Thursday, 16 January 2025

Wild Angels "Out At Last" 1972

Great lp with bill kingston! very very rare! The fist great rock'n'roll release in the uk after the 1950's rock'n'roll era.
Around this time, the group was selected to be Gene Vincent's backing group on his British Tour. It was to be Gene's last effort and, on his return to the States, the great man sadly passed away. Another good selling album, "Red Hot And Rockin"' followed and then Rod left to be replaced by Keith Reed. Shortly afterwards, Bob O'Connor vacated the drummers stool and his replacement was Geoff Britton who had been in the charts a year or so before as the drummer for East of Eden on their hit "Jig-A-Jig". The band then joined Decca records and Mal left, with Keith taking over lead vocals. They released an album "Out At Last" which received good reviews and healthy sales.
Next was a single "I Fought The Law" which got to number one in Sweden. This was followed by a lengthy tour of Sweden. Other releases were several songs from the musical "Grease". The band changed labels again to Pye and released another album. They were beginning to get a bit 'poppy' and were sounding like a poor man's Dave Edmonds when Geoff left to join Wings. He didn't stay with McCartney for very long and on his return to the UK, joined Manfred Mann's Earth Band. The other members of the Angels began to drift away and only Bill Kingston was left, but no original members remained. The band still gets booked at Rock 'n Roll Reunion gigs and Teddy Boy weekenders, the line up usually being Bill, sometimes Mitch and Geoff and whoever else is available at the time.
Wild Angels:
John Hawkins (lead guitar, bass, vox), Keith Reed (vox, guitar, bass), Geoff Britton (drums), Bill Kingston (piano, guitar), Johnny Penfold (tambourine, aiging and abetting, and guilty of licking all r'n'r)

traxfromwax:
1 Brand New Cadillac 2 Peggy Sue 3 Jo Jo Ann 4 Walk Don't Run 5 Endless Sleep 6 It Keeps Rainin' 7 Roll Over Beethoven 8 It'll Be Me 9 Crazy Country Hop 10 I Fought The Law 11 Memphis, Tennessee 12 Feel So Bad 13 Lawdy, Miss Clawdy 14 My Way 15 Say Mama - live (bonus)

2 comments:

RYP said...

Wild Angels "Out At Last"
gitit! no pw
https://workupload.com/file/KgwqTB5zeGA

Anonymous said...

I am curious, so lets listen ;-)
thx, Robert