"Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Scotland, after contracting an illness while on holiday in Mexico, where he had been a patient at the Galenia Hospital in Cancún but had been cleared to return home. He was 70. Alan Longmuir Alan Longmuir (20 June 1948 – 2 July 2018) was a Scottish musician and a founding member of the 1970s pop group, the Bay City Rollers. He played the bass guitar in the band whilst his younger brother Derek Longmuir was drummer. Longmuir was born at Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Hospital, Edinburgh. His father was an undertaker. A member of"
"was reminiscent of 1965-66 era Beatles, with ""Trouser Press"" even comparing the album to the Beatles' ""Rubber Soul"" (1965). AllMusic gave the album four stars out of five. Elevator (The Rollers album) Elevator is a 1979 rock album by the Bay City Rollers. Having replaced longtime lead singer Les McKeown with Duncan Faure, the group shortened their name to simply The Rollers, and pursued a more rocking, power-pop sound than their previous work. The album, released by Arista, was critically acclaimed but poorly received commercially. Neither the album itself or any single releases would hit the charts. The album was"
"on lead vocals, Kass (Karen Prosser) on vocals, Jason Medvec on guitar, Andy Boakes on bass, Mark Roberts on drums. The band toured extensively throughout the US and Canada as well as tours of the UK and Australia. This group also released an independent five-song EP titled ""Party Hardy"". In 1990, Stuart Wood and Alan Longmuir joined with Faulkner to tour under the Bay City Rollers name, and issued several CDs of re-recordings of the old Roller tunes. The classic line-up (minus Derek Longmuir) performed a one-off New Year's Eve millennium concert, the last official Bay City Rollers concert (1999–2000)"
"the band. It was officially released as part of the deluxe edition of the reissue of their debut album. All available in bootlegs. Some were officially released on the Crossroads box set or the Layla album 40th anniversary deluxe edition. Derek and the Dominos Derek and the Dominos were an English–American blues rock band formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton, keyboardist and singer Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon. All four members had previously played together in Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, during and after Clapton's brief tenure with Blind Faith."
"albums were regarded as New Age music, and featured vocalists such as Cori Josias, Ella Harper, Russian Roulette (aka Rush Winters), Beryl Marsden and Miriam Stockley amongst others. Phil Sawyer Philip 'Phil' Sawyer (born 8 March 1947, London) is an English musician who was a member of the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s and later recorded under the alias Beautiful World. Sawyer began his musical career as lead guitarist and vocalist in various bands (Les Fleur de Lys, The Cheynes (with a 15-year-old Mick Fleetwood on drums), Shotgun Express which became Fleetwood Mac). At the age of 18, he"
"Dan McKeown Dan McKeown is a Philadelphia producer who has gained international fame with his music and television productions. His credits include artists such as Billy Paul, The Intruders, Dee Dee Sharp, The Trammps, Frankie Smith Canadian rockers Hit The Ground Runnin and many more. Hit the Ground Runnin's first album ""Sudden Impact"", produced by McKeown and Paul Piccari, holds the title as the most sought-after rock album in the world, selling on eBay for an average price of $1,088. In 2001, an original copy with autographs sold for $1,950.00. McKeown also worked with long-time friend Michael Nise in Camden,"
"Jackie McKeown Jackie McKeown (born John McKeown, 17 February 1971, Bellshill, Scotland) is the Scottish former lead singer and guitarist for the Glasgow indie rock band The Yummy Fur and plays currently in 1990s. McKeown grew up in Blantyre near Glasgow. His early teenage years were coloured by obsessions with David Bowie and European art cinema. At the age of 16 he began playing guitar and writing songs, forming his first bands, Glass Candle and Subliminal Girls, after leaving school in 1988. Just prior to moving to Glasgow in 1992, he formed The Yummy Fur with Jamie McMorrow. He also"
"Elevator (The Rollers album) Elevator is a 1979 rock album by the Bay City Rollers. Having replaced longtime lead singer Les McKeown with Duncan Faure, the group shortened their name to simply The Rollers, and pursued a more rocking, power-pop sound than their previous work. The album, released by Arista, was critically acclaimed but poorly received commercially. Neither the album itself or any single releases would hit the charts. The album was reissued on CD in 2008, with no bonus cuts however. Dave Thompson of AllMusic wrote that the album featured a hard rock, AOR direction. ""Billboard"" felt the music"
