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Dave Formula

real name David Tomlinson

Manchester, United Kingdom

Dave Formula is credited on 677 releases across 134 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1978–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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677

Credits

134

Albums

6

Decades active

158

In collections

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Dave Formula (*11 August 1946, Whalley Range, Manchester, England), is an English keyboardist and film-soundtrack composer from Manchester, who played with the post-punk bands Magazine and Visage during the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, in the "world music" band and currently as 60s Soul Jazz imprint Dave Formula & The Finks.
Now works at, a studio which he founded.

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Credited work

677 releases · 134 albums · active 1978–2026

  • Performance · 1,291
  • Other credits · 363
  • Production · 46
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: Mayfair Studios · Genetic Sound · Trident Studios · Abbey Road Studios

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