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The Shadows of Knight

Garage rock
Garage rock

The Shadows of Knight is a Garage rock act. Their sound grew out of Van Morrison, Them, The Byrds, Bo Diddley and Animals. Those roots explain a lot about how The Shadows of Knight arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Sonics, The Yardbirds, The Troggs and The Gories, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Pretty Things, H. P. Lovecraft, Rufus, Chaka Khan and The Romantics, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around The Shadows of Knight, reaching back through Van Morrison and forward to The Pretty Things. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
The Shadows of KnightVan MorrisonThemThe ByrdsBo DiddleyAnimalsThe YardbirdsThe Pretty ThingsH. P. LovecraftRufusChaka KhanThe RomanticsDon McLeanVanilla FudgeMark SteinPaul Revere & The Ra…The SonicsThe YardbirdsThe TroggsThe GoriesThe West Coast Pop A…The Amboy DukesThe Outsiders

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The Shadows of Knight connections

The Shadows of Knight grew out of Van Morrison, Them, The Byrds and Bo Diddley, shares an orbit with Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Sonics, The Yardbirds and The Troggs, went on to shape The Pretty Things, H. P. Lovecraft, Rufus and Chaka Khan. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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