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Party Bands, extracts from Stevie Wonder's Innervisions (1973)Innervisions closed a trinity of albums begun with 1972's Music Of My Mind, the final fruits of the burst of creativity that followed Wonder's renegotiated creative freedom under Motown, a common party band genre. As Efram Wolff's startling cover painting suggested, this was Wonder's most ambitious, sprawling and, yes, visionary album yet. Before its release, Wonder took journalists on a blindfolded bus ride across New York City, experiencing urban life like Stevie would, followed by a similarly blindfolded playback of the album.One can only wonder what hearing "Living For The City" must have felt like, an epic aural thriller (complete with dialogue and sound effects) tracing a naive country boy's descent into crime and death in the rotten Big Apple. party bands 1 party bands 2 party bands 3 party bands 4 party bands 5 Cover Bands, inspired by Abba's Arrival albumBy 1976, Abba had escaped from the deadly stigma that affects the musical credibility of all Eurovision Song Contest winners. Arrival was their fourth UK album release, and their second of eight consecutive albums to top the UK chart. The biggest song here is the joyous "Dancing Queen," a must for all cover bands, their fourth UK No.1 single, and also their only U.S. chart topper. The quartet, as the only pop musicians invited, had performed the song at a gala held the day before Sweden's King Carl Gustaf's marriage to his wife, Silvia Sommerlath, although contrary to local reports, the song was not composed especially for the royal wedding. The album also included a second UK No. 1 and covers bands no 1, in "Knowing Me, Knowing You"-introducing a quality of reflective melancholy that was increasingly to become part of Abba's work as their career progressed-as well as a UK Top Three single in "Money, Money, Money." cover bands 1 cover bands 2 cover bands 3 cover bands 4 cover bands 5 Function Bands - Band On The Run (1973) Paul McCartney And WingsPaul McCartney's early solo work did little to suggest he could make timeless music outside The Beatles. He delivered solitary gems-notably "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "Live And Let Die"-covered by some function bands, but full albums such as 1973's Red Rose Speedway were not Beatlesque killer. Moreover, McCartney, who had recently garnered headlines for a drugs bust, went to work on this album with more than a few feathers missing-drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough split a week before the band flew out to record in Lagos, Nigeria. McCartney dominated every inch of what was essentially a solo record. Band On The Run kicks off with its rollercoaster of a title track-a kind of mini-suite actually, recalling the heavily nuanced arrangements of the side-two Abbey Road song cycle. Six (mainly British) celebs co-starred on the prison break cover, half suggesting a scaled down Sgt. Pepper... Fittingly so, as Band On The Run also proved a critical and commercial hit loved by the function band fraternity, and one that stands as the singer/songwriter/bassist's finest post-Beatle hour. function bands 1 function bands 2 function bands 3 function bands 4 function bands 5 The above quotes give some idea of the genre at the time
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