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Henry Cow were an English experimental rock group, founded at the University of Cambridge in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson.^[1]

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

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Alfred 23 Harth

Alfred Harth, now known as Alfred 23 Harth or A23H, is a German multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who creatively mixes genres.

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All About Jazz

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995.

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AllMusic

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

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Andrew Powell

Andrew Powell (born 18 April 1949) is a British musical composer, arranger and performer, born of Welsh parents.

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Annemarie Roelofs

Annemarie Roelofs (born 1955) is a Dutch trombone player, violinist, and professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

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Anthony Moore

Anthony Moore (also known as Anthony More) (born 13 August 1948) is a British experimental music composer, performer and producer. Henry Cow and Anthony Moore are Virgin Records artists.

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Anti-capitalism

Anti-capitalism is a political ideology and movement encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose capitalism.

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Art Bears were an English avant-rock group formed during the disassembly of Henry Cow in 1978 by three of its members, Chris Cutler (percussion, texts), Fred Frith (guitar, bass guitar, violin, keyboards) and Dagmar Krause (vocals; previously of Slapp Happy). Henry Cow and Art Bears are Chris Cutler, fred Frith, political music groups and rock in Opposition.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz.

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Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.

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Avant-pop

Avant-pop is popular music that is experimental, new, and distinct from previous styles while retaining an immediate accessibility for the listener.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London, England, and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Bassist

A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), synthbass, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or trombone.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Canterbury scene

The Canterbury scene (or Canterbury sound) was a musical scene centred on the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Captain Beefheart

Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. Henry Cow and Captain Beefheart are Virgin Records artists.

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Caroline Records

Caroline Records is a record label originally founded in 1973.

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CD single

A CD single is a music single in the form of a compact disc (CD).

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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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Charter

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified.

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Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler (born 4 January 1947) is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Henry Cow and Chris Cutler are Canterbury scene.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Collective

A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest or work together to achieve a common objective.

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Concerts (Henry Cow album)

Concerts is a live double album by English avant-rock group Henry Cow, recorded at concerts in London, Italy, the Netherlands and Norway between September 1974 and October 1975.

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Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Dada

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916), founded by Hugo Ball with his companion Emmy Hennings, and in Berlin in 1917.

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Dagmar Krause

Dagmar Krause (born 4 June 1950) is a German singer, best known for her work with avant-rock groups including Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, and Art Bears.

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David Attwooll

David Attwooll (22 April 1949 – 5 August 2016) was a British poet and publisher.

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David Toop

David Toop (born 5 May 1949) is an English musician, author, curator, and emeritus professor. Henry Cow and David Toop are Virgin Records artists.

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Derek Bailey (guitarist)

Derek Bailey (29 January 1930 – 25 December 2005) was an English avant-garde guitarist and an important figure in the free improvisation movement.

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Desperate Straights

Desperate Straights is a collaborative studio album by British avant-rock groups Slapp Happy and Henry Cow.

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Duck and Cover (German band)

Duck and Cover were a multinational avant-rock septet founded in West Germany in 1983, comprising Chris Cutler (UK), Heiner Goebbels (GER), and Alfred Harth (GER) from Cassiber; Tom Cora (US) and Fred Frith (UK) from Skeleton Crew; Dagmar Krause (GER) from Art Bears; and George Lewis (US) from the ICP Orchestra. Henry Cow and Duck and Cover (German band) are Chris Cutler and fred Frith.

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Duke University Press

Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.

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Each in Our Own Thoughts

Each in Our Own Thoughts is a 1994 solo album by English experimental music composer and performer Tim Hodgkinson.

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Echoes of Henry Cow

Echoes of Henry Cow is a 2019 studio album by French jazz group, the, with narration by English musician John Greaves.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2018 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 different shows across 322 venues.

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Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, spread over the final three weeks in August.

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Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield (video)

Elements - The Best of Mike Oldfield is a video collection by Mike Oldfield released in October 1993.

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Erk Gah

"Erk Gah" (later retitled "Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine") is a song written by Tim Hodgkinson for the English experimental rock group Henry Cow.

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Etron Fou Leloublan

Etron Fou Leloublan (French for "Crazy Shit, The White Wolf" or "Mad Shit, the White Wolf"), also known as EFL, were a French avant-garde rock band founded in 1973 by actor and saxophonist Chris Chanet. Henry Cow and Etron Fou Leloublan are rock in Opposition.

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Euripides

Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Faust (band)

Faust (English: "fist") are a German rock band from Hamburg. Henry Cow and Faust (band) are Virgin Records artists.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Forlì

Forlì (Furlè; Forum Livii) is a comune (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is, together with Cesena, the capital of the Province of Forlì-Cesena.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.

