Their second album Head Injuries , released on Powderworks in October 1979
The single was reviewed in Sounds on 22 September 1979 as a record with “a moody intensity”.
Butler temporarily left the band in September 1979 to deal with the divorce from his first wife.
The band’s first performance as INXS was on 1 September 1979 at the Ocean Beach Hotel in Umina on the Central Coast of New South Wales
The BBC archives mentioned that radio DJ John Peel first broadcast “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” in his show in September 1979.
Taylor and Rhodes then recruited lead vocalist Andy Wickett (formerly frontman of TV Eye ) and decided that they needed a live drummer. They hired Roger Taylor , a former member of various local bands (most recently The Scent Organs who also played at Barbarella’s), while John Taylor switched to…
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The departure of Jim Walker made way for a series of new drummers. Auditions were later held at Rollerball Studios in Tooley Street , London Bridge . David Humphrey was their second drummer, who went on to record two tracks at Manor Studios in Oxford, “Swan Lake” and “Albatross”, for…
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In the end of 1978, Fallen Angel came out, having completed a hat-trick of studio albums to feature a consistent lineup (only the second time in their career that they had done so). “Too poppy” for Mick Box’s liking (but still, “too eccentric to fit the bill of an AOR…
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Benatar’s debut album, In the Heat of the Night , was released in August 1979, but only debuted on the US Billboard 200 album chart in October, eventually peaking at number 12 in the US in March 1980. Mike Chapman produced three tracks on the album, while engineer Peter Coleman…
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In August 1979, after two warm-up shows in Copenhagen , Led Zeppelin headlined two concerts at the Knebworth Music Festival , playing to a crowd of approximately 104,000 on the first night.