Apollo 440

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Apollo 440
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General information
Genre (s) Big beat
founding 1990
Website apollo440.com
Founding members
Noko (Norman Fisher-Jones)
Howard Gray
Trevor Gray
Current occupation
Electric guitar
 Noko (Norman Fisher-Jones)
Producer, sound engineer
 Howard Gray
Keyboard
 Trevor Gray
Cliff Hewitt
Rej Ap Gwynned
Keyboard
 Ashley Krajewski
DJ , vocals
 Harry K (Paul Colbourne)
singing
 Ewan Macfarlane
former members
bass
 Kenny Cougar (Kenneth Goodman)
singing
 Mary Mary (Mary Magdelyte, Mary Byker, Ian Garfield Hoxley)
Drums
 Paul Kodish

Apollo 440 (also Apollo Four Forty or @ 440 ) is a British music band of the electronic music genre Big Beat .

Apollo 440 mixes classical rock elements with those of the electronic sound in their music and were thus involved in the further development of the big beat.

Foundation and career

Howard and Trevor Gray and guitarist Noko formed the band in 1990. Howard Gray ( sound engineer ) and Trevor Gray (trained pianist ) broke all the rules of well-known musical styles when composing their music. The first successful single Krupa , which was created in 1996 and was dedicated to the musician Gene Krupa , is still very well known today, as it ran for a while in the credits of the ran football show on Sat.1 . Also known is the song Stop the Rock , which, in addition to the song Sell ​​Out by Reel Big Fish, serves as the theme music for the computer game Fifa 2000 .

The band's breakthrough came with the 1997 single Ain't Talkin '' Bout Dub , which was taken from the album Electro Glide in Blue . This song is an adaptation of a song by Van Halen ( Ain't Talkin 'About Love ). The album Getting High on Your Own Supply , released in 1999, achieved the greatest, also commercial, success .

In 2000, Apollo 440 released a soundtrack for Charlie's Angels as a maxi CD . Three years later a double album was released with Dude Descending a Staircase .

After an almost nine-year break, the musicians around the Gray brothers returned in 2011 with an EP ( A Deeper Dub ) and in January 2012 with a studio album The Future's What It Used To Be . The album is only available as a download in Germany, England and the USA. In Poland z. B. it is also officially available on CD.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Electro Glide in Blue
  DE 32 03/17/1997 (14 weeks)
  AT 26th 03/30/1997 (11 weeks)
  CH 33 04/06/1997 (2 weeks)
  UK 62 03/15/1997 (2 weeks)
Gettin 'High on Your Own Supply
  DE 50 09/20/1999 (4 weeks)
  AT 41 03/10/1999 (1 week)
  CH 44 09/19/1999 (2 weeks)
  UK 20th 09/18/1999 (3 weeks)
Singles
Astral America
  UK 36 01/22/1994 (2 weeks)
Liquid cool
  UK 35 05/11/1994 (2 weeks)
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
  UK 35 03/25/1995 (2 weeks)
Krupa
  DE 38 10/14/1996 (14 weeks)
  UK 23 07/27/1996 (8 weeks)
Ain't talkin '' bout dub
  DE 13 02/10/1997 (19 weeks)
  AT 32 04/27/1997 (2 weeks)
  CH 18th March 16, 1997 (15 weeks)
  UK 7th 02/15/1997 (8 weeks)
Raw power
  UK 32 07/05/1997 (3 weeks)
Rendez-Vous 1998 (with Jean Michel Jarre )
  UK 12 07/11/1998 (6 weeks)
Lost in Space
  DE 74 09/28/1998 (5 weeks)
  UK 4th 08/08/1998 (10 weeks)
Stop the rock
  DE 47 08/30/1999 (7 weeks)
  UK 10 08/28/1999 (8 weeks)
Heart Go Boom
  UK 57 11/27/1999 (2 weeks)
Charlie's Angels 2000
  DE 95 01/15/2001 (2 weeks)
  AT 64 01/14/2001 (2 weeks)
  CH 75 01/14/2001 (4 weeks)
  UK 29 12/09/2000 (9 weeks)
Dude Descending a Staircase (with The Beatnuts )
  UK 58 06/21/2003 (1 week)

Albums

  • 1994: Millennium Fever
  • 1997: Electro Glide in Blue
  • 1999: Gettin 'High on Your Own Supply
  • 2003: Dude Descending a Staircase (double CD)
  • 2012: The Future's What It Used To Be

Singles

  • 1992: Lolita USA 92
  • 1994: Astral America
  • 1994: Liquid Cool
  • 1995: (Don't Fear) The Reaper
  • 1996: Krupa
  • 1997: Ain't Talkin '' Bout Dub
  • 1997: Raw Power
  • 1998: Lost in Space
  • 1998: Rendez-Vous 1998 (with Jean Michel Jarre )
  • 1999: Stop the Rock
  • 1999: Heart Go Boom
  • 2000: Charlie's Angels 2000
  • 2003: Dude Descending a Staircase ( feat. The Beatnuts )
  • 2011: A Deeper Dub EP

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Apollo 440: Chronology. Apollo 440, accessed November 10, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE1 DE2 AT CH UK