the Damned , another London SS spinoff, made their own scheduled debut two days later.
Despite Sire’s high hopes for it, Ramones was not a commercial success, reaching only number 111 on the Billboard album chart. The two singles issued from the album, ” Blitzkrieg Bop ” and “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend”, failed to chart. At the band’s first major performance outside of New…
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the Clash made their debut performance on 4 July 1976, supporting the Sex Pistols at the Black Swan nightclub in Sheffield .
The break-up was made public in July 1976, with then-manager Rob Cooksey issuing a statement: “The band will not record or perform together as Deep Purple again”.
On 4 June 1976, childhood friends Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook separately attended a Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall . Afterwards, both felt inspired by the Pistols’ performance. Sumner said that he felt the Pistols had “destroyed the myth of being a pop star, of…
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In June 1976, the Saints recorded two self-produced tracks, ” (I’m) Stranded ” and “No Time” with Mark Moffatt engineering (label credits for both sides say ‘Produced by The Saints’). Unable to find any interested label, they formed Fatal Records and independently released their debut single in September. Their self-owned…
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High and Mighty followed in June 1976. It was considered lightweight; even Box stated: “less of the ‘eavy and more of the ‘umble” (making pointed reference to Uriah Heep ‘s self-description as “‘umble” in Dickens’ David Copperfield ). The matter of production here became the point of major contention. With…
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Black Sabbath began work for their next album at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida, in June 1976.
As a result, AC/DC returned to playing smaller venues to build a local following until their label organised the Lock Up Your Daughters tour sponsored by Sounds magazine, starting in June 1976.
In June, the album was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Institute for selling over 100,000 copies which helped the band clear the £400,000 of debt (equivalent to £2,700,000 in 2025) they owed when Gabriel left.