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Happy Mondays is a Rap act. Their sound grew out of Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Rage Against the Machine, The Psychedelic Furs and Paul Oakenfold. Those roots explain a lot about how Happy Mondays arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Primal Scream, The Soup Dragons, The La's, James and The Jam, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Kirsty MacColl, Richard Ashcroft, Freedom! '90, Demon Days and The Beatles, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Happy Mondays, reaching back through Peter Hook and forward to Kirsty MacColl. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Happy Mondays connections
Happy Mondays grew out of Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Rage Against the Machine and The Psychedelic Furs, shares an orbit with Primal Scream, The Soup Dragons, The La's and James, went on to shape Kirsty MacColl, Richard Ashcroft, Freedom! '90 and Demon Days. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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