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Frankie Armstrong

Frankie Armstrong (born 13 January 1941) is an English singer and voice teacher.

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Fred Frith

Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Henry Cow and Fred Frith are Canterbury scene.

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Free improvisation

Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any general rules, instead following the intuition of its performers.

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Free time (music)

Free time is a type of musical anti-meter free from musical time and time signature.

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Galen Strawson

Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Geoff Leigh

Geoff Leigh (born 5 October 1945) is an English jazz and progressive rock musician, playing primarily soprano saxophone and flute. Henry Cow and Geoff Leigh are Canterbury scene.

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Georgina Born

Georgina Emma Mary Born, is a British academic, anthropologist, musicologist and musician. Henry Cow and Georgina Born are Canterbury scene.

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Gillian Lynne Theatre

The Gillian Lynne Theatre (formerly New London Theatre) is a West End theatre located on the corner of Drury Lane and Parker Street in Covent Garden in the London Borough of Camden.

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Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England, in most summers.

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Glove puppetry

Glove puppetry is a type of opera using cloth puppets that originated during the 17th century in Quanzhou or Zhangzhou of China's Fujian province, and historically practised in the Min Nan-speaking areas such as Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, and other parts of southern China.

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Gong (band)

Gong are a psychedelic rock band that incorporates elements of jazz and space rock into their musical style. Henry Cow and Gong (band) are Canterbury scene and Virgin Records artists.

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Hal Leonard

Hal Leonard LLC (formerly Hal Leonard Corporation) is an American music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker.

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Hammersmith Palais

The Hammersmith Palais de Danse, in its last years simply named Hammersmith Palais, was a dance hall and entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London, England that operated from 1919 until 2007.

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Henry Cow Box

Henry Cow Box is a seven-CD limited edition box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow.

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Henry Cow discography

The Henry Cow discography is a list of officially released recordings by English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Henry Cow and Henry Cow discography are Canterbury scene.

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Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem

Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem is a 2019 book by American academic Benjamin Piekut.

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Henry Cowell

Henry Dixon Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012).

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Henry Now

Henry Now are an experimental music and free improvising group based in the United Kingdom, and comprises some of the former members of Henry Cow, namely Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson, Chris Cutler and John Greaves.

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Homerton College, Cambridge

Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Hopes and Fears (Art Bears album)

Hopes and Fears is the debut album by the English avant-rock group Art Bears.

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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (also known by the acronym HCMF, stylised since 2006 as the lowercase hcmf//) is a new music festival held annually in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

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Ian MacDonald

Ian MacCormick (known by the pseudonym Ian MacDonald; 3 October 1948 – 20 August 2003) was an English music critic, journalist and author, best known for both Revolution in the Head, his critical history of the Beatles which borrowed techniques from art historians, and The New Shostakovich, a study of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Henry Cow and Ian MacDonald are Canterbury scene.

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Improvisation

Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found.

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In Praise of Learning

In Praise of Learning is a studio album by British avant-rock group Henry Cow, recorded at Virgin Records' Manor studios in February and March 1975, and released in May 1975.

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Italian Communist Party

The Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy.

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Ivor Cutler

Ivor Cutler (born Isadore Cutler, 15 January 1923 – 3 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist and humorist. Henry Cow and Ivor Cutler are Virgin Records artists.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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JazzFest Berlin

JazzFest Berlin (also known as the Berlin Jazz Festival) is a jazz festival in Berlin, Germany.

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John Greaves (musician)

John Greaves (born 23 February 1950) is a British bass guitarist, pianist and composer who was a member of Henry Cow and has collaborated with Peter Blegvad. Henry Cow and John Greaves (musician) are Canterbury scene and Virgin Records artists.

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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 Ayers

Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Henry Cow and Kevin Ayers are Canterbury scene.

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Kew. Rhone.

Kew. Henry Cow and Kew. Rhone. are Canterbury scene.

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King's College, Cambridge

King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Kirchberg, St. Gallen

Kirchberg is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

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Lady June

June Campbell Cramer (3 June 1931 – 7 June 1999), better known as Lady June, was an English painter, poet and musician. Henry Cow and Lady June are Canterbury scene.

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Lawrence Batley Theatre

Lawrence Batley Theatre is a theatre in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England which offers drama, music, dance and comedy.

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Legend (Henry Cow album)

The Henry Cow Legend (often referred to as Legend or Leg End) is the debut album of British avant-rock group Henry Cow.

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Lindsay Cooper

Lindsay Cooper (3 March 1951 – 18 September 2013) was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer. Henry Cow and Lindsay Cooper are Canterbury scene.

