Middle of the Road (band)
Middle of the Road was a Scottish band that was successful with catchy pop songs in Europe, especially in the first half of the 1970s.
Band History
The lead singer Sally Carr ( born March 28, 1945), drummer Ken Andrew ( born August 28, 1947), guitarist Ian Lewis Campbell, civil Ian McCredie ( born July 15, 1948) on bass and his brother Eric Lewis Campbell, bourgeois Eric McCredie ( born July 17, 1945 † October 6, 2007 ) from Glasgow formed the band on April 1, 1970 Since 1967, they played as " Karen and the Sofisticats " and from 1968 as a "Part Three" and then as in Latin American presentation '. Los Caracas " together.
Since they, as well as in England had no success in her native Scotland, the group moved to Italy in 1970. There they met the music producer Giacomo Tosti, who missed the formation of distinctive, group signature sound, thus giving them international breakthrough.
In April 1971 the band had their first hit with Chirpy Chirpy world - Cheep Cheep, which today is one of the most famous pop classics of the 1970s. Before Lally Stott author the song Middle of the Road and left to their version also contributed background vocals, he had already published his own admission in Italy and Australia, where it reached the top spot of the singles chart in June 1971.
This was followed up in 1973 nine more charts rankings with Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum, Soley Soley (1971 ), Sacramento, Samson and Delilah, Bottoms Up (1972 ), Yellow Boomerang (1973) and others. In 1974, the guitarist Neil Henderson joined ( born February 11, 1953), also from Glasgow, of the group. Although he wrote several more or less successful title for the band, the sales figures of previous years but were no longer achieved.
Part of the group occurs even today as " Middle of the Road feat. Sally Carr " for music events live on. The brothers McCredie (followed by the young Stuart McCredie ) were formed in 1993 with lead singer and guitarist Jim Lorraine Felberg wedged a second band. Their album Middle of the Road - although Happy to Be Back (1994 ) did not reach significant sales figures, but forced the old dispute over the band 's name. Sally Carr denied public to know the McCredies, she claimed in a TV interview, "foreign musicians " had " stolen " the band name. According to press reports, the 70 years she was but in 1970 entered as the last member in the existing band, originally contracted only as a temporary worker for her predecessor.