Def Leppard’s debut album, On Through the Night , was released on 14 March 1980. Although the album hit the Top 15 in the UK, many early fans were turned off by the perception that the band was trying too hard to appeal to American audiences by recording songs such…
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Prior to forming Everclear, frontman Art Alexakis struggled through a number of hardships that would later shape the course of the band and its music. As a child, Alexakis recounted that he suffered child abuse and child abandonment from his father at the age of five, struggled with drug addiction…
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Despite the critical praise for Live Through This , rumors circulated insinuating that Cobain had actually written the majority of the album, though the band vehemently denies this. The band’s drummer Patty Schemel, who had been friends with Cobain since the late 1980s, said: “There’s that myth that Kurt [Cobain]…
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Early on, the band’s influences included Dischord Records bands like Rites of Spring , Shudder to Think , Nomeansno , Christ on a Crutch, the Hated , Treepeople , Lungfish and Fugazi . Where Hoerner’s vocal style had been in the rougher, hardcore vein, Enigk’s vocals were higher-pitched, inspired by…
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Throughout 1979, the band developed a loyal following among British hard rock and heavy metal fans and were considered among the leaders of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. Their growing popularity led to a record deal with the major label Phonogram/Vertigo (Mercury Records in the US). Def…
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Elliott proposed the name ” Deaf Leopard ” which was originally a band name he thought of while designing band posters in art class. At Kenning’s suggestion, the spelling was slightly modified to make the name seem less like that of a punk band. In January 1978, Steve Clark joined…
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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.
Pete Willis joined in 1977, departing briefly but returning full time.
Rick Savage , Tony Kenning, and Pete Doubleday, all students at Tapton School in Sheffield , South Yorkshire, formed a band called Atomic Mass in 1976.
Guitarist Jason Pollock revealed in The Cavalier Daily that they came up with the name while watching the 1970s TV series CHiPs . ‘7 Mary 3’ was the call sign for Officer Jon Baker, played by actor Larry Wilcox . (7M3: police radio call sign; 7 designates the patrol beat,…
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