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Violence, hate and ugliness died when punk rock crashed out In its place are New Wve bands like Toronto's The Mods, a group aiming to put fun back in music
Violence, hate and ugliness died when punk rock crashed out In its place are New Wve bands like Toronto's The Mods, a group aiming to put fun back in music

Violence, hate and ugliness died when punk rock crashed out In its place are New Wve bands like Toronto's The Mods, a group aiming to put fun back in music

Date4/18/1979
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  • Violence; hate and ugliness died when punk rock crashed out In its place are New Wve bands like Toronto's The Mods; a group aiming to put fun back in music
  • Violence, hate and ugliness died when punk rock crashed out In its place are New Wve bands like Toronto's The Mods, a group aiming to put fun back in music
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Original Toronto Star caption: Violence; hate and ugliness died when punk rock crashed out In its place are New Wve bands like Toronto's The Mods; a group aiming to put fun back in music
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0102275F
The Mods
The Mods
Beaty, Keith
4/18/1979
Black Sabbath: Rock band's Ronnie James lets it go at Maple Leaf Gardens blow-out last night before 14,000 happy fans who looked like motor cycle gang members between rampages, Peter Goddard says
Black Sabbath: Rock band's Ronnie James lets it go at Maple Leaf Gardens blow-out last night before 14,000 happy fans who looked like motor cycle gang members between rampages, Peter Goddard says
Black Sabbath (Musical group)
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New wave at the Forum. Martha and her Muffins were cooking at Ontario Place last night, and so were the new wave rock band's fans who crammed the Foru(...)
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Drumming up a strom with some hair-raising stick work, Skip Prokop does his thing at Lighthouse rock band's concert in the Forum of Ontario Place last(...)
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Bull, Ron
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Bassist-Singer Geddy Lee took Toronto's Rush band through its most important concert ever at the Granstand last night, says Star rock critic Peter God(...)
Bassist-Singer Geddy Lee took Toronto's Rush band through its most important concert ever at the Granstand last night, says Star rock critic Peter God(...)
Darrell, Dick
8/23/1977
When it comes to drawing out crowds military bands and marching men take a bit of beating
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Griffin, Doug
7/1/1967
Georgetown marks its 50th birthday, Majorettes, antique cars, bands and pipe-and-drum units take part in a half-hour parade through Georgetown to the (...)
Georgetown marks its 50th birthday, Majorettes, antique cars, bands and pipe-and-drum units take part in a half-hour parade through Georgetown to the (...)
Norris, Dave
7/2/1972
A Devil tempts a Metro policeman into a dance yesterday as the big Shriners parade rolled north, with its 135 bands so closely spaced that spectators (...)
A Devil tempts a Metro policeman into a dance yesterday as the big Shriners parade rolled north, with its 135 bands so closely spaced that spectators (...)
Bezant, Graham
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Parade of shriners says it's circus time! The first annual Shrine Circus parade - including 35 units of marching bands, drill teams and motorcades - w(...)
Parade of shriners says it's circus time! The first annual Shrine Circus parade - including 35 units of marching bands, drill teams and motorcades - w(...)
Stawicki, Andrew
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Pet hate. North York Alderman Howard Moscoe likes his city all right, it's just that he can't stand the boundary signs which he says are ugly, nor the(...)
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Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
6/25/1980
Three died yesterday when this eight-passenger Cessna 401 crashed into Lake Ontario while turning for landing at Toronto Island Airport.
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Mahler, John
23 July 1976
Emerging: It's hard to put a label on Joan Armatrading, whose music is pop but has been called everything from rock, soul, folk and jazz
Emerging: It's hard to put a label on Joan Armatrading, whose music is pop but has been called everything from rock, soul, folk and jazz
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3/29/1977