Lucifer's Friend
Lucifer's Friend was a German progressive hard rock band, integrated the elements of jazz and pop music in their music. It was created in 1970. Some of the musicians played before in the Star-Club Band German bonds.
Band History
Originally named Asterix the group, but after the release of their first album Asterix it changed its name to Lucifer's Friend. Lucifer's Friend were for most of their existence, a pure studio band. Only at the beginning of her career, and after John Lawton's exit in 1976, they gave some concerts.
From the second LP their records were released by Vertigo Records, but in the U.S. they came with small independent labels out and achieved notable successes. In the late 1970s, they got a contract with Elektra Records and recorded three albums with more commercial music, but the interest in the band had waned and these plates were even less successful than its predecessor.
Lucifer's Friend changed their style for each new album, and was followed by new models. Their first album, recorded in a studio mesh at Joe Menke, was influenced by Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath fans and talks earlier heavy metal music. The second album, however, was very experimental and progressive and psychedelic rock with associative contained texts by John O'Brien - Docker. On her third album, I'm Just a Rock & Roll Singer, they changed the style again and brought swinging, funky rock in the style of Grand Funk Railroad, with reminiscences of Janis Joplin and Chicago. Your next Banquet plate was taken with the winds of the James Last Orchestra and went in the direction of swinging fusion and jazz rock. The next album Mind Exploding again contained straighter hard rock. Singer John Lawton joined Uriah Heep in 1976. He came back for the album Mean Machine 1981.
On the two albums without Lawton the music of the group was very commercial, with strong hints of Queen on Good Time Warrior of 1978 and in disco style with Sneak Me In by 1980. Using Lawton's return, the tide turned again to the Hard Rock / Heavy Metal, this time with hints of Foreigner and Bad Company. The band 1982. 1994 a brief break in Lawton and Hesslein parted with new musicians Lucifer's Friend II and took the CD sumo grip on.
On their later albums they were reinforced by keyboarder Adrian Askew, who was previously with Edison Lighthouse, which for her hit song from the early 1970's Love Grows ( Where My Rosemary Goes ) was known.
Others
- In the 1970s, singer John Lawton divided his time between Lucifer's Friend and the Les Humphries Singers. Lawton called Les Humphries his employer, Lucifer's Friend hobby.
- The guitarist Peter Hesslein produced Marius Müller- Westernhagen's first three studio albums.
- Several band members had in the 1970s when James Last a safe workplace, guitarist Peter Hesslein today.
- A side project, the band was The Pink Mice where classic rock was operated in the style of Emerson, Lake and Palmer or Ekseption.
- John Lawton's solo album Hardbeat 1980 was another collaboration between Lawton and Peter Hesslein.
Discography
- Rock band
- German band