The Edgar Broughton Band
The Edgar Broughton Band is a British rock band founded in Warwick ( England ) in 1968 whose music ranges between heavy metal , hard rock , psychedelic , blues , progressive , alternative and classic rock .
history
As early as 1966, Edgar Broughton (* October 27, 1947 in Warwick, England), his brother Steve Broughton (* May 20, 1950), Arthur Grant (* May 14, 1950, Leamington Spa, England) and Victor Unitt (* 5. July 1946) as Edgar Broughton Blues Band first recordings, but no record company wanted to release them.
At the end of 1968 the band moved to London and was able to sign a record deal with Harvest Records in December 1968 through the music publisher Blackhill Enterprises , which was also responsible for Pink Floyd at the time . She shortened her name to The Edgar Broughton Band and became one of the leading figures of English political rock without Unitt, who had left shortly before . The band's first single release in June 1969 with Evil / Death of an Electric Citizen was also the Harvest label's first ever release. The debut album Wasa Wasa , produced by Peter Jenner , followed in July 1969.
Together with Art Grant on bass and his brother Steve Broughton on drums , Broughton uttered his war cry at free concerts: “Out, Demons, Out!” With this monotonously repetitive song, Edgar Broughton said he wanted to weld the audience together into a unit Driving out the “pig mentality” from everyone. His other songs and slogans sounded similar in the early days.
Broughton fans asked the group to perform for free. But Broughton himself soon realized that free concerts could not be sustained in the long run. Some of the fans turned away from the band when entrance fees were demanded or even called for boycotts.
The group was twice able to place itself in the official UK single charts. Out Demons Out reached number 39 in April 1970, in spring 1971 Apache Drop Out came after several attempts to number 33. The song is a collage of the instrumental classic Apache by the group The Shadows (1960) and Captain Beefheart's Dropout Boogie from his 1967s Safe as Milk album . Apache Drop Out was also a small single hit in Germany (42nd place). The second studio album Sing Brother Sing from 1970 came to number 18 in the UK.
In 1971 the band turned away from rabid political rock and Victor Unitt, who had meanwhile played with The Pretty Things , came back to the band as the second guitarist . From the third LP The Edgar Broughton Band , which reached number 28 in the British LP charts in 1971 and is one of the most convincing recordings of the Edgar Broughton Band, the band produced more differentiated sounds. The album known as the “Schlachthausplatte” (slaughterhouse record) shows parts of animals hung on hooks on the controversial cover and in between a human torso in a slaughterhouse.
The political slogans largely disappeared, and private issues or environmental problems appeared in the texts. The music was enriched with string arrangements, folk elements and choirs, as with the title Evening Over Rooftops . Mike Oldfield , who was still largely unknown at the time, contributed a few passages on the title Thinking of You . In return, Steve Broughton supported Oldfield on his 1973 work Tubular Bells on drums. The single ballad Hotel Room , one of the best-known pieces by the Edgar Broughton Band to this day, also dates from this period .
In Side Out , released in July 1972, could not build on the previous success, and after completion of the fifth album Oora in 1973 Unitt left the band again. He was replaced by John Thomas, who dropped out after Bandages (1975), and Terry Cottam took his place. With this line-up, the live album Live Hits Harder was created in 1976 , but it was not released until 1979. After these recordings, the group initially fell apart. In 1979 the Broughton brothers reunited with Arthur Grant and released the LP Parlez-Vous English? Under the name The Broughtons . out. As musicians Tom Norden, Pete Tolsen (both guitar) and Richard DeBastion as keyboard players were also involved. On the 1982 album Superchip - The Final Silicon Solution? , again released as The Edgar Broughton Band, in addition to the two Broughtons and Grant, Tom Norden and keyboardist Dennis Haines could be heard.
Since then, the Edgar Broughton Band has not released any studio albums. The band toured irregularly during the 1980s and 1990s and reformed in 2006 to tour the UK and Germany. The first live DVD was created in the WDR's Rockpalast .
Discography
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Studio albums
- Wasa Wasa (1969)
- Sing Brother Sing (1970)
- Edgar Broughton Band (1971)
- In Side Out (1972)
- Oora (1973)
- Bandages (1975)
- Parlez-Vous English? (1979) (as The Broughtons )
- Superchip - The Final Silicon Solution? (1981)
Live albums
- Live Hits Harder (recorded in 1976, released in 1979)
- Chilly Morning Mama - Live (1998)
- Demons at the Beeb (2000)
- Keep Them Freaks a Rollin '- Live at Abbey Road, December 1969 (2004)
- Live at Rockpalast 2006 (2008)
Compilations
- A Bunch of 45s (1975)
- The Legendary Edgar Broughton Band (1984)
- Out Demons Out - The Best of the Edgar Broughton Band (1986)
- As Was: The Best of the Edgar Broughton Band (1988)
- Classic Album and Single Tracks 1969–1973 (1992)
- The Very Best of the Edgar Broughton Band - Out Demons Out! (2001)
- The Harvest Years 1969–1973 (4 CDs / box set) (2011)
Singles
- Evil / Death of an Electric Citizen (1969)
- Out Demons Out / Momma's Reward (1970)
- Up Yours! / Officer Dan (1970)
- Apache Drop Out / Freedom (1970)
- Hotel Room / Call Me a Liar (1972)
- Gone Blue / Someone / Mr. Crosby (1972)
Video albums
- Live at Rockpalast 2006 (2006)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/groupe-groupe-Edgar_Broughton_Band-l-en.html
- ↑ http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/album-groupe-Edgar_Broughton_Band-nom_album-Oora-l-de.html
- ↑ The Edgar Broughton Band at Discogs (English)
- ↑ Detlef Siegfried: Time is on my side. Wallstein Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-835-30073-6 , p. 691 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ a b c d e f Chart sources: DE UK