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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band was an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "avant garde-blues". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic, unbound timings, the growls and shrieks of Beefheart's vocals and his surreal, poetic lyrics. Throughout their career, the band's musical direction was tightly controlled by Don Van Vliet (1941 - 2010), aka Captain Beefheart, who...

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Date Concert Venue Location
May 05, 1972 –
May 07, 1972
Bickershaw Festival
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Bickershaw Wigan, Lancashire

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Bickershaw Festival
May 5 - 7, 1972
 Wigan, Lancashire
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Bickershaw Festival on May 5, 1972 [837-small]

Bickershaw Festival
May 5 - 7, 1972
 Wigan, Lancashire
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