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GOAD – (Looking for the lost dream) The band was born near Florence, thanks to the work of the Rossi brothers, Gianni and Maurilio: The latter, twenty years later, is sill the perfect incarnation of the essence of the band. At the end of 1983, Rossi and the group put out the album Creatures for Northcott Production, a New York label that had already put out their album of covers, Who Can It Be in the USA. The album was published by Emmegi (distributed by Polygram) in 1985. In spite of the lack of support from the label, another album...

Jim Goad is a writer, singer and convicted felon. During the 1990s, he created the magazine ANSWER Me!, which became the subject of controversies involving an obscenity trial, a triple-suicide and the attempted assassination of Bill Clinton. He now contributes to Vice Magazine and is working on a book about NASCAR. .

Les soeurs Goadec were a singing trio of three Breton sisters: Maryvonne Goadec (1900-1983), Anasthasie Goadec (c.1913-1998), and Eugénie Goadec (1909-2003). Originally from Treffrin (Côtes-d'Armor), they began to perform traditional Breton songs at festoù-noz (traditional Breton festivals of song and dance) in 1956, and gained renewed fame and popularity in the Breton revival of the 1960s. They specialised in Breton songs and gwerzioù (ballads or laments), they also developed a three-voice version of the Kan ha diskan (call-and-response singing) as songs for dancing. They stopped performing in 1983 when Maryvonne died, though Eugénie began singing and recording again in1994 with...