Rick Savage , Tony Kenning, and Pete Doubleday, all students at Tapton School in Sheffield , South Yorkshire, formed a band called Atomic Mass in 1976.
In 1976, Capitol issued a greatest hits album, Bloodrock N Roll , which featured tracks from the first three albums and the live set.
Rodney Bingenheimer saw Van Halen at Gazzarri’s in the summer of 1976, and convinced Gene Simmons of Kiss to see them perform. Impressed, Simmons produced a 29-track Van Halen demo tape, entitled “Zero”, at Village Recorder studios in Los Angeles, with post-production overdubs completed at Electric Lady Studios in New…
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The first part involved the simultaneous release of four solo albums from the members of Kiss. Although Kiss has claimed that the solo albums were intended to ease rising tensions within the band, its 1976 record contract did in fact call for four solo records, each of them counting as…
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In 1976, Rusty Day formed another version of Cactus in Longwood, Florida , where he had relocated. This version of Cactus featured Steve “Kahoutek” Dansby on guitar, John “Soybean Slim” Sauter (who later played on Ted Nugent ‘s Weekend Warriors ) on bass guitar and Gary “Madman” Moffatt (who currently…
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Collins and Rossington both had serious car accidents over Labor Day weekend in 1976, which slowed the recording of the follow-up album and forced the band to cancel some concert dates. Rossington’s accident inspired the ominous Van Zant/Collins composition ” That Smell “, a cautionary tale about drug abuse that…
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Their next studio album, Agents of Fortune (1976), was their first to go platinum and was again produced by David Lucas. It contained the hit single “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”, which reached number 12 on the Billboard charts and has become a classic of the hard rock genre. Other major…
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The album charted throughout 1976, eventually selling two million copies in the US
After their 1976 album Save the World , frontman Johnson left for a solo project. The band’s album, No Good Woman , in 1978 consisted of three unreleased tracks with Johnson and new material recorded by Malcolm with future Dire Straits keyboardist Alan Clark , vocalist Dave Ditchburn, bassist Frank…
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After the 1976 tour, Townshend took most of the following year off to spend time with his family. He discovered that former Beatles and Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein had bought a stake in his publishing company. A settlement was reached, but Townshend was upset and disillusioned that Klein had…
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