The (Count) Bishops - I Want Candy - TOTP 1978
The Rev - Part III
In March 1978, the Count Bishops became simply, Bishops. They publicly announced it on the last day of the month with a single featuring a cover of I Take What I Want on the A-side and an original titled No Lies on the flip side.
Their last performance under the old name at the Blast Furnace in London had been recorded for a collective album that the Chiswick label planned to release. However, it never came to fruition. The label decided instead to release the full set of the (Count) Bishops, issued simply as Live! on April 28, ’78, in two different formats one inch apart.
Trapped within is all the pub-rock energy of the band and, for the last time, the guitar of Zenon De Fleur, who would die in a car accident on March 18 of the following year on an operating table, taking with him a part of the Bishops' soul forever. For this reason, Live! holds even greater significance, in addition to the already considerable merit of the English band that was the first to take a leak on the records of Genesis.
After a debut EP in ’75 featuring the best cover of Route 66 ever recorded, a couple of albums in ’77 followed, and with the name shortened, a final album titled Cross Cuts still brimming with energy, split between fierce covers like Good Times/I Want Candy (Easybeats and Strangeloves, if you please) and Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked Tonight by Fleetwood Mac, alongside explosive originals such as What’s Your Number (a genuine boogie banger that tears your skin, NdLYS), No Lies, or Rolling Man, the last song written by Zenon that the band took on to complete and record as a final tribute to their friend. However, Paul Balbi's return to Australia due to the expiration of his residency permit was the definitive blow for the Bishops, the one that finally brought one of the straight-backed bands to its knees. Bowing down to fate.
The punk tank had already rolled past.
The engine, as you know, was something else.
But they had certainly been its treads.
The Rev - Part III
In March 1978, the Count Bishops became simply, Bishops. They publicly announced it on the last day of the month with a single featuring a cover of I Take What I Want on the A-side and an original titled No Lies on the flip side.
Their last performance under the old name at the Blast Furnace in London had been recorded for a collective album that the Chiswick label planned to release. However, it never came to fruition. The label decided instead to release the full set of the (Count) Bishops, issued simply as Live! on April 28, ’78, in two different formats one inch apart.
Trapped within is all the pub-rock energy of the band and, for the last time, the guitar of Zenon De Fleur, who would die in a car accident on March 18 of the following year on an operating table, taking with him a part of the Bishops' soul forever. For this reason, Live! holds even greater significance, in addition to the already considerable merit of the English band that was the first to take a leak on the records of Genesis.
After a debut EP in ’75 featuring the best cover of Route 66 ever recorded, a couple of albums in ’77 followed, and with the name shortened, a final album titled Cross Cuts still brimming with energy, split between fierce covers like Good Times/I Want Candy (Easybeats and Strangeloves, if you please) and Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked Tonight by Fleetwood Mac, alongside explosive originals such as What’s Your Number (a genuine boogie banger that tears your skin, NdLYS), No Lies, or Rolling Man, the last song written by Zenon that the band took on to complete and record as a final tribute to their friend. However, Paul Balbi's return to Australia due to the expiration of his residency permit was the definitive blow for the Bishops, the one that finally brought one of the straight-backed bands to its knees. Bowing down to fate.
The punk tank had already rolled past.
The engine, as you know, was something else.
But they had certainly been its treads.
IlConte
21 feb 23
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