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The Climax Chicago Blues Band based in Stafford, England was formed in late 1968. The original members were guitarists Derek Holt and Peter Haycock, keyboardist Arthur Wood, bassist Richard Jones and drummer George Newsome. Colin Cooper on vocals and saxophone made up the sextet. In 1970, the band shortened its name to the Climax Blues Band. The band has released eighteen albums and has had Top 40 hits in 1976 in the UK with "Couldn't Get It Right"; and in 1981 in the United States with "I Love You". The two songs were also big American hits; "Couldn't Get It Right" reached #3 on the Hot 100 in 1977, and "I Love You" reached #12 in 1981.
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[edit] Band members
- Vocals
- Guitar
- Lester Hunt - (born 21 February 1956, Stretford, Manchester) - also plays bass guitar, keyboards and vocals.
- Derek Holt - (born 26 January 1949, Stafford) - also backing vocals.
- Pete Haycock (born Peter John Haycock, 4 April 1951, Stafford) - guitarist 1968-1984.
- Neil Simpson (born 6 January 1959, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) - also plays seven-string bass-guitar and midi bass-synthesizer.
- John 'Rhino' Edwards (born John Victor Edwards, 9 May 1953, Chiswick, West London). Left to join Dexy's Midnight Runners and later Status Quo.
- Derek Holt - moved from rhythm guitar to bass guitar. Wrote and sang the hit "I Love You", but left in 1982 to form the band Grand Alliance.
- Richard Jones - original bass guitarist on the first album. Left for Cambridge University in 1971. Returned from 1975-1977 to keyboards.
- George Glover - (born 28 October 1947, Stoke-on-Trent). Also back-up vocalist.
- Nicky Hopkins - studio keyboardist replaced Filleul and was in Climax for two albums.
- Peter Filleul - live performance keyboardist until 1980.
- Anton Farmer - Second keyboardist, Farmer (nick name 'Humpty') replaced Arthur Wood in 1969 when the band turned professional, and remained with them until 1970, playing on the A Lot Of Bottle album and the single "Reap What I've Sowed", and shared recording work with Wood.
- Arthur Wood (born 3 August 1929, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent) - original keyboardist late 1968-1973, although he stopped live performances in 1971.
- Roy Adams (born 17 May 1952, Birmingham) - also does backing vocals.
- Neil McCallum - fills in when needed.
- Jeff Rich (born 8 June 1953, Hackney, London) - left to join Status Quo after two years.
- John Cuffley - replaced Newsome and was with Climax from 1973-1983.
- George Newsome (born George Ewart Newsome, 19 August 1947, Stafford) - original drummer for the first four albums. Left Climax in 1973.
[edit] Trivia
- Both former band members, 'Rhino' Edwards and Jeff Rich, were recruited to join Status Quo in 1986.
- Peter Haycock was a member of Electric Light Orchestra Part II when they recorded and toured their first album in 1990.
- Although Holt's penned "I Love You" was one of their biggest hits (peaking at #12 in the Billboard Hot 100, and staying in the charts for just over six months), the rest of the band hated the song, and refused to play it on tour, or to include it in compilations.[citation needed] The song can be found on the Climax Blues band 2-CD set titled "25 Years 1968-1993".
- "Couldn't Get It Right" was later covered by the Fun Lovin' Criminals on their album Mimosa.
[edit] Discography
- The Climax Chicago Blues Band (1969)
- Plays On (1969) US #197 Billboard 200 (1 week)
- A Lot Of Bottle (1970)
- Tightly Knit (1971)
- Rich Man (1972) US #150 Billboard 200 (10 weeks)
- FM Live (1974) US #107 Billboard 200 (30 weeks)
- Sense Of Direction (1974) US #37 Billboard 200 (29 weeks)
- Stamp Album (1975) US #69 Billboard 200 (11 weeks)
- "Using The Power" (1975) US #110 Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (1 week)
- Gold Plated (1976) US #27 Billboard 200 (44 weeks), UK #56 UK Albums Chart (1 week)
- "Couldn't Get It Right" (1976) US #3 Billboard Hot 100 (22 weeks), UK #10 UK Singles Chart (9 weeks)
- Shine On (1978) US #71 Billboard 200 (11 weeks)
- "Makin' Love" (1978) US #91 Billboard Hot 100 (4 weeks)
- Real To Reel (1979) US #170 Billboard 200 (6 weeks)
- Flying The Flag (1980) US #75 Billboard 200 (16 weeks)
- "Gotta Have More Love" (1980) US #47 Billboard Hot 100 (12 weeks)
- "I Love You" (1980) US #12 Billboard Hot 100 (27 weeks)
[edit] References
- The New Musical Express Book of Rock, 1975, Star Books, ISBN 0 352 300744
- ^ "Colin Cooper: British musician who formed the Climax Blues Band", Times, The (London) (July 28, 2008). Retrieved on 2008-07-27.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Meaning makes a great many things endurable.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into the torturers.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as 'fate'.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart - Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Meaning makes a great many things endurable.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into the torturers.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as 'fate'.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart - Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
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