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It's 801.

--On Thursday September 3rd 1976 a group called THE 801 played their third and last gig at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall to a packed house. One warm-up gig at in Norfolk and a Saturday evening appearance at the Reading Festival completed the band's performing pedigree - and although some of the material they played on those three occasions may have sounded familiar to fans of the Roxy fringe, to most it was totally new.

THE 801, a project master-minded by Roxy's PHIL MANZANERA to fill the vacation that group is currently taking, began rehearsing at Island Studios, Hammersmith, about three weeks before their first gig. The musicians included ENO (on keyboards, synthesise, guitar, and vocals), LLOYD WATSON (slide-guitar and vocals), FRANCIS MONKMAN (Fender Rhodes and clavinet), BILL MacCORMICK (bass and vocals), and SIMON PHILLIPS (drums and rhythm generator). The music consisted of more or less mutated selections from albums by Manzanera, Eno, and Phil's pre-Roxy group QUIET SUN, plus a full-scale rearrangement of Lennon-McCartney's "Tomorrow Never Knows" and an off-the-wall excursion into The Kinks' 1964 hit "You Really Got Me".--