In August 1976, following a gig at Newcastle City Hall, Blackmore decided to fire Carey, believing his playing style to be too complicated for the band.
In August 1976, the Stones played Knebworth in England in front of 200,000—their largest audience to date—and finished their set at 7 a.m.
Despite Sire’s high hopes for it, Ramones was not a commercial success, reaching only number 111 on the Billboard album chart. The two singles issued from the album, ” Blitzkrieg Bop ” and “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend”, failed to chart. At the band’s first major performance outside of New…
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In June 1976, the Saints recorded two self-produced tracks, ” (I’m) Stranded ” and “No Time” with Mark Moffatt engineering (label credits for both sides say ‘Produced by The Saints’). Unable to find any interested label, they formed Fatal Records and independently released their debut single in September. Their self-owned…
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In June, the album was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Institute for selling over 100,000 copies which helped the band clear the £400,000 of debt (equivalent to £2,700,000 in 2025) they owed when Gabriel left.
On 31 May 1976, they played a second concert at the Valley which was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s loudest concert at over 120 dB.
In May 1976 Cold Chisel relocated to Melbourne
On 24 April 1976, during a broadcast of Saturday Night Live , producer Lorne Michaels jokingly offered the Beatles $3,000 to reunite on the show. Lennon and McCartney were watching the live broadcast at Lennon’s apartment at the Dakota in New York, which was within driving distance of the NBC…
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The Ramones album was produced by Sire’s Craig Leon , with Tommy as associate producer, on an extremely low budget of about $6,400 and released on April 23.
The success of Alive! not only brought Kiss the breakthrough they had been seeking but arguably saved Casablanca, which was close to bankruptcy. Following this success, Kiss partnered with producer Bob Ezrin , who had previously worked with Alice Cooper . The result was Destroyer (released March 15, 1976), Kiss’s…
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