Equator (March 1985) sold poorly, due to the fact that “CBS just did a terrible job getting it into the shops”, as Box saw it. On the other hand, what Kirk Blows described as “a solid piece of product that had the potential to do extremely well” was regarded less…
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By this time Gerry Bron was Uriah Heep manager no longer (they were looked after by Neil Warnock in Europe and Blue Öyster Cult’s management team in the US) and then, finally, Bronze Records collapsed under the weight of debts, which, according to Box, “cost Heep a lot of money”.…
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At the 1985 Brit Awards held at London’s Grosvenor Hotel on 11 February, the band received the award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
Even with Duran Duran on hold, band members were soon anxious to record new music, leading to a supposedly temporary split into two side projects. John Taylor and Andy Taylor wanted to break away from the Duran Duran sound and pursue hard rock material; they collaborated with lead vocalist Robert…
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By 1985, Jagger was spending more time on solo recordings.
The band’s “Mighty and Superior” was voted number 53 best song of the year by the John Peel Festive Fifty radio show audience in 1985, a year that show played a top 70.
The seventh and eighth singles “Summer Love” and “Something to Believe In” came out in 1985.
Although the song ” Notorious ” was a US and UK top ten hit, the album was a relative failure globally, reaching number 16 in the UK and spending one week in the top 50 album chart. The band found they had lost much of the momentum and hysteria they…
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Released in 1985, Low-Life refined and sometimes mixed the two styles, guitar-based and electronic, and included ” The Perfect Kiss ” – the video for which was filmed by Jonathan Demme – and ” Sub-culture “.
Pryor issued a retrospective album consisting of demos and live tracks on his Syndicate label, the success of which prompted the band to reform and record a what was to be marketed as a live album, Loud, Proud, and Punk . It was recorded in a studio, with crowd noise…
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