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Friday, 11 May 2012
The Rockhouse Music Project
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Wednesday, 9 May 2012
The Move Rock Band 1965
This is about a great band from the 1960s
called The Move
They were the most controversial Rock / Pop band of the 1960s, Lead by Roy Wood , They were a huge success and had many hit records.
| The Move formed in 1965 | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Birmingham, England |
| Genres | Rock, psychedelic rock, Hard rock |
| Years active | 1966–1972 2004-present[1] |
| Labels | United Kingdom: Deram Regal Zonophone Fly Harvest United States: Deram A&M Capitol MGM United Artists Europe: Polydor |
| Associated acts | Electric Light
Orchestra Wizzard Ace Kefford Stand The Idle Race |
| Website | themoveonline.com themovelive.com |
| Members | |
| Bev Bevan Trevor Burton Neil Lockwood Phil Tree Gordon Healer | |
| Past members | |
| Roy Wood Carl Wayne Ace Kefford Rick Price Jeff Lynne Richard Tandy Bill Hunt Phil Bates | |
The Move, from Birmingham,
England, were one of the leading British rock bands of the 1960s. They scored
nine Top 20 UK
singles in five years, but were among the most popular British bands not to find
any success in the United States.
Although bassist-vocalist Chris "Ace"
Kefford was the original leader, for most of their career The Move was led
by guitarist, singer and
songwriter Roy
Wood. He composed all the group's UK singles and, from 1968, also sang lead
vocals on many songs, although Carl Wayne was the main lead
singer up to 1970. Initially the band had 4 main vocalists (Wayne, Wood, Trevor
Burton and Kefford).
The group evolved from several mid
1960s Birmingham based groups, including Carl Wayne and the Vikings, the
Nightriders and the Mayfair Set. The group's name referred to the move various
members of these bands made to form the group. Beside Wood, the original
five-piece line-up of The Move in 1965 was drummer Bev Bevan, bassist Kefford,
vocalist Carl Wayne and guitarist Trevor Burton. The final
line-up of 1972 was the trio of Wood, Bevan and Jeff Lynne, who transitioned
the group into the Electric Light
Orchestra. Since 2007, Burton and Bevan have been performing as 'The Move
featuring Bev Bevan and Trevor Burton'.
History
Formation and early career
The Move was formed in December 1965
and played their first shows in early 1966. The original intentions of Burton,
Kefford, and Wood, were to start a group from among Birmingham's best musicians,
along similar lines to The Who. The three played
together at jam sessions at
Birmingham's Cedar Club, and invited Wayne and Bevan to join their new group.
After a debut at the Bell Hotel in Stourbridge and further
bookings around the Birmingham area, Moody Blues manager Tony
Secunda offered to manage them. At the time, the Move mainly played covers
of American
west coast groups such as The Byrds together with Motown and rock 'n' roll songs.
Although Carl Wayne handled most of the lead vocals, all the band members shared
harmonies and each were allowed at least one lead vocal per show.
Secunda got them a weekly residency at
London's Marquee Club in 1966, where
they appeared dressed in gangster regalia. Their early career was marked by a
series of publicity stunts, high-profile media events and outrageous stage
antics masterminded by Secunda; these included Wayne taking an axe to television
sets, Cadillacs, busts of Adolf Hitler and Rhodesian
leader Ian
Smith.Eventually, Secunda also managed to persuade Wood to begin writing
songs for the band on his time off.
They secured a production contract
with independent record producer Denny Cordell, but this
was turned into a media event by Secunda, who arranged for the band to sign
their contracts on the back of Liz Wilson, a topless female model. Wood wrote
their first single, "Night of Fear", a #2 hit
in the UK Singles Chart in
January 1967, which began the Move's practice of musical quotation (in
this case, the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky).
Their second single, "I Can Hear the
Grass Grow", was another major hit, reaching #5 in the UK.
In April 1967, NME reported that The Move had
offered a £200 reward for the recovery of the master tapes of ten songs intended
for their debut album. The tapes were stolen from their agent's car when it was
parked in Denmark Street,
London.
