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Stephen Fellows is an English singer, songwriter and musician. From 1978 to 1995, he was frontman for the band The Comsat Angels. [1] He also managed the band Gomez [2] and helped guide the band the Little Glitches. [3]

Fellows' first post-Comsat Angels work was Mood X, a 1997 album consisting of 15 tracks of atmospheric guitar with no vocals. [1] In July 2008, he posted five songs to his Myspace page that he recorded in the mid-1990s.

In January 2020 Fellows released a new 10 track solo album called Slow Glass. [4]

Fellows lives and works in Sheffield, England.

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References

  1. 1 2 Kinson, Tony. "Home". ComsatAngels.org. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "Home". ComsatAngels.net. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Home". Renascent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 17 January 2008. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Stephen Fellows". stephenfellows.com. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
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