The Herd (British band) explained

The Herd
Background:group_or_band
Origin:London, England
Genre:Freakbeat, psychedelic rock, psychedelic pop
Years Active:1965–1969, 1971

The Herd were an English rock band, founded in 1965. In 1966, 16-year-old Peter Frampton joined as lead singer and guitarist. The band had three UK top twenty hits in the late 1960s, including "From the Underworld" and "I Don't Want Our Loving to Die", before Frampton left in 1968 to form Humble Pie with Steve Marriott. The band broke up shortly after, reforming briefly and unsuccessfully in 1971.

Biography

The Herd were founded in 1965 in south London, and recorded three unsuccessful singles with Parlophone. The original lineup was Terry Clark (vocals and guitar), Gary Taylor (guitar), Louis Cennamo (bass), and Tony Chapman (drums). In 1966, all but Taylor quit the group. With new members Peter Frampton (vocals and guitar), Andy Bown (keyboards), and Andrew Steele (drums), the group got the line-up that made it famous. The singer, Peter Frampton, was 16 when he joined the group in 1966 and had just left school. The other members were a few years older. Parlophone did not want to go on with them, but Fontana were willing to give them a try.[1] They also sent their manager Billy Gaff away and brought in the songwriters/producers Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley instead. This pair had been largely responsible for a string of hits by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.

Howard and Blaikley orchestrated for them a unique blend of pop and flower power. After a UK singles chart near-miss with "I Can Fly" (April 1967), the haunting "From the Underworld", (August 1967) based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, reached Number 6 later that year with help from copious plays on pirate radio. It was a hit in other countries too. In the Netherlands the song reached Number 3.[2] "From the Underworld" was followed by "Paradise Lost", (November 1967) which made it up to Number 15.[3] In October 1967 they supported the Jimi Hendrix Experience at The Saville Theatre, London. Their greatest success came with "I Don't Want Our Loving to Die", (March 1968) a number five UK hit single.[3]

With his boyish photogenic looks, Frampton was dubbed "The Face of '68" by teen magazine Rave.[1] [4]

The last months of 1968 were tempestuous times for the group. Steele left the group, to be replaced by Henry Spinetti. The group dumped their managers Howard and Blaikley, and briefly found a new mentor in Harvey Lisberg who after three months found himself so bogged down with their personnel problems that he politely withdrew his services.[5] Most songs on their first and only album Paradise Lost were written by Peter Frampton and Andy Bown, just like their next single, "Sunshine Cottage".

Dissatisfied with mere teen idol status, and disappointed with the failure of "Sunshine Cottage", Frampton left by the end of 1968 to form Humble Pie with Steve Marriott.[1] The remaining members Bown, Spinetti and Taylor made another flop single, "The Game",[4] then, minus Taylor, formed the short-lived Judas Jump with Allan Jones, saxophonist from Amen Corner, and Welsh vocalist Adrian Williams. Taylor, who became a disc jockey, and Steele, reunited briefly for a one-off single "You've Got Me Hangin' From Your Lovin' Tree" in June 1971, to almost universal lack of interest.[6] By the late 1970s Bown had become a member of UK rockers Status Quo[4] and both Taylor and Spinetti joined up with Gerry Rafferty.

Andrew Steele died of cancer in Alaska on 18 April 2005, aged 63.

Band members

Discography

Singles

YearSingleDetailsPeak chart positions
AUS
[8] [9] 		BE (W)
[10] 		GER
[11] 		IRE
[12] 		NL
[13] 		NZ
[14] 		UK
1965"Goodbye Baby Goodbye"
  • Released: 28 May 1965
  • B-side: "Here Comes the Fool"
  • Label: Parlophone R5284
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"She Was Really Saying Something"
  • Released: October 1965
  • B-side: "It's Been a Long Time Baby"
  • Label: Parlophone R5353
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1966"So Much in Love"
  • Released: 18 February 1966
  • B-side: "This Boy's Always Been True"
  • Label: Parlophone R5413
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1967"I Can Fly"
  • Released: April 1967
  • B-side: "Diary of a Narcissist"
  • Label: Fontana TF819
  • B-side: "Understand Me" (US)
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"From the Underworld"
  • Released: August 1967
  • B-side: "Sweet William"
  • Label: Fontana TF856
884911142—6
"Paradise Lost"
  • Released: December 1967
  • B-side: "Come on, Believe Me"
  • Label: Fontana TF887
——22—131815
1968"I Don't Want Our Loving to Die"
  • Released: 29 March 1968
  • B-side: "Our Fairy Tale"
  • Label: Fontana TF925
65—335—45
"Sunshine Cottage"
  • Released: October 1968
  • B-side: "Miss Jones"
  • Label: Fontana TF957
——————54
1969"The Game"
  • Released: May 1969
  • B-side: "Beauty Queen"
  • Label: Fontana TF1011
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1971"You've Got Me Hangin' from Your Lovin' Tree"
  • Released: June 1971
  • B-side: "I Don't Wanna Go to Sleep Again"
  • Label: B&C CB154
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"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released

LPs

CDs

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Herd . Webcitation.org . 2014-05-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091028151652/http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Villa/9500/herd.htm . 28 October 2009 .
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20120729000403/http://home.kpn.nl/kjoe65/1967.html Survey of 1967 hits in the Netherlands
  3. Book: David Roberts. 2006. British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th. Guinness World Records Limited . 1-904994-10-5. 251.
  4. Web site: The Herd . Making Time . 2014-05-29.
  5. Book: Rogan. Johnny. Starmakers & Svengalis. 2 March 1988 . MacDonald Queen Anne Press. 0-356-15138-7. 175.
  6. Book: John Tobler. 1992. NME Rock 'N' Roll Years. 1st. Reed International Books Ltd . 227. CN 5585.
  7. Web site: Carol Hynson . The Official Mick Underwood website – biography of the UK rock drummer . Mickunderwood.com . 2014-05-29.
  8. Web site: Grant. Every AMR Top 100 Single in 1967. 2021-03-05.
  9. Web site: Grant. Every AMR Top 100 Single in 1968. 2021-03-05.
  10. Web site: ultratop.be – ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS. 2021-03-05. ultratop.be.
  11. Web site: Suche – Offizielle Deutsche Charts. 2021-03-05. offiziellecharts.de.
  12. Web site: The Irish Charts – All there is to know. 2021-03-05. irishcharts.ie.
  13. Web site: Dutch Charts – dutchcharts.nl. 2021-03-05. dutchcharts.nl.
  14. Web site: flavour of new zealand – search listener. 2021-03-05. flavourofnz.co.nz.
  15. The album has been re-released in 2005 on the Japanese AMR label with fourteen bonus tracks (AMR AIRAC 1141)
  16. To the melody of the "Air" from the Third Orchestral Suite by Johann Sebastian Bach
  17. This song has also been recorded by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
  18. Two reviewers (Antony P. Hislop and Rog) at the British Amazon report that the order of the tracks on the sleeve does not correspond to the order on the disc
  19. Some tracks appear twice: in mono and in stereo

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