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China Crisis, the Glossary

China Crisis are an English new wave and synth-pop band formed in Kirkby, near Liverpool, Merseyside in 1979 with a core of lead vocalist/keyboardist Gary Daly and guitarist/vocalist Eddie Lundon.^[1]

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Musical groups from Merseyside
New wave duos

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Adult Contemporary (chart)

The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.

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African and White

"African and White" is the debut single by English new wave band China Crisis.

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Alan Winstanley

Alan Kenneth Winstanley (born 2 November 1952) is an English record producer and songwriter, active from the mid-1970s onwards.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Radio 6 Music

BBC Radio 6 Music is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC, specialising primarily in alternative music.

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Black Man Ray

"Black Man Ray" is a song by English new wave band China Crisis.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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Brian Eno

Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist. China Crisis and Brian Eno are Polydor Records artists and Virgin Records artists.

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British Hit Singles & Albums

British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives.

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Carole King

Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. China Crisis and Carole King are A&M Records artists.

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Christian (song)

"Christian" is a song by English new wave band China Crisis.

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Clive Langer

Clive Langer (born 19 June 1954) is an English record producer and songwriter, active from the mid-1970s onwards.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one performer or by several performers.

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Dance Club Songs

Dance Club Songs was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by Billboard magazine.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. China Crisis and David Bowie are Virgin Records artists.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980. China Crisis and Depeche Mode are British synth-pop new wave groups, English new wave musical groups, English synth-pop groups and Virgin Records artists.

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Diary of a Hollow Horse

Diary of a Hollow Horse is the fifth studio album by English new wave group China Crisis, released in 1989.

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Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain

Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain is the debut studio album by English new wave and synth-pop band China Crisis, released on 12 November 1982 by Virgin Records.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.

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E-mu Emulator

The Emulator is a series of digital sampling synthesizers using floppy-disk storage that was manufactured by E-mu Systems from 1981 until 2002.

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Eastwood City

Eastwood City is an mixed-use development complex located in Barangay Bagumbayan, Quezon City.

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Epstein Theatre

The Epstein Theatre, formerly Neptune Theatre, is a theatre in Liverpool, England.

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Ex-Simple Minds

Ex-Simple Minds (or XSM) are a Scottish new wave/rock band, formed in 2009 by Derek Forbes and Brian McGee, both former members of the new wave bands Simple Minds and Propaganda.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Fish (singer)

Derek William Dick (born 25 April 1958), better known by his stage name Fish, is a Scottish singer, songwriter and occasional actor.

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Flaunt the Imperfection

Flaunt the Imperfection is the third studio album by English new wave and synth-pop band China Crisis, released on 29 April 1985 by Virgin Records.

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Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn, also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore.

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Fort Perch Rock

Fort Perch Rock is a former defence installation situated at the mouth of Liverpool Bay in New Brighton.

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Futurama Festival

Futurama Festival was an annual post-punk and gothic rock festival held at venues in Leeds, Stafford and Queensferry between 1979 and 1983.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Haircut One Hundred

Haircut One Hundred (also Haircut 100) are a British pop group formed in 1980 in Beckenham, London, by Nick Heyward, Les Nemes and Graham Jones. China Crisis and Haircut One Hundred are English new wave musical groups and Polydor Records artists.

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Hanna Hanna

"Hanna Hanna" is a song by English new wave band China Crisis.

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Henley-on-Thames

Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead, southeast of Oxford and west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

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Howard Jones (British musician)

John Howard Jones (born 23 February 1955) is a British musician, singer and songwriter.

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Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square.

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It's Too Late (Carole King song)

"It's Too Late" is a song from American singer-songwriter Carole King's second studio album, Tapestry (1971).

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist.

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Kevin Wilkinson

Kevin Michael Wilkinson (11 June 1958 – 17 July 1999) was an English drummer, who was based in Baydon, Wiltshire, England.

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Kim Wilde

Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith, 18 November 1960) is an English pop singer.

