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Music in Leeds, the Glossary

The Music in Leeds ecompasses a variety of styles and genres, including rock, pop and electronic.^[1]

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ABC-Clio

ABC-Clio, LLC (stylized ABC-CLIO) is an American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.

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Abrasive Wheels

Abrasive Wheels are a punk rock band of the late 1970s – early 1980s.

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Afro-Caribbean people

Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.

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Age of Chance

Age of Chance were a British alternative rock-dance crossover band from Leeds, England, active from 1983 to 1991.

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Alt-J

Alt-J (stylised as alt-J, real name Δ) are an English indie rock band formed in 2007 in Leeds.

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An Awesome Wave

An Awesome Wave is the debut album by English indie rock band alt-J, released on 25 May 2012 through Infectious.

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Anarcho-punk

Anarcho-punk (also known as anarchist punk or peace punk) is an ideological subgenre of punk rock that promotes anarchism.

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And None of Them Knew They Were Robots

And None of Them Knew They Were Robots (stylized as...And None of Them Knew They Were Robots and also known as the Robots) were an English hardcore punk band from Leeds formed in 2000.

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Andrew Eldritch

Andrew Eldritch (born Andrew William Harvey Taylor, 15 May 1959) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Andy Gill

Andrew James Dalrymple Gill (1 January 1956 – 1 February 2020) was an English musician and record producer.

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Animal rights

Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth independent of their utility to humans, and that their most basic interests—such as avoiding suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.

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Arena Quarter

Arena Quarter (sometimes referred to as Arena Qtr) is a mixed city centre development with residential, retail and office developments in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Armley

Armley is a district in the west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Art song

An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition.

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Artery (band)

Artery are a British post-punk band from Sheffield, that was founded in 1978.

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¡Forward, Russia!

¡Forward, Russia! are an English rock band from Leeds, active between 2004 and 2008, before re-forming in 2013.

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Bandcamp

Bandcamp is an American online audio distribution platform founded in 2007 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with headquarters in Oakland, California.

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Bands and musicians from Yorkshire and North East England

The following is a list of bands and musicians from the North East and Yorkshire of England, by town or city.

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Bank holiday

A bank holiday is a national public holiday in the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, and a colloquial term for a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland.

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Bauhaus (band)

Bauhaus were an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978.

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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 1

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

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BBC Three

BBC Three is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Beartooth (band)

Beartooth is an American rock band founded by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Caleb Shomo in Columbus, Ohio, in 2012.

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Big Cheese (band)

Big Cheese is an English hardcore punk band from Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Blood Youth

Blood Youth were an English hardcore punk band formed in Harrogate in 2014.

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Bradford

Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Bramham Park

Bramham Park is a Grade I listed 18th-century country house in Bramham, between Leeds and Wetherby, in West Yorkshire, England.

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The Brudenell Social Club is a live music venue and social club in Hyde Park, Leeds, England.

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Burley, Leeds

Burley is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, north-west of Leeds city centre, between the A65 Kirkstall Road at the south and Headingley at the north, in the Kirkstall ward.

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Cabaret Voltaire (band)

Cabaret Voltaire were an English music group formed in Sheffield in 1973 and initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, and Chris Watson.

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Cancer Bats

Cancer Bats are a Canadian hardcore punk band from Toronto, Ontario.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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CBGB

CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in the East Village in Manhattan, New York City.

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Chapeltown, Leeds

Chapeltown is a suburb of north-east Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England.

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Christie (band)

Christie are an English soft rock band that formed at the end of the 1960s.

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Chumbawamba

Chumbawamba were a British anarcho-punk band who formed in 1982 and disbanded in 2012.

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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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Code Orange (band)

Code Orange (formerly known as Code Orange Kids) is an American metalcore band that formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2008, while the members of the band were still in high school.

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Collectors Club

Collectors Club were an English indie rock band based in Liverpool.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Crack (magazine)

Crack is a monthly independent music and culture magazine distributed across Europe.

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Craig Adams (musician)

Craig David Adams (born 4 April 1962) is an English musician, bass guitarist and songwriter.

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Cud (band)

Cud are an English indie rock band formed in Leeds in 1987.

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CVLT Nation

CVLT Nation is an international online magazine established by Sean Reveron and Meghan MacRae in 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

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Damnation Festival

Damnation Festival is an annual one-day heavy metal music festival currently held at Bowlers Exhibition Centre in Manchester.

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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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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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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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Dazed

Dazed (Dazed & Confused until February 2014) is a bi-monthly British lifestyle magazine founded in 1991.

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DCI Banks

DCI Banks is a British television crime drama series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the ITV network.

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Delta 5

Delta 5 was an English post-punk band from Leeds.

