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Os Tornados are a rock n roll band from Porto, Portugal. With a passion for the Portuguese Nuggests bands from everyone's fave decade of the last century, Os Tornados serve up new Portuguese-language rock n roll music and wear their influences on their suit sleeves without any desire for revivalism - their retro attention to detail goes from recording on analog tape to playing an actual organ and theremin on stage, not using synths, being vintage for the sake of the quality in the music they make. Their debut album "Twist do Contrabando" will shortly follow the release of their...

Texas Tornados are a Tejano band whose music is a fusion of rock, country and various Mexican styles. The initial combination of these musicians happened almost by chance at a concert performance of a mutual acquaintance. After Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez, Augie Meyers and Doug Sahm performed in front of a San Francisco audience, they all knew the genuine bond they felt in their music could probably be taken to another level. After they initially performed as the Tex-Mex Revue, they took the title Texas Tornados, after Sahm's song and album of that name. Another account of the group's birth...

The Tornados (credited as The Tornadoes in the United States) were a British instrumental group of the 1960s, who acted as the in-house back-up group for many of Joe Meek's productions. The Tornados enjoyed several chart hits in their own right, including the Number One hit "Telstar" (named after the satellite and composed by Meek) which was famously the first Number One hit by a British group in the U.S. For a time, they were considered serious rivals to The Shadows. They were also one of the biggest influences on The Who, and also on the early Pink Floyd. Their...