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a brief history
Early 1970's - North East England / band - Beckett
'Discovered' by promoter/Author GEOFF DOCHERTY
1974-76 invited by magical guitarist
Paul Kossoff to form Back Street Crawler
SIGNED BY AHMET ERTEGUN
TO ATLANTIC RECORDS
Studio albums x 6
Beckett: w.e.a. raft records
Back Street Crawler: Atlantic records
The Band Plays On + 2nd Street
Crawler x 2 albums c.b.s./epic @ caribou ranch
Charlie - atlantic/atco
Def Leppard pyromania. b/vox with 'Mutt' lange
Tours
UK + USA + EUROPE + JAPAN
with Foreigner - Kansas - Robin Trower
SLADE - SAHB - CAPT BEEFHEART - FREE
Japan + Europe w MICHAEL SCHENKER
RECORDING STUDIOS
New York - Electric Ladyland + Atlantic NYC
LOS ANGELES Crystal + Kyndon sound
Caribou Ranch Denver Colorado
London - Island Basing St: + Olympic
Ridge Farm Surrey + Rockcliffe Wales
Eel pie + Sawmills Cornwall +Advision
Battery + A.I.R + Livingstone
FAMOUS-WHAT IF'S.. ?
MOTT THE HOOPLE + AC:DC + IRON MAIDEN
LEAD VOcals on album for 'non' band' - 'Charlie'
'It's Inevitable' 1983 - USA. Billboard & Mtv 'hit.
gigs
London Marquee Club & BBC Old Grey Whistle Test
TOP TEN CLUB HAMBURG 'RESIDENCY' TWICE
Bottom Line Club NYC + Paradise Boston. mas.
My Fathers Place
Budokan Tokyo + Osaka Kyoto Hiroshima
Tours + 'shared bill gigs '
slade (25 dates) roy woods' wizzard.
beach boys & boz scaggs
@ Grosvenor House London CBS Convention
captain beefheart ( 25 dates) lindisfarne. thin lizzy.
free. rod stewart & faces. mott the hoople.
sensational alex harvey band (33 dates)
U2. M.s.g. doobie brothers. iron maiden
foreigner. rory gallagher. robin trower. kansas
ac/dc -traffic - john martyn
crystal palace bowl w santana+elvis costello
london music festival-nazareth /earth wind fire
DONNINGTON FESTIVAL with Y&T
( van.halen / ac:dc + the reading festival 1974
2021
..............kossoff the band plays on..............
paul kossoff
Back St: Crawler
ridge farm
dorking-surrey
the band plays on
1975