In November 1975 The Best of Uriah Heep compilation was released, preceded by two solo albums: Byron’s debut Take No Prisoners and Hensley’s second, Eager to Please .
Black Sabbath toured in support of Sabotage with openers Kiss , but were forced to cut the tour short in November 1975, following a motorcycle accident in which Osbourne ruptured a muscle in his back.
The band’s A Night at the Opera Tour began in November 1975, and covered Europe, the US, Japan, and Australia.
The group toured from October, playing little new material and few Quadrophenia numbers, and reintroducing several from Tommy .
Sales were assisted by the band opening a Rod Stewart concert at the Montreal Forum in Montreal in October, a gig they were offered a day before the concert when the previously scheduled opening act canceled.
The resulting album from Deep Purple Mark IV, Come Taste the Band , was released in October 1975, one month before Bolin’s Teaser album. Despite mixed reviews and middling sales (No. 19 in the UK and No. 43 in the US), the collection revitalised the band once again, bringing a…
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Recording began in October 1975 at Trident Studios with Hentschel as producer.
Kiss wanted to express the excitement felt at its concerts (which its studio albums had so far failed to do) with its first live album. Compiled from concerts recorded between May and July in Wildwood, New Jersey , Detroit and Cleveland , and released on September 10, 1975, Alive! achieved…
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In September 1975, they were joined by former Stories guitarist Richie Ranno . After keyboardist Gonsky separated from the group, they decided to rebrand and pursue a more heavy metal direction.
Keeler and Young left the group soon after the band’s first single was released and in the summer of 1975 Moore and Levine met guitarist Rik Emmett , who was playing at Toronto’s Hollywood Tavern in a band called ACT III. After jamming with the pair at Moore’s house in…
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