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Cheeky Parade (チィキィパレード) is a Japanese pop idol group. They are the second group to debut under avex sub-label iDOL Street, following SUPER☆GiRLS. Members: Watanabe Asami (渡辺亜紗美) Sekine Yuna (関根優那) Shimazaki Rino (島崎莉乃) Suzuki Yuriya (鈴木友梨耶) Mizorogi Seran (溝呂木世蘭) Nagai Hina (永井日菜) Kodakari Momoka (小鷹狩百花) On hiatus (studying abroad in Los Angeles): Yamamoto Marin (山本真凜) Suzuki Mariya (鈴木真梨耶) .

Mayday Parade was born in 2005 when two popular Tallahassee bands, Kid Named Chicago and Defining Moment, decided to merge and form one group. Both bands had been friends for a long time but they each seemed to have different kind of holdups. They pooled their resources, booted out the undedicated members and decided to take the good from each band and move forward. Armed with a dynamic lead singer Derek Sanders of Defining Moment, Mayday Parade explodes with energy and personality. Fans of both bands came together in support of the Parade and it wasn't long until thousands of...

Electric Light Orchestra were a symphonic rock band which formed in Birmingham, England in 1970. The band was formed by Jeff Lynne (vocals, guitar, multiple instruments), Roy Wood (multiple instruments, vocals), Richard Tandy (keyboards, vocals) and Bev Bevan (drums). Lynne, Wood and Bevan were former members of the psychedelic rock band The Move. The band's lineup would fluctuate throughout its original incarnation, although Lynne, Tandy and Bevan would remain constant members. They incorporated the sounds of string ensembles, vocoders and dub echos into rock songs, thereby creating a very sophisticated studio version of rock. The musical content of ELO songs...

Graeme Elston's first band, which later led to Pure/Eva Luna, Astronaut and Slipslide. (The Gravy Train was another splinter band from Love Parade.) Their first release was a flexi on Stephen Maughan's Dolphin 7 label in 1989, and it came with his This Almighty Pop! fanzine. The only proper vinyl releases were the eps "Lazy Days" and "The Guilt Chest", both on German label A Turntable Friend (1990). Japanese fans could rejoice over a cassette compiling all those songs plus a few extras, called "Past Crimes". This tape is supposedly from 1991. .