On 21 September 1976, the Clash performed publicly for the first time without Levene at the 100 Club Punk Special , sharing the bill with the Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Subway Sect .
Queen played a landmark gig on 18 September 1976, a free concert in Hyde Park , London, organised by the entrepreneur Richard Branson . It set an attendance record at the park, with 150,000 people confirmed in the audience. Queen were late arriving onstage and ran out of time to…
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The Runaways were the subject of a writeup in People magazine in September 1976. A week later, Fowley severed his ties with the band and forfeited his rights, titles, claims, and merchandising ownership to Mercury Records. Mercury refused to accept Fowley’s stakehold in the band and turned it back to…
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In early September, Levene and the band parted ways.
In September 1976, Genesis relocated to Relight Studios at Hilvarenbeek in the Netherlands with Hentschel to record Wind & Wuthering .
Strummer performed lead vocals on the majority of songs but he and Jones sometimes shared the lead. Once the band began recording, Jones rarely had a solo lead on more than one song per album, though he was responsible for two of the group’s biggest hits. On 13 August 1976,…
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However, Grand Funk found new life from interest by Frank Zappa in producing the band. Signing with MCA Records , the resulting album Good Singin’, Good Playin’ (August 1976), although it netted them some of their best critical reviews ever, yielded little success. After this, a disillusioned Grand Funk Railroad…
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In August 1976, following a gig at Newcastle City Hall, Blackmore decided to fire Carey, believing his playing style to be too complicated for the band.
In August 1976, the Stones played Knebworth in England in front of 200,000—their largest audience to date—and finished their set at 7 a.m.
The Damned played their first show on 6 July 1976, supporting the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club . A lo-fi recording of the show was later released as Live at the 100 Club (2007). As part of London’s burgeoning punk scene, the Damned again played the club on 20…
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