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* VocalTagTeam: David Gates and Jimmy Griffin.

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* VocalTagTeam: David Gates and Jimmy Griffin.
Griffin both share lead vocals.
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* SopranoAndGravel: David Gates' pretty boy tenor and falsetto is in constrast with Jimmy Griffin's natural baritone.
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Bread was an American soft-rock band founded in Los Angeles in 1968. They had multiple hit songs in the [[TheSeventies 1970s]], with 13 singles charting on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

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Bread was an American soft-rock SoftRock band founded in Los Angeles in 1968. They had multiple hit songs in the [[TheSeventies 1970s]], with 13 singles charting on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.
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* PowerBallad: It was an UnbuiltTrope during their heyday, but the stately soft rock balladry of David Gates was a big influence on the style, especially "Make it With You" and "Lost Without Your Love".

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* PowerBallad: It was an UnbuiltTrope during their heyday, but the stately soft rock balladry of David Gates was a big influence on the style, especially "Make it It With You" and "Lost Without Your Love".
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* VocalTagTeam: David Gates and Jimmy Griffin.
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* PowerBallad: It was an UnbuiltTrope during their heyday, but the stately soft rock balladry of David Gates was a big influence on the style. "Lost Without Your Love" in particular has basically all the standard Power Ballad elements in place.

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* PowerBallad: It was an UnbuiltTrope during their heyday, but the stately soft rock balladry of David Gates was a big influence on the style. style, especially "Make it With You" and "Lost Without Your Love" in particular has basically all the standard Power Ballad elements in place.Love".
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* TenorBoy: David Gates had a lilting high-pitched voice and often took on a male {{Ingenue}} persona in his lyrics.
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* PowerBallad: It was an UnbuiltTrope during their heyday, but the stately soft rock balladry of David Gates was a big influence on the style. "Lost Without Your Love" in particular has basically all the standard Power Ballad elements in place.
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* OneWomanSong: "Aubrey" is their most famous example of this.

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* OneWomanSong: "Aubrey" is their most famous example of this. (Actress Creator/AubreyPlaza was named for the song, incidentally.)

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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: David Gates, Robb Royer, Jimmy Griffin, and Mike Botts.]]

Bread is a soft-rock band from Los Angeles. They had multiple hit songs in the 1970s, with 13 songs charting on the Billboard Hot 100.

Some of their most famous songs are "Everything I Own", "If", "Guitar Man", "Make It with You", "Baby I'm-a Want You", "Aubrey", and "Diary".

!! Studio album discography:
* 1969 - ''Bread''
* 1970 - ''On the Waters''
* 1971 - ''Manna''
* 1972 - ''Baby I'm-a Want You''
* 1972 - ''Guitar Man''
* 1977 - ''Lost Without Your Love''

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[[caption-width-right:350:Left [[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: David Gates, Robb Royer, Jimmy Griffin, Griffin,\\
and Mike Botts.]]

Bread is a was an American soft-rock band from founded in Los Angeles. Angeles in 1968. They had multiple hit songs in the 1970s, [[TheSeventies 1970s]], with 13 songs singles charting on the Billboard ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

Some of their most famous best-known songs are "Everything I Own", "If", "Guitar Man", include "Make It with You", "It Don't Matter to Me", "If", "Baby I'm-a Want You", "Everything I Own", "Diary", "The Guitar Man", "Sweet Surrender", "Aubrey", and "Diary".

!! Studio album discography:
* 1969 - ''Bread''
* 1970 - ''On the Waters''
* 1971 - ''Manna''
* 1972 - ''Baby I'm-a Want You''
* 1972 - ''Guitar Man''
* 1977 - ''Lost
"Lost Without Your Love''
Love".



!!Studio album discography:
* ''Bread'' (1969)
* ''On the Waters'' (1970)
* ''Manna'' (1971)
* ''Baby I'm-a Want You'' (1972)
* ''Guitar Man'' (1972)
* ''Lost Without Your Love'' (1977)

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* CompleteTheQuoteTitle: ''On the Waters'' is both this and a LiteraryAllusionTitle, referring as it does to [[Literature/BookOfEcclesiastes Ecclesiastes]] 11:1 ("Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days").



* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: After disbanding in 1973, they reunited in 1976 for another album and tour, split up again two years later, then reunited once more for a world tour in 1996.



* TitleTrack: ''Guitar Man'', ''Baby I'm-a Want You'', and ''Lost Without Your Love'' all have title tracks.

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* TitleTrack: ''Guitar Man'', ''Baby I'm-a Want You'', and ''Lost Without Your Love'' all have title tracks.tracks.

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* LineOfSightName: According to David Gates, they were discussing possible band names, and a bread truck just happened to drive by them.


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* PowerPop: Not their primary orientation, but many of the Griffin-Royer songs count. Gates even tried it on occasion.

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* DependingOnTheWriter: There are exceptions in both directions, but the general rule of thumb is: if it's a ballad, David Gates wrote it; if it's rock-oriented, Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer wrote it.

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* DependingOnTheWriter: There are exceptions in both directions, but the general rule of thumb is: if it's a ballad, David Gates wrote it; if it's rock-oriented, Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer wrote it. One reviewer even noted that the band's songs could literally be divided into "white bread" and "wheat bread".


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* HymnToMusic: "Guitar Man" is about a musician and his relationship with his audience.
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* DependingOnTheWriter: There are exceptions in both directions, but the general rule of thumb is: if it's a ballad, David Gates wrote it, if it's rock-oriented, Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer wrote it.

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* DependingOnTheWriter: There are exceptions in both directions, but the general rule of thumb is: if it's a ballad, David Gates wrote it, it; if it's rock-oriented, Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer wrote it.

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* EdibleThemeNaming: The band's name obviously comes from the food.

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* DependingOnTheWriter: There are exceptions in both directions, but the general rule of thumb is: if it's a ballad, David Gates wrote it, if it's rock-oriented, Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer wrote it.
* EdibleThemeNaming: The band's name obviously comes from the food.food, though their debut album's cover went with a VisualPun based on "bread" as a slang term for money.


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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "London Bridge" on their debut album, inspired by the bridge getting bought and moved from England to Lake Havasu, Arizona in TheSixties.
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* SecretDiary: In "Diary", the narrator reads a girl's diary and discovers that she likes him.

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* SecretDiary: In "Diary", the narrator reads singer sneaks a girl's diary and look at his beloved's diary, believing when she writes about her "true love" it's himself. When he discovers that she likes him.it's about someone else, he vows to [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy support their relationship]].
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* EdibleThemeNaming: The band's name obviously comes from the food.
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: "Everything I Own" is about the death of David Gates's father and about how much he misses him.
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* OneWomanSong: "Aubrey" is their most famous example of this.
* SecretDiary: In "Diary", the narrator reads a girl's diary and discovers that she likes him.
* TitleTrack: ''Guitar Man'', ''Baby I'm-a Want You'', and ''Lost Without Your Love'' all have title tracks.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: David Gates, Robb Royer, Jimmy Griffin, and Mike Botts.]]

Bread is a soft-rock band from Los Angeles. They had multiple hit songs in the 1970s, with 13 songs charting on the Billboard Hot 100.

Some of their most famous songs are "Everything I Own", "If", "Guitar Man", "Make It with You", "Baby I'm-a Want You", "Aubrey", and "Diary".

!! Studio album discography:
* 1969 - ''Bread''
* 1970 - ''On the Waters''
* 1971 - ''Manna''
* 1972 - ''Baby I'm-a Want You''
* 1972 - ''Guitar Man''
* 1977 - ''Lost Without Your Love''

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