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The Creation

One of the U.K.'s premier Mod bands of the 1960s, whose fame lived decades later helped in part by soundtrack hipsters.

Biography

One of the U.K.'s premier Mod bands of the 1960s, the Creation had a less blues influenced approach to their sound than many of their British invasion contemporaries. Funneling an experimental art-pop sensibility through fuzzed-out R&B, the Creation produced some of the most high-energy sounds of the era. Considered the first band to use a violin bow on an electric guitar, the Creation were a direct influence on Jimmy Page and, subsequently, Led Zeppelin. The band would reach a much larger audience in the late '90s thanks to the use of their song "Making Time" in the film RUSHMORE.