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Live Improvisations

Live Improvisations is a 1992 collaborative live album of improvised music by English experimental musicians Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson.

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Living in the Heart of the Beast

"Living in the Heart of the Beast" is a 1975 song written by Tim Hodgkinson for the English avant-rock group Henry Cow.

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Lol Coxhill

George Lowen Coxhill (19 September 1932 – 10 July 2012) known professionally as Lol Coxhill, was an English free improvising saxophonist.

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London Jazz Festival

The London Jazz Festival is a music festival held every November.

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London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, England, and amember institution of the University of London.

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Martin Ditcham

Martin Ditcham is an English drummer/percussionist and songwriter.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest.

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Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English former musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success. Henry Cow and Mike Oldfield are Virgin Records artists.

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Mike Westbrook

Michael John David Westbrook (born 21 March 1936) is an English jazz pianist, composer, and writer of orchestrated jazz pieces.

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Milan

Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.

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Music industry

The music industry refers to the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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New York University College of Arts & Science

The New York University College of Arts & Science (CAS) is the primary liberal arts college of New York University (NYU).

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News from Babel

News from Babel were an English avant-rock group founded in 1983 by Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Parkins and Dagmar Krause. Henry Cow and News from Babel are Chris Cutler.

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Nine Funerals of the Citizen King

"Nine Funerals of the Citizen King" is a 1973 song written by Tim Hodgkinson for the English avant-rock group Henry Cow.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Oboe

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

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Oh Moscow

Oh Moscow is a 1991 live album by English experimental musician and composer Lindsay Cooper.

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Old Town Hall, Kensington

The old Town Hall was a municipal facility at Kensington High Street in Kensington, West London.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Perfect Sound Forever (magazine)

Perfect Sound Forever (established 1995) is one of the longest-running online-only music magazines.

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Peter Blegvad

Peter Blegvad (born August 14, 1951) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, writer, and cartoonist. Henry Cow and Peter Blegvad are Canterbury scene and Virgin Records artists.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Piacenza

Piacenza (Piaṡëinsa) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Henry Cow and Pink Floyd are English experimental rock groups.

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Prog (magazine)

Prog is a British magazine dedicated to progressive rock music, published by Future.

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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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Quartet

In music, a quartet is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers.

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Quintet

A quintet is a group containing five members.

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Rainbow Theatre

The Rainbow Theatre, originally known as the Finsbury Park Astoria, then the Finsbury Park Paramount Astoria, and then the Finsbury Park Odeon, is a Grade II*-listed building in Finsbury Park, London.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Ray Smith (artist)

Ray Smith (1949–2018) was an English sculptor, painter, illustrator and writer.

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Recommended Records

Recommended Records (RēR) is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler with Nick Hobbs in March 1978. Henry Cow and Recommended Records are Chris Cutler.

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Reel-to-reel audio tape recording

Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, also called open-reel recording, is magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording tape is spooled between reels.

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Regent's Park

Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is an open-air theatre in Regent's Park in central London.

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Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is a retired English musician. Henry Cow and Robert Wyatt are Canterbury scene and Virgin Records artists.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rock in Opposition

Rock in Opposition or RIO was a movement representing a collective of progressive bands in the late 1970s united in their opposition to the music industry that refused to recognise their music.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Rock's Backpages

Rock's Backpages is an online archive of music journalism, sourced from contributions to the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day.

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Roger Smalley

John Roger Smalley (26 July 1943 – 18 August 2015) was an Anglo-Australian composer, pianist and conductor.

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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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Romantic Warriors II: A Progressive Music Saga About Rock in Opposition

Romantic Warriors II: A Progressive Music Saga About Rock in Opposition is a 2012 feature-length documentary film about the Rock in Opposition movement of the late 1970s, the music genre it spawned, and the influence it has on experimental groups across the world. Henry Cow and Romantic Warriors II: A Progressive Music Saga About Rock in Opposition are rock in Opposition.

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Ron Geesin

Ronald Frederick Geesin (born 17 December 1943) is a Scottish musician, composer and writer known for his unusual creations and novel applications of sound, as well as for his collaborations with Pink Floyd and Roger Waters.

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Rough Guides

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips.

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Roundhouse (venue)

The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue situated at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England.

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Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard

Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard is the third solo album by Robert Wyatt.

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Samla Mammas Manna

Samla Mammas Manna was a Swedish progressive rock band often characterized by virtuosic musicianship, circus references and silly humour, similar in many ways to the song-writing style of Frank Zappa. Henry Cow and Samla Mammas Manna are rock in Opposition.

