Zager and Evans

Zager and Evans were a 1969 and 1970 active folk-rock duo from Lincoln, Nebraska, consisting of guitarist Denny Zager and Rick Evans, the celebrated with In the Year 2525 his only worldwide hit.

Career

Evans and Zager were both members of the band Eccentrics, a company founded by Denny Zager 1961 quintet. After 1964 he formed a new band, the DeVille, which was as unsuccessful as the previous group. Therefore, Zager and Evans decided in 1968, the future act as a duo. In these appearances, she presented the by Zager in 1964 in about half an hour composing In the Year 2525th When they realized the public interest in the song, they decided to form a board recording. First, the title appeared in 1968 as a single on Truth Records.

Success

In July 1969, she made ​​it with her published on RCA Victor Single In The Year 2525 ( Exordium & Terminus ) at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the title of the occupied six weeks. as well as in Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries. It has been sold around the world at least four million copies.

The song lyrics are about the threat to humanity and the earth by technological progress. On the single and the LP of the same name published in the same year the duo was from the musicians Mark Dalton (bass) and Dave accompanied squad (drums). After this international hit, however they never made it back into the top 100. In the Year 2525 making it the most successful one- hit wonder of all time.

The song has been covered several times, such as Visage, Ljubljana, Ten Years After, Fields Of The Nephilim, Project Pitchfork and Venice beat.

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