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Lone Star
12+ albums
hard rockrockProgressive rock60sspanish
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There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) Lone Star was a 60s Spanish rock band. 2) Lone Star was a 70s Welsh prog-rock band formed in Cardiff in 1975. 3) Lone Star is an electronic dance musician and producer. 1) Lone Star was a 60s Spanish rock band and one of the main band in the "Era Dorada de los Grupos Españoles" (Golden Age of Spanish Bands) that included Brincos, Bravos, Sirex, Mustangs, Salvajes, Z-66, Tony Ronald Group, Micky y Los Tonys, Los Relámpagos, Los Módulos, etc., in the 60s and 70s. In 1959, Pedro Gené, musician of Conservatory, decide to go away to England. After a year, he returned to Spain and formed Rafael of the Fertile Valley we bass, Enrique Lopez - drums, Enric Fuster - piano and Pedro Gené - vocals and guitar. Gené, very influenced by the Blues, puts to the group the name of LONE STAR (moreover, it is the Indian name of the doll that will be the mascot of the group the first years). During one of the first performances of the band, a Dutch of name Willy Nab, suddenly join them and touches a pair of songs with the group. Nab will be the fifth component of LONE STAR. In 1962 they recorded the first disc, an EP, "My Babe", the first Rock performed in English in Spain. 2) Lone Star was a 70s Welsh prog-rock band formed in Cardiff in 1975 by Paul 'Tonka' Chapman that released two albums on CBS Records before splitting in 1978. Signed to CBS, the band's self-titled debut album charted at #47 in 1976. By the second album, Firing