"the ""Billboard"" 200 in December of that year. Farquahr Farquahr was an American folk band from Branford, Connecticut. Playing often-humorous folk music, the group enjoyed regional popularity in New England in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Farquahr's four members all took pseudonymous stage names, but three of them were actually brothers. All four members sang and played guitar. They also performed under the name The McGowan Brothers at times, playing Celtic music. They released two albums under the Farquahr designation, the first as Fabulous Farquahr and the latter under the shortened designation. Jerry Ragovoy produced their sophomore effort, which"
"together with Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin of Freakwater to be the Freakons, performing original and cover songs about coal mining in Appalachia, England and Wales, to support the non-profit organization Kentuckians for the Commonwealth. The Freakons performed at the Hideout in Chicago, and elsewhere in Wisconsin, and planned to release an album. In 2017, they were accompanied by violinists Jean Cook of New York City and Anna Krippenstapel of Louisville, and, only in Chicago, by Chicago guitarist James Elkington. The Mekons The Mekons are a British-American rock band. Formed in the late 1970s as an art collective, they are"
"Farquahr Farquahr was an American folk band from Branford, Connecticut. Playing often-humorous folk music, the group enjoyed regional popularity in New England in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Farquahr's four members all took pseudonymous stage names, but three of them were actually brothers. All four members sang and played guitar. They also performed under the name The McGowan Brothers at times, playing Celtic music. They released two albums under the Farquahr designation, the first as Fabulous Farquahr and the latter under the shortened designation. Jerry Ragovoy produced their sophomore effort, which was released in 1970 and reached #195 on"
"Phil Sawyer Philip 'Phil' Sawyer (born 8 March 1947, London) is an English musician who was a member of the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s and later recorded under the alias Beautiful World. Sawyer began his musical career as lead guitarist and vocalist in various bands (Les Fleur de Lys, The Cheynes (with a 15-year-old Mick Fleetwood on drums), Shotgun Express which became Fleetwood Mac). At the age of 18, he was one of the two replacements for Steve and Muff Winwood in the Spencer Davis Group, the other being another 18-year-old prodigy, Eddie Hardin. Sawyer wrote or co-wrote"
"performed in Cotton Gum and played guitar in LungLeg (his sister Jane's band) for a UK tour. In the late 90s he often played lead guitar for Comet Gain and performs on their album Tigertown Pictures (1999). After The Yummy Fur decided to split in December 1999, McKeown turned thirty, got married and attended university for the first time, studying film theory. Having become tired of playing guitar, he formed a short-lived electronic pop band called The Girls with former Yummy Fur member Alex Kapranos which performed live only once (in Glasgow). In 2001 Mckeown began collaborating with The Yummy"
"after a five-year run, and Eric Carmen proceeded to a successful career as a solo artist. Bryson and Smalley resurrected the group's name in 1999 for an album, which included singer/songwriter Scott McCarl working as the vocalist. In 2004 the original four-man lineup reunited and undertook a well-received reunion tour in 2005. The group had its roots in two of Cleveland's most successful local bands in the late 1960s, The Choir and Cyrus Erie. The Choir, originally called The Mods and composed of Dann Klawon, Wally Bryson, Dave Burke, Dave Smalley, and Jim Bonfanti, had a more extensive repertoire of"
"in late January. A further report from NME confirmed the involvement of long-time Yummy Fur guitarist Brian McDougal. The Yummy Fur The Yummy Fur were an indie rock band from Glasgow, formed in 1992, and disbanded 1999. The band consisted of lead singer and guitarist John McKeown and a regularly changing line-up of other musicians. McKeown has since gone on to form the band 1990s. Their name was taken from the comic book ""Yummy Fur"" by Chester Brown. After leaving the band in 1997, Lawrence Worthington would drum for both The Male Nurse and The Fall-influenced art punk band The"
"Tour, because that is all the pair could afford to eat. Asian Man Records released the second Sundowner album ""We Chase The Waves"" on August 10, 2010. Sundowner's third full-length album, Neon Fiction, was released on Fat Wreck Chords in 2013. McCaughan is known to use Guild S-100 guitars and Mesa Boogie mark IV amps. Chris McCaughan Chris McCaughan (born March 30, 1977) is the guitarist and vocalist in the band The Lawrence Arms. McCaughan was formerly the guitarist for the bands Tricky Dick and The Broadways (the latter also featuring fellow Arms bandmate Brendan Kelly). His solo music is"
