Graham Bowers is a musician, composer, designer, artist and engineer. Early life and musical influences Graham Bowers was born during a World War II bombing raid on Manchester in 1943. Brought up on a mixed diet of his older sisters? interests in 1940s and 1950s popular music, and his father?s record collection of jazz and country blues, an eclectic mix of artists such as Johnny Ray, Guy Mitchell, Django Reinhardt, Sidney Bechet and Leadbelly were household names, and marked the milestones of his early life. His interest and fascination in ?associative listening? (the association of sound related to life experiences) was thus already formed, and has developed throughout his life acting as the cornerstone and benchmark of his creative output. His early teenage musical activities were involved in forming and being part of skiffle groups, a genre of music in England championed by Lonnie Donegan, at that time the banjoist in th

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