Trapeze (band)
| Trapeze | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Cannock, Staffordshire, England |
| Genres | Funk rock, hard rock, blues rock |
| Years active | 1969–1982 1991–1994 |
| Labels | Threshold, Warner Bros., Major League Productions (MLP) |
| Associated acts | Finders Keepers, The Moody Blues, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Whitesnake, Phenomena |
| Website | myspace.com/trapezetheband |
| Past members |
Mel Galley Dave Holland Glenn Hughes John Jones Terry Rowley Pete Wright Rob Kendrick Peter Goalby Steve Bray Richard Bailey Mervyn Spence Geoff Downes Craig Erickson |
Trapeze was an English rock band formed in March 1969, by vocalist John Jones and guitarist/keyboardist Terry Rowley (who named the band), with guitarist Mel Galley, singer/bassist Glenn Hughes, and drummer Dave Holland. The band had a fairly fluid line up, finally dissolving in 1994. Several members went on to join better known bands, including Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, Judas Priest, Uriah Heep and Wishbone Ash.
The core and most familiar line-up of the band was Glenn Hughes, Mel Galley, and Dave Holland. After Glenn Hughes' departure in June 1973, Galley and Holland kept the band together with constantly varying members until 1979, when Holland went on to join Judas Priest. Holland tried to revive the band in 1990, after leaving Priest, but the band finally broke up in 1994. Their first three albums remain their best known and most commercially successful.
Trapeze was formed in 1969 by vocalist John Jones and guitarist/keyboardist Terry Rowley (both former members of the band 'Montanas') with guitarist Mel Galley, singer/bassist Glenn Hughes, and drummer Dave Holland. Trapeze issued its self-titled debut album Trapeze in 1970, but early that year Jones and Rowley returned to Montanas. In late 1970 the more familiar trio of Galley, Hughes, and Holland surfaced for the first time with the album Medusa. Trapeze would tour as this trio until early 1973. The band toured mostly in the UK and the Southern U.S. Their commercial success was minimal up to this point. You Are the Music...We're Just the Band was released in 1972. Glenn Hughes left the band after the 1973 tour to replace Roger Glover in Deep Purple. After the departure of Hughes the band's profile and sales grew, mostly based on the first three albums with Hughes; but their concert base grew as well, with them playing small arenas all over the U.S.
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