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Sextet

A sextet (or hexad) is a formation containing exactly six members.

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Slapp Happy

Slapp Happy was a German/English avant-pop group, formed in Germany in 1972. Henry Cow and Slapp Happy are Virgin Records artists.

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Soft Machine

Soft Machine are a British rock band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin. Henry Cow and Soft Machine are Canterbury scene.

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Song

A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice.

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Sprechgesang

Sprechgesang ("spoken singing") and Sprechstimme ("spoken voice"), more commonly known as speak-singing in English, are expressionist musical vocal techniques between singing and speaking.

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Stockholm & Göteborg

Volume 6: Stockholm & Göteborg is a live album by English avant-rock group Henry Cow, and is disc 6 of the 10-disc 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set.

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Stormy Six

Stormy Six were an Italian progressive and folk rock band founded in Milan in 1966. Henry Cow and Stormy Six are rock in Opposition.

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The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set

The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set (also known as The Road) is a nine-CD plus one-DVD limited edition box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow, and was released by RēR Megacorp in January 2009.

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The Artaud Beats

The Artaud Beats is a progressive rock band consisting of John Greaves (bass, vocals), Chris Cutler (drums) and Geoff Leigh (soprano sax, flute, vocals, electronics), all formerly members of Henry Cow, and Yumi Hara Cawkwell (piano, vocals).

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The Bacchae

The Bacchae (Βάκχαι, Bakkhai; also known as The Bacchantes) is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon.

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The Elastic Band

The Elastic Band was a Welsh rock music group band, formed in Wrexham in the 1960s. Henry Cow and the Elastic Band are musical groups established in 1968.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow

The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow (subtitled 50th Anniversary Box) is a seventeen-CD plus one-DVD box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow; it was released by RēR Megacorp in November 2019.

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The Last Nightingale

The Last Nightingale is an album by various artists recorded and released in 1984 to raise money for striking coal miners in the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike.

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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 Orckestra

The Orckestra were a 12-piece English avant-garde jazz and avant-rock ensemble formed in March 1977 with the merger of avant-rock group Henry Cow, the Mike Westbrook Brass Band and folk singer Frankie Armstrong. Henry Cow and the Orckestra are musical groups disestablished in 1978.

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The Phoenix (newspaper)

The Phoenix (stylized as The Phœnix) was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the Portland Phoenix and the now-defunct Boston Phoenix, Providence Phoenix and Worcester Phoenix.

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The Stone (music space)

The Stone is a not-for-profit experimental music performance space located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York City.

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The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.

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The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box

The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box is a three-CD limited-edition box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow.

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Tim Hodgkinson

Timothy "Tim" George Hodgkinson (born 1 May 1949) is an English experimental music composer and performer, principally on reeds, lap steel guitar, and keyboards. Henry Cow and Tim Hodgkinson are Canterbury scene.

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Time signature

A time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, and measure signature) is a convention in Western music notation that specifies how many note values of a particular type are contained in each measure (bar).

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Tiny Mix Tapes

Tiny Mix Tapes (also TMT or tinymixtapes) is an online music and film webzine that focuses primarily on new music and related news.

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Trouser Press

Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who, Dave Schulps, and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and an acronymic play on the British TV show Top of the Pops).

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Tubular Bells

Tubular Bells is the debut studio album by the British musician Mike Oldfield, released on 25 May 1973 as the first album on Virgin Records.

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Univers Zero

Univers Zero (also known as Univers Zéro and Univers-Zero) are an instrumental Belgian band formed in 1974 by drummer Daniel Denis. Henry Cow and Univers Zero are rock in Opposition.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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University of Pavia

The University of Pavia (Università degli Studi di Pavia, UNIPV or Università di Pavia; Ticinensis Universitas) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy.

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Unrest (Henry Cow album)

Unrest is an album by British avant-rock group Henry Cow, recorded at Virgin Records' Manor studios in February and March 1974.

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Veryan Weston

Veryan Weston (born 1950) is a British pianist active in free improvisation, jazz, and rock music.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records is a British record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Western Culture (album)

Western Culture is a studio album by English avant-rock group Henry Cow, recorded at Sunrise Studios in Kirchberg, Switzerland in January and July–August 1978.

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White Noise (band)

White Noise are an English experimental electronic music band formed in London in 1968, after American-born David Vorhaus, a classical bass player with a background in physics and electronic engineering, attended a lecture by Delia Derbyshire, a sound scientist at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Henry Cow and White Noise (band) are musical groups established in 1968 and Virgin Records artists.

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References

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

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