"Alec MacKaye Alec MacKaye (born 1966) is an American singer and musician best known as a member of the DC hardcore bands Untouchables, The Faith, and Ignition. In the mid-1990s Alec joined the band The Warmers as a vocalist and guitarist. ""Mondo James Dean"", an anthology of poetry and short-fiction edited by Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole, was dedicated to MacKaye. MacKaye is the younger brother of Minor Threat & Fugazi singer and guitarist Ian MacKaye. His sister in law, Amy Farina was a member of The Warmers with Alec years prior to marrying his brother. He is shown on"
"sole member and released its debut album, ""ThinKing"", via his own record label ""Lucky Pierre Music"". Lucky Pierre (band) Lucky Pierre is a new wave band, founded in Cleveland in 1974 by singer-songwriter, guitarist and the only constant member, Kevin McMahon. The initial line-up of the band included McMahon on vocals, John Guardico on guitar, Dennis DeVito on bass and Brian Dempsey on drums. The band has released a string of singles in between the late 1970s and early 1980s, before entering to a hiatus and reforming in 1988, with guitarist Rick Christyson and keyboardist Trent Reznor, the founder of"
"back in the studio recording new material. ""Why Can't Man Be More Like Animals"" takes its name from a Pink Panther episode entitled Sink Pink. ""The sky on my Birthday"" takes its name from a photograph taken by photographer Francine Weiss which also features on the cover art of the album Rubyhorse Leftbank William Declan Lucey William D. Lucey is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist best known for being a member and key songwriter for Irish rock band Rubyhorse, formed in 1987 with schoolmates Dave Farrell, Owen Fegan, Joe Philpott, and Gordon Ashe.[1] More recently he has released two"
"original collective, with core members Chris Karrer, Falk Rogner, Renate Knaup-Kroetenschwanz, John Weinzierl, and Peter Leopold. They signed to the United Artists label and released a string of highly regarded albums with strong psychedelic and progressive flourishes. After 1975, the band changed labels and moved towards more accessible music, before finally disbanding in the late 1970s. After a spell with Hawkwind, Amon Düül II's original bassist Dave Anderson formed a short-lived band called ""Amon Din"" with drummer John Lingwood, ex-Hawkwind guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton and John Butler in 1971-2. At the beginning of the 1980s, Amon Düül II's John Weinzierl, with"
"""Rumours"" by Fleetwood Mac and ""Hotel California"" by The Eagles. Henry Stone and his label TK Records supported the local indie scene in the 1970s. T. K. Records produced the R&B group KC and the Sunshine Band along with soul singers Betty Wright, George McCrae, and Jimmy ""Bo"" Horne as well as a number of minor soul and disco hits, many influenced by Caribbean music. In the 1970s and early 1980s Jacksonville saw a very active music recording scene with Southern rock bands such as Molly Hatchet, The Allman Brothers Band, 38 Special, The Outlaws, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The Bellamy"
"founding of a couple of other bands in the past years under the same name, the band members decided to change the spelling in Rekuiem. For a time period of three years, the band wrote and recorded the promised album that was never delivered twenty years ago. Three original members, Steve Slater (guit), Karl Wilcox (drums) and Gordon Denny (bass) joined forces with Paul Parry (vocals), formerly with Tredegar, and Neil Taylor (keyboards), who has worked before with Cloven Hoof, Demon and the Ozzy Osbourne tribute Ozzmosis. The band released an EP for the rock press. This EP featured five"
"Eric Blackwood and a young teenage suicide which Eric reported as being the most horrific thing he's ever experienced. The album again featured Eric Blackwood and Pete Trewavas as songwriters but also a prominent role by drummer Henry Rogers of Touchstone and DeeExpus. Nineteen-year-old Henry Rogers had won the award for ""World's Best Drummer"" by England's ""Classic Rock Society"" for 2 years in a row, beating out Dream Theater/Transatlantic's Mike Portnoy who had long held the honor. Rick Armstrong joined the band as their live ""2nd lead and synth guitarist"" after guesting on stage with Edison's Children in Montreal in"
"The Yummy Fur The Yummy Fur were an indie rock band from Glasgow, formed in 1992, and disbanded 1999. The band consisted of lead singer and guitarist John McKeown and a regularly changing line-up of other musicians. McKeown has since gone on to form the band 1990s. Their name was taken from the comic book ""Yummy Fur"" by Chester Brown. After leaving the band in 1997, Lawrence Worthington would drum for both The Male Nurse and The Fall-influenced art punk band The Country Teasers. Three future members of internationally successful Glasgow indie band Franz Ferdinand played in The Yummy Fur."
