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Evans Bar

The Evans Bar is a musical term. In a piece of music with 4 beats in a bar, an Evans Bar would be an unexpected and unexplained bar with 3 beats. The Evans Bar is named after Andy Evans, writer and song lyricist with very little musical training. Whilst writing songs he would sing his ideas to composer Jack Pudsey, and frequently Andy's suggestions would have no musical relationship with the material before or after it. From this the idea, and then the term, Evans Bar developed - musical ideas that are unexpected, unexplained and without reason.