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In the 1980s, the name was largely retired as Verdeaux concentrated on albums released under his own name, although there was another one-off performance at an electronic music festival in 1988 featuring Verdeaux and regular collaborators Christian Boulé and Tim Blake.
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band formed in 1973, although their best known work was produced in England and released by a major British record company. While progressive rock is an appropriate overall genre for the band, much of their work delves into other genres including
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band on the road supporting Gong, but it broke up soon afterwards following Verdeaux's decision not to relocate to England as Virgin insisted he did - which ended his relationship with the label.
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In April 1978, a new version of the band was unveiled at the Olympia in Paris, a performance intended to be followed by a proper tour to promote
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and Head of European Research at the Global Policy Institute. The Rennes-born manager negotiated the band's first four album deals.
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have collaborated in Spirits Burning (under the name Spirits Burning & Clearlight). Their 2012 release was titled
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In the mid to late 1970s the band was managed by Jacques Reland, now a lecturer at the
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Clearlight has rarely performed live. In 1975, Virgin sent a variation of the
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In the 1990s, Verdeaux began recording under the Clearlight name again.
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