"Anderson, Vince Welnick, Frank Martinez, Scott Hornbeck and Bob Macintosh. The other, the Red White and Blues Band, featured Prairie Prince, Roger Steen, and David Killingsworth. After performing at Expo '70 in Japan, Killingsworth left the Red, White and Blues Band, leaving Steen and Prince to audition new bass players, albeit unsuccessfully. The Beans had been a local favorite in Phoenix, selling out shows with a tongue-in-cheek concept rock show called ""The Mother of Ascension"" featuring costumes and props before moving to San Francisco. After moving, Bill Spooner worked at the Fillmore West sweeping floors in between Beans shows at"
"sang ""Child in Time"", it ""blew his mind away"". Eric Adams (musician) Eric Adams (born Louis Marullo, July 12, 1954) is the singer of the American heavy metal band Manowar since its inception in 1980. Previously, he sang for a group called LOOKS, a band which also included future Manowar bassist and childhood friend, Joey DeMaio. Louis Marullo was born in Auburn, New York, United States. He first showed interested in music when he was nine years old, playing the guitar and forming his own garage band in 1965, which was called The Kids. This group, formed by him and"
"performances."" French and Rayner were also praised for their production skills, ""Preserving the Classic Rock sound."" Stuart Brooks now lives in the Los Angeles, CA area. He was a member of Wishing Well, a power trio led by guitarist/vocalist Greg Leon, who issued their eponymous 1997 debut album on Tokuma Communications in Japan and on their own label stateside. Both Wolfmother and Tame Impala have listed the group as an influence. Leaf Hound Leaf Hound is an English 1960s/1970s hard rock band. The group has been cited as a major influence on the stoner rock movement. Leaf Hound formed in"
"2013, after being diagnosed just the year previous. Nick Keir Nick Keir (14 March 1953 – 2 June 2013) was a musician from Edinburgh, Scotland, who is best known for his work with The McCalmans. More recently Keir emerged as a singer-songwriter, producing three solo albums and performing as a soloist with The Tolkien Ensemble. Keir regularly played in both Scotland and Denmark at folk festivals and on tours, both with The McCalmans and also at solo gigs. Keir studied at Stirling University, where he founded Finn MacCuill, a folk-rock band, which for a while expanded into The Finn MacCuill"
"included the original band, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan, and ""Rumours""-era members Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Bob Welch was not included, despite his key role in keeping the band alive during the early 1970s. The ""Rumours""-era version of the band performed both at the induction ceremony and at the Grammy Awards program that year. Peter Green attended the induction ceremony but did not perform with his former bandmates, opting instead to perform his composition ""Black Magic Woman"" with Santana, who were inducted the same night. Neither Jeremy Spencer nor Danny Kirwan"
"Jake Cavaliere Jake Cavaliere (born Jacob William Cavaliere, April 5, 1972 in Downey, California) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer and tattoo artist. He is best known for being the frontman and lead vocalist for Southern California rock and roll band Lords of Altamont, as well as his contributions as organ player and vocalist for the surf and garage combo The Bomboras. Often known as 'The Preacher', Jake started his career in music while still attending high school with San Diego-based garage band Eastern Green and has also spent time on tour with The Cramps as Poison Ivy's guitar"
"William Declan Lucey William D. Lucey is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist best known for being a member and key songwriter for Irish rock band Rubyhorse, formed in 1987 with schoolmates Dave Farrell, Owen Fegan, Joe Philpott, and Gordon Ashe.[1] More recently he has released two records under the nom de plume Leftbank, collaborating with Gordon Ashe on drums. The first "" why can't man be more like animals"" was released in 2011 and the second ""The sky on my Birthday"" in (2018). William was raised in County Cork, Ireland, and served as primary songwriter and bass player in"
"to Chicago until 1997, when he again returned to Toronto. Eric Mercury Eric Mercury is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician. He was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario into a family of musicians. He performed with groups including The Pharaohs and Eric Mercury and the Soul Searchers in the 1960s, and moved to New York in 1968 to perform by himself. His debut solo album, ""Electric Black Man"", was recorded in 1969. He followed that album with ""Funky Sounds Nurtured in the Fertile Soil of Memphis That Smell of Rock"" (1972), ""Love Is Taking Over"" (1973), ""Eric Mercury"" (1975),"
"Duck MacDonald Andrew ""Duck"" MacDonald (born September 17, 1953) is an American heavy metal/hard rock guitarist, who has played in several bands, the most well-known of which being Blue Cheer. He started playing in various bands around New York City. In 1980 he was asked to join Shakin' Street, replacing guitarist Ross the Boss. Shakin Street toured the U.S., supporting Black Sabbath and Blue Öyster Cult on the Black and Blue tour. Following this and a tour of France, Shakin Street broke up. MacDonald met with ex-Elf/Rainbow members Gary Driscoll and Craig Gruber, and started the band Bible Black. They"