BAND PROFILE 1967–1972
The Idle Race
United Kingdom
Psychedelic RockPsychedelic PopFreakbeat
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The Idle Race were a British rock group from Birmingham who in the late 1960s and early 1970s had a cult following but never enjoyed mass commercial success. In addition to being the springboard for Jeff Lynne, the band holds a place of significance in British Midlands' pop-rock history as a link between the Move, Electric Light Orchestra, the Steve Gibbons Band and Mike Sheridan & The Nightriders. The group has been retrospectively described as freakbeat.
Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.
1967The band forms.CAREER
1968Releases a first studio album, The Birthday Party.CAREER
1969Releases Idle Race.CAREER
1971Releases Time Is.CAREER
1968
The Birthday Party
ALBUM
1969
Idle Race
ALBUM
1971
Time Is
ALBUM
1974
Impostors of Life's Magazine
COMPILATION
1990
The Best of the Idle Race featuring Jeff Lynne
COMPILATION
1996
Back to the Story
COMPILATION
2006
Idle Race + Time Is
COMPILATION
2010
Symonds on Sunday (16th September 1969)
LIVE
2014
Psychedelia
COMPILATION
Discography via MusicBrainz.
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