Not satisfied with the album’s keyboard-dominated production nor the band’s commercialized image, John Norum decided to leave Europe in October 1986 to pursue a solo career. “I didn’t really like the direction the band was going in,” Norum said, “We became this teeny-bopper, bubblegum band and I hated that whole…
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Black Sabbath began work on new material in October 1986 at AIR Studios in Montserrat with producer Jeff Glixman .
In October 1986, two months after his final concert, Mercury, on his return to London from holiday, was confronted by a tabloid frenzy at Heathrow Airport with the British newspapers the News of the World and The Sun reporting he had his blood tested for HIV/AIDS at a Harley Street…
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As a result of the tense and short-lived reunion in the studio, ” Don’t Stand So Close to Me ’86 ” was released in October 1986 as their final single and made it into the UK Top 25.
In 1986, Alice Cooper officially returned to the music industry with the studio album Constrictor . The album spawned the hits ” He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask) ” (the theme song for the movie Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives ; in the video for the song…
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On September 27, 1986, during the European leg of Metallica’s Damage, Inc. Tour , members drew cards to determine which bunks on the tour bus they would sleep in. Burton won and chose to sleep in Hammett’s bunk. At around sunrise near Dörarp , Sweden, the bus driver lost control…
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Though originally unimpressed by the first Dinosaur performance they saw, Sonic Youth approached the band after watching them play several months later, declaring themselves fans. Sonic Youth invited Dinosaur to join them on tour in the American Northeast and northern Midwest in September 1986.
Without a guitarist or a drummer, Le Bon, Rhodes and John Taylor had producer (and former Chic guitarist) Nile Rodgers play a few tracks on guitar, and hired Steve Ferrone to play drums while they searched for replacements. In September 1986, Warren Cuccurullo (formerly of Missing Persons and Frank Zappa…
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Despite their resurrecting performance, the band members’ drug problems still stood in their way. In 1986, Tyler completed a successful drug rehabilitation program, after an intervention by his fellow band members, a doctor, and manager Tim Collins , who believed that the band’s future would not be bright if Tyler…
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Steve Vai left to join David Lee Roth ‘s solo band in 1986. The split was on good terms, as it was an offer Vai could not refuse. He was replaced by guitarist Danny Johnson, who recorded what became Alcatrazz’s third studio album, Dangerous Games , released in September 1986.…
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