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April Wine is a Canadian
rock
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band formed in 1969 and based in
Halifax,
Nova Scotia
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Most of the population are native Eng ...
. Led by singer-guitarist-songwriter
Myles Goodwin since its inception, April Wine's first success came with its second album, ''
On Record'' (1972), which reached the top 40 in Canada and yielded two hit singles: "
Bad Side of the Moon
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", a top 20 hit in Canada; and "
You Could Have Been a Lady
"You Could've Been a Lady" is a song by the British soul band Hot Chocolate, written by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson. Written in 1969 and released as a single in 1971, it peaked at number 22 on the UK Singles Chart during a nine-week run.
Altho ...
", a number 2 song in Canada. The band would go on to enjoy international success during the rest of the 1970s and early 80s, releasing more than 20 albums.
History
Early years
Although April Wine officially began in late 1969 in
Waverley Waverley may refer to:
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,
Nova Scotia
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, their roots can be traced to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 1967/68, where brothers David and Ritchie Henman grew up playing music together before moving to Nova Scotia.
Three of the founding members - David Henman (guitar), Ritchie Henman (drums), and their cousin Jim Henman (bass) - were originally in a band named Prism (not the famous one). After a brief break to attend university, the trio reformed with
Myles Goodwyn
Myles Francis Goodwyn (born Miles Francis Goodwin on ) is a Canadian musician. He is the only original remaining member of the rock band April Wine, in which he is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter. Goodwyn has led the ba ...
on lead vocals and guitar. Goodwyn had previously played with Jim Henman in a group called the Termites. David Henman christened the new group "April Wine". They realized that
Halifax did not provide opportunities to play and record, so they sent a demo tape to
Aquarius Records in Montreal. Aquarius managers Terry Flood and
Donald K. Tarlton returned a rejection letter but the band mistook it for an invitation. On April 1, 1970, April Wine went to
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...
, bringing with them their instruments and $100 in cash; Flood and Tarlton were persuaded to sign the band to a contract. They were set up in a chalet and booked at a local comedy club, Café Andre. They spent the next five months touring eastern Canada with
Mashmakhan
Mashmakhan was a Canadian rock band formed in 1969 in L'Île-Perrot, Quebec. The band is best known for their 1970 hit single " As the Years Go By". The song reached No. 1 in Canada, and the Top 40 in the United States. The song was also a maj ...
.
The band recorded and released their self-titled debut album ''
April Wine
April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969 and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Led by singer-guitarist-songwriter Myles Goodwin since its inception, April Wine's first success came with its second album, '' On Record'' (1972), which rea ...
'' in September 1971.
The album included a single, "
Fast Train", which was a top 40 hit in Canada and peaked at #38 on the
RPM Singles Chart. It established Miles Goodwyn as April Wine's main songwriter. The album did not sell well, but the success of the single led the band's label to ask for a second album. Jim Henman left the band in the fall of 1971 and was replaced by
Jim Clench
James Patrick Clench (May 1, 1949 – November 3, 2010) was a Canadian bassist and vocalist known for his roles in the rock bands April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive.
With April Wine (first run)
Clench was asked to join April Wine afte ...
.
In the meantime, the band spent 1971 touring the college circuit, with the exception of July 30th, when they opened at Montreal's Place Des Nations for
The Guess Who
The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1965. The band originated in 1962 and achieved an international hit single with a cover of " Shakin' All Over" in 1965 under the name Chad Allan and the Expressions. After ...
. 1972 was much the same, although they began to play larger venues and opened for a few more large acts, like
Ike & Tina Turner
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,
Jethro Tull,
Badfinger
Badfinger were a Welsh rock band formed in Swansea, who were active from the 1960s to the 1980s. Their best-known lineup consisted of Pete Ham (vocals, guitar), Mike Gibbins (drums), Tom Evans (bass), and Joey Molland (guitar). They are rec ...
and
Stevie Wonder.
Mainstream success
Under the guidance of producer
Ralph Murphy
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, April Wine recorded their second album, ''
On Record'' in 1972. The first single was a cover version of the
Hot Chocolate
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song "You Could Have Been a Lady". The record was a commercial success, hitting number two for a single week on the RPM Canadian charts, as well as cracking the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in the
United States
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where it stayed for 11 weeks, peaking at No. 32. A second single, a cover of "Bad Side of the Moon" by
Elton John and
Bernie Taupin, also got much airplay on Canadian radio and was a minor hit in the U.S. Both tracks remain staples on
classic rock
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radio stations in Canada. ''On Record'' was certified Gold in Canada and the band, along with Murphy, returned to the studio.
