Baby Tuckoo was an English
hard rock
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band, formed in
Bradford
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,
West Yorkshire
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, England in 1982.
Their name is taken from the first sentence of the
James Joyce
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novel
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''
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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''.
They were generally considered a part of the second generation of
new wave of British heavy metal
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.
They released two
album
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s with Rob Armitage (vocals), Neil Saxton (guitar), Andy Barrott (keyboards, guitar), Paul Smith (bass) and Tony Sugden (drums).
[''The New Wave of British Heavy Metal Encyclopedia'' by Malc Macmillan, Iron Pages, 2001, p. 57] Prior to their
recording
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career, Steve Holton (vocals) and Andy Tidswell (keyboards) were in the band.
Armitage left to join
Accept in 1987, but was replaced by the American
David Reece in 1988 without having taken part in any releases from the band.
He later joined the UK outfit
Jagged Edge, and founded a band named Passion.
Discography
Albums
*1984: ''First Born'' (Ultranoise)
*1986: ''Force Majeure'' (
Music for Nations
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)
Singles and EPs
*1984: "Mony Mony" (Albion) –
single
*1986: "Rock (Rock)" (Music for Nations) – single and
EP
*1986: "
The Tears of a Clown
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" (Fun After All) – EP (The A-side, a
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
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cover, was not included on any Baby Tuckoo album)
See also
*
List of new wave of British heavy metal bands
The mid-late 1970s–early 1980s period in the United Kingdom introduced a movement of young musicians, generally identified as the new wave of British heavy metal (often abbreviated as NWOBHM). The movement spawned more than a thousand hard rock ...
References
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English hard rock musical groups
Musical groups established in 1982
1982 establishments in England
New Wave of British Heavy Metal musical groups