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Edison's Children, the Glossary

Edison's Children is a science fiction-oriented progressive rock trio known for writing "epic Concept albums" with supernatural, apocalyptic and extra-terrestrial themes.^[1]

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A Perfect Circle

A Perfect Circle is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan.

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Album cover

An album cover (also referred to as album art) is the front packaging art of a commercially released studio album or other audio recordings.

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Alien abduction (also called abduction phenomenon, alien abduction syndrome, or UFO abduction) refers to the phenomenon of people reporting what they believe to be the real experience of being kidnapped by extraterrestrial beings and subjected to physical and psychological experimentation.

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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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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.

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Apollo 11

Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.

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Asia (band)

Asia are an English rock supergroup formed in London in 1981. Edison's Children and Asia (band) are English progressive rock groups.

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Aylesbury

Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, South East England.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Carter Burwell

Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American film composer.

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Chevelle (band)

Chevelle is an American rock band formed in Grayslake, Illinois, in 1995.

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Clint Mansell

Clinton Darryl Mansell (born 7 November 1963) is an English musician, singer, and composer.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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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.

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DeeExpus

DeeExpus is a melodic progressive rock group from Northeast England whose debut album, Half Way Home was released by DXP Productions in 2008, garnering fan buzz and enthusiastic reviews from around the world. Edison's Children and DeeExpus are English progressive rock groups.

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Deftones

Deftones is an American alternative metal band formed in Sacramento, California in 1988.

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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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Dream Theater

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Eric Blackwood

Eric Blackwood (born December 7, 1921) is a Canadian aviator.

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Eric Blackwood (musician)

Eric Blackwood (born as Eric Pastore) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and musician with the progressive rock band Edison's Children starring Marillion's Pete Trewavas and the Son of Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Rick Armstrong as well as an IATSE certified special effects and property technician of over 100 major motion pictures and television noted author & baseball stadium photographer & historian and has been an honorary member of the Marillion touring crew since 2005.

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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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Frost*

Frost* are an English neo-prog supergroup, formed in 2004 by Jem Godfrey and members of Arena, Kino, and IQ. Edison's Children and Frost* are English progressive rock groups.

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Genesis (band)

Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, in 1967. Edison's Children and Genesis (band) are English progressive rock groups.

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Henry Rogers (drummer)

Henry Rogers (born June 1991) is an English drummer, session artist, producer, sound developer and 2 time winner of the Classic Rock Society's award for "Drummer of the Year".

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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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Ian Mosley

Ian F. Mosley (born 16 June 1953) is an English drummer.

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Iced Earth

Iced Earth is an American heavy metal band currently composed of only Jon Schaffer, formed in Tampa, Florida and based in Columbus, Indiana.

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Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a fusion genre that fuses industrial music and rock music.

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Intravenous therapy

Intravenous therapy (abbreviated as IV therapy) is a medical technique that administers fluids, medications and nutrients directly into a person's vein.

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It Bites

It Bites are an English progressive rock and pop fusion band, formed in Egremont, Cumbria, in 1982 and best known for their 1986 single "Calling All the Heroes", which gained them a Top 10 UK Singles Chart hit. Edison's Children and it Bites are English progressive rock groups.

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Jakko Jakszyk

Michael "Jakko" Jakszyk (born Michael Lee Curran, 8 June 1958) is an English musician, record producer, and actor.

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John Mitchell (musician)

John Mitchell (born 21 June 1973) is an Irish musician and record producer.

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John Wesley (guitarist)

John Wesley Dearth III is an American guitarist and singer, best known as touring guitarist for Porcupine Tree between 2002 and 2010, and also for performing with Mike Tramp, Fish, Sound of Contact, Edison's Children and Vertical Horizon, as well as for his solo work.

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John Wetton

John Kenneth Wetton (12 June 1949 – 31 January 2017) was an English musician, singer, and songwriter.

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King Crimson

King Crimson were an English-based progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London. Edison's Children and King Crimson are English progressive rock groups.

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Kino (British band)

Kino are a British neo-prog band made up of members from other progressive rock acts (John Mitchell from Arena and The Urbane; Pete Trewavas from Marillion, Edison's Children and Transatlantic; John Beck from It Bites; Bob Dalton also from It Bites; Chris Maitland formerly of Porcupine Tree). Edison's Children and Kino (British band) are English progressive rock groups.

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List of industrial music genres

Industrial music is a form of experimental music which emerged in the 1970s.

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Marillion

Marillion are a British neo prog band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979.

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Mark Kelly (keyboardist)

Mark Colbert Kelly (born 9 April 1961) is an Irish keyboardist and a member of the neo-prog band Marillion.

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Max Richter

Max Richter (born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer and pianist.

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Mike Portnoy

Michael Stephen Portnoy (born April 20, 1967) is an American musician who is primarily known as the drummer, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Mostly Autumn

Mostly Autumn are an English rock band. Edison's Children and Mostly Autumn are English progressive rock groups.

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Mother Nature

Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth or the Earth Mother) is a personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it, in the form of a mother or mother goddess.

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Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neo-prog

Neo-progressive rock (commonly abbreviated neo-prog) is a subgenre of progressive rock developed in the UK in the early 1980s.

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Ocean City, Maryland

Ocean City, officially the Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Worcester County, Maryland, along the East Coast of the United States.

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Pete Trewavas

Peter Trewavas (born 15 January 1959) is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the progressive rock band Marillion.

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Phish

Phish is an American rock band formed in Burlington, Vermont, in 1983.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Edison's Children and Pink Floyd are English progressive rock groups.

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Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree are an English rock band formed by musician Steven Wilson in 1987. Edison's Children and Porcupine Tree are English progressive rock groups.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Puscifer

Puscifer is an American rock group formed in Los Angeles by Maynard James Keenan, known as the lead singer of the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle.

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Rush (band)

Rush was a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto in 1968 that primarily comprised Geddy Lee (vocals, bass guitar, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitar) and Neil Peart (drums, percussion).

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Saint-Sauveur, Quebec

Saint-Sauveur is a town and municipality within the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Space rock

Space rock is a music genre characterized by loose and lengthy song structures centered on instrumental textures that typically produce a hypnotic, otherworldly sound.

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Steve Hogarth

Steve Hogarth (born Ronald Stephen Hoggarth, 14 May 1956), also known as "h", is an English musician.

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Steve Rothery

Steven Rothery (born 25 November 1959) is an English musician who is the original guitarist and the longest continuous member of the progressive rock band Marillion.

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Steven Wilson

Steven John Wilson (born 3 November 1967) is an English musician.

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Sugar Loaf, New York

Sugar Loaf is a mixed-use hamlet in Orange County, New York, United States.

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Supernatural

Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature.

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The Alan Parsons Project

The Alan Parsons Project were a British rock band active between 1975 and 1990, whose core membership consisted of producer, audio engineer, musician, and composer Alan Parsons and singer, songwriter, and pianist Eric Woolfson.

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The Cure

The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, West Sussex.

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Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison's_Children

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