After leaving the band, Albert Bouchard spent five years working on a solo album based on Sandy Pearlman’s poem “Imaginos”. Blue Öyster Cult also released their third live album, Extraterrestrial Live , in 1982.
At the tail end of 1982, Ingle returned to the fold once more as John Shearer (from Steve Hackett ‘s band) came in on drums and percussionist Luke also rejoined since Bushy had taken a sales job outside of music for Makita Tools. Brann (who had guested at some shows…
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Harrison rewrote the lyrics of his song ” All Those Years Ago ” in Lennon’s honour. With Starr on drums and McCartney and his wife, Linda , contributing backing vocals, the song was released as a single in May 1981.
In early 1981, the group reconvened and decided to tour the US that year, leaving little time to write and record a new album, as well as to rehearse for the tour. That year’s resulting album, Tattoo You , featured a number of outtakes from earlier recording sessions, including lead…
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Haynes and Leary played their debut show at a San Antonio night club, The Bonham Exchange, in 1981; at that time, they had not yet settled on the band name “Butthole Surfers”. By 1982, the band was backed by the sibling rhythm section composed of bassist Quinn Mathews and his…
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Their 1981 American Tour was their biggest, longest, and most colourful production to date. It was the highest-grossing tour of that year. It included a concert at Chicago’s Checkerboard Lounge with Muddy Waters, in one of his last performances before his death in 1983. Some of the shows were recorded.
In the summer of 1981, Gustavo Cerati and Hector Zeta Bosio, then 22 and 23 respectively, met at Punta del Este , Uruguay , both studying majors and both part of rock bands, Cerati with his group Sauvage and Bosio with the Morgan. Cerati and Bosio, each drawn by the…
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Birch produced the band’s next album as well, Fire of Unknown Origin (1981), which peaked at number 24 on the Billboard 200 , becoming the band’s highest-charting album. The biggest hit on this album was the Top 40 hit “Burnin’ for You,” a song Roeser had written with a Richard…
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In 1981, Haynes and Leary published the magazine Strange V.D. , which featured photos of abnormal medical ailments, coupled with fictitious, humorous explanations for the diseases. After being caught with one of these pictures at work, Haynes left the accounting firm and moved to Southern California. Leary, at the time…
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In December 1980, Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman , an American former Beatles fan.