◇ image via WikipediaTony Banks
Tony Banks is a Rock act. Their sound grew out of Toyah Willcox, Anthony Phillips, Frankie Laine, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Maurice Ravel. Those roots explain a lot about how Tony Banks arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Mike & The Mechanics, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe and Fish, 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 28 connections around Tony Banks, reaching back through Toyah Willcox 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 Toyah Willcox, Anthony Phillips, Frankie Laine and Sergei Rachmaninoff, shares an orbit with Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Mike & The Mechanics and Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, went on to shape Mike & The Mechanics. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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