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  2. Dead Can Dance - Wikipedia

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    Gerrard and Perry were a couple who met as members of Melbourne's Little Band scene. Dead Can Dance soon became headliners at Melbourne's main post-punk venue, the Crystal Ballroom in St Kilda, and played an Australian farewell show there in May 1982 before moving to London, England, where they signed with alternative music label 4AD. [4]

  3. Crystal Ballroom (Melbourne) - Wikipedia

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    The Ballroom was a staging ground for Melbourne bands the Birthday Party, [11] Dead Can Dance, [12] Hunters & Collectors, [11] Crime and the City Solution, Models, [11] the Moodists, [12] the Wreckery, [13] TISM, Paul Kelly and the Dots, Cosmic Psychos [13] and Venom P. Stinger.

  4. Lisa Gerrard - Wikipedia

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    Lisa Gerrard was born in Melbourne to Irish immigrant parents, and grew up in Prahran, an inner suburb with a substantial Greek population.She recalled growing up with "Mediterranean music blaring out of the houses" and said that this influenced her music, particularly on later Dead Can Dance albums and in her solo and collaborative works.

  5. Dead Can Dance discography - Wikipedia

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    Dead Can Dance is an ambient, world music band which has released nine studio albums so far, two live albums, four compilation albums, one video album, one extended play and nine singles. [1] The band formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1981 but relocated to London, United Kingdom in 1982 and signed with 4AD Records where they disbanded in 1998.

  6. Music of Melbourne - Wikipedia

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    Between 1920 and 1925, the "Eastern Tent Ballroom" constructed to the rear of the site became an important jazz venue and dance venue in St Kilda, one of the main entertainment districts in Melbourne at the time. In the 1970s, the hotel's Gershwin Room, a grand dining room, was turned into a disco, complete with flashing Saturday Night Fever ...

  7. Melbourne, Iowa - Wikipedia

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    Melbourne suffered the worst disaster in the town's history when a fire consumed the whole business district in 1903; then in 1981 the southern end of town was destroyed by a tornado. [5] The mayor of Melbourne from 1984 until 1998 was Bill Crews, an openly gay man who revealed his orientation during his term, in 1993. At the time, Melbourne ...

  8. Dead Can Dance (album) - Wikipedia

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    Dead Can Dance is the debut studio album by Australian musical act Dead Can Dance. It was released on 27 February 1984 on the 4AD label. ... Code of Conduct;

  9. Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) - Wikipedia

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    Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) (2001) is a four-disc box set, containing three CDs of music spanning Dead Can Dance's career and a DVD of their 1994 video release Toward the Within. While most of the tracks are taken from previously released albums, this set also contains a large number of rarities.