The Idle Race

The Idle Race were a British rock group from Birmingham who in the late 1960s and early 1970s had a cult following but never enjoyed mass commercial success. In addition to being the springboard for Jeff Lynne, the band holds a place of significance in British Midlands' pop-rock history as a link between the Move, Electric Light Orchestra, the Steve Gibbons Band and Mike Sheridan & The Nightriders. The group has been retrospectively described as freakbeat. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idl...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)