Bread (band)

Bread were a company incorporated in the year 1969 four piece band beat music era in the late 1960s or the 1970s fading from Los Angeles, California.

Band History

David Gates and James Griffin, were each alone or in cooperation with other well-known artists, been productive for many years in the music industry in and around Los Angeles. Robb Royer was a member of the band, The Pleasure Fair, worked for David Gates as a producer and also wrote even some country music titles. A cooperation of James Griffin and Rob Royer brought forth the text of the success title For All We Know, the first used in the film Lovers And Other Strangers, was later made ​​known by the Carpenters and won the Oscar for best song of the year 1970.

This professional points of contact eventually led to the merger of the three musicians in a band together.

The name Bread was the last of many proposals had been discussed over the long. Finally, supported Bill Harvey, the former artistic director of Elektra Records, the idea of Robb Royer: Bread ( bread) is in everyday American parlance today for money; German equivalents would be coal or clay. They wanted to meet with the name of hypocrisy, pretending to the people to put money on no value.

With the first LP Bread of 1969, the three musicians already presented their own, recognizable style and demonstrated their sophisticated technology as a multi- talented instrumentalists. On drums Bread were assisted by Jim Gordon. Today praised by connoisseurs, the record but reached no satisfactory sales result. The single release Make It With You 1970 reached number one in the U.S. singles charts. A further decoupling It Do not Matter To Me reached number 10

1970, the second LP On The Waters was released, followed a year later with manna finally a commercially successful album. It brought the book entitled If the second gold record.

1972 Robb Royer left the band and Larry Knechtel, a sought-after keyboardist from Los Angeles, permanently replaced. Bread produced this year, two major albums, first - Baby I'm A Want You. The eponymous title and two more from the following album, The Guitar Man Hit Parade occupied front seats.

Before the sixth album was finished, led the creative competition, which apparently raged for some time between David Gates and James Griffin, tensions, which began to interfere with their work. They decided together to break bread.

David Gates initially joined on alone, published in 1973 and 1975 's LPs. In 1976, Gates and Griffin were fighting together again and Bread could publish another LP in the following year with Lost Without Your Love. The single of the same reached the top ten, but the contrasts led again, this time for many years, to the separation.

All four band members worked as a solo musician or were in other bands. 1996 and 1997, the band was once again united in a common world tour.

In 2005, Griffin and Botts died, both aged 61 years, of cancer. Larry Knechtel died on 20 August 2009 at the age of 69 years of a heart attack.

Discography

  • Bread (1969)
  • On The Waters (1970 )
  • Make it With You (1970 )
  • Manna (1971 )
  • Baby I'm A Want You (1972 )
  • The Guitar Man ( 1972)
  • Best Of (1973 )
  • Best Of Vol 2 (1974 )
  • Sound Of Bread (1977 )
  • Anthology (1975 )
  • Retrospective (1996 )
Singing Electronic keyboard Jim Gordon (musician)
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