While the band was recording their third album, David and Ritchie Henman quit. Goodwyn and Clench held audition and the replacements were drummer
Jerry Mercer
Gerald "Jerry" Mercer (born April 27, 1939) is a Canadian drummer, best known for his work with the rock groups Mashmakhan and April Wine.
Personal life
Mercer was born in Newfoundland. Prior to becoming a full-time musician, Mercer worked ...
(formerly of
Mashmakhan
Mashmakhan was a Canadian rock band formed in 1969 in L'Île-Perrot, Quebec. The band is best known for their 1970 hit single " As the Years Go By". The song reached No. 1 in Canada, and the Top 40 in the United States. The song was also a maj ...
) and guitarist Gary Moffet. They finished the album, ''
Electric Jewels'', which the songs "Weeping Widow," "Just Like That" and "Lady Run, Lady Hide", which would stay in April Wine's set lists for many years. In support of this album, the band embarked on the Electric Adventure Tour where nearly every Canadian arena or concert hall that seated more than 2500 saw the band play.
The tour also featured a massive lighting and pyrotechnic show.
Touring proved successful;
Gene Cornish
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and
Dino Danelli
Dino Danelli (July 23, 1944 – December 15, 2022) was an American drummer. Danelli was best known as an original member and the drummer in the rock group The Young Rascals. He has been called "one of the great unappreciated rock drummers in his ...
of
The Rascals
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attended a 1974 concert in
Massey Hall
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, and were so impressed they offered to record and produce a live album of the band. The one-night recording session was something of a rushed enterprise; they wanted the album to be released by the end of the tour. Goodwyn wasn't happy with the sound, but ''April Wine Live'' went
gold
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.
Gold and platinum years
The band's fifth release, 1975's ''
Stand Back'', went double platinum in Canada, riding on the success of the singles "Tonight Is A Wonderful Time To Fall In Love" and "I Wouldn't Want To Lose Your Love".
April Wine went on tour with
Heart
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, then
Thundermug.
Following the tour, Jim Clench left to join
Bachman–Turner Overdrive
Bachman–Turner Overdrive, often abbreviated BTO, were a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, founded by Randy Bachman, Robbie Bachman and Fred Turner in 1973. Their 1970s catalogue included five top-40 albums and six US top-40 sing ...
;
he was replaced by
Steve Lang.
The band's next release, in 1976, was ''
The Whole World's Goin' Crazy''. It was the first April Wine release to hit platinum status based on advanced sales orders alone.
The album contained the popular title track as well as a hit single, the ballad "Like A Lover, Like A Song". Their sixth album, ''
Forever for Now'', was another platinum seller and contained the band's biggest single to date, "You Won't Dance With Me".
On March 4 & 5, 1977, April Wine was booked to play a charity concert at Toronto's famed
El Mocambo
The El Mocambo is a live music and entertainment venue in Toronto, Ontario. Located on Spadina Avenue, just south of College Street, the venue has played an important role in the development of popular music in Toronto since 1948. It is best kn ...
Club. The co-headliner on the bill was a band called "The Cockroaches", which turned out to be
The Rolling Stones
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. The pseudonym was a poorly kept secret and huge crowds turned out for the event. April Wine's performance was captured and released as the album ''
Live at the El Mocambo''. The band then got its first chance at touring the U.S., opening for The Rolling Stones,
Styx and
Rush.
Also in 1977,
Brian Greenway
Brian Gilbert Greenway (born October 1, 1951) is a Canadian guitarist, vocalist and harmonicist, most notable for playing in the rock bands April Wine, Mashmakhan, and the Dudes. Greenway performed with April Wine from 1977 to 1986 when the ban ...
, late of
The Dudes (the Henmans' new band) was brought in as a third guitarist and co-vocalist. His addition gave April Wine a powerful three guitar attack that would make their hard rock sound. This also allowed Goodwyn to switch to keyboards for ballads. They also signed to Capitol Records (in addition to Aquarius).
1978 saw continued Canadian success, and the beginning of international success. The band's seventh album, and the first with Capitol, was ''
First Glance
''First Glance'' is the seventh studio album by Canadian rock band April Wine, released in March 1978. ''First Glance'' became April Wine's first gold record outside Canada. The album spawned the hit single " Roller" and was a hit in Flint, Mic ...