Their third single "Flowers in the Rain"
was the first chart single played on BBC Radio 1 when it began
broadcasting at 7am on 30 September 1967, introduced by Tony
Blackburn. However it was not, as is generally claimed, the first
record played on air that day—in fact Radio 1 opened with George
Martin's specially commissioned "Theme One", followed the theme of
Blackburn's Daily Disc Delivery show ("Beefeaters" by Johnny Dankworth). The
single, which reached #2 in the UK, was less guitar-oriented than their previous
two singles, and featured a woodwind and string arrangement by Cordell's
assistant Tony Visconti. The track
was released on the relaunched Regal Zonophone
label. Legal issues
The promotional campaign for "Flowers
in the Rain" led to litigation that had serious repercussions for Wood and the
group. Without consulting the band, Secunda produced a cartoon postcard showing
the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Wilson, in bed with
his secretary, Marcia
Williams. Wilson sued The Move for libel and the group lost the
court case—they had to pay all costs, and all royalties earned by the song,
which otherwise would have belonged to Wood as composer, were awarded to charities of
Wilson's choice. The ruling, much to Wood's chagrin, remained in force even
after Wilson's death in 1995.
For their fourth single, the group had
planned to release "Cherry Blossom
Clinic", a lighthearted song about the fantasies of a patient in a mental
institution, backed by the satirical "Vote For Me". However, The Move had been
unnerved by their court experiences; they and the record label felt it unwise to
pursue such a potentially controversial idea, so the single was shelved. "Vote
For Me" remained unreleased until it began to appear on retrospective
collections from 1997 onwards while "Cherry Blossom Clinic" became one of the
tracks on their first LP, also called The Move.
As a direct consequence of the
lawsuit, The Move fired Secunda and hired Don Arden, who had himself
recently been fired as manager of the Small Faces. In a 2000
interview, Wayne noted that there had always been a major split within the group
about Secunda's tactics: "[Secunda] had the animals who would do what he wanted
to do in Trevor, Ace, and me -- the fiery part of the stage act. I think Roy
would obviously qualify this himself, but I believe he was slightly embarrassed
by the image and the stunts - but the rest of us weren't ... We were always
willing to be Secunda puppets".Continued success
In November and December 1967 the
group took part in another package tour around the UK, playing two shows a night
over sixteen days as part of an all-star bill that included The Jimi Hendrix
Experience, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Eire
Apparent, Outer Limits, Amen Corner and the
then BBC
Radio 1 DJ, Pete Drummond.
In March 1968 The Move returned to the
charts with "Fire Brigade",
another UK Top 3 hit, and the first on which Wood sang lead vocal. But a few
weeks later, around the time of the LP's release, Kefford was let go from the
band due to increasing personal problems. He formed his own short-lived group,
the Ace Kefford Stand, with Cozy Powell on drums. After
this, he pursued a solo career and The Move became a four-piece, with Burton and
Wayne taking turns on bass.
It was also during this line-up
transition that the band first invited Lynne, a friend of Wood's, to join. He
declined at the time, as he was still working toward success in his current band
The
Idle Race, another Birmingham based group. The Move were on the bill at the
inaugural Isle of Wight
Festival on 31 August 1968.
In mid 1968 their fifth single "Wild Tiger Woman", a
song acknowledging the group's love of Jimi Hendrix (Wood and
Burton sang backing vocals on "You Got Me Floatin'", on The Jimi Hendrix
Experience's second album, Axis: Bold as
Love), sold poorly and failed to make the UK chart. The Move responded
with their most commercial song to date, "Blackberry Way"
(co-produced by Jimmy Miller), which topped
the UK chart in February 1969.Richard Tandy played keyboards on
"Blackberry Way" and joined the band for a time playing keyboards live,
switching to bass when Burton was briefly sidelined with a shoulder injury. Upon
Burton's recovery, Tandy departed to join The Uglys.
This new, more pop-oriented musical direction
was the last straw for the increasingly disenchanted Burton, who wanted to work
in a more hard rock/blues oriented style, and he left
the group after an altercation on stage one evening with Bevan. At around this
time it was rumoured in the music press that Hank Marvin of the recently
disbanded Shadows had been invited to
join The Move. Some years later Wayne said that this was nothing more than a
publicity stunt; however, Marvin himself, in an article in Melody
Maker in 1973 and elsewhere, has maintained that he was definitely
approached by Wood and invited to join The Move, but declined because The Move's
schedule was too hectic for him.[citation
needed] Burton was ultimately replaced in 1969 by Rick Price, another
veteran of several Birmingham rock groups.
Both Kefford and Burton struggled
commercially after leaving The Move. Kefford recorded a solo album in 1968 after
his departure, but it remained unreleased until 2003 when it appeared as Ace
The Face. Burton played bass with yet another Birmingham group, The Steve Gibbons
Band, and later fronted his own blues group as lead guitarist.
In October 1969 the band made their
only concert appearances in the US with two opening shows for The
Stooges in Detroit and dates in Los Angeles
and at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. When neither their US record company
nor promoters showed any more interest, the remaining proposed tour dates were
cancelled and the group returned home.
