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Tony Banks is a Rock act. Their sound grew out of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, David Bowie, Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich. Those roots explain a lot about how Tony Banks arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Genesis, Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel, Mike & The Mechanics and Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Mike & The Mechanics, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 30 connections around Tony Banks, reaching back through Sergei Rachmaninoff and forward to Mike & The Mechanics. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Tony Banks connections
Tony Banks grew out of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, David Bowie and Gustav Mahler, shares an orbit with Genesis, Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel and Mike & The Mechanics, went on to shape Mike & The Mechanics. 30 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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