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John Foxx is a Ambient and Psychedelic rock act. Their catalogue also touches Synth-pop. Their sound grew out of The Soft Moon, Have a Cigar, Fats Waller and The Beatles. Those roots explain a lot about how John Foxx arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ultravox, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Propaganda, Tubeway Army and Thompson Twins, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Marsheaux, Kim Wilde, Construction Time Again, Midge Ure and Howard Donald, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around John Foxx, reaching back through The Soft Moon and forward to Marsheaux. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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John Foxx connections
John Foxx grew out of The Soft Moon, Have a Cigar, Fats Waller and The Beatles, shares an orbit with Ultravox, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Propaganda and Tubeway Army, went on to shape Marsheaux, Kim Wilde, Construction Time Again and Midge Ure. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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