Atomic Rooster was an English hard-rock band that released back-to-back albums on B&C/Fontana in 1970, followed by three albums on Pegasus and Dawn between 1971 and 1973. After a six-year pause in activity, the band reconvened for two albums on EMI and PVC/Passport between 1980 and 1983. The band was formed from the ashes of […]
Death Walks Behind You is the second album by the English rock band Atomic Rooster, released in September 1970 on B&C Records. Issued seven months after Atomic Roooster, this was their only album under the revised trio configuration of keyboardist Vincent Crane, guitarist–singer John Du Cann, and drummer Paul Hammond. Sessions occurred in August 1970 […]
Atomic Roooster is the debut album by Atomic Rooster, first released in March 1970 on B & C (U.K.) and Fontana (Europe). Two versions exist of the album. The first — recorded by the original lineup of keyboardist Vincent Crane, bassist/singer Nick Graham, and drummer Carl Palmer — has no guitar. Soon after that release, […]
Atomic Rooster is the sixth album by English hard rock trio Atomic Rooster, released in September 1980 on EMI. This was the group’s first album after a six-year break and their second eponymous release after their 1970 debut, Atomic Roooster (three o’s). Vincent Crane and John Du Cann rebuilt the band for the sessions with […]
Headline News is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Atomic Rooster, released in June 1983 on Towerbell (UK) and Passport (US). This was the second of two ’80s-era albums that Vincent Crane made under the Atomic Rooster name. He self-produced the tracks with longtime drummer Paul Hammond and a rotation of guitarists. […]
Peter French is an English hard-rock singer who emerged as the frontman of Leaf Hound on their 1971 release Growers of Mushroom. After one-album stints in Atomic Rooster, Cactus, and Randy Pie, he released a 1978 solo album, Ducks in Flight, on Polydor. Peter French first fronted beatsters The Switch, a semi-professional band that included […]
Chris Farlowe is an English rock singer who surfaced in the R&B–beat boom with five 1962–65 singles on Decca and Columbia–EMI, which issued his 1966 debut album with backing band The Thunderbirds. He cut eleven singles through 1968 on Immediate Records and scored a UK No. 1 with the Rolling Stones song “Out of Time.” […]
What’s the likelihood that a 16-year-old freshly delving into old music and styles would confuse/mix post-hippie 1971 fashion and 1981 new romantic fashion and lump the music of ELP, Gary Numan, Atomic Rooster, and Spandau Ballet into one category, thinking the organ on “Tank” sounds just like the synth on “Cars”? Part I. The Great […]
