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    The Modern Lovers were an American rock band led by Jonathan Richman in the 1970s and 1980s. The original band existed from 1970 to 1974 but their recordings...
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  • The Modern Lovers is the debut studio album by American rock band the Modern Lovers. It was released on Beserkley Records in 1976, though the original...
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  • The Original Modern Lovers is an album of songs recorded by American rock band the Modern Lovers. The sessions were produced by Kim Fowley in 1973 and...
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  • Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers is the first album by American rock band Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, released by Beserkley Records...
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  • Modern Lovers 88 is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. Recorded and released in late 1987, it became...
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  • with the Modern Lovers is the second album by American rock band Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, released by Beserkley Records in 1977. The album...
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  • was a hit for him in 1974 and became the title track on his debut album. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers had a UK #5 hit with an instrumental version...
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  • The Modern Lovers were an American rock band. Modern Lovers may also refer to: The Modern Lovers (album), a 1976 album by the band Modern Lovers 88, a...
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    Jonathan Richman (category The Modern Lovers members)
    songwriter and guitarist. In 1970, he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or...
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  • Modern Lovers is a novel by New York Times bestselling author Emma Straub. Published on May 31, 2016, the novel focuses on a group of former bandmates...
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    Kim Fowley (category The Runaways)
    as bonus tracks on later issues of The Modern Lovers (1976), the album The Original Modern Lovers (1981), and the Warner Bros. Loss Leaders compilation...
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  • Roadrunner (Jonathan Richman song) (category The Modern Lovers songs)
    the Modern Lovers. Richman has described it as an ode to Massachusetts Route 128. Critic Greil Marcus described it as "the most obvious song in the world...
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    Jerry Harrison (category The Modern Lovers members)
    the band the Modern Lovers, before becoming keyboardist and guitarist for the new wave group Talking Heads. In 2002, Harrison was inducted into the Rock...
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  • is the fourth album by American rock band Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, released in 1983 by Sire Records. The album placed number 8 in The Village...
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  • Back in Your Life is the third album by American rock band Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, released in February 1979 by Beserkley Records. Despite...
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  • Three "The Fenway" by Jonathan Richman (Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers) "Fly Into the Mystery" by Jonathan Richman (The Modern Lovers) "For Boston"...
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    the Rising Tide, the Modern Lovers, the Pop!, DMZ and the Cars. In 2018, Robinson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the...
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    two things the band were seeking out. When Frantz called Harrison, he was still feeling burnt out from the demise of the original Modern Lovers and had just...
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    with the Modern Lovers and DMZ. Robinson, whose sense of fashion exerted a strong influence on the band's image, suggested the band's new name, the Cars...
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    house in Cohasset, Massachusetts, which at the time was being rented by Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers. She overdosed shortly before her 23rd birthday...
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  • consciousness'". The Guardian. Retrieved July 22, 2015. "The Modern Lovers | Biography, Albums, Streaming Links". AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-04-12. "Watch the Proto-Punk...
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  • not involved in the 1972 sessions which produced the first Modern Lovers album, though Felice is featured on a few live Modern Lovers recordings, on lead...
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  • Modern Lovers from their 1977 album Rock 'n' Roll with the Modern Lovers "Ice Cream Man", a song by John Brim "Ice Cream Man", a song by Van Halen on the 1978...
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  • contains covers of the Modern Lovers' "Pablo Picasso" and George Harrison's "Try Some, Buy Some". One of the tracks, "Bring Me the Disco King", dated...
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  • direct lyrics and the full sound of the music. Robert Christgau of the Village Voice compared Gano to Jonathan Richman of the Modern Lovers. Gano himself...
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  • Rockin' and Romance is the fifth album by American rock band Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, released in 1985 as part of a two-album deal for Richman...
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  • Unknown. The title alludes to "Roadrunner", a song by The Modern Lovers, that appears in the film. The documentary is a blend of archival footage and new...
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  • "Roadrunner" by The Modern Lovers "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)" by Ramones* "The Wait (Killing Joke cover)" by Metallica "In the Ancient...
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    February the following year, "Love ā†’ Building on Fire". In March 1977, they added Jerry Harrison, formerly of Jonathan Richman's band the Modern Lovers, on...
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  • important bands, such as Suicide and the Modern Lovers debuted even earlier. CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, referring to the first show by Television at his club...
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