AC/DC signed an international deal with Atlantic in 1976.
Vincent Crane went on to put together the music for a number of plays and musicals in England between 1976 and 1977, including two of Peter Green ‘s radio broadcasts. Crane teamed up with Arthur Brown again to play on his album Chisholm In My Bosom , and in 1979…
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In 1976, the Angels signed a recording deal with the Albert Productions label, upon the recommendation of Bon Scott and Malcolm Young (from AC/DC). The group dropped “Keystone” from their name to become the Angels and relocated to Sydney with the line-up of Neeson on lead vocals and bass guitar,…
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Their third studio album, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap , was released in September–November 1976, in both Australian and European versions.
In 1976, Aerosmith’s fourth album was Rocks , which music historian Greg Prato described as “captur[ing] Aerosmith at their most raw and rocking”. It went platinum swiftly and featured two Top 40 hits, ” Last Child ” and ” Back in the Saddle “, as well as the ballad ”…
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The band formed originally under the name “Warhorse” in 1976 in Potomac, Maryland, led by Wino. In the late 1970s, Wino’s band became known as the Leather Nunz. The band played original punk tunes with singer Billy Beam, Jeff Urban on drums, Robert Krug on rhythm guitar and Mark Laue…
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By 1976, Queen were back in the studio recording A Day at the Races , which is often regarded as a sequel album to A Night at the Opera .
Following the 1976 US No. 12 ballad hit ” I Never Cry “; two studio albums, Alice Cooper Goes to Hell and Lace and Whiskey ; and the 1977 US No. 9 ballad hit ” You and Me “, it became clear during his 1977 US tour that Cooper was…
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Triumph’s self-titled first album was originally released in Canada in 1976. It was later retitled on re-issues as In the Beginning . The second album, Rock & Roll Machine , followed in 1977 and contained a version of the Joe Walsh song ” Rocky Mountain Way “. Neither of these…
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Rick Savage , Tony Kenning, and Pete Doubleday, all students at Tapton School in Sheffield , South Yorkshire, formed a band called Atomic Mass in 1976.