◇ image via WikipediaJohnny Kidd & The Pirates
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Buddy Holly. Those roots explain a lot about how Johnny Kidd & The Pirates arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Duane Eddy, Manfred Mann and The Tremeloes, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Who, The Guess Who, Wilko Johnson, The Only Ones and The Saints, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, reaching back through Buddy Holly and forward to The Who. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Johnny Kidd & The Pirates connections
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates grew out of Buddy Holly, shares an orbit with Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Duane Eddy and Manfred Mann, went on to shape The Who, The Guess Who, Wilko Johnson and The Only Ones. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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