In 1973, Blackmore steered Deep Purple through a significant personnel change, with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover being replaced by David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes .
Following the Vol. 4 world tour, Black Sabbath returned to Los Angeles to begin work on their next release. Pleased with the Vol. 4 album, the band sought to recreate the recording atmosphere, and returned to the Record Plant studio in Los Angeles. With new musical innovations of the era,…
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With a string of successful concept albums and several hit singles, the band continued their grueling schedule and toured the United States again. Continued attempts by politicians and pressure groups to ban their shocking act only served to fuel the legend of Alice Cooper further and generate even greater public…
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Vixen was formed in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1973 by guitarist Jan Kuehnemund after playing in the band Lemon Pepper in high school later changing the name to Genesis, which broke up in 1974. Nancy Shanks was her bandmate during that time and two drummers were featured, Marlene Peterson and…
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Their second album Tyranny and Mutation , released in 1973, was written while the band was on tour for their first album. It contained songs such as “The Red and the Black” (an ode to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a rewrite of “I’m on the Lamb But I…
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Mark II continued to work and released the album Who Do We Think We Are in 1973. Spawning the hit single ” Woman from Tokyo “, the album hit No. 4 in the UK charts and No. 15 in the US chart, while achieving gold record status faster than any…
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The bad feelings, including tensions with Blackmore, culminated in Gillan quitting the band after their second tour of Japan in the summer of 1973
Wallach, Clifford and Wexler started playing together in 1973 in a cover band called Ice that played parties locally
In early January 1973, the group added lead guitarist Ace Frehley .
A lavishly packaged (an eight-page booklet including individual member biographies and full page photos) double album Uriah Heep Live followed, recorded at the Birmingham Town Hall in January 1973. Having completed another Japanese tour, the band (due to tax problems) went abroad to record to Chateau d’Herouville in France. It…
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