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The Monks, referred to by the name monks on record sleeves, were an American rock band formed in Gelnhausen, West Germany, in 1964.Assembled by five American GIs stationed in the country, the group grew tired of the traditional format of rock, which motivated them to forge a highly experimental style characterized by an emphasis on rhythm over melody, augmented by the heavy use of distortion.
The Monks were a British pop punk/new wave band, formed in the late 1970s by three former members of Strawbs—Richard Hudson (guitar), John Ford (vocals, guitars, synthesisers) and Brian Willoughby—along with Terry Cassidy (vocals and synthesisers) and Clive Pierce ().
The Monks' 1964–1965 demos were professional studio recordings that preceded the album Black Monk Time.These have been released 3 times, all also including two tracks from a single by The Five Torquays (the band's name before transforming themselves into the Monks).
Bad Habits is an album by The Monks, released in 1979.It is a spoof [citation needed] of punk rock led by the former rhythm section of the trad rockers, Strawbs.The songs are composed by Richard Hudson, John Ford and Terry Cassidy.
Black Monk Time is the only studio album by German-based American garage rock band The Monks, released in March 1966 through Polydor Records.The album's subversive style and blunt lyrical content were radical for its time, and today it is considered an important landmark in the development of punk rock.
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The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796 across three volumes. Written early in Lewis's career, it was published before he turned twenty, and he withheld his name from the first edition.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 December 2024. Member of a monastic religious order For other uses, see Monk (disambiguation) and Monks (disambiguation). Portrait depicting a Carthusian monk in the Roman Catholic Church (1446) Buddhist monks collecting alms A monk (from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin ...