as of 2004. The Cure have released thirteen studio albums, 10 EPs and over thirty singles during the course of their career. Since 2010, they have been working on a fourteenth studio album.
  
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• Tim Simenon
  Tim Simenon (born 21 June 1967, Brixton, London) is an English musician, composer, record producer, and label boss, most famous for his work as Bomb the Bass.
  Tim Simenon's music career began aproper in the mid 1980s, DJing at London's Wag Club. However, inspired by his hunger for new music, and following early experiments with keyboards and beatboxes, and a short stint on a music production college course in North London, Simenon was quick to take up the offer of a two-day recording session. Working alongside Pascal Gabriel, who would later go on to become a major name in programming, the fruit of the pair's labour became Beat Dis, the debut single by Bomb the Bass.
  Reputedly costing £500 to make, the track followed the emerging, hip-hop inspired cut-and-paste method of collaging samples together. According to the BBC, which featured Beat Dis on their clip-based TOTP2 show, the track contains an alleged 72 samples, including lifts from old school hip hop, funk (including The Jimmy Castor Bunch), alongside samples from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Thunderbirds soundtracks.
  
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  Ultravox
  Ultravox are a British New Wave rock band. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the late 1970s/early 1980s. The band was particularly associated with the New Romantic and New Wave movements.
  The band have been led by two different frontmen who never played together in the band at the same time. From 1974 until 1979, John Foxx was frontman and main driving force behind Ultravox. Foxx left the band to embark on a solo career. Following Foxx's departure, with the three remaining members in hiatus, Midge Ure took over as lead singer, guitarist, and frontman. Ure revitalised the band and drove it to commercial success lasting until the middle 1980s when the New Romantic and New Wave music scenes waned. Ure left the band in 1987 after establishing a solo career and the group disbanded for a while. A new line-up, led by sole original band member keyboard player/violinist Billy Currie, were formed in 1992, but achieved little success. The band's best-known line-up of Currie, bassist Chris Cross, drummer Warren Cann and Ure reformed in 2008 and have toured together since.
  
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  Vince Clarke
  Vince Clarke (born 3 July 1960) is an English synthpop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been a member of a number of groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure.
  Born Vincent John Martin, in South Woodford, London (then in Essex) and raised in Basildon, Essex, he initially studied the violin and then the piano.
  In the late-1970s, Clarke and schoolmate Andy Fletcher formed the short-lived band No Romance in China. In 1979, he teamed up with Marlow & Gore to form French Look, an early incarnation of Depeche Mode. Another band, named Composition of Sound, followed with another addition of Martin Gore and also, Fletcher. Clarke provided vocals until 1980, when singer Dave Gahan joined the band, which was now renamed Depeche Mode. At that time, Clarke adopted his stage-name. The band initially adopted a slick synthesised electropop sound, which produced the album Speak and Spell and the Clarke-penned singles "Dreaming of Me", "New Life" and "Just Can't Get Enough" in 1981.
  
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  Yazoo (band)
  Yazoo (also known as Yaz in the United States) is a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex. It had a number of Top 10 hits in the UK charts in the early 1980s. Formed in late 1981 by former Depeche Mode songwriter Vince Clarke (synthesizer) and Alison Moyet (vocals), Yazoo was signed to Mute Records in the United Kingdom and (as "Yaz") to Sire Records in the United States.
  Yazoo's debut single "Only You" backed with "Situation", was released on 15 March 1982 and rose to number two in the UK charts. Yazoo released two successful studio albums, Upstairs at Eric's in 1982 and You and Me Both in 1983. Shortly after, Moyet and Clarke decided to break up. Moyet pursued a solo career while Clarke went on to form Erasure, another synth pop duo. Yazoo reunited in 2008 with a tour in Europe and the United States and the release of a four-disc box set.
  Though the band's initial run was short-lived, Yazoo continues to influence and inspire many of today's bands, including LCD Soundsystem, Shiny Toy Guns, Blaqk Audio,Hercules and Love Affair,La Roux and Gil Mantera's Party Dream.^{[citation needed]}
  
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• Clean (Bare)
• Little Soul (Studio Session)
• Waiting For The Night (Bare)
• Stories Of Old (Studio Session)
• Surrender (Acoustic)
• Corrupt (Studio Session)
• Nothing's Impossible (Bare)
• Come Back (Studio Session)

• Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy mix edit)
• Personal Jesus (The Stargate mix)
• Suffer Well (M83 remix)
• John the Revelator (Unkle Reconstruction)
• In Chains (Tigerskin’s No Sleep remix edit)
• Peace (SixToes remix)
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (Karlsson + Winnberg remix)
• Never Let Me Down Again (Eryc Prydz remix)
• I Want It All (Roland M. Dill remix)
• Wrong (Trentemøller club remix)
• Puppets (Röyksopp remix)
• Everything Counts (Oliver Hunteman + Stephen Bodzin dub)
• A Pain That I’m Used To (Jaques Lu Cont remix)

• Enjoy the Silence (X-Tended's Comeback dub 2009)
• Goodnight Lovers (Madtracker remix)
• Higher Love (Reduktions mix)
• Halo (Madtracker remix)
• Just Can't Get Enough (New Time mix)
• John the Revelator (Madtracker remix)
• Martyr (Sound for the Universe mix)
• Lie to Me (Madtracker remix)
• Policy of Truth (Renoise mix)
• Strangelove (Madtracker remix)
• World in My Eyes (Madtracker remix)
• Just Can't Get Enough (New Time mix) (disco version)

• Martyr
• I Feel Loved
• Suffer Well
• Enjoy the Silence
• In Your Room
• Policy of Truth
• Precious
• Word in My Eyes
• It's No Good
• Free Love
• Behind the Wheel
• A Question of Time
• Stripped
• Strange Love
• Little 15
• Useless
• Only When I Lose Myself

• I Feel You (Kernfusion 5 Intro)
• The Sun & The Rainfall (Cyborg Mix)
• My Secret Garden (Plasma Vox)
• Get Right with Me (Minimal Edit)
• Little 15 (Sub Earth Mix V2)
• Behind the Wheel (Force System Mix V2)
• Higher Love (Minimal Mix)
• Any Second Now (Kernfusion V2)
• Mercy in You (Minimal Mix)
• Walking in My Shoes (Minimal Mix)
• Blasphemous Rumours (Kernfusion 5 Outro)
• Boys Say Go (Happy Meal Mix)
• New Life (Rock Da Fast Mix)
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (Instrumental Re-Constructed)

• People Are People (Venture remix)
• Shame (Cloning the Angel mix)
• Freestate (Dub State version)
• Dangerous (St0nehead remix)
• I Feel Loved (Mr. Smash Darkness mix)
• Behind the Wheel (St0nehead remix)
• Enjoy the Silence (Rezak mix)
• I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead (dxl's Firechild Variation)
• Halo (Silence Counts in Large Amounts)
• Clean (Bopf Junior mix)
• Death's Door (original Soundtrack version)

• Dreaming of Me
• Ice Machine

• Nothing (Memphtended mix)
• The Landscape Is Changing (Snare remix)
• My Secret Garden (Oldschool extended mix)
• Freelove (Bascombe remix)
• But Not Tonight (Rare mix)
• Any Second Now (SBO edit)
• And Then (The Special MLG Studio Tape extended remix)
• Agent Orange (Rough mix)
• Here Is the House (White House remix)
• Nodisco (Pop Silver Series)
• Lie to Me (Different Mode)
• I Feel Loved (Mun Kulta version)
• Insight (Ventricle mix)
• Home (instrumental version)
• Enjoy the Silence (Modeness short mix)
• Megamix (Mode Mega-Chillmix)
• Rush (Yeti remix)
• People Are People (Ryan Yeager mix edit)
• The Love Thieves (In the Mood mix)
• Christmas Island (Aggropolis mix)

• Stripped
• A Question of Lust
• A Question of Time
• Strangelove
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Behind the Wheel
• Personal Jesus
• Enjoy the Silence
• Policy of Truth
• World in My Eyes

• Only When I Lose Myself (Gus Gus mix) (Brat radio edit)
• Enjoy the Silence (Future Funk club remix)
• It's No Good (BT's Twilo mix)
• Sister of Night (Triad radio mix)
• Barrel of a Gun (3 Phase mix)
• Useless (Carl Craig Air 20 mix)
• It's a Lot (D.K. dance extended mix)
• Surrender (atmospheric version)
• Enjoy the Silence (Razormaid mix)
• Home (M.L. Gee's Hardstep remix)
• Master and Servant (On-Usound Science Fiction Dance Hall Classic)
• It's Called a Heart (Slow mix)

• It's No Good (Club 69 radio edit)
• A Question of Time (Millenium remix)
• Only When I Lose Myself (DJ dub version)
• Clean (Unreleased 12")
• Home (Extension mix)
• Enjoy the Silence (Silence Dancefloor 2000)
• Barrel of a Gun (Barrel of a dub)
• My Secret Garden (Unreleased 12")
• Personal Jesus (Final version)
• A Question of Time (Argageddon mix)
• Route 66 (Arizona dub mix)

