Tag Archives: Album Rock

Elton John was the largest pop star from the ’70s, grabbing headlines and generating strikes across the world. As it proved, this was simply the initial act in an extraordinary career that held him near the top of the graphs for over 25 years. He charted a high 40 strike …

Batfish is a rock-band led by vocalist Simon Denbigh after he was fired with the March Violets. It had been originally known as the Batfish Children and transformed its name to Batfish by the discharge of its 4th record, Batfish Brew (1989).

This multi-national rock-band was formed in Hamburg, Germany, in 1973. Preliminary associates included Ian Cussick (b. Scotland; vocals), Geoff Pacey (b. Britain; keyboards), Bernie Whelan (b. Ireland; trumpet), plus four Western companions (three German, one Italian). Despite countless line-up shuffles Lake’s harmonic, neo-orchestral method of rock music continued to be …

The J. Geils Music group had been probably one of the most well-known touring rock and roll & roll rings in America through the ’70s. Where their contemporaries had been influenced from the weighty boogie of English blues-rock as well as the ear-splitting sonic activities of psychedelia, the J. Geils …

Several years following the dissolution of Colosseum, Jon Hiseman recruited Gary Moore and Don Airey to create Colosseum II. The mandate this time around, however, had not been the jazz- and blues-inflected rock and roll of the initial music group, but a full-tilt trip into hyperkinetic jazz fusion that extended …

Axiom was an all-too-short lived Australian ‘supergroup’, formed in 1969 by established music artists with successful neighborhood professions towards creating an organization that could relocate to Britain when practicable to truly have a split in the international marketplace. For several reasons they by no means realized that objective, or their …

Produced in Vancouver as the Classics and later on the Collectors, Costs Henderson (guitar, vocals), Claire Lawrence (keyboards, sax), Glenn Miller (bass), Ross Turney (drums) and Howie Vickers (vocals) documented many singles from 1967 to 1970, but transformed their name to Chilliwack after Vickers and Miller still left the group. …

The heavy, psychedelic acid rock of Iron Butterfly might seem dated for some today, however the group was among the first really difficult rock bands to get extensive radio airplay, and their best-known song, the 17-minute epic “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” established that even more extended compositions were viable entries in the air …

An British hard rock institution whose influence about heavy metal can’t be overstated, Dark Sabbath not merely pioneered the genre, they helped release the career of 1 of its most colourful and questionable characters in Ozzy Osbourne. The music group distilled the smoke cigarettes and strife of its commercial hometown …

Given birth to William Wyman Sherwood in 1965, Billy Sherwood took to music early and naturally while he originated from a very music family. His dad was a big bandleader, his mom a drummer. Sherwood created his first music group, Lodgic, along with his sibling in their indigenous NEVADA. The …