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Frank Black
With their weird and wonderful brand of outsider, alternative rock, The Pixies
became favourites of Kurt Cobain and one of the most influential bands of the
late 1980s with their classic albums Surfa Rosa (1988) and Doolittle (1989).
Front man Charles Thompson grew up listening to 1960s beat groups and religious
preachers before discovering punk and avant garde cinema in his teens, and after
the demise of The Pixies in 1992, the Bostonian turned solo under the pseudonym
Frank Black. Debut Frank Black (1993) continued his concoction of raucous,
lo-fi, surf rock, reaching Number 9 ...
