On 24 September, Bonham was picked up by Led Zeppelin assistant Rex King to attend rehearsals at Bray Studios . During the journey, Bonham asked to stop for breakfast, where he downed four quadruple vodkas (from 16 to 24 US fl oz (470 to 710 ml)), with a ham roll.…
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Composition of Sound would become embarrassed about their band name and started thinking of changing it. There were several potential variants, including the name Musical Moments that was suggested by Vince Clarke as both a band name and the name of their first album. Starting at their concert on 24…
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Duran Duran spent the next months writing, developing and demoing their songs and performed in clubs around Birmingham and London. In September 1980 they had written all of what would become their debut album. Touring as an opening act for Hazel O’Connor , the band attracted critical attention, resulting in…
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The next release for Plastic Records was UK Decay’s The Black 45 four-song EP, issued in early 1980. It hovered in the UK Indie Chart for 15 months. Alex Howe from Fresh Records offered to license the first two singles, and signed UK Decay to the label. The first official…
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A meeting at the manager’s office concerning the songwriting dissent was the last straw and, in September 1980, Hensley quit. Gregg Dechert, a Canadian who had worked with Sloman in Pulsar, came in and the band went on a 23-date tour of the UK. After recording an album’s worth of…
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In September 1980, Queen performed three sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden.
One of Bauhaus’ first US shows was in a venue called Space Place in Chicago, Illinois in September 1980, booked by Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, the owners of the independent record label Wax Trax! Records .
On 18 August 1980, after a show in Bloomington, Minnesota , Ward quit the band.
Carter left the band in August 1980, after the band’s UK tour with Ted Nugent , to join UFO and later Gary Moore . His replacement was guitarist John Lockton (ex- Next Band , Red Alert) whose first appearance was on the band’s Japanese tour in the autumn of 1980…
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CBS dismissed this idea and the band released only one single—an original reggae song called ” Bankrobber “, in August.