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The Devil's Touch
''The Devil's Touch'' is the first of three compilation albums by Lucifer's Friend. This compilation collects some of Lucifer's Friend's best songs from their first album ''Lucifer's Friend'' (1970) up to ''Mind Exploding'' (1976) (excluding, however 1972's, '' Where the Groupies Killed the Blues''). This compilation was released by Fontana Records in 1976. The other compilation would be released by Vertigo Records in 1980, which was called '' Rock Heavies: Lucifer's Friend''. Track listing # Blind Boy - 4:46 # Baby You're a Liar - 3:55 # Rock’n Roll Singer - 4:21 # Dirty Old Town - 4:46 # Closed Curtains - 6:02 # In the Time of Job when Mammon Was a Yippie - 4:04 # Groovin’ Stone - 5:18 # Ride the Sky - 2:55 # High Flying Lady-Goodbye - 3:43 # Free Hooker - 7:17 Personnel * John Lawton – lead vocals * Peter Hesslein – lead guitars, vocals * Peter Hecht – keyboards * Dieter Horns – bass, vocals * Joachim Reitenbach – drums (tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9) * Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compilation Album
A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several Performing arts#Performers, performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If from several performers, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology. Content and scope Songs included on a compilation album may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucifer's Friend
Lucifer's Friend was a German rock band, formed in Hamburg in 1970 by guitarist Peter Hesslein, singer John Lawton, bassist Dieter Horns, keyboardist Peter Hecht, and drummer Joachim Reitenbach. The group was an early practitioner of heavy metal and progressive rock; they also incorporated elements of jazz and fusion into their music, especially in their fourth album '' Banquet'' of 1974. Beyond heavy metal, the band has been cited, too, as one of the pioneers of doom metal, helping to define both genres due to their heavy sound and dark oriented lyrics of their debut '' Lucifer's Friend'' of 1970, and returning to their roots in 1981 with '' Mean Machine'', although more influenced by speed metal. History Vocalist John Lawton's band Stonewall broke up while on tour in West Germany in 1969. While the band returned home to Britain, Lawton elected to stay in Germany for the time being, and there he met Peter Hesslein, Dieter Horns, Peter Hecht and Joachim Reitenbach, all mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavy Metal Music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock and acid rock, heavy metal bands developed a thick, monumental sound characterized by distortion (music), distorted guitars, extended guitar solos, emphatic Beat (music), beats and loudness. In 1968, three of the genre's most famous pioneers – Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple – were founded. Though they came to attract wide audiences, they were often derided by critics. Several American bands modified heavy metal into more accessible forms during the 1970s: the raw, sleazy sound and shock rock of Alice Cooper and Kiss (band), Kiss; the blues-rooted rock of Aerosmith; and the flashy guitar leads and party rock of Van Halen. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence,Walser (1993), p. 6 while Motörhea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk, or classical music. Additional elements contributed to its " progressive" label: lyrics were more poetic, technology was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of "art", and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening rather than dancing. Progressive rock is based on fusions of styles, approaches and genres, involving a continuous move between formalism and eclecticism. Due to its historical reception, the scope of progressiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontana Records
Fontana Records is a record label that was started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records. The independent label distributor Fontana Distribution takes its name from the label. History Fontana started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records; when Philips restructured its music operations, it dropped Fontana in favor of Vertigo Records. Fontana's U.S. counterpart label was started in 1964 and distributed by Philips US subsidiary Mercury Records. The initial single release (F 1501) was a wild teen beat instrumental by famed British session drummer Bobby Graham, both sides featuring Jimmy Page on guitar. Among the hitmakers were Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders (then later on their own, simply as the Mindbenders), the Troggs, the New Vaudeville Band, Manfred Mann, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, and Steam, all of whom had No. 1 hits on the label. Other successful Fontana artists included the Silkie, Nana Mouskouri, the Pretty Things, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mind Exploding
Mind Exploding is the fifth album by German hard rock band Lucifer's Friend. This album marks the point where they returned to a more hard rock oriented style with less of a progressive rock sound. It is more or less the missing link between '' I'm Just a Rock & Roll Singer'' (1973) and '' Banquet'' (1974); with the hard rock driven sound of the former, it still has the occasional horn section and progressiveness of the latter. This is the last album with John Lawton on vocals before he joined Uriah Heep. Lawton returned to Lucifer's Friend in 1981 to record the '' Mean Machine'' album. Track listing Personnel * John Lawton – lead vocals * Peter Hesslein – lead guitars, vocals * Peter Hecht – keyboards * Dieter Horns – bass guitar, vocals * Curt Cress – drums References External links * {{Authority control 1976 albums Lucifer's Friend albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Time Warrior
