The only gig that year was an informal show on 15 December at the Gaumont State Cinema in Kilburn , London, filmed for the documentary The Kids Are Alright .
Queen commenced the News of the World Tour in November 1977, and Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times called this concert tour the band’s “most spectacularly staged and finely honed show”.
Only 18 at the time, Joe Elliott tried out for the band as a guitarist following a chance meeting with Willis after missing a bus in November 1977.
A second live album, Alive II , was released on October 14, 1977.
News of Hackett’s departure coincided with the band’s double live album Seconds Out , recorded in Paris on the A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering tours and released in October 1977. It reached No. 4 in the UK and No. 47 in the US.
The group reconvened in September 1977, but Townshend announced there would be no live performances for the immediate future, a decision that Daltrey endorsed.
By the time Seconds Out was released, Banks, Rutherford and Collins had already recorded …And Then There Were Three… , the first Genesis album recorded as a trio, in September 1977 at Relight Studios with Hentschel as producer. It was then mixed at Trident Studios in London. In order to…
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The Police’s power trio line-up of Copeland, Sting, and Summers performed for the first time on 18 August 1977 at Rebecca’s club in Birmingham in the West Midlands. This line-up endured for the rest of the band’s history. Few punk bands were three pieces, while contemporary bands pursuing progressive rock,…
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The band made their debut on 16 August 1977 at Whale Beach , 40 km (25 mi) north of Sydney.
an aborted recording session with ex- Velvet Underground member John Cale as producer on 10 August