With this album’s release, Led Zeppelin’s entire catalogue returned to the Billboard Top 200 in the weeks of 27 October and 3 November 1979.
In October 1979, the group released their second album, Reggatta de Blanc , which topped the UK Albums Chart and became the first of four consecutive UK No. 1 studio albums. The album spawned the hit singles ” Message in a Bottle ” (No. 1 UK, No. 2 Canada, No.…
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The single was reviewed in Sounds on 22 September 1979 as a record with “a moody intensity”.
The next Crass single, 1980’s “Bloody Revolutions”, was a benefit release with Poison Girls that raised £20,000 to fund the Wapping Autonomy Centre . The words were a critique (from an anarchist-pacifist perspective) of the traditional Marxist view of revolutionary struggle and were partly a response to violence marring a…
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Their Dennis Bovell -produced debut album Cut was released in September 1979 on Island Records , with Neneh Cherry joining as additional backing vocalist. The album’s sleeve art depicted the band naked, except for mud and loincloths . It is often claimed that Palmolive left partly because she did not…
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Butler temporarily left the band in September 1979 to deal with the divorce from his first wife.
The BBC archives mentioned that radio DJ John Peel first broadcast “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” in his show in September 1979.
Taylor and Rhodes then recruited lead vocalist Andy Wickett (formerly frontman of TV Eye ) and decided that they needed a live drummer. They hired Roger Taylor , a former member of various local bands (most recently The Scent Organs who also played at Barbarella’s), while John Taylor switched to…
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The departure of Jim Walker made way for a series of new drummers. Auditions were later held at Rollerball Studios in Tooley Street , London Bridge . David Humphrey was their second drummer, who went on to record two tracks at Manor Studios in Oxford, “Swan Lake” and “Albatross”, for…
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In the end of 1978, Fallen Angel came out, having completed a hat-trick of studio albums to feature a consistent lineup (only the second time in their career that they had done so). “Too poppy” for Mick Box’s liking (but still, “too eccentric to fit the bill of an AOR…
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