In January 1975, Queen left for a world tour with an upgraded light show.
Kiss manager Bill Aucoin was introduced to STARZ via his right-hand man Sean Delaney , who had previously befriended Sweval. Aucoin began representing Starz in late 1975, helping them to get signed to Capitol Records in early 1976.
Driven largely by commercial pressures to stay with reliable chart-toppers and teenage pop sensations, the Australian music industry in the mid-1970s cast a dismissive eye toward most bands with an alternative outlook.
In 1975, the band changed its name to Mink DeVille; lead singer Billy Borsay took the name Willy DeVille. Said DeVille, “We were sitting around talking of names, and some of them were really rude, and I was saying, guys we can’t do that. Then one of the guys said…
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Mick Jones played guitar in protopunk band London SS and rehearsed for much of 1975, but never played a live show and recorded only one demo. London SS were managed by Bernard Rhodes , an associate of impresario Malcolm McLaren and a friend of the members of the Sex Pistols…
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Before Triumph, there was a four-piece blues-based band consisting of Tom Lafferty (guitar), Peter Young (organ), Mike Levine (bass) and Gil Moore (drums, vocals). This group, called Abernathy Shagnaster (Abernathy Shagnaster’s Wash and Wear Band), signed to Canada’s Attic Records in 1975 and issued the non-charting single “Hobo” / “Got…
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In 1975, Led Zeppelin’s double album Physical Graffiti was their first release on the Swan Song label. It consisted of fifteen songs, of which eight had been recorded at Headley Grange in 1974 and seven had been recorded earlier. A review in Rolling Stone magazine referred to Physical Graffiti as…
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In early 1975, the rock producer Kim Fowley had an idea for assembling an all-female band at a time when, according to guitarist Joan Jett , “There were no young girls at all playing guitar or any sort of instruments.”
The band swiftly became regulars at the club, playing there seventy-four times by the end of the year. After garnering considerable attention for their performances—which averaged about seventeen minutes from beginning to end—the group was signed to a recording contract in late 1975 by Seymour Stein of Sire Records .…
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By late 1975, the group was living back in Gainesville, Florida. During 1977, they communicated with Black Oak Arkansas ‘ manager, Butch Stone, who hired them as the backing group for one of his clients, Ruby Starr , who had been a backup singer for Black Oak but was now…
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