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Freddie Phillips was a musician and composer best known for his work on theme music for British television. His most famous works are the children's programmes, Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley. He died on October 4th, 2003 in Surrey, England. Read more on Last.fm

Barış Manço (also spelt Baris Mancho or Baris Manco in some European album releases) (1943 -1999) was a Turkish singer, composer, and television producer. Manço was born on 2nd January 1943 in Istanbul. His mother, Rikkat Uyanık, had been a famous singer in the early 1940s. His older brother, who was born during World War II, was named Savaş ("war" in Turkish) while he was named Barış ("peace" in Turkish) by his parents to celebrate the end of the war. Read more on Last.fm

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Kavus Torabi (born 5 December 1971, in Tehran, Iran) is a British musician and composer (of Iranian descent), record label owner and broadcaster. A multi-instrumentalist, he is known for his work in the psychedelic, avant-garde rock field (primarily as a guitarist). Torabi was one of the founding members of The Monsoon Bassoon (as singer, guitarist and one of the two primary composers) and subsequently joined the cult psychedelic rock group Cardiacs as second guitarist. Read more on Last.fm

Singer with a harp and piano based in Manchester, UK. Often collaborating with a fellow singer-songwriter Joel Harries (Lichen Slow, Joss Carter & Joel Harries, 72%). First studio album Basic Surgeon released in November 2023. Read more on Last.fm

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Timothy James Curry (April 19, 1946 - August 25, 2026), born in Grappenhall, a district of Warrington, England, was an English actor, vocalist and composer perhaps best known for his role as mad scientist Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). He also had a later career as a rock musician. He studied Drama and English at Birmingham and then at Cambridge. His list of roles is extremely extensive, in both TV and movies, live-action and voice-acting for animated features Read more on Last.fm

Hakushi Hasegawa (長谷川白紙) is a jazz-pop/glitch pop musician and producer from Japan Read more on Last.fm

Son Lux was founded as a solo project of Ryan Lott and is now a trio consisting of Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia. His debut recording, At War With Walls and Mazes (2008), earned him the title of "Best New Artist" by NPR's All Songs Considered. Lott has built an impressive list of collaborators including everyone from indie-rock darlings such as Sufjan Stevens, Peter Silberman (The Antlers), These New Puritans, My Brightest Diamond; to composers and classical world institutions such as Nico Muhly Read more on Last.fm