During this period Arden sold The
Move's management contract to impresario Peter Walsh, who was at the time also
managing The Marmalade. Walsh, who
specialised in cabaret acts, began booking the band into cabaret-style venues,
which further increased the tension between Wayne and Wood.
1970's Shazam continued The
Move's practice of musical quotation and of elaborately re-arranged versions of
other performer's songs. "Hello Susie" (a Wood composition), which was a Top 5
hit for Amen Corner in 1969, quoted Booker T. Jones' and Eddie
Floyd's "Big Bird", and the album included a cover of a Tom Paxton
song, "The Last Thing on
My Mind". It also included a slightly slower, extended remake of "Cherry
Blossom Clinic", which finished with an extended instrumental section quoting
heavily from classical pieces: Johann Sebastian
Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," Paul Dukas' "The
Sorcerer's Apprentice" played on the bass guitar, and Tchaikowsky's "Chinese
Dance" from The Nutcracker played in a heavy metal style.[citation
needed]
According to a interview in 2000,
Wayne had devised a plan to revive The Move's fortunes by bringing Burton and
Kefford back in. Well aware that Wood was intent on setting up his new
orchestral rock project (which eventually became ELO), he suggested that Wood
could concentrate on performing with his new band while continuing to write
songs for The Move. However his suggestion was bluntly rejected by Wood, Bevan
and Price, the other three members, so Wayne finally quit the group in January
1970. He subsequently worked in a variety of musical ventures and appeared on
television and radio. In 2000 he replaced Allan Clarke as
lead singer of The Hollies and performed
with them as lead singer until his death from cancer in 2004. New directions
Upon Wayne's departure, The Move
jettisoned Walsh as manager and returned to Arden. Lynne joined, enthused by
Wood's ELO idea, as Wood realized that he needed a second composer in the band
to relieve the pressure on himself, and the band toured the UK with Arden's
other major client, Black Sabbath. From this
period came their third album Looking On (1970), with
four songs composed by Wood, two by Lynne and one by Bevan. The album included a
#7 hit, Wood's "Brontosaurus",
which was the band's last recording for Regal Zonophone. The second single from
the album, "When Alice
Comes Back to the Farm," failed to chart.
During the lengthy recording sessions
for the next album, which included continuous overdubbing of new instruments by
Wood and Lynne, Price left in December 1970 to pursue other projects, including
the band Mongrel, although he later rejoined Wood in Wizzard and the short-lived Wizzo
Band. He went to work in musical management, and also formed the duo Price
and Lee with his wife, Dianne Lee, formerly of the duo,
Peters and Lee. In August
1970 the group were the lead act at the Knighton Rock Festival, staged in the
small Radnorshire town of Knighton.
The remaining three members - Wood,
Lynne and Bevan - completed the final Move LP, Message from the
Country (1971). Wood's "Ben Crawley Steel Company" featured a Bevan lead
vocal that was modelled on Johnny Cash, while Bevan's
"Don't Mess Me Up" (sung by Wood) paid homage to Elvis Presley, complete
with fake Jordanaires. Although
music critics continue to hold this album in high regard, in 2005 Bevan referred
to this album as his least favorite from The Move.
The album was followed by two more
Wood-penned hit singles, "Tonight" and "Chinatown". For several
television appearances behind these songs, The Move added two musicians who
became members of the group after its transition into ELO: Bill Hunt (horns,
woodwind, piano) and Richard Tandy (guitar, bass). Final movements
As the release of the first Electric
Light Orchestra album drew near, The Move released what turned out to be a
farewell disc, a maxi
single in 1972 consisting of "California Man",
"Ella James" (from
Message) and "Do Ya"."California
Man", a #7 UK hit,featured baritone saxophones,
a double
bass, and a riff borrowed from George Gershwin, was an
affectionate tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis (the
double bass had "Killer", Lewis' nickname, written on it) with Lynne and Wood
trading verses and lines. Meanwhile, Lynne's "Do Ya" became the Move's best
known song in the US; it was the only Move song to reach the US Billboard Hot 100 chart
at #93. However, the Electric Light Orchestra's remake of "Do Ya", recorded
after Wood's departure, was a significant US hit in 1977.
With the release of the album The
Electric Light Orchestra, The Move completed its transition into
ELO.
Wood released a solo album in 1973,
Boulders, and went
on to front the glam rock band Wizzard, while
Lynne and Bevan kept touring and finally achieved success with ELO.
Message from the Country was
remastered and released on the original labels, Harvest in the UK in
2005 and Capitol in the US in
2006.
