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  • ...with musical numbers produced by [[Ed Welch]], and credited to the film's fictional groups Kipper, and The Climax Sisters (played by Diane Langton and Linda Re [[Category:Films about music and musicians]]
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  • [[Category:Fictional musicians|Rumpo]] [[Category:Fictional British people|Rumpo]]
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  • Mervyn, Malcolm, Alex, Miranda and Jill are music students at the (fictional) London Academy of Music and the Arts. They decide to share a flat to pool ...olai Rimsky-Korsakov]], but the supercilious know-it-all Harold annoys the musicians with constant criticism and they have their own back on him, with an over-f
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  • ...an Gibson]] (his final film before his death in 2004). The plot concerns a fictional 1970s rock band named Strange Fruit, who, after being split up for two deca [[Category:Fictional musical groups]]
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  • ...in turn led Innes and Stanshall to a union with [[The Scaffold]] and other musicians, poets and performers later that year as [[Grimms|GRIMMS]]. While Stanshall ...ortrayed Dirk McQuickly (a character based on [[Paul McCartney]]), and the fictional group briefly performed 'I Must Be In Love', a suitably Beatlesque pastiche
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  • In 1990, Kaye played the fictional local television presenter Maynard Lavery in an edition of ''[[Last of the [[Category:English gay musicians]]
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  • ...strictive practices and deals with the [[Musicians' Union (United Kingdom)|Musicians Union]] that were not only frustrating him and his listeners, but also maki ...l=http://mmusicmag.com/m/2012/11/bohemian-rhapsody-queen/ |title=M Music & Musicians Magazine " "Bohemian Rhapsody" QUEEN |date=11 November 2012 |publisher=Mmus
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  • Set on the fictional [[Craggy Island]], a remote location off Ireland's west coast, ''Father Ted ...ures of three Irish [[Roman Catholic]] priests who live in a parish on the fictional [[Craggy Island]], located off the west coast of [[Ireland]]. [[Father Ted
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  • ...working-class kids of Dublin to power his movie 'The Commitments,' about a fictional Irish band |work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date=11 August 1991|url= http://art ...s services, and has unlikely stories about meeting and working with famous musicians. Joey names the band "The Commitments".
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  • ...eries, made in 1983, was called ''[[The Black Adder]]'' and was set in the fictional reign of "[[Richard IV of England (Blackadder)|Richard IV]]". The second se ...t inquiry into the recent banking crisis. Blackadder, chief executive of a fictional British bank, appearing with Baldrick as his gardener, convinces the panel
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  • ...r Geldray and incidental music was now provided by a big band of freelance musicians under the direction of [[Wally Stott]], who had been writing for the show s ...ere provided by a hand-picked [[big band]] made up of London-based session musicians.<ref name="Wilmut1976"/> The arrangements and musical direction were done b
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  • ...ohn Actor''' (Day), who plays Inspector Monkfish, the title character in a fictional BBC police drama. Monkfish is a "tough, uncompromising cop" who often excla ...nt Green|Soylent]]. In addition, some guests were obvious parodies of real musicians such as [[Jay Kay]], [[Tony Bennett]] and [[Nigel Kennedy]]. (series 2–3
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  • Morley had many friendships with fellow musicians and industry colleagues. While working on ''The Goon Show'', she made the a ...}. ''Wooley’s website'', retrieved 26 March 2018.</ref> ''1977'' is a semi-fictional account of the year in which Morley was enlisted to complete composition of
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  • ...showcase Harry as the lead under the name of 'Fearless Harry Secombe'. The fictional Secombe was still attended to by his factotum Frothpump ([[Peter Sellers]] |Recorded with no musicians, orchestra or audience.
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  • ...access-date=24 September 2019 |work=Huffington Post}}</ref> Among the many musicians who have publicly attributed their activism—and the organisation of their ...d from the "Dead Parrot" sketch, which they had written. Chapman's comedic fictional memoir, ''[[A Liar's Autobiography]]'', was adapted into an animated 3D mov
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  • ...azlehurst conducted it. It was recorded at Lime Grove on 11 May 1982, with musicians [[John Horler]], [[Dave Richmond]], Bigden, and Proctor. Sullivan had inten In October 2015, ''He Who Dares...'', a fictional autobiography, was published by [[Ebury Publishing|Ebury Press]]. The book
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