'', which had an immediate impact and the singles "Let Yourself Go" and "Get Ready For Love" were successful on Canadian radio. It was the third single, the raucous "Roller", that brought the band mass appeal across North America—it stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 for eleven weeks. ''First Glance'' stayed on the Billboard album chart for many weeks, making it April Wine's first gold record outside of Canada. Constant touring helped propel the band to greater success, as Americans embraced the hard rock of this "new" band from Canada—in 1978, they toured with Rush and played with
Triumph
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,
Starcastle, and
Teaze and, in July, played a concert with the Rolling Stones,
Journey
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, and the
Atlanta Rhythm Section
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.
Following on the popularity of ''First Glance'', April Wine released ''
Harder ... Faster'' in 1979. "Say Hello" and "I Like to Rock" were popular hits on both sides of the border and ''Harder ... Faster'' proved to be yet another multi-platinum release for the band. It would stay on the Billboard top album chart for 40 weeks. 1979 was spent touring with
Styx,
Rush,
Toto,
Boston
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,
Squeeze and
Blue Öyster Cult
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.
By now, the band had accumulated enough hits that Aquarius was able to release the album ''Greatest Hits''. In 1979, the
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released ''In Concert'' for international distribution; in 1981, Aquarius released another compilation album, ''The Best of April Wine Rock Ballads''.
1980s
''
The Nature of the Beast'' was released in January 1981, and riding on the popularity of the hit singles "
Just Between You and Me" and the band's cover of the Lorence Hud song "Sign of the Gypsy Queen", the album hit multi-platinum success in Canada, and was the first April Wine album to reach platinum status internationally. April Wine embarked on an extensive support tour, performing to their largest crowds ever. In addition to a packed schedule of solo concerts, they toured with
Diamond Head,
Harlequin
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,
Krokus and
Franke and the Knockouts
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History
Franke and the Knockouts formed in 1980, with the original line-up including Previte as front ...
, played five concerts with
Loverboy, and traveled to Germany to play a concert with
Neil Young
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, Jethro Tull, the
Michael Schenker Group
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(MSG), and
King Crimson
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.
The band then went on an eighteen-month hiatus.
In July 1982, April Wine released their tenth studio album, ''
Power Play
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''. The album included the singles "Enough is Enough", "If You See Kay" and "Anything You Want, You Got It". The latter would become the band's opening number on the supporting tour, while the "Enough is Enough" video started receiving frequent rotation on
MTV. Despite decent sales, ''Power Play'' was not met with the same critical acclaim the prior two albums had received; both the album and its singles charted well on Billboard's lists, but for shorter periods of time than earlier albums and singles. Still, it was certified gold, and then platinum, in October. The ''Power Play'' tour in 1982 was the band's most extensive—three months, with
Saga,
Eddie Money
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and
Uriah Heep.
The New York concerts with Saga and Money resulted in separate ''Live From Central Park'' albums.
The band started writing and recording their next album, ''
Animal Grace'', but the members were not getting along, and Myles Goodwyn moved from Canada to the
Bahamas
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. Both ''Animal Grace'' and its single "This Could be the Right One" rose quickly on the charts, but stayed only for a short time. In 1984 the band got together for its announced "Farewell Tour", which was a month-long tour across Canada.
The tour was successful enough to spawn another live album, ''
One for the Road''.
April Wine still owed Capitol Records one more album. Greenway joined Goodwyn in
Nassau, along with Montreal session musicians Daniel Barbe (keyboards), Jean Pellerin (bass), and drummer Marty Simon, to record what was supposed to be the band's final album, ''
Walking Through Fire
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''. It was released in September 1985 under the April Wine name.
Rebirth
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In 1988 Goodwyn moved back to Canada. Although there was interest in an April Wine reunion, and the subject was discussed among the former members, other commitments prevented them from getting together until 1992. April Wine returned to the stage that year, starting with a free concert in
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
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Portage la Prairie is approximately west of Winnipeg, along the Trans-Canada Hi ...
. The reunited band consisted of Goodwyn, Greenway, returning drummer Jerry Mercer and bassist Jim Clench, who hadn't played with the band since 1975. Filling out the act was third guitarist Steve Segal. The band toured in both Canada and the US. In 1993, now with Flood Ross Entertainment, they released the first "true" April Wine album in a decade, ''
Attitude''. It was certified gold in Canada soon after its release. Segal remained with the band through one more studio release, 1994's ''
Frigate''. Each year, for the next five years, they went out on tour, playing with, among others,
Def Leppard
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,
Foreigner,
Meat Loaf
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, Lover Boy,
Peter Frampton, Blue Öyster Cult and
Nazareth.
