The Great Deceiver (1992)
The Reed–Cale–Morrison–Tucker lineup officially reunited without Yule (whose inclusion had been championed by Morrison) in 1992
A follow-up box set, The Great Deceiver , appeared the following year as the first release on Fripp’s newly-established record label Discipline Global Mobile (DGM), formed with producer David Singleton .
After discovering they were £60,000 in debt, Blur toured the United States in 1992 in an attempt to recoup their financial losses.
Fripp later explained that he had a vision of a “Double Trio” with two guitarists, two bassists, and two drummers while driving along the Chalke Valley in Wiltshire one afternoon in 1992.
After seeing the band perform at an NME show in January 1992, Saul Galpern approached them about signing to his independent record label, Nude Records . Suede eventually signed a two-single deal with Nude in February 1992 for £3,132. Following Nude’s offer, Suede attracted further interest from Island Records and…
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Their next record, 1992’s Henry’s Dream , marked a change towards a harder rock sound.
Silverchair’s founders, Ben Gillies and Daniel Johns , attended the same primary school in the Newcastle suburb of Merewether . At “age 11 or 12”, singer-guitarist Johns and drummer Gillies rapped over an electronic keyboard ‘s demo button under their first band name, The Silly Men . As teenagers, they…
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The group released the single ” Popscene ” to coincide with the start of the tour. Featuring “a rush of punk guitars, ’60s pop hooks, blaring British horns, controlled fury, and postmodern humor”, “Popscene” was a turning point for the band musically. However, upon its release it only charted at…
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The We Can’t Dance tour visited North America and Europe from May to November 1992 with each concert attended by an average of 56,000 people. The tour spawned two live albums; The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts reached No. 3 in the UK and The Way We Walk,…
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