• Rush (Wild Planet mix)
• Strange Love (Powerhouse mix)
• Enjoy the Silence (Ultra Hot Razor cut)
• Sea of Sin (Ultra Hot Razor cut)
• Strange Love (disco Tech-mix)
• Nothing (Art of mix)
• Waiting for the Night (Space dub mix)
• Music for the Masses (megamix)
• Fly on the Windscreen (Nobu-Bros. mix)

• Ice Machine
• Shout
• Any Second Now
• Now This Is Fun
• Work Hard
• In Your Memory
• Flexible
• Fly on the Windscreen
• But Not Tonight
• Pleasure Little Treasure
• Route 66

• Master and Servant (Black and Blue mix)
• Strangelove (Pain mix)
• Behind the Wheel (Shep Pettibone remix)
• Route 66 (Beatmasters)
• Everything Counts (Bomb the Bass)
• Personal Jesus (Pump mix)
• Dangerous (Hazchemix)
• Enjoy the Silence (Bass Line mix)

• Intro
• Something to Do
• Puppets
• If You Want
• People Are People
• Leave in Silence
• Somebody
• Ice Machine
• Lie to Me
• Master and Servant
• Photographic
• Everything Counts
• See You

• Higher Love
• Policy of Truth
• World in My Eyes
• Walking in My Shoes
• Behind the Wheel
• Halo
• Stripped
• Condemnation
• A Question of Lust
• One Caress
• Mercy in You
• I Feel You
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Rush
• In Your Room
• Personal Jesus
• Enjoy the Silence
• Fly on the Windscreen
• Everything Counts

• [Introduction] / Painkiller
• A Question of Time
• World in My Eyes
• Policy of Truth
• It's No Good
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Walking in My Shoes
• Only When I Lose Myself
• A Question of Lust
• Home
• Condemnation
• In Your Room

• Oberkorn (A Small Town)
• My Secret Garden
• See You
• Satellite
• New Life
• Boys Say Go
• Tora Tora Tora
• Big Muff
• Leave in Silence
• Shouldn't Have Done That
• Get the Balance Right
• The Meaning of Love
• Just Can't Get Enough
• A Photograph of You
• The Sun and the Rainfall
• Shout
• Photographic
• Dreaming of Me

• Any Second Now
• Photographic
• Nodisco
• New Life
• Puppets
• Ice Machine
• Big Muff
• I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Just Can't Get Enough
• Boys Say Go
• What's Your Name
• [encore break]
• Television Set
• [outro]

• Photography
• New Life
• Efficiency
• Big Muff
• I Sometimes Wish I Were Dead
• Just Can't Get Enough
• (Pretty Boy) What's Your Name?

• Television Set
• Ghost of Modern Time
• Dreaming of Me
• Just Can't Get Enough
• Big Muff
• I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Photographic
• New Life
• Ice Machine

• [introduction]
• Something to Do
• Puppets
• If You Want
• People Are People
• Leave in Silence
• Somebody
• Ice Machine
• Lie to Me
• Master and Servant
• Photographic
• Everything Counts
• See You

• Everything Counts
• Now, This Is Fun
• Two Minute Warning
• Shame
• See You
• Get the Balance Right
• Love in Itself
• Big Muff
• The Landscape Is Changing
• And Then...
• Photographic
• Told You So
• New Life
• More Than a Party
• The Meaning of Love
• Just Can't Get Enough
• Boys Say Go

• Kaleid
• World in My Eyes
• Halo
• Shake the Disease
• Everything Counts
• Master and Servant
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Waiting for the Night
• Little 15
• Blue Dress
• Clean
• Stripped
• Policy of Truth

• [introduction] / Something to Do
• Two Minute Warning
• Puppets
• If You Want
• People Are People
• Leave in Silence
• New Life
• Shame
• Somebody
• Ice Machine
• Lie to Me
• Blasphemous Rumours
• Told You So
• Master and Servant
• Photographic
• Everything Counts
• See You
• Shout!
• Just Can't Get Enough

• Kaleid
• World in My Eyes
• Halo
• Shake the Disease
• Everything Counts
• Master and Servant
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Waiting for the Night
• I Want You Now
• World Full of Nothing
• Clean
• Stripped
• Policy of Truth
• Enjoy the Silence
• Strangelove
• Personal Jesus
• Black Celebration
• A Question of Time
• Behind the Wheel / Route 66

• Everything Counts
• Now, This Is Fun
• See You
• Get the Balance Right
• Photographic
• Told You So
• Just Can't Get Enough

