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David Gamson
David Gamson
British musician
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B.E.F.
B.E.F.
British band and music production company
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Young Marble Giants
Young Marble Giants
Welsh post-punk band
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Tracey Thorn
Tracey Thorn
English singer and songwriter
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Eurythmics
Eurythmics
British music duo
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The System
The System
American band
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Desperate Bicycles
Desperate Bicycles
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Wet Wet Wet
Wet Wet Wet
Scottish band
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Tom Robinson Band
Tom Robinson Band
band
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The Adverts
The Adverts
British punk band
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Ian Broudie
Ian Broudie
English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from Liverpool
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Simon Climie
Simon Climie
British songwriter and producer
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Heaven 17
Heaven 17
New wave synthpop band from the United Kingdom
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Bis
Bis
Scottish indie pop band
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The Raincoats
The Raincoats
British band
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Meshell Ndegeocello
Meshell Ndegeocello
American recording artist; musician
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Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle
American singer and musician
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A Certain Ratio
A Certain Ratio
band
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Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
English indie rock band
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Travie McCoy
Travie McCoy
American rapper and singer from New York
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The B-52's
The B-52's
American rock band
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The Jam
The Jam
English rock band
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The Go-Betweens
The Go-Betweens
Australian indie rock band
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Luciana Caporaso
Luciana Caporaso
British singer and songwriter
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Simply Red
Simply Red
English soul band
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The Housemartins
The Housemartins
British band
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The Pastels
The Pastels
Scottish music group
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Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals
Welsh rock band
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Strawberry Switchblade
Strawberry Switchblade
Scottish pop duo
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Minny Pops
Minny Pops
Dutch musical group
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Billie Ray Martin
Billie Ray Martin
German singer
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Blue Orchids
Blue Orchids
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Robert Quine
Robert Quine
American guitarist
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Prefab Sprout
Prefab Sprout
English rock band
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Ebn Ozn
Ebn Ozn
1980s New York synth pop duo
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Bananarama
Bananarama
English pop group
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Lee Dorsey
Lee Dorsey
American pop/R&B singer
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LiLiPUT
LiLiPUT
band
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Skillz
Skillz
American rapper
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Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks
British band
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Pigbag
Pigbag
band
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Sham 69
Sham 69
British Punk/Oi! band
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The Lightning Seeds
The Lightning Seeds
English rock band
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Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive
British band
Intro
British new wave band
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Scritti Politti is a British band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, England, by Welsh singer-songwriter Green Gartside. He is the only member of the band to have remained throughout the group's history.

Beginning as a punk-inspired collective of art students and squatters, Scritti Politti released several early post-punk recordings on Rough Trade Records before transitioning into a mainstream pop music project in the early to mid- 1980s, enjoying significant success in the record charts in the UK and the US. The group's most successful album, 1985's Cupid & Psyche 85, spawned three UK Top 20 hits with "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)", "Absolute", and "The Word Girl", as well as a US Top 20 hit with "Perfect Way".

The band's 1988 album Provision was a UK Top 10 success, though it only produced one UK Top 20 hit single, "Oh Patti". After releasing two non-album singles in 1991, as well as a collaboration with B.E.F., Gartside became disillusioned with the music industry and retired to south Wales for more than seven years. He returned in the late 1990s, releasing a new album, Anomie & Bonhomie, in 1999 (which included various rock and hip hop influences). In 2005 Rough Trade released the compilation Early, which collected the band's first releases. In 2006 Gartside released the stripped-down White Bread, Black Beer.