Amazon (band)
| Amazon | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | London , England |
| Genre (s) | Melodic Rock , New Wave of British Heavy Metal |
| founding | 1979/1980, 1983 |
| resolution | 1981, 1983 |
| Current occupation | |
| Lori Chacko | |
| Gerry Moffett | |
| Andy Bown | |
| Peter Van Hooke | |
| Richard Cottle | |
| former members | |
Electric guitar |
Roger Adams |
Electric bass |
Ian Herron |
Keyboard |
Mike Smith |
Drums |
Mike Grigg |
Amazon was an English melodic rock and new wave of British heavy metal band from London , which was founded in 1979/1980 and split up in 1981. In 1983 the band was briefly reformed before it came to a final breakup.
history
The band was founded in 1979/1980. After the band had been live for a year or two, the single Hypnotising You was released in 1981 via Megamusic Records , which also includes the song Fallen Angel . The sound carrier is considered to be one of the rarest of the genre, as only a handful of copies have remained. Since the single was unsuccessful, the band broke up shortly afterwards. In 1983, singer Lori Chacko re-formed the band with session musicians to record the album Branded in London's Riverside Studios . Richard Cottle was the keyboardist in the band, while Andy Bown played bass Gerry Moffett on electric guitar and Peter Van Hooke on drums. The recording session was hardly productive, so that the band broke up without releasing an album. Around 1984 Chacko moved to the USA to pursue her musical and acting career.
style
According to Malc Macmillan in The NWOBHM Encyclopedia , the single features melodic rock with singing in the style of Pat Benatar . Matthias Mader from Rock Hard stated that the band was traded as the NWoBHM answer to Pat Benatar, mainly through several articles in Sounds magazine . In the promotional text for Hypnotising You , the group is described as a mixture of Rainbow , Fleetwood Mac , The Who and The Police .
Discography
- 1981: Hypnotising You (Single, Megamusic Records )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , p. 32 f .
- ^ Matthias Mader: Queens of Noise . Women in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. In: Rock Hard . No. 371 , April 2018, Amazons, p. 72 .