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Dinosaur Pile-Up

Dinosaur Pile-Up are an English alternative rock band formed in late 2007.

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Dr. Martens

Dr.

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Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound, sometimes abbreviated to DiS, was a UK-based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway.

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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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Dub music

Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Dutch Uncles

Dutch Uncles are an English indie pop band from Marple, England.

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Eagulls

Eagulls were an English rock band, formed in Leeds in 2009.

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Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen are an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1978.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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Eleven Eleven (Dinosaur Pile-Up album)

Eleven Eleven is the third studio album by British alternative rock band Dinosaur Pile-Up.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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F Club

The F Club was a punk rock, post-punk and new wave club night in Leeds that ran between 1977 and 1982.

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Fanny Waterman

Dame Fanny Waterman (22 March 192020 December 2020) was a British pianist and academic piano teacher, who is particularly known as the founder, chair and artistic director of the Leeds International Piano Competition.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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Fig.4.0

Fig 4.0 (pronounced "Figure Four") were a hardcore punk band from Leeds and Harrogate, England, formed in 1999 from the remnants of skacore act "Tinker's Rucksack".

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Fit for an Autopsy

Fit for an Autopsy is an American deathcore band from Jersey City, New Jersey, formed in 2008.

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Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes

Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes are an English punk rock band formed in 2015 by frontman Frank Carter with guitarist Dean Richardson.

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Fugazi

Fugazi was an American post-hardcore band formed in Washington, D.C., in 1986.

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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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Gang of Four (band)

Gang of Four are an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Leeds.

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Gentleman's Dub Club

Gentleman's Dub Club are a British dub band, originating from Leeds, Yorkshire.

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Girls at Our Best!

Girls at Our Best! were an English post-punk band, founded in Leeds, England in 1979 under the name The Butterflies.

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and was performed by male musicians who wore flamboyant and feminine clothing, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter, and female musicians who wore masculine clothing.

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Goth subculture

Goth is a music-based subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s.

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Gothic rock

Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s.

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Grassroots

A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.

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Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.

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Hardcore punk in the United Kingdom

Hardcore punk in the United Kingdom (often abbreviated as UKHC) began in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the second wave of punk rock in the country.

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Harewood House

Harewood House is a country house in Harewood, West Yorkshire, England.

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Harrogate

Harrogate is a spa town in the district and county of North Yorkshire, England.

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Higher Power (band)

Higher Power are an English hardcore punk band formed in Leeds, West Yorkshire in 2014.

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Hot Water Music

Hot Water Music is an American punk rock band formed in October 1994 and based in Gainesville, Florida.

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Hyde Park, Leeds

Hyde Park is an inner-city residential area of north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, situated between the University of Leeds and Headingley.

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Icon A.D.

Icon A.D. (formerly known as Icon) were an English anarcho-punk band formed in Leeds in 1979.

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Idles

Idles (stylized in all caps as IDLES) are a British rock band formed in Bristol in 2009.

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Ilkley

Ilkley is a spa town and civil parish in the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, in Northern England.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s.

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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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Jon King

Jonathan Michael King (born 8 June 1955) is an English singer, musician, songwriter, and Grammy nominated art director, best known as the singer of the post-punk band Gang of Four.

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Jon Langford

Jonathan Denis Langford (born 11 October 1957) is a Welsh musician and artist based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Jorja Smith

Jorja Alice Smith (born 11 June 1997) is an English singer-songwriter.

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Joy Division

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976.

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Kaiser Chiefs

Kaiser Chiefs are an English indie rock band from Leeds who originally formed in 1996 as Runston Parva, before reforming as Parva in 2000, and releasing one studio album, 22, in 2003, before renaming and establishing themselves in their current name that same year.

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Kerrang!

Kerrang! is a British music webzine and quarterly magazine that primarily covers rock, punk and heavy metal music.

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Kirkstall

Kirkstall is a north-western suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, on the eastern side of the River Aire.

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Le Phonographique

Le Phonographique (often called the Phono, and later renamed to Bar Phono) was a gothic nightclub located underneath the Merrion Centre in Leeds.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Arena

The Leeds Arena (also known as the First Direct Arena for sponsorship reasons) is an entertainment-focused indoor arena located in the Arena Quarter of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Beckett University

Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Conservatoire

Leeds Conservatoire (formerly known as The Leeds Music Centre, the City of Leeds College of Music, and Leeds College of Music) is a higher education music conservatoire based in the Quarry Hill district of Leeds, England.

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Leeds International Piano Competition

The Leeds International Piano Competition, informally known as The Leeds and formerly the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, takes place every three years in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Lieder

Leeds Lieder is a classical music organisation based in the city of Leeds in Yorkshire, UK.

