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Wagner, Adrian |
1952 |
Great-great grandson of "the" Richard Wagner, Adrian Wagner was a collaborator with Robert Calvert, as well as a Charisma recording artist and inventor of the "Wasp" keyboard. |
United Kingdom |
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Wakeman, Rick |
1949 |
The silver-caped keyboardist and sometimes-comedian |
United Kingdom |
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Wallenstein |
1971 |
Jürgen Dollase's self-proclaimed "symphonic rock orchestra". Released four interesting albums that feature the drumming of Harald Grosskopf. Later albums had great covers but are of little interest to the progressive... |
Germany |
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Walsh, Steve |
1951 |
The voice of Kansas. |
United States |
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Wavemaker |
1976 |
Second of Brian Hodgon's electronic music projects. |
United Kingdom |
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Way, Darryl |
1948 |
Violinist and composer for Curved Air |
United Kingdom |
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Weidorje |
1977 |
Ex-Magma, Bernard Paganotti and Patrick Gauthier's zeuhl |
France |
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Wetton, John |
1949 |
As a bassist and vocalist, John Wetton's career took many progressive turns throughout the 70s, highlighting his hard-working journeyman spirit, winding up with the big success of Asia in the early 80s. |
United Kingdom |
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White Noise |
1968 |
Largely the project of American David Vorhaus, White Noise represents some of the first releases of electronic music aimed at a commercial audience. He was joined by members of the BBC's legendary Radiophonic Workshop... |
United Kingdom |
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White, Alan |
1949 |
Alan White's career led him from John Lennon to Jon Anderson, with dozens of sessions in between. |
United Kingdom |
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Who, The |
1964 |
From their beginnings as a r&b-influenced singles band with a Mod image, The Who quickly rose to the very top of England's rock elite by sheer virtue of their live performances. Along the way they penned many... |
United Kingdom |
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Wigwam |
1968 |
Finland's world-class progressive rock band featured Englishman Jim Pembroke. Wigwam eventually signed to Virgin Records. |
Finland |
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Wild Turkey |
1971 |
Formed by Eyes Of Blue's Gary Pickford-Hopkins, Jethro Tull's Glenn Cornick, and a pre-Man Tweke Lewis, their earliest lineup included John Weathers but was replaced by a post-Man Jeff Jones. They recorded two albums... |
United Kingdom |
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Wilde Flowers, The |
1964 |
The genesis of the Canterbury scene lay within the ranks of The Wilde Flowers; Ayers, Sinclairs, Hoppers, Coughlan, Hastings, and Wyatt all start here. |
United Kingdom |
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Windchase |
1977 |
Post-Sebastian Hardie band |
Australia |
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Winwood, Steve |
1948 |
From Spencer Davis, to Traffic, to Blind Faith, back to Traffic, Go, and then on to a very successful solo carrer, few musicians have the resume of multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood. A genuine legend of the... |
United Kingdom |
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Wolbrandt, Peter |
1949 |
Guitarist and singer from Kraan |
Germany |
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Wolf, Darryl Way's |
1973 |
Ex-Curved Air violinist's group project |
United Kingdom |
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Wonderland |
1968 |
Frank Dostal and Achim Reichel's post-Rattles band scored a series of singles in the late 60s, and produced one strange album as Wonderland Band. |
Germany |
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Wright, Rick |
1943 |
Keyboard player and legend for Pink Floyd. Formed Zee in the early 80s with vocalist Dave Harris from the new wave group Fashion. |
United Kingdom |
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Wyatt, Robert |
1945 |
Both biped and wheelchair-bound, the one and only. |
United Kingdom |
