Money (Midlands)
| Money | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Midlands , England |
| Genre (s) | New Wave of British Heavy Metal , Rock |
| founding | 1970s |
| resolution | 1981 |
| Last occupation | |
| David West-Mullen | |
| John Overton | |
| Larry Phillips | |
| Tony Boden | |
Money was an English new wave of British heavy metal and rock band from the Midlands that was formed in the 1970s and split up in 1981.
history
The band was formed in the Midlands in the mid to late 1970s . After she got a record deal with Gull Records , the single Searching , with Where Have All the Dancers Gone? as B-side , recorded. The following year the debut album First Investment followed, which had been produced by Chris Tsangarides . Tsangarides also played the keyboard recordings for this. Extra pressures were also made for the Japanese market. On February 22, 1980, the group was heard on the Friday Rock Show and played the new songs Man in a Subway , Fast World and Another Case of Suicide, as well as a newly arranged version of Leo the Jester . The latter song was used by BBC Records on the best-of sampler Metal Explosion that same year . Later that year, Hobo Records released the EP Fast World , which includes the eponymous song, Another Case of Suicide and Small Time Criminal . At the beginning of 1981 some headliner appearances followed. The band also played new songs, which should be a basis for a later second album. However, since the tour was not a success, it came to a breakup after appearing together with The Pretty Things . In their career, the band also performed with Motörhead, among others .
style
According to Malc Macmillan in The NWOBHM Encyclopedia , the group plays unusual music on the debut album for the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, reminiscent of Next Band , Orion and Tutch . More ambitious pieces like Geneva and Statements and Demands sound like Queen or Sparks . The new songs that were played on the Friday Rock Show would have NWoBHM riffs and better song structures. The band has its roots - similar to other groups such as Quartz , Nightwing and Rage - in traditional rock of the 1970s. Matthias Mader found in NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal The glory Days that the album oscillates "between hard prog rock - and innovative pre-NWoBHM sound". In addition, the music is a mixture of Queen and Judas Priest . Also in The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal music is described as a mix of Queen and Judas Priest.
Discography
- 1978: Searching (single, Gull Records )
- 1979: First Investment (Album, Gull Records)
- 1980: Fast World (EP, Hobo Records )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , p. 396 f .
- ^ A b Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Manfred Kerschke: NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal The glory Days . Iron Pages, Berlin 1995, p. 123 f .
- ↑ Tony Jasper, Derek Oliver: The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal . Facts on File Inc., New York 1983, ISBN 0-8160-1100-1 , pp. 222 .