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King in a Catholic Style

"King in a Catholic Style" is a song by English new wave band China Crisis.

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Kirkby

Kirkby is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England.

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Let's Rock (festival)

Let's Rock is an annual family-friendly, 1980s-oriented music festival held throughout the United Kingdom.

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Leysin

Leysin is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in the Aigle district of Switzerland.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) is a performing arts higher education institution in Liverpool, founded by Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty and opened in 1996.

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Liverpool International Music Festival

Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF), formerly known as the Liverpool Mathew Street Music Festival, is an event held annually at Sefton Park in Liverpool.

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Louder Than War

Louder Than War is a music and culture website and magazine focusing on mainly alternative arts news, reviews, and features.

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Madness (band)

Madness are an English ska and pop band from Camden Town, north west London, who formed in 1976. China Crisis and Madness (band) are English new wave musical groups.

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Magazine (band)

Magazine were a British rock band formed in 1977 in Manchester in England by singer Howard Devoto and guitarist John McGeoch. China Crisis and Magazine (band) are English new wave musical groups.

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Martika

Marta Marrero (born May 18, 1969), better known by her stage name Martika, is an American pop singer and actress.

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Meols Park

Meols Park and Recreation Ground is located in Meols on the Wirral Peninsula, England.

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Merseyside

Merseyside is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in North West England.

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Metro Manila

Metropolitan Manila (Kalakhang Maynila), commonly shortened to Metro Manila and formally the National Capital Region (NCR; Pambansang Punong Rehiyon), is the capital region and largest metropolitan area of the Philippines.

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Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley

The Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England.

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Mike Howlett

Michael John Gilmour Howlett (born 27 April 1950) is a bass guitar player, record producer and teacher based in the United Kingdom and Australia.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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New Frontier Theater

The New Frontier Theater, known as the Kia Theatre between 2015 and 2018, is a multi-purpose theater and events hall in Araneta City in Cubao, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84)

New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) is the fifth studio album by Scottish band Simple Minds.

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New wave music

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.

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No More Blue Horizons (Fool, Fool, Fool)

"No More Blue Horizons (Fool, Fool, Fool)" is a song by English new wave band China Crisis, released as their third single in 1982.

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic band formed in the Wirral, Merseyside, in 1978. China Crisis and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are British synth-pop new wave groups, English new wave musical groups, English synth-pop groups, musical groups from Merseyside and Virgin Records artists.

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Pasay

Pasay, officially the City of Pasay (Lungsod ng Pasay), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines.

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Paul Young

Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English musician, singer and songwriter.

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Pinkpop Festival

Pinkpop is an annual music festival held at Landgraaf, Netherlands.

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PledgeMusic

PledgeMusic was an online direct-to-fan music platform, launched in August 2009.

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Polydor Records

Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Poporama

Poporama was a Swedish weekly radio show on SR P3, from 1974 to 1984, hosted by Kaj Kindvall, that listed the hits of the week.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock.

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Quezon City

Quezon City (Lungsod Quezon), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read and pronounced in Filipino as Kyusi), is the most populous city in the Philippines.

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Record chart

A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period.

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Record label

"Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it.

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Record Mirror

Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors.

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Recording contract

A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording act (artist or group), where the act makes an audio recording (or series of recordings) for the label to sell and promote.

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Remix

A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item.

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Rewind Festival

The Rewind Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Temple Island Meadows, Remenham, Berkshire near Henley-on-Thames, England, Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire, England, and Scone Palace, Perthshire in Scotland.

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Rivermaya

Rivermaya is a Filipino alternative rock band.

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Rock am Ring and Rock im Park

The Rock am Ring (German for "Rock at the Ring") and Rock im Park ("Rock in the Park") festivals are two simultaneous rock music festivals held annually.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.

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Secret Records

Secret Records is a British independent record label founded in 1980 and based in London.

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Sefton Park

Sefton Park is a public park in south Liverpool, England.

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Simple Minds

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1977. China Crisis and Simple Minds are A&M Records artists, British synth-pop new wave groups and Virgin Records artists.