• [Introduction]
• Higher Love
• Policy of Truth
• World in My Eyes
• Walking in My Shoes
• Behind the Wheel
• Halo
• Stripped
• Condemnation
• Judas
• One Caress
• Mercy on You
• I Feel You
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Rush
• In Your Room
• Personal Jesus
• Enjoy the Silence
• Fly on the Windscreen
• Everything Counts

• [Introduction]
• World in My Eyes
• Halo
• Shake This Disease
• Everything Counts
• Master & Servant
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Waiting for the Night
• I Want You Now
• A World Full of Nothing
• Clean
• Stripped
• Policy of Truth
• Enjoy the Silence

• World in My Eyes
• Halo
• Shake the Disease
• Everything Counts
• Master and Servant
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Waiting for the Night
• I Want You Now
• World Full of Nothing
• Clean
• Stripped
• Policy of Truth
• Enjoy the Silence
• Strangelove
• Personal Jesus
• Black Celebration
• A Question of Time
• Behind the Wheel / Route 66

• Intro (Kaleid)
• World in My Eyes
• Halo
• Shake the Disease
• Everything Counts
• Master and Servant
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Waiting for the Night
• I Want You Now
• World Full of Nothing
• Clean
• Stripped
• Policy of Truth
• Enjoy the Silence
• Strangelove
• Personal Jesus
• Black Celebration
• A Question of Time
• Behind the Wheel
• Route 66

• Pimpf
• Behind the Wheel
• Strangelove
• Sacred
• Something to Do
• Blasphemous Rumours
• Stripped
• Pipeline
• The Things You Said
• Black Celebration (cut)
• Black Celebration
• Shake the Disease
• Nothing
• Pleasure Little Treasure
• People Are People
• A Question of Time
• Never Let Me Down Again
• A Question of Lust
• Master and Servant
• Everything Counts

• Higher Love
• Policy of Truth
• World in My Eyes
• Walking in My Shoes
• Behind the Wheel (fade out)
• Halo (fade in)
• Stripped
• Condemnation
• A Question of Lust
• One Caress
• Mercy in You
• I Feel You
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Rush
• In Your Room
• Personal Jesus
• Enjoy the Silence (fade out)
• Somebody (fade in)
• Everything Counts
• [unknown]
• [unknown]
• [unknown]
• [unknown]
• [unknown]
• [unknown]
• [unknown]

• Halo (Incomplete)
• Behind the Wheel
• Everything Counts
• World in My Eyes
• Walking in My Shoes
• Stripped
• Condemnation
• A Question of Lust
• I Want You Now
• In Your Room

• A Question of Time
• World in My Eyes
• Policy of Truth
• Its No Good
• Never Let Me Down
• Walking in My Shoes
• Its Only When I Lose Myself
• A Question of Lust
• Home
• Condemnation
• In Your Room
• Useless
• Enjoy the Silence
• Personal Jesus
• Barrell of a Gun
• Somebody
• Stripped
• I Feel You
• Just Cant Get Enough

• Introduction: Kaleid
• World in My Eyes
• Halo
• Shake the Disease
• Everything Counts
• Master and Servant
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Waiting for the Night
• Here Is the House (acoustic)
• Sweetest Perfection (acoustic)
• Clean

• Introduction: Kaleid
• World in My Eyes
• Halo
• Shake the Disease
• Everything Counts
• Master and Servant
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Waiting for the Night
• Here Is the House
• The Sweetest Perfection
• Clean
• Stripped
• Policy of Truth
• Enjoy the Silence
• Strangelove
• Personal Jesus
• Black Celebration
• A Question of Time
• Behind the Wheel
• Route 66

• Kaleid
• World in My Eyes
• Halo
• Shake the Disease
• Everything Counts
• Master and Servant
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Waiting for the Night
• I Want You Now
• World Full of Nothing
• Clean
• Stripped
• Policy of Truth
• Enjoy the Silence
• Strangelove
• Personal Jesus
• Black Celebration
• A Question of Time
• Behind the Wheel
• Route 66

• [introduction]
• A Pain That I'm Used To
• John the Revelator
• A Question of Time
• Policy of Truth
• Precious
• Walking in My Shoes
• Suffer Well
• Damaged People
• Home
• I Want It All
• The Sinner in Me
• I Feel You
• Behind the Wheel
• World in My Eyes
• Personal Jesus
• Enjoy the Silence
• [encore break]
• Somebody
• I Just Can't Get Enough
• Everything Counts
• [encore break]
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Goodnight Lovers

