Amazorblades were one of the early British
punk rock groups
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, as chronicled in
Henrik Poulsen's book ''
77: The Year of Punk and New Wave'', from
Brighton
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,
England
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. They released a
single
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* Single (music), a song release
Songs
* "Single" (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004
* "Single" (New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo song), 2008
* "Single" (William Wei song), 2016
* "Single", by ...
, "Common Truth" c/w "Mess Around" on
Chiswick Records. It was later featured on the ''Long Shots, Dead Certs And Odds On Favourites (Chiswick Chartbusters Volume Two)''
compilation album
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(1978: Chiswick).
Band member
Chopper went on to join the
Oysterband. Fellow member
Ben Mandelson
Ben Mandelson (born 6 October 1953, in Everton, Liverpool, England) is an English world musician, and also manager and producer.
Punk and new wave years
In the mid-1970s, Mandelson was a student at Bolton Institute of Technology (now Bolton Univ ...
(aka Hijaz Mustapha) was a founder member of
3 Mustaphas 3
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with Chopper and is now a noted
world music record producer
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. Rob Keyloch is currently running a successful
recording studio
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.
Drummer
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Steve Harris died on 11 January 2008.
References
External links
Amazorblades Journal
English punk rock groups
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