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Leeds Minster

Leeds Minster, also known as the Minster and Parish Church of Saint Peter-at-Leeds (formerly Leeds Parish Church) is the minster church of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Playhouse

Leeds Playhouse is a theatre in the city centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Town Hall

Leeds Town Hall is a 19th-century municipal building on The Headrow (formerly Park Lane), Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Lied

In the Western classical music tradition, Lied is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music.

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List of bands originating in Leeds

The following is a list of bands originating from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Live at Leeds

Live at Leeds is the first live album by English rock band the Who.

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Live at Leeds (festival)

Live at Leeds is a music festival that takes place across various venues in Leeds, England, on the weekend of the May Day bank holiday.

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Liverpool

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

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Love Parade

The Love Parade (Loveparade) was an electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany.

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Madball

Madball is an American New York hardcore band.

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Madonna

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Marxism–Leninism

Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution.

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Mel B

Melanie Janine Brown (born 29 May 1975), commonly known as Mel B or Melanie B, is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress.

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Mercury Prize

The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released by a musical act from the United Kingdom or Ireland.

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Metal Hammer is a heavy metal music magazine and website founded in 1983, published in the United Kingdom by Future, with other language editions published by different companies available in numerous other countries.

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Metro (British newspaper)

Metro is the United Kingdom's highest-circulation freesheet tabloid newspaper.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist.

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Millennium Square, Leeds

Millennium Square is a city square in the Civic Quarter of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Moor Music Festival

The Moor Music Festival was an annual music festival held initially on a farm in Addingham Moorside, near the town of Ilkley, West Yorkshire.

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Morley, West Yorkshire

Morley is a market town and a civil parish within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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Music Venue Trust

The Music Venue Trust is a UK registered charitable organisation which aims to protect, secure and improve grassroots music venues in the United Kingdom.

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National Front (UK)

The National Front (NF) is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom.

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Nazi punk

A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture.

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Neo-Nazism

Neo-Nazism comprises the post-World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazi ideology.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New Yorkshire

New Yorkshire was a musical movement identified by UK music magazine NME in 2005, in response to the success of Yorkshire bands such as Arctic Monkeys, The Cribs, and Kaiser Chiefs at the time.

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NME

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

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Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition.

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O2 Academy Leeds

The O2 Academy Leeds (formerly known as the Town and Country Club) is a music venue situated in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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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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Oi!

Oi! is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s.

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Outbreak Festival

Outbreak Festival is an English hardcore punk festival and concert promotion company founded by Jordan Coupland and Lee Follows in 2011.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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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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Psychedelic pop

Psychedelic pop (or acid pop) is pop music that contains musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music.

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Public Image Ltd

Public Image Ltd (abbreviated and stylized as PiL) are an English post-punk band formed by lead vocalist John Lydon (previously, as Johnny Rotten, lead vocalist of Sex Pistols), guitarist Keith Levene (a founder member of The Clash), bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker in May 1978.

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Pulled Apart by Horses

Pulled Apart by Horses are an English alternative rock band from Leeds.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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Reading and Leeds Festivals

The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England.

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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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Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, also known very briefly as the Lorries, are an English rock band formed in Leeds in early 1981 by guitarist and songwriter Chris Reed, vocalist Mark Sweeney, bassist Steve Smith and drummer Mick Brown.

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Riley & Durrant

Riley & Durrant are an English electronic music production and DJ duo based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Roadrunner Records

Roadrunner Records is an American record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock bands.

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Robbie Williams

Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter.

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Rock Against Racism

Rock Against Racism (RAR) was a political and cultural movement which emerged in 1976 in reaction to a rise in racist attacks on the streets of the United Kingdom and increasing support for the far-right National Front at the ballot box.

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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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Roundhay Park

Roundhay Park in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a large urban park situated on the north-east edge of the city, bordered by the suburb of Roundhay to the west, Oakwood to the south and the A6120 outer ring road to the north.

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Royal Blood (band)

Royal Blood are an English rock duo formed in Littlehampton in 2011.

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Scritti Politti

Scritti Politti are a UK band formed in 1977 in Leeds, England by Welsh singer-songwriter Green Gartside, who is the sole remaining member of the original band.

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Send More Paramedics

Send More Paramedics is an English zombie film-influenced crossover thrash band from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975.

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Shebeen

A shebeen (síbín, "home-made whiskey") was originally an illicit bar or club where accessible alcoholic beverages were sold without a license.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.

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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock band formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.

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Skeletal Family

Skeletal Family are an English rock band formed in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in December 1982.

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Sky Larkin

Sky Larkin is an English indie rock band from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, who formed in 2005.

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Slam Dunk Records

Slam Dunk Records or Slam Dunk Music is a British independent record label, promoter and concert organising company, founded in Leeds, England, in 2007.

