Live from the Atlantic Studios was recorded on 7 December 1977 at the Atlantic Studios in New York.
That August, Lu Edmonds was added as a second guitarist. Although not yet obvious in their music, the band were heavily inspired by psychedelic rock . They unsuccessfully tried to recruit the reclusive Syd Barrett to produce their second studio album. They settled for his former Pink Floyd bandmate Nick…
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Innocent Victim , released in November 1977, “had a slight edge on Firefly ” according to Box, but still in retrospect this “blend of sharp, short rockers and pop-friendly ballads” looked like “an attempt to court the American AOR market”. The single “Free Me” (whose “acoustic style and accent on…
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Queen commenced the News of the World Tour in November 1977, and Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times called this concert tour the band’s “most spectacularly staged and finely honed show”.
Only 18 at the time, Joe Elliott tried out for the band as a guitarist following a chance meeting with Willis after missing a bus in November 1977.
A second live album, Alive II , was released on October 14, 1977.
In October 1977, the Clash set out on the “Out of Control” UK tour. The tour was due to open at the Ulster Hall , Belfast but the insurance was pulled and the gig was cancelled at the last moment. This led to punks blocking the road outside the venue…
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News of Hackett’s departure coincided with the band’s double live album Seconds Out , recorded in Paris on the A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering tours and released in October 1977. It reached No. 4 in the UK and No. 47 in the US.
Doug Messenger, Van Morrison’s band leader guitarist, knowing that Ted Templeman was looking for a “guitar hero” act, had seen Van Halen at the Starwood in Hollywood and placed a number of calls to Warner Records for Ted to check them out. “I don’t know if it was 4 calls…
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The group reconvened in September 1977, but Townshend announced there would be no live performances for the immediate future, a decision that Daltrey endorsed.