Texas (band)

Texas is an alternative rock and pop music band from Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were founded by Johnny McElhone in 1986 and had their performing debut in March 1988 at Scotland's University of Dundee.

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They took their name from the 1985 Wim Wenders movie Paris, Texas.

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In the television show The Office, David Brent claims that Texas used to open for his band, "Foregone Conclusion", before he gave up music to manage the Slough office of Wernham Hogg, a paper supply firm.

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Alternative rock: The terms alternative rock and alternative music were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time. At times it was used as catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s and rock music in genera...

Pop music: :This article mainly describes "pop" as used in its more recent sense, as a subgenre of popular music....

Glasgow: :For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation)...

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