• Virgin Prunes were an Irish post-punk band formed in 1977 in Dublin. They disbanded in 1986 after the departure of singer Gavin Friday. The other members...
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    Gavin Friday (category Virgin Prunes members)
    painter, best known as a founding member of the post-punk group The Virgin Prunes. Fionan Hanvey was born in Dublin and attended primary and post-primary...
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    and his other middle names make reference to Guggi, a member of the Virgin Prunes, and Quincy Jones, a long-time friend of his father. Bono's naming decision...
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    Dik Evans (category Virgin Prunes members)
    is an Irish musician. He is a co-founder and guitarist of the band Virgin Prunes, and a co-founder and early guitarist of the band that later became...
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    Guggi (category Virgin Prunes members)
    Irish artist, painter and sculptor, once a member of the post-punk band Virgin Prunes alongside his close friend Gavin Friday. Guggi was born in Dublin in...
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  • ownership, the Rusks hired Terry Tolkin who signed the Butthole Surfers and Virgin Prunes to the label, and also produced the Gods Favorite Dog compilation. Soon...
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  • ...If I Die, I Die (category Virgin Prunes albums)
    ...If I Die, I Die is the debut studio album by Irish rock band Virgin Prunes. It was released on 4 November 1982 by record label Rough Trade. It was...
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  • Trinitones True Tides Turn Two Door Cinema Club U2 The Undertones Villagers Virgin Prunes VNV Nation The Walls Waterboys Walking on Cars Waylander We Should Be...
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  • the following years, this style was also adopted by Marc Almond, the Virgin Prunes and Nina Hagen. Sex Gang Children, too, incorporated elements of cabaret...
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  • The Grey Area is a Mute Records division founded in 1990 to restore and reissue the catalogue of artists who influenced Daniel Miller, head of Mute Records...
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    album featured a number of vocalists, including Gavin Friday of the Virgin Prunes, Debbie Harry of Blondie, Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, Andy...
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    her favorite artists. While in Dublin at age fifteen, Love attended a Virgin Prunes concert, an event she credited as being a pivotal influence: "I had...
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  • Loves is the debut album from Gavin Friday following his exit from the Virgin Prunes. It was released in 1989 and is also his first collaboration with Maurice...
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  • Heresie (EP) (category Virgin Prunes albums)
    Hérésie is a double 10" extended play box set by the Irish post-punk band Virgin Prunes. It was released in November 1982 by L'Invitation Au Suicide, which...
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    Midgets Two Nice Girls James "Blood" Ulmer Ultramarine Taken by Trees The Virgin Prunes The Veils Venom Vomit Launch Warpaint Weekend Lucinda Williams Victoria...
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    Perspectives and Distortion compilation album, which also featured Virgin Prunes, Lemon Kittens, Thomas Leer, Kevin Coyne and Mark Perry. In November...
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  • by the Irish rock band Virgin Prunes. It was released on 8 January 1981 by Baby Records. All songs written by the Virgin Prunes. UK 7-inch EP (baby 001)...
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  • up the tunnel. He worked with producer Colin Newman of Wire on the Virgin Prunes’ If I Die I Die (1982) before securing his first major production role...
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  • The Moon Looked Down and Laughed (category Virgin Prunes albums)
    band Virgin Prunes. It was released in July 1986 by Baby Records in Europe, and on Touch and Go Records in the U.S. All tracks are written by Virgin Prunes...
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    he did come over like an old woman sometimes." —The Edge, on how the Virgin Prunes nicknamed Clayton At age 13, Clayton entered the private St Columba's...
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  • Pagan Lovesong (category Virgin Prunes songs)
    by the Irish post-punk band Virgin Prunes, released June 1982 by Rough Trade Records. All songs written by the Virgin Prunes UK 7" single (RT 106) "Pagan...
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  • Baby Turns Blue (category Virgin Prunes songs)
    "Baby Turns Blue" is a single by the Irish post-punk band Virgin Prunes, released on 9 October 1982 by Rough Trade Records. The remixed 12" version was...
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    on. After Dik Evans left the group to join another local band, the Virgin Prunes, the remaining four officially changed the name from "The Hype" to "U2"...
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    Pink Phenomena (who started as a backing duo for early Soft Cell), the Virgin Prunes and the Rose McDowall side-project Ornamental in the 1980s, and later...
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    Party, Southern Death Cult, Specimen, Sex Gang Children, UK Decay, Virgin Prunes, Killing Joke, and the Damned. Near the peak of this first generation...
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  • A New Form of Beauty (category Virgin Prunes albums)
    Beauty Parts 1–4 is a 1983 compilation album by Irish post-punk band Virgin Prunes. It collected parts 1 through 4 of the A New Form of Beauty project...
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  • Artfuck: A Compilation of Rarities (1980–1983) (category Virgin Prunes albums)
    Rarities (1980–1983) is a compilation album by the Irish post-punk band Virgin Prunes. Released on New Rose Records in 1993, it marked the first time the...
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  • Rowen, brother of Bono's friend Guggi (real name Derek Rowen) of the Virgin Prunes. Peter also appears on the covers of U2's early EP Three, two of their...
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  • Spirit of the Gael (2002) With Patrick Street Street Life (2002) With Virgin Prunes ...If I Die, I Die (2004) With Noel Hill The Irish Concertina Two: Teacht...
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  • Other early contributors to the scene included UK Decay and Ireland's Virgin Prunes. Gothic rock would not be adopted as "positive identity, a tribal rallying...
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