Two more highly successful studio albums were released in less than a year: Rock and Roll Over (November 11, 1976)
In October 1976, Kiss appeared on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (aired on ABC the 29th), lip-synching ” Detroit Rock City “, ” Beth ” and ” King of the Night Time World “. The show, co-produced by Bill Aucoin, helped introduce Kiss to an even wider audience. In addition…
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From May to October 1976, the band went to His Master’s Wheels Studios to record its third studio album, Next , which—like its predecessor—was produced by the band. This album had a much more commercial sound, while keeping the band’s jazz fusion and progressive rock roots intact. The album was…
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Additional recording and production work was done at Trident Studios that October.
On 25 September 1976, the American drummer Stewart Copeland was on tour as a member of the British progressive rock band Curved Air . In Newcastle upon Tyne , via the music journalist Phil Sutcliffe, Copeland met the singer-bassist Gordon Sumner, a.k.a. Sting , who at the time was playing…
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Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin met at a Roxy Music concert in September 1975, at a time when glam rock had faded and there was nothing new coming through with which they could identify. From February 1976, Siouxsie, Severin and some friends began to follow an unsigned band, the Sex…
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Queen played a landmark gig on 18 September 1976, a free concert in Hyde Park , London, organised by the entrepreneur Richard Branson . It set an attendance record at the park, with 150,000 people confirmed in the audience. Queen were late arriving onstage and ran out of time to…
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The Runaways were the subject of a writeup in People magazine in September 1976. A week later, Fowley severed his ties with the band and forfeited his rights, titles, claims, and merchandising ownership to Mercury Records. Mercury refused to accept Fowley’s stakehold in the band and turned it back to…
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In September 1976, Genesis relocated to Relight Studios at Hilvarenbeek in the Netherlands with Hentschel to record Wind & Wuthering .
However, Grand Funk found new life from interest by Frank Zappa in producing the band. Signing with MCA Records , the resulting album Good Singin’, Good Playin’ (August 1976), although it netted them some of their best critical reviews ever, yielded little success. After this, a disillusioned Grand Funk Railroad…
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