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Steve Ellis had one of the great 60s voices, rivalling Steves Marriott and Winwood for the crown of the UK’s king of soul. As the leader of Love Affair, he came to prominence in 1968 when, aged just 17, he reached the UK No 1 with Everlasting Love, a cover of the Robert Knight song from the previous year. He was the only member of the band to actually appear on the record. He then secured a further four Top 20 hits with the group: Rainbow Valley, A Day Without Love, One Road and Bringing On Back The Good Times, before he quit in December ’69 amid what he calls “Love Affair-mania”.
It was a giant misstep from its inception all the way until its birth. Black Sabbath’s twelfth studio album,
Seventh Star, which came out on Jan. 28, 1986, was never supposed to be a Sabbath record. After bassist Geezer Butler left the band in 1984 following the Born Again tour, guitarist Tony Iommi decided to write a solo album and then after the dust cleared, put Black Sabbath back together.
In fact, Iommi intentionally penned songs that didn’t sound like Black Sabbath in order to expand his horizons. Overall,
Seventh Star is a basic, hard rock record with one foot firmly planted in blues rock and the other slipping between the styles of Rainbow and Foreigner. The original plan was to hire an all-star lineup of guest vocalists Robert Plant, Rob Halford, David Coverdale and others – but the logistics of tracking down the singers and getting them into the studio proved impossible. So Iommi recruited Jeff Fenholt, whose only claim to fame was playing the lead role in
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THERE were some brilliant Island pop bands in the 60s, but none could quite topple the legendary Cherokees, who quickly became the most popular and successful local group of those heady times. Their classic fab four line-up of Graham Betchley, Brian Sharpe, Crann Davies and Ken Young, who came together in 1962, has gone down in Island folklore. To be fair, none of them were original members of the group first formed in 1957. I d like to highlight some of their predecessors, who had their own initial following at Newport s Queens Hall, now the Boots store. These included Mick Horne, Gil Palmer, Chick Leal, Dave Head, Bill Wills, Codge Atkinson and Floss Ford. They helped bring a new dimension to the Island s live music scene, which had been mainly dance bands.