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Swindon has had a vibrant music scene since the Forties when Johnnie Stiles And His Band were winners of the 'Melody Maker' All Britian Dance Band Champonship; through the mid/late Fifties when the first green shoots of Rock ‘n' Roll began to appear; and on into the Sixties. Swindon Music Scene was initially focused on these formative years; from the Forties, through the Sixties; when Justin Hayward was the most significant Swindon based musician to establish himself in the mainstream of popular music as a key member of The Moody Blues in 1966. However we have now widenend our scope to include any Swindon band or musician, from any period, who have been involved on the Swindon Music Scene Our site will ultimately provide a single point of reference for all the musicians and the dance and rock bands to which they belonged, who laid down the foundations of Swindon's musical heritage. With details of many of the bands and their personnel, backed up by a large number of mainly unpublished photographs, it will be possible to easily track the evolution of local bands, which has, with a few notable exceptions, been poorly chronicled by the media.
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