McCartney filed suit for the dissolution of the Beatles’ contractual partnership on 31 December 1970.
At Expo ’70 , members of Canadian rock band Lighthouse saw Flower Travellin’ Band perform, liked what they saw and suggested they go to Canada. The group quickly recorded their first album of original material, Satori released in 1971, to have something to bring with them. In December 1970, they…
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In December 1970 Keith Baker left the band and was replaced by Iain Clark (from another Vertigo band, Cressida ). With him the band toured Germany in late December 1970/January 1971 and made their first US tour in the spring of 1971, supporting Three Dog Night and Steppenwolf .
The band initially featured Dave Peverett (“Lonesome Dave”) on guitar and vocals, Tony Stevens on bass, and Roger Earl on drums, after all three musicians left Savoy Brown in December 1970. Rod Price , on guitar/slide guitar, joined after he left Black Cat Bones . The new line-up was named…
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In December, Gabriel spotted a Melody Maker advert from Steve Hackett , formerly of Quiet World , who wanted to join a band of “receptive musicians, determined to drive beyond existing stagnant music forms”.
Released in December 1970, Lizard reached No. 29 in the UK and No. 113 in the US. Described retrospectively as an “outlier”, the album had been made by a group in disagreement over method and taste. The more rhythm-and-blues-oriented Haskell and McCulloch both found the music difficult to relate to,…
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In autumn 1970, the Alice Cooper group teamed with producer Bob Ezrin for the recording of their third studio album, Love It to Death . This was the final album in their Straight Records contract and the band’s last chance to create a hit. That first success came with the…
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In November 1970, future member of the Angels, John Brewster on guitar, banjo, harp, backing vocals and washboard, and his younger brother Rick on violin, washboard, jug, backing vocals and percussion formed the Moonshine Jug and String Band, an acoustic ensemble, in Adelaide. Fellow members were Craig Holden on guitar,…
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While Loaded was finalized and mixed, it had yet to be mastered and was not set to be released by Atlantic until November of that year.
and with the pending release of Loaded in November 1970