Although never as popular in the
United States as they were in their native country, the Move were a seminal
pop/rock group of the era, and are often cited[who?]
as one of the main progenitors of power pop. Todd
Rundgren recorded a version of "Do Ya" with his group Utopia on their album
Another Live, Cheap
Trick recorded a version of "California Man" on their Heaven
Tonight album, whilst Glen Matlock of the Sex
Pistols admitted that one of the guitar riffs on "God
Save The Queen" was inspired by that on "Fire Brigade".[citation
needed]
In 1997, "Feel Too Good" was featured
on the soundtrack of the film, Boogie
Nights, and in 2006 "Do Ya" was featured on a US television
advertisement.[citation
needed] Resurrection
In 2004, after the death of Wayne,
Bevan formed The Bev Bevan Band, soon renamed as Bev Bevan's Move (without any
other past members) to capitalize on The Move's continuing reputation and
belated success. Bevan recruited bassist Phil Tree and former ELO Part
II colleagues, guitarist Phil Bates and keyboard
player Neil Lockwood, to play a set comprising mostly The Move classics on tour.
Wood expressed extreme displeasure at this development.
Former Move guitarist Burton joined
the band on occasion during 2006 and joined permanently in 2007. Bates departed
in July 2007 to rejoin ELO Part II, now renamed The Orchestra and was
replaced with Gordon Healer. The Autumn 2007 tour was billed as 'The Move
featuring Trevor Burton and Bev Bevan'.
Discography
(Singles and albums marked ** were not
issued in the US)
Studio albums
| Year | Title | Chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| UK [5] | ||
| 1968 | Move **
|
15 |
| 1970 | Shazam
|
– |
Looking On
|
– | |
| 1971 | Message from the
Country
|
– |
Compilation albums
This is a selected list of compilation
albums.
- Split Ends (1972, United Artists) (US compilation)
- The Best of the Move (1974, A&M) (US compilation)
- Great Move!: The Best of the Move (1992, EMI)**
- The BBC Sessions (1995)**
- Movements: 30th Anniversary Anthology (2008, Westside)**
- Anthology 1966 - 1972 (2008, Salvo Records 4CD set)**
Extended plays
- Something Else from The Move (1969) ** (5 track EP played at 33 rpm)
Singles
| Year | Title | Release date | Original label | Album | Chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [3][5] |
IRL [18] |
US [19] | |||||
| 1966 | "Night of Fear" | December 1966 | UK Deram & US Deram | Non-album single | 2 | 6 | – |
| 1967 | "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" | April 1967 | UK Deram & US Deram | 5 | – | – | |
| "Flowers in the Rain" | September 1967 | UK Regal Zonophone & US A&M | Move | 2 | 4 | – | |
| 1968 | "Fire Brigade" | February 1968 | UK Regal Zonophone & US A&M | 3 | 9 | – | |
| "Wild Tiger Woman" | July 1968 | UK Regal Zonophone (no US issue) | Non-album single | – | – | – | |
| "Blackberry Way" | January 1969 | UK Regal Zonophone & US A&M | 1 | 2 | – | ||
| 1969 | "Curly" | August 1969 | UK Regal Zonophone & US A&M | 12 | 12 | – | |
| 1970 | "Brontosaurus" | March 1970 | UK Regal Zonophone & US A&M | Looking On | 7 | – | – |
| "When Alice Comes Back to the Farm" | September 1970 | UK Fly & US Warner Brothers (scheduled but never released) | – | – | – | ||
| 1971 | "Ella James" | May 1971 | UK Harvest (scheduled but withdrawn) (no US issue) | Message From The Country | – | – | – |
| "Tonight" | June 1971 | UK Harvest & US Capitol (subsequent US United Artists release) | Non-album single | 11 | 18 | – | |
| "Chinatown" | October 1971 | UK Harvest & US MGM (withdrawn but promos were issued) & US United Artists | 23 | – | – | ||
| 1972 | "California Man" b/w "Do Ya & "Ella James" (UK only)" | May 1972 | UK Harvest & US United Artists (titles flipped, without "Ella James") | 7 | 15 | 93 | |
| "Do Ya" | 1974 | UK Harvest (no US issue) | – | – | - | ||
Roy Wood
The move were a great inspiration to
a lot of our Rock & Pop music bands of today and we should thank them for
all the music they made just for me and you!!Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Saturday, 14 April 2012
A thank you to the great musicians
Friday, 13 April 2012
Free country my arse
Saturday, 10 March 2012
No road sence or what ?
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
How do we determin life ?
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