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There are numerous artists and bands under this name:
1) Morgan was a 1970s English progressive rock band.
MORGAN was formed in the early '70s by two musicians (Morgan Fisher and Maurice Bacon) who had played in the late sixties British pop group The Soul Survivors (a pretty good semi-pro soul band) that became The Love Affair (the hit pop band of "Everlasting Love" fame, whose singer Steve Ellis left when he realised that the soul had gone and pop had taken over) and later L.A. (the prog version of the previous band, with a new singer). L.A. failed in terms of sales because their largely pop audience couldn't understand what they were up to, playing in 5/4 and so on. It was time for a new band, MORGAN: the line-up was formed by keyboardist Morgan Fisher, drummer Maurice Bacon and bassist Bob Sapsed. Singer Tim Staffel, who would put lyrics to Fisher's music, joined from Smile, the pre-Queen outfit of Brian May and Roger Taylor. Ex King Crimson's Ian McDonald even jammed with them while they were auditioning for their fourth member, although as it turned out he didn't join up. They released their debut album in 1972 called "Nova Solis", recorded in RCA Studios in Rome, one of the best that could be found at the time, with every type of keyboard and percussion instrument imaginable. The music in "Nova Solis" is typical '70s progressive rock, with the predominant sound of Fisher's keyboards (Hammond-Organ, Moog, VCS-3 synthesizer, mellotron, electric piano, piano) and a strong rhythmic section.
A second record, initially titled "Brown Out", was recorded in 1973, and is a mix of crazed, hysterical-toned synthesizer solos, winding high operatic vocals, pretentious pseudo-classical keyboard art-rock à la ELP, and artly, experimental song structures in the mold of more serious artists like King Crimson or Gentle Giant.
The "Brown Out" LP was not released after it was recorded, in part because the band pissed off RCA executives by spreading their cheeks at the photo shoot for the album cover. It was released only by Passport Records (USA) in 1977 (titled "Brown Out") and two years later by Cherry Red Records (UK) with a new title: "The Sleeper Wakes" which is also the same title as the Angel Air 1999 CD reissue.
During their stay in Rome, Morgan Fisher also found time to record a solo album in-between sessions for the MORGAN LP. The working title of his solo album was "Morgan Fisher's Hand Job", but RCA cancelled the contract with the band and this album was released only in 1984 by Strike Back Records with a different title: "Ivories". Musically this album gave Fisher a chance to work in the area somewhere between classical music and MORGAN band's music but with none of that pompousness and heaviness associated with the genre.
Fisher joined Mott The Hoople within a few months of the band's breakup, and soldiered on with them as they mutated into Mott The Hoople and then The British Lions.
If you like YES, ELP, NICE, GENTLE GIANT and even KING CRIMSON, with tons of wonderful Wakeman/Emerson style keyboards, you will love MORGAN!!!
MORGAN discography
Morgan - 1972 - Nova Solis
Morgan - 1973 - The Sleeper Wakes
2) Morgan (born Marco Castoldi on December 23, 1972, in Milan) is an Italian singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist.
3) Morgan is a performance name of American singer and songwriter Morgan Kibby, also of White Sea and M83
4) Morgan (Morgan Nicholls), was the bass player for Senseless Things and Vent 414, and has recorded a solo album
5) Morgan was a drum and bass artist
6) Morgan was an obscure psychedelic artist, or a band, of the late 60's
7) Morgan is the name of a horror punk/psychobilly band from Mexico
8) Dave Morgan - singer
9) Morgan is a Spanish rapper
10) A Canadian Country duo
11) Morgan was a post-hardcore band from Detroit/Wixom, Michigan, United States
1) Morgan is also the name of an English progressive rock band which released two albums in the '70s: Nova Solis (1972) and The Sleeper Wakes (aka Brown Out, 1973).
2) Morgan (born Marco Castoldi on December 23, 1972, in Milan) is an Italian singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist. During his teens he played the piano, performing solo a repertoire including songs by artists such as David Bowie and Japan. In 1991 he formed Bluvertigo, along with Andrea "Andy" Fumagalli, Sergio Carnevale and Marco Pancaldi (later to be replaced by Livio Magnini). The band made a trilogy of albums (often referred to as la trilogia chimica, the chemical trilogy), the first one of which was Acidi E Basi (1995), followed by the successful Metallo Non Metallo (1997) and Zero(1999). After the release of the Pop Tools compilation in 2001 the band went on hiatus for an indefinite period. Morgan made numerous collaborations and guest appearances on albums of artists such as Franco Battiato, Subsonica, Cristina Donà, Mauro Pagani and many others. He also appeared in Franco Battiato's movie Perduto Amor. In 2003 he made his solo debut with the concept album Canzoni dell'appartamento, a collection of finely arranged songs equally inspired by italian songwriting and such diverse sources as classical music and Pink Floyd (the album includes a cover version of the Pink Floyd song If, re-worked into italian language). For the work on this album Morgan won the Premio Tenco award. In 2004 he wrote the soundtrack for the Alex Infascelli movie Il siero della vanità. In 2005 he released a remake of the Fabrizio De André 1971 album Non al denaro, non all'amore né al cielo, inspired by the Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. His latest album, titled Da A...ad A, was released in June 2007.
3) Morgan is the performance name of American singer and songwriter Morgan Kibby. Her songs are a fusion of her classical background (piano, cello and opera) and darkwave/industrial music. Her debut album And The Moon was Hungry... was released in 2005, and then remixed and re-released by her short lived band The Romanovs in 2007. Morgan's is currently producing music as White Sea, and is a member of M83, performing some vocals and keyboards on their albums Saturdays=Youth and Hurry Up, We're Dreaming.
4) Morgan (Morgan Nicholls), was the bass player with Senseless Things, then Vent 414 and very briefly for Billy Duffy. He went on to record a solo album called Organized and played with ex Senseless Things drummer Cass Browne in Delakota. In recent years, he has played as part of The Streets live band and with Muse during their live shows. He has also worked with Gorillaz and Lily Allen.
5) Morgan is also the name of a drum and bass artist. Little more is known at this time. Morgan can be found on a compilation titled "Drum 'n' Bass Conspiracy" on Shadow Records.
6) Morgan was an obscure psychedelic artist, or a band, of the late 60's. A track by by this Morgan ("Of Dreams") has appeared on the compilation "30 Seconds Before the Calico Wall".
7) Morgan is the name of a horror punk/psychobilly band from Mexico. They were featured on Puerta13's compilation called "Una Entrada Al Infierno".
8) The Singer Dave Morgan who released the album MORGAN in the 70's became guitarist with ELO and is the writer of the songs on ACROSS The DIVIDE which has been linked to this Italian artist.
9) Morgan is a rapper from Zaragoza (Spain), with his first solitary album "Alas de cera" being released in 2009.
10) Morgan is the Canadian Country duo Lindsay & Jacqueline Morgan. They released one album in 1972 as Jacqueline & Lindsay and one album in 1979 as Morgan.
11) Morgan was a post-hardcore band from Detroit/Wixom, Michigan. They released an album in 2006 called Seasons Expire. They played Warped Tour dates in Michigan.
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