Black Francis is the stage name used by
Pixies singer, Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV. Inspired by a quip by the late
Warren Zevon after the group's 1993 disbandment, Francis embarked upon a successful solo career under the inverted pseudonym,
Frank Black; in addition to releasing a prolific number of stylistically departed records with
Frank Black and the Catholics; until the 2004 reunion of the Pixies. Despite the reunion proving a massive critical and financial success, Black remarked, "I privately went back to the old stage name, if that even makes any sense, a…
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