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The Coral
The band The Coral formed in 1996 in Hoylake, Merseyside, England by a
half-dozen schoolmates. Raised on Britpop, Merseybeat and 1960s psychedelic
folk, lead singer James Skelly, bassist Pail Duffy, drummer Ian Skelly,
guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones, and guitarist Lee Southall formed into a jamboree of
jangling indie pop that quickly had NME magazine billing them as the next big
thing. Full of hazy harmonies and tripped-out jams, their eponymous debut album
was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2002, reached Number 5 in the UK
charts and produced the hit single “Dreaming of Yo...