''Good Time Warrior'' is the sixth album by Lucifer's Friend, an album in which Mike Starrs, formerly of Colosseum II, replaced John Lawton on vocals for the first time. This album and the following ''Sneak Me In'' (1980) were an attempt at a more commercial, mainstream style which met with limited commercial success. Starrs was eventually replaced by the returning Lawton for 1981's '' Mean Machine''. Track listing #Old Man Roller - 4:17 #Meet You in L.A. - 4:05 #My Love - 6:04 #Good Times - 4:23 #Little Dancer - 4:06 #Sweet Little Lady - 4:38 #Gamblin' Man - 4:31 #Warriors - 10:11 Personnel * Mike Starrs – lead & backing vocals * Peter Hesslein – electric & acoustic guitars, backing vocals & sailor lead vocal on “Warriors” * Peter Hecht – acoustic piano, Hohner clavinet, Hammond organ, Roland String Ensemble, Roland electric piano, Polyphonic synthesizers, Minimoog, Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucifer's Friend (album)
''Lucifer's Friend'' is the first studio album by the hard rock band Lucifer's Friend Lucifer's Friend was a German rock band, formed in Hamburg in 1970 by guitarist Peter Hesslein, singer John Lawton, bassist Dieter Horns, keyboardist Peter Hecht, and drummer Joachim Reitenbach. The group was an early practitioner of heavy met ..., released in 1970. Lucifer's Friend would change directions multiple times on upcoming albums. However, the progressive and krautrock influenced proto-doom metal on this album lives up to the sinister cover. Track listing Side one # "Ride the Sky" (Hesslein, Lawton) 2:55 # "Everybody's Clown" (Rietenbach, Horns, Docker, Hecht, Hesslein) 6:12 # "Keep Goin'" (Horns, Docker, Hecht, Hesslein) 5:26 # "Toxic Shadows" (Docker, Hesslein) 7:00 Side two # "Free Baby" (Horns, Lawton, Hecht, Hesslein) 5:28 # "Baby You're a Liar" (Rietenbach, Horns, Docker, Hecht, Hesslein) 3:55 # "In the Time of Job When Mammon Was a Yippie" (Horns, Docker, Hecht, Hesslein) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where The Groupies Killed The Blues
''...Where the Groupies Killed the Blues'' is the second album by progressive rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1972. Piano is prominent on most songs, and organ is used only on a few songs such as "Where the Groupies Killed the Blues", whereas on the debut album, ''Lucifer's Friend (album), Lucifer's Friend'' (1970), organ and guitars had been the driving force. In the U.S., the band's U.S. label (Billingsgate Records) did not release this album although Billingsgate did issue the follow-up album, ''I'm Just a Rock & Roll Singer'' (1973). The U.S. release of ''Groupies'' was delayed three years until the band's new label Passport Records released it. Original LP Track listing Side one # "Burning Ships" (Hesslein, Horns, Lawton) – 4:34 # "Prince of Darkness" (Hesslein) – 5:37 # "Hobo" (Hesslein, Lawton) – 3:42 # "Mother" (Hecht) – 7:25 Side two # "Where the Groupies Killed the Blues" (Hesslein) – 5:04 # "Rose on the Vine" (Hesslein) – 8:19 # "Summerdream" (Hec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vertigo Records
Vertigo Records is a record company with United Kingdom origins. It was a subsidiary of the Philips/Phonogram record label, launched in 1969 to specialise in progressive rock and other non-mainstream musical styles. Today, it is operated by Universal Music Germany, and the UK catalogue was folded into Mercury Records, which was absorbed in 2013 by Virgin EMI Records, which returned to the EMI Records name in June 2020. History Vertigo was the brainchild of Olav Wyper when he was Creative Director at Phonogram. It was launched as a competitor to labels such as Harvest (a prog subsidiary of EMI) and Deram (Decca). It was the home to bands such as Colosseum, Jade Warrior, Affinity, Ben and other bands from 'the "cutting edge" of the early-'70s British prog-folk-post-psych circuit'. The first Vertigo releases came with a black and white spiral label, which was replaced with Roger Dean's spaceship design in 1973. Vertigo later became the European home to various hard rock band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucifer's Friend
Lucifer's Friend was a German rock band, formed in Hamburg in 1970 by guitarist Peter Hesslein, singer John Lawton, bassist Dieter Horns, keyboardist Peter Hecht, and drummer Joachim Reitenbach. The group was an early practitioner of heavy metal and progressive rock; they also incorporated elements of jazz and fusion into their music, especially in their fourth album ''Banquet'' of 1974. Beyond heavy metal, the band has been cited, too, as one of the pioneers of doom metal, helping to define both genres due to their heavy sound and dark oriented lyrics of their debut ''Lucifer's Friend'' of 1970, and returning to their roots in 1981 with '' Mean Machine'', although more influenced by speed metal. History Vocalist John Lawton's band Stonewall broke up while on tour in West Germany in 1969. While the band returned home to Britain, Lawton elected to stay in Germany for the time being, and there he met Peter Hesslein, Dieter Horns, Peter Hecht and Joachim Reitenbach, all m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
