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* AuthorExistenceFailure: The [=PCO=] officially ended with Simon Jeffes' death from a brain tumor in 1997.


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* DiedDuringProduction: The [=PCO=] officially ended with Simon Jeffes' death from a brain tumor in 1997. Jeffes had been working on a new album at the time; his piano demos were issued as a solo album, ''Piano Music''.

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* EvenBetterSequel: Or SurprisinglyImprovedSequel, depending on who you ask, but either way the second album ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Penguin Cafe Orchestra]]'' is generally agreed to be a great leap forward from ''Music From the Penguin Cafe'', and is probably their most popular album.
* HeAlsoDid: Simon Jeffes did quite a lot of arranging and session work in the 1970s, but the one job that's always mentioned is that he arranged the strings for the FakeOutOpening of [[Music/TheSexPistols Sid Vicious']] cover of "My Way".
* NewerThanTheyThink: "Music For A Found Harmonium" has been covered by folk bands and credited as "Traditional".
* SpiritualSuccessor: Penguin Cafe (no "Orchestra"), the group founded by Simon Jeffes' son Arthur, carries on the same vein. Although officially a separate entity (it contains no actual members of the original group), it does play Simon's compositions alongside Arthur's.
** For a while there was also The Orchestra Who Fell To Earth (formerly The Aardvarks), which did include various original [=PCO=] members.

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* EvenBetterSequel: Or SurprisinglyImprovedSequel, depending on who you ask, but either way the second album ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Penguin Cafe Orchestra]]'' is generally agreed to be a great leap forward from ''Music From the Penguin Cafe'', and is probably their most popular album.
* HeAlsoDid: Simon Jeffes did quite a lot of arranging and session work in the 1970s, but the one job that's always mentioned is that he arranged the strings for the FakeOutOpening of [[Music/TheSexPistols Sid Vicious']] cover of "My Way".
* NewerThanTheyThink: "Music For A Found Harmonium" has been covered by folk bands and credited as "Traditional".
* SpiritualSuccessor: Penguin Cafe (no "Orchestra"), the group founded by Simon Jeffes' son Arthur, carries on the same vein. Although officially a separate entity (it contains no actual members of the original group), it does play Simon's compositions alongside Arthur's.
** For a while there was also The Orchestra Who Fell To Earth (formerly The Aardvarks), which did include various original [=PCO=] members.
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* HeAlsoDid: Simon Jeffes did quite a lot of arranging and session work in the 1970s, but the one job that's always mentioned is that he arranged the strings for the FakeOutOpening of [[Music/TheSexPistols Sid Vicious']] cover of "My Way".
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* OlderThanTheyThink: "Music For A Found Harmonium" has been covered by folk bands and credited as "Traditional".

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* OlderThanTheyThink: NewerThanTheyThink: "Music For A Found Harmonium" has been covered by folk bands and credited as "Traditional".

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** For a while there was also The Aardvarks, which did include various original [=PCO=] members.

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** For a while there was also The Aardvarks, Orchestra Who Fell To Earth (formerly The Aardvarks), which did include various original [=PCO=] members.

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** There's also The Aardvarks, which does include various original [=PCO=] members.

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** There's For a while there was also The Aardvarks, which does did include various original [=PCO=] members.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: "Music For A Found Harmonium" has been covered by folk bands and credited as "Traditional".

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* EvenBetterSequel: Or SurprisinglyImprovedSequel, depending on who you ask, but either way the second album ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Penguin Cafe Orchestra]]'' is generally agreed to be an improvement upon ''Music From the Penguin Cafe'', and is probably their most popular album.

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* EvenBetterSequel: Or SurprisinglyImprovedSequel, depending on who you ask, but either way the second album ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Penguin Cafe Orchestra]]'' is generally agreed to be an improvement upon a great leap forward from ''Music From the Penguin Cafe'', and is probably their most popular album.
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* EvenBetterSequel: Or SurprisinglyImprovedSequel, depending on who you ask, but either way the second album ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Penguin Cafe Orchestra]]'' is generally agreed to be an improvement upon ''Music From the Penguin Cafe'', and is probably their most popular album.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: The [=PCO=] officially ended with Simon Jeffes' death from a brain tumor in 1997.
* BasedOnADream: The idea supposedly came to Jeffes in a dream while he was ill with food poisoning.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Penguin Cafe (no "Orchestra"), the group founded by Simon Jeffes' son Arthur, carries on the same vein. Although officially a separate entity (it contains no actual members of the original group), it does play Simon's compositions alongside Arthur's.
** There's also The Aardvarks, which does include various original [=PCO=] members.

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