The band released another album in 2001, entitled ''
Back to the Mansion''. Also in 2001, the band's song "Roller" was featured in the movie ''
Joe Dirt
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''. Then in 2003, they released the live album called ''
Greatest Hits Live 2003''. In the meantime, various labels released several compilation albums.
In 2004 Silverline released April Wine's first
DVD-A
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The st ...
called ''
From the Front Row ... Live!''. From 2001 to 2004 their live shows included
Carl Dixon
Carleton Anthony "Carl" Dixon is a Canadian rock singer, keyboard player and guitarist. He has been a member of the bands Coney Hatch, April Wine and The Guess Who.
Early life and education
Dixon was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and grew up ...
(formerly of the bands
Coney Hatch, and
The Guess Who
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)
on guitars, keyboards and backing vocals.
April Wine entered into its 37th year as a band in 2006. On October 31 of that year, Aquarius Records released ''
April Wine Rocks!'', a new compilation of April Wine favourites, including a bonus live tune and a new album, entitled ''
Roughly Speaking'', was released on November 28, 2006. At the end of that year, Clench left the band for the second time and was replaced by bassist Breen LeBoeuf.
A year later, Mercer announced his retirement; his scheduled final show in
Calgary,
Alberta
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, ringing in the 2009 new year, was cancelled due to bad weather. Mercer was replaced by drummer Blair Mackay.
April Wine was inducted into the
Canadian Music Hall of Fame
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at the
Juno Awards of 2010
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in
St. John's,
Newfoundland and Labrador
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. Goodwyn and Greenway accepted the honour.
On November 3, 2010, Jim Clench died in Montreal, of lung cancer, at 61.
LeBoeuf left April Wine the following July and was replaced by Richard Lanthier from the
Yes tribute band Close to the Edge. Mackay left in March 2012 and was succeeded by Roy "Nip" Nichol, late of the band SamHill. Steve Lang died on February 4, 2017, at age 67, of
Parkinson's disease
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.
Labels continue to release their music; BGO Records released a re-mastered ''The Nature Of The Beast / Power Play'' in 2020. April Wine continues to tour across Canada annually and also plays festivals in Europe and in the United States, with the group now consisting of Goodwyn, Greenway, Lanthier, and drummer Roy "Nip" Nichol. They played their most recent concert, in Ottawa, in September 2021.
Their song 'Sign of the Gypsy Queen' can be heard in the background in the penultimate Breaking Bad episode Granite State; the guitar solo is playing behind Jesse's recorded confession tape being watched by Todd and Uncle Jack in the neo nazi compound.
Discography
Studio albums
* ''
April Wine
April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969 and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Led by singer-guitarist-songwriter Myles Goodwin since its inception, April Wine's first success came with its second album, '' On Record'' (1972), which rea ...
'' (1971), Aquarius Records
* ''
On Record'' (1972), Aquarius Records
* ''
Electric Jewels'' (1973), Aquarius Records
* ''
Stand Back'' (1975), Aquarius Records
* ''
The Whole World's Goin' Crazy'' (1976), Aquarius Records
* ''
Forever for Now'' (1977), Aquarius Records
* ''
First Glance
''First Glance'' is the seventh studio album by Canadian rock band April Wine, released in March 1978. ''First Glance'' became April Wine's first gold record outside Canada. The album spawned the hit single " Roller" and was a hit in Flint, Mic ...
'' (1978), Aquarius Records
* ''
Harder ... Faster'' (1979), Aquarius Records
* ''
The Nature of the Beast'' (1981), Aquarius Records, Capitol Records
* ''
Power Play
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Sports
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* Powerplay (cricket), a rule concerning fielding restrictions in one-day international cricket
* Power play (cur ...
'' (1982), Aquarius Records, Capitol Records
* ''
Animal Grace'' (1984), Capitol Records
* ''
Walking Through Fire
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'' (1986), Aquarius Records, Capitol Records
* ''
Attitude'' (1993), Flood Ross Entertainment
* ''
Frigate'' (1994), Flood Ross Entertainment
* ''
Back to the Mansion'' (2001), Civilian Records
* ''
Roughly Speaking'' (2006), Universal Music Canada
Live albums
* ''April Wine Live'' (1974), Aquarius Records
* ''Live at the El Mocambo'' (1977), Aquarius Records
* ''In Concert'' (1980),
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* ''Live in London'', on VHS (1981), Picture Music
* ''Live From Central Park'', split with