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Encyclopedia > The Grease Band

The Grease Band are a rock band which evolved out of Joe Cocker's backing band. They recorded two albums in the 1970s.


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Get Ready to ROCK! Review of CD album by Grease Band first issued in 1971 and reissued with bonus BBC radio tracks (222 words)
Whilst it's good to see the release of this 1971 eponymous debut, originally issued on the Harvest label, it is rather of its time.
Taking a cue from American contemporaries such as The Band and Creedence Clearwater, Grease Band's laid-back and essentially good-time style also aligns them with bands such as Duck's Deluxe and Brinsley Schwarz, but at times also brings to mind the rumbustiousness of The Faces.
The Grease Band started out life as backing band to the hit-selling vocalist Joe Cocker and broke away from this singer in 1969.
Wings (band) (123 words)
The band name came to McCartney as he was praying in the hospital when wife Linda was giving birth.
Band members included Denny Laine[?] (formerly of the Moody Blues), Joe English[?], Jimmy McCulloch[?], Henry McCullough[?] (formerly of the Grease Band[?]), Denny Seiwell[?], Geoff Britton[?], and Linda McCartney.
The band fell apart after the death of John Lennon in 1980.
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