Rick Savage , Tony Kenning, and Pete Doubleday, all students at Tapton School in Sheffield , South Yorkshire, formed a band called Atomic Mass in 1976.
A new live album, Made in Europe , culled from three shows on the Stormbringer tour, was assembled during the summer of 1975, but would not see release until late 1976.
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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The band recorded Sad Wings of Destiny over two weeks in November and December 1975 at Rockfield Studios in Wales. The band stayed sober during the 12-hour recording sessions. The cover depicts a struggling, grounded angel surrounded by flames and wearing a devil’s three-pronged cross, which became the band’s symbol.…
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In December 1975, the band’s record companies released a greatest hits album without input from the band, titled We Sold Our Soul for Rock ‘n’ Roll .
This line-up commenced the first world tour for the band, with the first date in Montreal on 10 November 1975.
Black Sabbath toured in support of Sabotage with openers Kiss , but were forced to cut the tour short in November 1975, following a motorcycle accident in which Osbourne ruptured a muscle in his back.
In November 1975 The Best of Uriah Heep compilation was released, preceded by two solo albums: Byron’s debut Take No Prisoners and Hensley’s second, Eager to Please .
Judas Priest performed “Rocka Rolla” on BBC Two ‘s The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975, as well as the “Dreamer Deceiver”–”Deceiver” pair the year before the songs appeared on Sad Wings of Destiny . Hinch left the band for reasons that are disputed and was replaced with Alan Moore,…
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The resulting album from Deep Purple Mark IV, Come Taste the Band , was released in October 1975, one month before Bolin’s Teaser album. Despite mixed reviews and middling sales (No. 19 in the UK and No. 43 in the US), the collection revitalised the band once again, bringing a…
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