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Slowthai

Tyron Kaymone Frampton (born 18 December 1994), better known by his stage name Slowthai (stylised in lowercase), is a British rapper.

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Small Brown Bike

Small Brown Bike is a band from Marshall, Michigan, United States that started in 1996.

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Soft Cell

Soft Cell are an English synth-pop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s.

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Southern Death Cult

Southern Death Cult were a British post-punk/gothic rock band that formed in Bradford during the early 1980s.

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Southern Records

Founded 1992 by John Loder, Southern Records is an independent record label (Loder also ran the recording facility Southern Studios).

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Spice Girls

The Spice Girls were an English girl group formed in 1994, consisting of Mel B ("Scary Spice"); Melanie C ("Sporty Spice"); Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"); Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"); and Victoria Beckham ("Posh Spice").

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.

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Straight edge

Straight edge (sometimes abbreviated as sXe or signified by XXX or simply X) is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and recreational drugs in reaction to the punk subculture's excesses.

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Street punk

Street punk (sometimes alternatively spelled streetpunk) is an urban working class-based subgenre of punk rock, which emerged as a rebellion against the perceived artistic pretensions of the first wave of British punk.

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Submotion Orchestra

Submotion Orchestra are a seven piece band formed in 2009 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.

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Techno

Techno is a genre of electronic dance music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range of 120 to 150 beats per minute (BPM).

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Temple Newsam

Temple Newsam (historically Temple Newsham), is a Tudor-Jacobean house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown.

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The Bridewell Taxis

The Bridewell Taxis (later The Bridewells) were an English, Leeds-based indie rock group, active from 1987 to 1993.

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The Cockpit (Leeds)

The Cockpit was a club and music venue in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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The Danse Society

The Danse Society are an English gothic rock band, formed in Barnsley in 1980.

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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The Expelled

The Expelled were a punk rock band first formed in July 1981 in Leeds, England.

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The Fall (band)

The Fall were an English post-punk group, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

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The Flex (band)

The Flex (formerly known as Rick Flex) are an English hardcore punk band from Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The March Violets

The March Violets are an English post-punk/gothic rock band formed in 1981 in Leeds, incorporating male & female singers, drum machine rhythms and echo-laden electric guitar, much in the style of fellow Leeds band the Sisters of Mercy.

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The Mekons

The Mekons are a British band formed in the late 1970s as an art collective.

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The Mission (band)

The Mission (known as the Mission UK in the United States) are an English gothic rock band formed in 1986.

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The New European

The New European is a British pan-European weekly political and cultural newspaper and website.

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The Pigeon Detectives

The Pigeon Detectives are an English indie rock band from Rothwell in Leeds, West Yorkshire, who formed in 2004.

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The Press (York)

The Press is a local, daily, paid for, newspaper, for North and East Yorkshire.

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The Prodigy

The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music band formed in Braintree, Essex, in 1990 by producer, keyboardist, and songwriter Liam Howlett.

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The Quietus

The Quietus is a British online music and pop culture magazine founded by John Doran and Luke Turner.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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The Sisterhood (gothic rock band)

The Sisterhood was a musical project led by Andrew Eldritch.

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The Sisters of Mercy

The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band formed in Leeds in 1980.

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The Stooges

The Stooges, originally billed as the Psychedelic Stooges, and also known as Iggy and the Stooges, were an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander.

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The Three Johns

The Three Johns were an English post-punk/indie rock band formed in 1981 in Leeds, England, originally consisting of guitarist Jon Langford (co-founder of the Mekons), vocalist John Hyatt and bassist Phillip "John" Brennan, augmented by a drum machine.

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The Wedding Present

The Wedding Present are an English indie rock group formed in 1985 in Leeds, England, by members of The Lost Pandas.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in London in 1964.

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The Wonder Years (band)

The Wonder Years is an American rock band from Lansdale, Pennsylvania, formed in July 2005.

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This Et Al

This Et Al were an English alternative rock band, from Leeds and Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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Turnstile (band)

Turnstile is an American hardcore punk band from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2010.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976.

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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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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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University of Leeds Refectory

The University of Leeds Refectory is a 2,100-capacity music venue located on the University of Leeds main campus in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Utah Saints

Utah Saints are an English electronic music duo consisting of members Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt.

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V Festival

V Festival, often referred to as V Fest or simply V, was an annual music festival held in the United Kingdom during the third weekend in August.

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Vague (club)

Vague was an influential art club night held at The Warehouse nightclub in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, from 1993 to 1996.

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Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14.

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Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal).

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Vein.fm

Vein.fm (formerly known as Vein) is an American metalcore band from Boston that formed in 2013.

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Vice Media Group LLC is a Canadian-American digital media and broadcasting company.

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References

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

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