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- Rain: Short lived 90's band
- The Rascals: 2000s band from Hoylake (The Wirral)
- The Real People: Proto-Britpop band from the early 90s.
- The Real Thing: Band who sang the 1970s classic "You To Me Are Everything".
- Red Flag: Liverpool-born and USA-raised synthpop duo.
- The Reynolds Girls: 80s vocal duo signed to PWL.
- The Room: critically acclaimed (by John Peel and others) band from Liverpool, signed to Virgin 10, released 3 albums and several singles, one produced by Tom Verlaine, between 1980 & 1985.
- River City People: a folk rock quartet formed in Liverpool, England in 1986, by vocalist Siobhan Maher, guitarist Tim Speed, his drummer brother Paul Speed, and bassist Dave Snell.
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
- Rebecca Ferguson X Factor Finalist who's Debut album went Platinum in its first two weeks of release who went on to sign an International deal with EMI to take her music Worldwide.
- The Runaways band of the mid 60's. Tamla and Motown. Recorded a single with Bill Kenwright.
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