In 1979, the band released their first album without Marty Balin or Grace Slick, the gold-selling Freedom at Point Zero . The album was produced by Ron Nevison , who would also produce two of the band’s following three albums. The single ” Jane ” (Freiberg, McPherson, Chaquico and Kantner)…
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Towards the end of 1978, a Jefferson Starship that was now without Grace Slick but still including Marty Balin recorded the single “Light the Sky on Fire” (No. 66 US Billboard Chart) for television’s Star Wars Holiday Special . It was released as a promotional tie-in to the special (backed…
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In July 1978, amid a financial crisis caused by negligent investments, Waters presented two ideas for Pink Floyd’s next album. The first was a 90-minute demo with the working title Bricks in the Wall; the other later became Waters’s first solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking .…
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Balin’s reluctance to tour had kept the band off the road for over a year, and Slick’s alcoholism increasingly became a problem, which led to two consecutive nights of disastrous concerts in West Germany in June 1978. On the first night, the band was scheduled to play at the Loreley…
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The band then released another live album, Some Enchanted Evening (1978). Although it was intended as another double-live album in the vein of On Your Feet or on Your Knees , Columbia insisted that it be edited down to single-album length. It was a resounding commercial success, becoming Blue Öyster…
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In the late fall of 1978, a German promoter made an offer for the band to tour. The Metamorphosis lineup (Ingle, Bushy, Dorman, Pinera and Rhino) made preparations, but just before they were to depart for Germany, Dorman’s father took ill and another bassist, Keith Ellis (formerly of Boxer ),…
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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), a musical film starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton , was a commercial failure and an “artistic fiasco”, according to Ingham.
Following the 1978 US Tour , the band appeared on the first show of the fourth season of the TV series Saturday Night Live .
On Halloween 1978, the singer bumped into his friend Joe Hasselvander at the Louie’s Rock City club in Falls Church, Virginia while seeing Sex, a band featuring ex-members of both Pentagram and the Boyz (Hasselvander’s previous band). Hasselvander was playing in a group consisting of himself (drums), Richard Kueht (guitar),…
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Sérgio Dias, the only remaining original member, led the band until its dissolution in 1978.