Part of the Judas Priest stage show often featured Halford riding onstage on a Harley-Davidson motorbike, dressed in motorcycle leathers and sunglasses. During a Toronto show in August 1991, Halford was seriously injured as he rode on stage, when he collided with a drum riser hidden behind clouds of dry…
Read More
After the Painkiller tour ended in August 1991, there were indications of internal tensions within the band. Halford went on to form a street-style thrash metal group named Fight , with Scott Travis on drums for the recording sessions. He formed this band to explore new musical territory, but due…
Read More
In August 1991 Laing left and was replaced on bass guitar by Karl Kippenberger . Kippenberger’s second gig with the group was a support slot to AC/DC at Athletic Park, Wellington in front of an audience of 20,000. During 1992 Larkin and Toogood collaborated with Nigel Regan (of HLAH) on…
Read More
After the Third Stage Tour in 1988, Delp left Boston and formed RTZ with Barry Goudreau, releasing the Return to Zero LP in July 1991. With Delp’s departure, Scholz was then the last remaining original member. Before he left, Delp co-wrote with Scholz and David Sikes the song “Walk On”,…
Read More
The “classic” lineup of the band consisting of Walsh, Peters and Fox first reunited in July 1991 at Nautica Pavilion in Cleveland when Fox and Peters took to the stage during a Walsh concert to play three songs. The trio then gathered together again to perform at an election rally…
Read More
Seeing their success, Jenő Bors, the MHV’s former head, who refused to release Beatrice’s album ten years earlier, now, as the director of the newly founded Quint publisher, decided to sign a contract with the band, who reached the peak of their careers with their 1991 album titled Utálom az…
Read More
“Bohemian Rhapsody” was re-released as a single shortly after Mercury’s death, with ” These Are the Days of Our Lives ” as the double A-side. The music video for the latter contains Mercury’s final scenes in front of the camera. Ron Hart of Rolling Stone wrote, “the conga-driven synth ballad…
Read More
On 15 May 1991, during an interview with then- NME journalist Steve Lamacq following a gig at Norwich Arts Centre, Edwards carved the phrase “4REAL” into his arm with a razor blade in a bid to prove the sincerity of the band. He was taken to hospital and received seventeen…
Read More
Mr. Big’s second album, 1991’s Lean Into It , was a major commercial breakthrough, especially two ballads, “To Be with You” (which went to number one in fifteen countries) and “Just Take My Heart”, as well as the song ” Green-Tinted Sixties Mind “. The cover features a picture of…
Read More
Sparkman left the band on April 4, 1991.