The Prodigy (or just Prodigy) are an English band. Their music consists of various styles ranging from rave, hardcore techno and industrial in the early 1990s to alternative rock and bigbeat with punk vocal elements in later times. The current band members include Liam Howlett (composer/keyboards), Keith Flint (dancer/vocalist) and Maxim (MC/vocalist). Leeroy Thornhill (dancer/very occasional live keyboards) was a member of the band from 1990 to 2000, as well was a female dancer/vocalist called Sharky who left the band during their early period. The Prodigy first emerged on the underground rave scene in the early 1990s, and have since then achieved immense popularity and worldwide renown. Some of their most popular songs include "Charly", "Out of Space", "Smack My Bitch Up", "Voodoo People", "No Good (Start the Dance)", "Breathe" and "Firestarter".

The name changes from The Prodigy to Prodigy between Music for the Jilted Generation and The Fat of the Land in 1996 and back again with the release of Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned in 2004. This was only done to fit the changing logos, according to Howlett.

Members:

The Prodigy consists of Liam Howlett, Keith flint, Leeroy Thornhill and Maxim Reality.

The music charts were filled with unsophisticated "hardcore" rave tracks to which speed- and ecstasy-filled clubbers had danced all night but which did not appeal to critics in "the music press" such as Urban Hype's Trip to Trumpton, and Smart E's (a reference to Ectasy) Sesame's Treet, instigating death-by-publicity to the underground "hardcore rave" scene. Charly (a contemporary reference to cocaine), with its memorable sample of the "Charley Says" children's Public information films and The Prodigy were thus identified as "kiddie rave".

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