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Martin Bramah
Martin Bramah
English musician
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Una Baines
Una Baines
British musician
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The Fall
The Fall
English post-punk band
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Blue Orchids
Blue Orchids
4
Karl Burns
Karl Burns
British musician
5
The Passage
The Passage
band
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Mark E. Smith
Mark E. Smith
English spoken-word artist, singer, songwriter & bandleader of The Fall (1957-2018)
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Steve Hanley
Steve Hanley
British musician
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Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks
British band
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Sparta
Sparta
rock band from El Paso, Texas
10
Guadalcanal Diary
Guadalcanal Diary
American band
11
Craig Scanlon
Craig Scanlon
English guitarist
12
Marc Riley
Marc Riley
British musician and radio presenter
13
Mark Hoppus
Mark Hoppus
American musician, singer, songwriter
14
The Sleepers
The Sleepers
San Francisco punk/post-punk band
15
The Rockfords
The Rockfords
band
16
Forever the Sickest Kids
Forever the Sickest Kids
American pop punk band from Dallas, Texas
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Heatmiser
Heatmiser
American rock band, formed in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
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Ride
Ride
British shoegazing band
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Rivermaya
Rivermaya
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Meco
Meco
American musician
21
Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Cedric Bixler-Zavala
American singer
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Don Fleming
Don Fleming
American musician and record producer
23
Peter Koppes
Peter Koppes
Australian musician
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Jukka Nevalainen
Jukka Nevalainen
Finnish musician
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Jack Sonni
Jack Sonni
American musician
26
Vice Versa
Vice Versa
English electronic band
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Spin Doctors
Spin Doctors
American rock band
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The Unseen
The Unseen
band that plays punk rock
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Bodyjar
Bodyjar
Australian pop punk band
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Guardian
Guardian
American Christian hard rock/metal band
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The Comsat Angels
The Comsat Angels
English post-punk band from Sheffield and Doncaster, England, initially active from 1978 to 1995
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Motion City Soundtrack
Motion City Soundtrack
American band
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Descendents
Descendents
Punk rock band
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The 77s
The 77s
American rock band
35
Ryan Ross
Ryan Ross
American guitarist, singer and songwriter
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The Fratellis
The Fratellis
Scottish indie rock band
37
Larry Wallis
Larry Wallis
English guitarist, composer and producer
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The Trashmen
The Trashmen
surf rock band
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Marion
Marion
English rock band
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James
James
British rock band
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Orpheo McCord
Orpheo McCord
American composer
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Skrewdriver
Skrewdriver
British band
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Tony Sheridan
Tony Sheridan
British recording artist; singer-songwriter, musician
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Phil Lynott
Phil Lynott
Irish singer and musician
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Cult Leader
Cult Leader
Band
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The Impossibles
The Impossibles
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Mick Jones
Mick Jones
British rock guitarist, singer and songwriter
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Keel
Keel
US band
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Defiance
Defiance
anarcho street punk band from Portland, Oregon
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Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys
American hardcore punk band
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Fitz and the Tantrums
Fitz and the Tantrums
American band
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Christian Burns
Christian Burns
musician
53
Be Your Own Pet
Be Your Own Pet
band
54
Glenn Hughes
Glenn Hughes
British bassist and singer
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Beach Fossils
Beach Fossils
American indie rock band
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T.S.O.L.
T.S.O.L.
American punk rock band
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Strike Anywhere
Strike Anywhere
band
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The Dream Syndicate
The Dream Syndicate
band
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Fat White Family
Fat White Family
English band
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Germs
Germs
American punk rock band
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Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan
Scottish-born skiffle musician
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Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy
American pop punk band
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Brant Bjork
Brant Bjork
American musician and drummer of Kyuss
Tony Friel
British musician

Tony Friel

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British musician
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Music

Tony Friel (born in Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, 4 May 1958) is an English bass guitarist, known for his role in different new wave bands.

He attended Heys Boys Secondary School, where he met Martin Bramah and attained an art O-Level. He and Bramah shared many interests. In the mid-1970s, they were introduced by their friend Barbara Smith to her brother Mark E. Smith and his friend Una Baines. Smith, Baines, Bramah and Friel shared interests in music, and formed their first band, the Fall. Friel remained until December 1977, then he left.

After the Fall, Friel formed a project called Contact and a band called the Passage. In late 1978, he and his former Fall bandmate Karl Burns joined the Teardrops, a group which included Buzzcocks bassist Steve Garvey. They released the Leave Me No Choice EP, and in 1980, the Final Vinyl album, before breaking up.

In subsequent years Friel played with R&B bands. Later he was member of the Woodbank Streetband.