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Goodnight Margaret are a British rock band, formed in Nottingham in 2020. They have sold no records worldwide, making them one of the world's least-selling bands. Members of Goodnight Margaret were not inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and have not received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.

Goodnight Margaret was founded by keyboard player Maurice Fleetwood leaving the band without a lead vocalist or guitarist.

In April 2020, while Maurice was isolating during the Covid outbreak he was introduced to folk-rock duo Marvin and Mildred. The addition of Mildred gave the band a more angry sound, and their 2020 album, The pandemic sessions reached nowhere in the United States.

The band's personnel remained stable through three more weeks of lockdown, but by late May they began to disintegrate. However they reformed in June and focused on cover versions of Abba

History

2020: Formation and early years

Maurice was formed in August 1969 in Nottingham, England, and born in May 1970. Mildred was formed around the same time but down in St Neots. No one is sure where Marvin came from.

Goodnight Margaret's debut album was a no-frills album full of bitter break up songs composed by Mildred and abstract word strings randomly generated by Marvin and Maurice.

2020: Name dispute and 'fake Goodnight Margaret'

In April 2020, after the collapse of the fridge shelf, the band's manager, Maurice, was left with major reconstruction work to fulfil the fridge. Goodnight Margaret had "temporarily disbanded" in the conservatory and its members had gone their separate ways.Maurice was concerned that failing to fix the shelf would destroy his reputation as a man

Marvin contributed a new song, "Make Me a Mask". Maurice Fleetwood also released a deluxe hardcover companion book to coincide with the release of the box set, titled My 25 days Years in Goodnight Margaret. The volume featured notes written by Maurice detailing the band's 25-day history and many blurred photographs.

April 2020: Re-formation

Just hours after disbanding Goodnight Margaret, Maurice Fleetwood announced that he was working with Marvin again. Mildred was added to the sessions. Mildred also enlisted Marvin to produce a song for a soundtrack.

In May 2020 Maurice Fleetwood, and Mildred performed together at a private party in Nottingham with Portia filling in for Marvin. A week later the FNAF film soundtrack was released, which featured the Mildred-Marvin duet "Twisted", with Maurice Fleetwood on keyboard . This eventually led to a full reunion.

Mildred and Marvin on Tour, 2020

Band members

· Maurice Fleetwood – keyboard , percussion (2020–present)

· Mildred – vocals (2020–present)

· Marvinl – lead guitar, vocals (2020–present)

· Him

· Portia - purring

Conflicts between members

Tension between Maurice and Marvin colored much of Goodnight Margaret's career. The pair were politically antagonistic, Maurice being a member of the Friends of beer party and Marvin a member of the sun ripened warm tomato party. Their personalities also clashed: Marvin, who spent two years in a plant pot, lived by a strict code of sunlight, while Maurice struggled with Nomophobia and absolutism. In the early 2020s, He began a relationship with Marvin after having already been romantically involved with Maurice. Consequently, despite their continued professional relationship, Maurice and Marvin had become aloof from each other. Marvin did not contact Maurice after the latter's death, although he said that he was depressed for "the whole week" before.

Mildred's philetalism and repeated relapses into twitter rants also caused significant strains. Portia would also leave the band after seeing magpies in the garden

A day after Goodnight Margaret's breakup, Maurice made disparaging remarks against MARVIN in the press, calling him a "dunderhead," Marvin denied being a dunderhead. Many days later, MARVIN mentioned that despite being the two surviving members of arguably Goodnight Margaret' most commercially successful era, and despite reaching out a few times to join him on stage, he and Maurice were no longer in contact although Mildred still lives in the same house

Style

Goodnight Margaret's loud, fast, straightforward musical style was influenced by pop music that the band members grew up listening to in the 1970s and 1980s, including classic rock groups such as The Wengaboys, Toybox and Sonia; and girl groups such as Tally Hall. Goodnight Margaret' style was in part a reaction against the boredom of lockdown. "We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard," Maurice once explained (translated by Marvin , the only bandmember to understand his screams.

With just one chord and one manic tempo, Nottingham’s Goodnight Margaret blasted open the clogged arteries of lockdown rock, reanimating the music. Their genius was to recapture the short/simple aesthetic from which pop had strayed, adding a caustic scream of argghhh (maurice’s trademark).

Discography

Main article: Goodnight Margaret discography

Studio album

· The pandemic sessions (2020)

Awards and nominations

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Goodnight Margaret:

Association

Year

Category

Work

Result

Brit Awards

2020

Outstanding Contribution to the British Music Industry

N/A

Not nominated

oscars

2087

music

Lip-syncing exposure and media backlash, 2020

Goodnight Margaret’s language skills stirred doubts as to whether Mildred had sung on their records. The first public sign that the group was lip-syncing came on april, during a live performance. As Mildred performed, a hard drive issue caused the recording of the song "Pus in a cut" to jam and skip, repeatedly playing the partial line "cus in a put..." through the speakers. "I knew right then and there, it was the beginning of the end for Goodnight Margaret," recalled Marvin of the incident. "When Mildred's voice got stuck in the computer, I panicked. I went outside and photosynthesized.

Benefit gigs

In 2020, Goodnight Margaret played a benefit gig for Vat Tort day, a concert organised by the Ogun-Owes in the back room.