Blue Murder

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Blue Murder
General information
Genre (s) Hard rock , heavy metal
founding 1989
resolution 1994
Founding members
Ray Gillen (1989)
Guitar , vocals (from 1989)
John Sykes
Tony Franklin (until 1993)
Cozy Powell (1989)
Last occupation
Guitar, vocals
John Sykes
Vocals, bass
Marco Mendoza (1993-1994)
Drums
Tommy O'Steen (1993-1994)
former members
Drums
Carmine Appice (1989-1993)
Keyboard
Nik Green (1989, † 2016)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Blue Murder
  UK 45 05/06/1989 (3 weeks)
  US 69 05/13/1989 (21 weeks)

Blue Murder was a British, blue-heavy hard rock - band , which in 1989 by John Sykes , the former guitarist of Tygers of Pan Tang , Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy was formed.

Band history

Sykes founded the group Blue Murder after he left the well-known hard rock band Whitesnake , which just celebrated its greatest success with the release of their album in 1987 . His new band should go in exactly this direction: blues-influenced hard rock .

Cozy Powell (drums) and Ray Gillen (vocals), both former members of Black Sabbath , were also involved in the initial phase, but dropped out after a few demo recordings . Sykes then took over the vocals and recorded the self-titled debut album together with Tony Franklin (bass, keyboards), who had also been a founding member, Carmine Appice (drums, percussion) and keyboardist Nik Green . Green had previously worked primarily with Roy Harper . The studio album of the same name, Blue Murder , reached number 69 on the US album charts.

Franklin and Appice were also represented on the next album, but were supplemented and eventually replaced by Marco Mendoza (bass) and Tommy O'Steen (drums). On the album Nothin 'But Trouble was Itchycoo Park , a cover version of The Small Faces heard.

Discography

  • Blue Murder (1989)
  • Notin 'But Trouble (1993)
  • Screaming Blue Murder - Dedicated To Phil Lynott (Live) (1994)
  • Live in Japan (1994)

literature

  • Holger Stratmann (Ed.): RockHard Encyclopedia . 700 of the most interesting rock bands from the last 30 years. Rock Hard Verlag, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 50 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Chart sources: UK US
  2. Biography of Ray Gillen ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.raygillen.com
  3. http://www.theawayteam.com/about/pages/ngdisc.html