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Anthony Michael "Tony" Secunda Biography and Timeline

Follow Anthony Michael "Tony" Secunda through 7 dated historical records for Great Britain.

Anthony Michael "Tony" Secunda, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

7Distinct records
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1940–1995Years on this page

1940

Birth of Anthony Michael Tony Secunda

Arts / Popular Music

Birth of Anthony Michael "Tony" Secunda

1965

Moody Blues

Birmingham · Arts / Popular Music

Manages the Moody Blues, the Birmingham rhythm and blues group fronted by Denny Laine.

Move

Arts / Popular Music

With the Move, Secunda gains notoriety as a sensationalist in 1967, when he circulated bizarre postcards which showed a nude caricature of the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson

1967

Procol Harum

Arts / Popular Music

Secunda set up the classic Procol Harum record "Whiter Shade of Pale", based on Bachs "Air on a G-String", produced by his partner Denny Cordell, which topped the charts for six weeks

1969

Balls

Arts / Popular Music

Secunda continues his involvement with another ex-Move member, Trevor Burton, when he helped set up and finance a band called Balls, in 1969, with the singer Denny Laine from the Moody Blues

1971

T.Rex

Arts / Popular Music

Becomes manager of T.Rex and helps Marc Bolan to set up his own record label, T. Rex Wax Co, through EMI

1995

Death of Anthony Michael Tony Secunda

San Anselmo · Arts / Popular Music

Death of Anthony Michael "Tony" Secunda

Records, sources and methodology

These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.