Renaissance (band)
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 Renaissance 2012, clockwise from top left: Jason Hart, David J. Keyes, Rave Tesar, Frank Pagano, Michael Dunford and Annie Haslam |
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| origin | United Kingdom |
| Genre (s) | Progressive rock |
| founding | 1969 |
| Website | http://renaissancetouring.com/ |
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Renaissance (English pronunciation [re'neɪsəns]) is a British progressive rock band.
history
After the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, former members Keith Relf and Jim McCarty formed an experimental rock band called Renaissance. The quintet was completed by Louis Cennamo (bass), John Hawken (piano) and Relf's sister Jane (vocals). In this line-up they recorded the two albums Renaissance and Illusion and then separated. McCarty put together a new band, which he soon left himself. From 1977 the founding members briefly joined forces to form the Illusion formation .
The new line-up consisted of Annie Haslam (vocals), Michael Dunford (acoustic guitar), who contributed the song Mr Pine to the album Illusion , John Tout (piano), Jon Camp (bass) and Terry Sullivan (drums). Together with Rob Hendry (electric guitar), Renaissance released the album Prologue in 1972 . The music was mainly from Dunford and McCarty, the lyrics from Betty Thatcher.
In the 1970s Renaissance was quite successful, in 1978 the band had a hit with Northern Lights from the album A Song for All Seasons (number 10 on the British charts).
In the 1980s the success subsided and the band broke up. Several compilations appeared in the 1990s. In the late 90s, both Haslam and Dunford had new bands that they called Renaissance. In the late 1990s Haslam and Dunford reformed Renaissance with a common band. Michael Dunford, guitarist and main composer, died on November 20, 2012 of complications from a cerebral haemorrhage. On January 29, 2015, Danny McCulloch, the band's former bass player, died of a heart attack. On May 1, 2015, former keyboardist John Tout succumbed to a lung disease in London.
Occupations
| year | Singing (female) | Singing (male) | guitar | Keyboards | bass | Drums percussion |
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| 1969-1970 | Jane Relf | Keith Relf | Keith Relf | John Hawken | Louis Cennamo | Jim McCarty |
| Summer 1970 | Terry Crowe | Michael Dunford | Neil Korner | Terry Slade | ||
| Fall 1970 | Binky Cullom | John Tout | ||||
| January 1971 | Annie Haslam | |||||
| 1971 | Danny McCulloch | |||||
| 1971 | Frank Farrell | |||||
| June 1971 | John Wetton | |||||
| 1972 | Jon Camp | Mick Parsons | Jon Camp | Terence Sullivan | ||
| 1972 | Rob Hendry | |||||
| 1973 | Peter Finberg | |||||
| 1973-1979
(classical cast) |
Michael Dunford | |||||
| 1981 | Peter Gosling | Peter Barron | ||||
| 1983 | Mick Taylor | Gavin Harrison | ||||
| 1984 | Raphael Rudd | Greg Carter | ||||
| 1985 | - | Mark Lampariello | Charles Descarfino | |||
| 1998 | John Tout | Roy Wood | Terence Sullivan | |||
| 1998 | Mickey Simmonds | Alex Caird | ||||
| 2001 | Mickey Simmonds & Rave Tesar | David Keyes | ||||
| 2009 | Rave Tesar & Tom Brislin | Frank Pagano | ||||
| from October 2010 | Rave Tesar & Jason Hart |
Discography
Studio albums
- 1969: Renaissance
- 1971: Illusion
- 1972: Prologue
- 1973: Ashes Are Burning
- 1974: Turn of the Cards
- 1975: Scheherazade and Other Stories
- 1977: Novella
- 1978: A Song for All Seasons
- 1979: Azure D'or
- 1981: Camera Camera
- 1983: Time Line
- 1994: The Other Woman
- 2001: Tuscany (Annie Haslam and Michael Dunford)
- 2013: Grandine il Vento (self-published)
Live albums
- 1976: Live at Carnegie Hall (double album)
- 2002: In the Land of the Rising Sun (Live in Japan)
- 2006: British Tour '76
- 2016: Live at the Union Chapel
- 2018: A Symphonic Journey (Live at the Keswick Theater)
Other publications
- 1990: Tales of 1001 Nights Volume I (compilation)
- 1990: Tales of 1001 Nights Volume II (compilation)
- 1994: The Other Woman (Michael Dunford's Band)
- 1994: Blessing in Disguise (Annie Haslam's Band)
- 1995: Da Capo (double CD sampler)
- 1997: At the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Part 1
- 1997: At the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Part 2
- 1997: Songs from Renaissance Days (compilation of B-sides, outtakes and demos)
- 2000: Unplugged - Live at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia USA
- 2010: The Mystic and the Muse ( EP with three new songs)
- 2014: Symphony of Light (compilation of the EP and the self-published album)
- 2016: Live at BBC-Sight & Sound (CD / DVD box set, concert recordings and BBC radio session from 1975–1978)
swell
- ↑ a b Chart sources: UK
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ RIP The Animals' Danny McCulloch: Read A Moving Family Tribute , accessed June 21, 2015.
- ↑ Renaissance keyboardist John Tout Dies , accessed June 21, 2015
- ↑ Renaissance welcomes keyboardist Jason Hart into the band , facebook.com, accessed on August 31, 2012. (English)