• Intro (Easy Tiger)
• Dream On (instrumental)
• The Dead of Night
• The Sweetest Condition
• Halo
• Walking in My Shoes
• Dream On
• When the Body Speaks
• Waiting for the Night
• Surrender
• Breathe
• Freelove
• Enjoy the Silence
• I Feel You
• In Your Room
• It's No Good
• I Feel Loved
• Personal Jesus
• Screaming Crowd
• Home
• Clean
• Black Celebration
• Never Let Me Down Again

• Introduction: Kaleid
• World in My Eyes
• Halo
• Shake the Disease
• Everything Counts
• Master and Servant
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Waiting for the Night
• I Want You Now
• World Full of Nothing
• Clean
• Stripped
• Policy of Truth
• Enjoy the Silence
• Strangelove
• Personal Jesus
• Black Celebration
• A Question of Time
• Behind the Wheel
• Route 66

• Kaleid
• World in My Eyes
• Halo
• Shake the Disease
• Everything Counts
• Waiting for the Night
• Blue Dress
• Clean
• Policy of Truth
• Enjoy the Silence
• Strangelove
• Personal Jesus
• Behind the Wheel
• Route 66

• [introduction]
• A Pain That I'm Used To
• John the Revelator
• A Question of Time
• Policy of Truth
• Precious
• Walking in My Shoes
• Suffer Well
• Damaged People
• Home
• I Want It All
• The Sinner in Me
• I Feel You
• Behind the Wheel
• World in My Eyes
• Personal Jesus
• Enjoy the Silence
• Shake the Disease
• Just Can't Get Enough
• Everything Counts
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Good Night Lovers

• [introduction] / Easy Tiger / Dream On
• The Dead of Night
• The Sweetest Condition
• Halo
• Walking in My Shoes
• Dream On
• When the Body Speaks
• Waiting for the Night
• Sister of Night
• Breathe
• Freelove
• Enjoy the Silence
• I Feel You
• In Your Room
• It's No Good
• I Feel Loved
• Personal Jesus
• Home
• Clean
• Black Celebration
• Never Let Me Down Again
• In Your Room (soundcheck: 2001-02-09: Służewiec, Warsaw, Poland)
• [piano and drums test] (soundcheck: 2001-02-09: Służewiec, Warsaw, Poland)
• Condemnation (Elvis Presley Love Letters version) (soundcheck: 2001-02-09: Służewiec, Warsaw, Poland)
• Sister of Night (live: 2001-02-09: Służewiec, Warsaw, Poland (alternate recording))

• Painkiller
• A Question of Time
• World in My Eyes
• Policy of Truth
• It's No Good
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Walking in My Shoes
• Only When I Lose Myself
• A Question of Lust
• Home
• Condemnation
• In Your Room
• Useless
• Enjoy the Silence
• Personal Jesus
• Barrel of a Gun
• Somebody
• Behind the Wheel
• I Feel You
• Just Can't Get Enough

• Barrel of a Gun
• Policy of Truth
• It's No Good
• Walking in My Shoes
• Sister of Night
• A Question of Lust
• Enjoy the Silence
• In Your Room
• Behind the Wheel
• Personal Jesus
• Never Let Me Down Again

• [Introduction] / Painkiller
• A Question of Time
• World in My Eyes
• Policy of Truth
• It's No Good
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Walking in My Shoes
• Only When I Lose Myself
• Sister of Night
• Home
• Condemnation
• In Your Room
• Useless

• Pimpf
• Behind the Wheel
• Strangelove
• Sacred
• Something to Do
• Blasphemous Rumours
• Stripped
• Pipeline
• The Things You Said
• Black Celebration
• Shake the Disease
• Nothing
• Pleasure, Little Treasure
• People Are People
• A Question of Time
• Never Let Me Down Again
• A Question of Lust
• Master and Servant
• Everything Counts

• Painkiller
• A Question of Time
• World in My Eyes
• Policy of Truth
• It's No Good
• Never Let Me Down Again
• Walking in My Shoes
• Only When I Lose Myself
• A Question of Lust
• Home
• In Your Room
• Useless
• Enjoy the Silence
• Personal Jesus
• Barrel of a Gun
• Somebody
• Just Can't Get Enough

• Now This Is Fun
• Two Minute Warning
• Shame
• See You
• Get the Balance Right
• Love in Itself
• Pipeline
• Something to Do (live: 1984-11-xx: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK)
• Puppets (live: 1984-11-xx: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK)
• If You Want (live: 1984-11-xx: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK)
• People Are People (live: 1984-11-xx: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK)
• Leave in Silence (live: 1984-11-xx: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK)
• Ice Machine (live: 1984-11-xx: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK)
• Lie to Me (live: 1984-11-xx: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK)
• Master and Servant (live: 1984-11-xx: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK)
• Photographic (live: 1984-11-xx: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK)