Lemmy wanted the music to be “fast and vicious, just like the MC5 “. His stated aim was to “concentrate on very basic music: loud, fast, city, raucous, arrogant, paranoid, speedfreak rock n roll … it will be so loud that if we move in next door to you, your…
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Most of Wish You Were Here premiered on 5 July 1975, at an open-air music festival at Knebworth .
Produced by Black Sabbath and Mike Butcher, Sabotage was released in July 1975.
He reconvened with the remaining group members in London in July 1975.
Blackmore’s departure from Deep Purple was announced on 21 June.
Blackmore’s departure from Deep Purple, and therefore the end of Mark III, was announced on 21 June 1975.
In June of that year, the Stones’ Decca catalogue was purchased by Klein’s ABKCO label.
But in an interview published by Melody Maker in June 1975, Bolin claimed that he came to the audition following a recommendation from Blackmore.
Lemmy was dismissed from Hawkwind in May 1975 after being arrested in Canada for drug possession; he said “the band dismissed me for doing the wrong drugs”. Now on his own, Lemmy decided to form a new band called Motörhead, the name being inspired by the final song he had…
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Formed in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, Quiet Riot became one of the more successful hard rock acts in Los Angeles in the mid-to-late 1970s. Originally known as Mach 1, the name was soon changed to Little Women before the name Quiet Riot was finally settled…
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