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  • The Idle Hands – All Night Sinnin

    All Night Sinnin', the fifth album release from Chesterfield's The Idle Hands, does what you'd expec

  • The Move – Looking On

    1970's Looking On, the third album from The Move, came complete with yet another new member. Followi

  • The Idle Race – The Birthday Party

    The quirky, lyrical and often whimsical Idle Race emerged out of the ashes of The Nightriders - the

  • The Idle Race - I Like my Toys

    In need of cheering up? I certainly am. Following a week of unbearable heat and now thunderstorms, l

    • Biography The Idle Race

    The Idle Race
    The Idle Race were an English cult rock group from Birmingham, in the late 1960s. In addition to being the springboard for a very young Jeff Lynne, the band holds a place of significance in Midlands rock history as a link between Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, the Steve Gibbons Band and Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders. Band history The core of the group -- Nightriders rhythm guitarist Dave Pritchard, bass guitarist Greg Masters and drummer Roger Spencer -- went relatively unchanged from 1959 until February 1972. The band went through several incarnations, lead guitarists and lead singers -- first Billy King and later, more successfully, with Mike Sheridan, with whom they first rose to prominence and, in 1964, to a record deal with EMI. While Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders failed to crack the charts, the band's lineup during this period included a young lead guitarist and composer named Roy Wood, whose first comme

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