◇ image via WikipediaAlan Menken
Alan Menken is a Pop act. Their sound grew out of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Leonard Bernstein, The Beach Boys and Jerry Goldsmith. Those roots explain a lot about how Alan Menken arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Andrew Lloyd Webber, Patrick Doyle, Danny Elfman, John Powell and John Williams, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Boston Pops Orchestra and Radical Redemption, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Alan Menken, reaching back through The Beatles and forward to Boston Pops Orchestra. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Alan Menken connections
Alan Menken grew out of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Leonard Bernstein and The Beach Boys, shares an orbit with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Patrick Doyle, Danny Elfman and John Powell, went on to shape Boston Pops Orchestra and Radical Redemption. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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