After waiting around for a year to work with producer Ted Templeman , who had signed the band to Warner Bros. but was busy with David Lee Roth , Eric Clapton , and Aerosmith at the time, Rough Cutt decided to record their debut album, Rough Cutt (1985), with Tom…
Read More
Ken Hensley, no longer accustomed to Blackfoot’s intense tour schedule, quit by late 1984 and was replaced by former Axe band’s singer/guitarist Bobby Barth . But by December 1985, with their popularity waning and good-quality engagements becoming few, the band decided to quit. During February 1986 the Blackfoot company was…
Read More
With the eventual addition of bassist Peter “Manners” Mansell and occasional keyboardist/engineer Tim Allcard, this new incarnation of Pulp survived a number of ill-fated gigs (including one at a rugby club at Brunel University which ended in a riot ) before Allcard left to be replaced on keyboards by Doyle’s…
Read More
A legal dispute with Rough Trade had delayed the album by almost seven months (it had been completed in November 1985), and Marr was beginning to feel the stress of the touring and recording schedule. He later told NME , “I was extremely ill. By the time the tour actually…
Read More
Totally exhausted and having serious voice problems, Goalby left in November 1985 after an Australian tour. “I loved and believed in Uriah Heep but it kicked the shit out of me in the end”, were his parting words. Then John Sinclair quit, deciding to join Ozzy Osbourne, and keyboardist Phil…
Read More
But drummer Sakurai had his mind set on becoming a singer. Higuchi’s brother Toll Yagami was in a band called SP, and when they lost their vocalist, Sakurai asked Yagami if he could be the replacement. Yagami politely refused his request, and SP broke up. However, at the same time,…
Read More
INXS toured North America, Europe, and New Zealand from November 1985 to February 1986.
In November 1985, they released the album Cut the Crap ; it includes the single ” This Is England “, which charted at number 24 in the UK Singles Chart. Strummer later noted: “CBS had paid an advance for it so they had to put it out”. Dave Marsh later…
Read More
Shevchuk spent some time in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg ), performing with the group Urfin Juis . In November 1985, DDT covertly recorded the album Vremya (Time) in Moscow with additional musicians, but the recording process was very difficult.
Poland rejoined Megadeth in October 1985