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Smash Hits

Smash Hits was a British music magazine aimed at young adults, originally published by EMAP.

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SMX Convention Center Manila

The SMX Convention Center Manila, also simply known as SMX Manila, is a convention center located in Pasay, Philippines.

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Squeeze (band)

Squeeze are an English rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording in the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. China Crisis and Squeeze (band) are A&M Records artists and English new wave musical groups.

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Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an American rock band formed in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 1971 by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals).

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Steve Lamacq

Stephen Paul Lamacq (born 16 October 1964), sometimes known by his nickname Lammo (given to him by John Peel), is an English disc jockey, currently working with BBC Radio 6 Music.

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Stockholm Olympic Stadium

Stockholm Olympic Stadium (Stockholms Olympiastadion), most often called Stockholms stadion or (especially locally) simply Stadion, is a stadium in Stockholm, Sweden.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Studio recording

A studio recording is any recording made in a studio, as opposed to a live recording, which is usually made in a concert venue or a theatre, with an audience attending the performance.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.

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Talking Heads

Talking Heads were an American new wave band formed in 1975 in New York City.

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Television (band)

Television was an American rock band from New York City, most notably active in the 1970s.

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The Cavern Club

The Cavern Club is a music venue on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England.

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The Lotus Eaters (band)

The Lotus Eaters are an English new wave band formed in 1981 in Liverpool. China Crisis and The Lotus Eaters (band) are English new wave musical groups.

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The Manor Studio

The Manor Studio (a.k.a. the Manor) was a recording studio in the manor house at the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England, north of the city of Oxford.

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The Proclaimers

The Proclaimers are a Scottish rock duo formed in 1983 by twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid (born 5 March 1962). China Crisis and The Proclaimers are British male musical duos.

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The Waterboys

The Waterboys are a rock band formed in 1983 by Scottish musician and songwriter Mike Scott.

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Tom Verlaine

Thomas Joseph Miller (December 13, 1949 – January 28, 2023), known professionally as Tom Verlaine, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, best known as the frontman of the New York City rock band Television. China Crisis and Tom Verlaine are Virgin Records artists.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre.

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Toyah Willcox

Toyah Ann Willcox (born 18 May 1958) is an English singer, actress, and TV presenter.

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Tragedy and Mystery

"Tragedy and Mystery" is a song by English new wave band China Crisis.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Crisis

Also known as Eddie Lundon, Gary Daly, Scream Down at Me, Steve Levy (musician), The Highest High, Warped By Success.

, Louder Than War, Madness (band), Magazine (band), Martika, Meols Park, Merseyside, Metro Manila, Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Mike Howlett, Music recording certification, New Frontier Theater, New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84), New wave music, No More Blue Horizons (Fool, Fool, Fool), Oboe, Official Charts Company, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Pasay, Paul Young, Pinkpop Festival, PledgeMusic, Polydor Records, Poporama, Post-punk, Quezon City, Record chart, Record label, Record Mirror, Recording contract, Remix, Rewind Festival, Rivermaya, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park, Rolling Stone, Saxophone, Secret Records, Sefton Park, Simple Minds, Smash Hits, SMX Convention Center Manila, Squeeze (band), Steely Dan, Steve Lamacq, Stockholm Olympic Stadium, String instrument, Studio recording, Synth-pop, Synthesizer, Talking Heads, Television (band), The Cavern Club, The Lotus Eaters (band), The Manor Studio, The Proclaimers, The Waterboys, Tom Verlaine, Top 40, Toyah Willcox, Tragedy and Mystery, UK Albums Chart, UK singles chart, United States, Virgin Records, Walter Becker, What Price Paradise, Wishful Thinking (China Crisis song), Woodwind instrument, Working with Fire and Steel (song), Working with Fire and Steel – Possible Pop Songs Volume Two, You Did Cut Me.

China Crisis, the Glossary

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See also

Musical groups from Merseyside

New wave duos

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