The Police’s power trio line-up of Copeland, Sting, and Summers performed for the first time on 18 August 1977 at Rebecca’s club in Birmingham in the West Midlands. This line-up endured for the rest of the band’s history. Few punk bands were three pieces, while contemporary bands pursuing progressive rock,…
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an aborted recording session with ex- Velvet Underground member John Cale as producer on 10 August
and on 5 August at the Mont de Marsan Punk Festival.
They performed live twice: on 25 July 1977 at the Music Machine in London
and played at a London club (under the name of “the Elevators”) in July.
Unlike contemporary rock drummers such as Ginger Baker and John Bonham , Moon hated drum solos and refused to play them in concert. At a Madison Square Garden show during The Who’s 1974 tour , Townshend and Entwistle decided to spontaneously stop playing during ” Waspman ” to listen to…
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On 3 June, a concert at Tampa Stadium was cut short because of a severe thunderstorm, despite tickets indicating “Rain or Shine”. A riot broke out, resulting in arrests and injuries.
Chelsea’s first single, “Right to Work”, was released in June 1977 by Step-Forward Records . Recorded by the October/Fortune/Daze/Stevenson line-up of the band, it was their most popular song, and also appeared on the soundtrack album (issued in 1978 by Polydor ) to the 1977 Derek Jarman film Jubilee (which…
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They ended the tour with two concerts at Earls Court , London, in June, which commemorated the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II , and at the cost of £50,000 the band used a lighting rig in the shape of a crown for the first time.
Buzzcocks manager Richard Boon and frontman Pete Shelley have both been credited with suggesting the band name “Stiff Kittens”, but the band settled on “Warsaw” shortly before their first gig, a reference to David Bowie ‘s song ” Warszawa “. Warsaw debuted on 29 May 1977 at the Electric Circus,…
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