Trapeze (band)
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Trapeze was a UK rock band formed in March 1969. The band had a fairly fluid line up, finally dissolving in 1991, and although they never found commercial success themselves, several members went on to join better known bands including Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Judas Priest and Uriah Heep.
The core members of the band were Glenn Hughes, Mel Galley and Dave Holland. After Glenn Hughes' departure in 1973, Galley and Holland decided to try to keep the band together, which they did with constantly varying until 1979 when Holland went on to join Judas Priest. At this point the band broke up. Holland tried to revive the band in 1990, after leaving Priest, but the band finally broke up in 1994. Their first three albums remain their best known and most commercially successful.
Band members
1969:- Mel Galley - lead and bass guitars
- Glenn Hughes - bass guitar, six-string guitar, piano, trombone, vocals
- Dave Holland - drums
- John Jones - vocals, trumpet
- Terry Rowley - organ, guitar piano, flute
- Mel Galley - guitars, vocals
- Glenn Hughes - bass guitar, piano, lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar (live 1973)
- Dave Holland - drums, percussion
- Pete MacKie - bass (live 1973)
- Mel Galley - guitars, lead vocals
- Dave Holland - drums, percussion
- Rob Kendrick - guitars
- Pete Wright - bass (not to be confused with the Pete Wright of Crass)
- Mel Galley - guitars, vocals
- Dave Holland - drums, percussion
- Pete Goalby - lead vocals, guitar
- Pete Wright - bass
- Mel Galley - guitars, vocals
- Pete Goalby - lead vocals, guitar
- Pete Wright - bass
- Steve Bray - drums
- Mel Galley - guitars, vocals
- Steve Bray - drums
- Mervyn 'Spam' Spence - bass, vocals
- Richard Bailey - keyboards
Discography
- Trapeze (1970)
- Medusa (1970)
- You Are the Music...We're Just the Band (1972)
- The Final Swing (1974)
- Hot Wire (1974)
- Live At The Boat Club (1975)
- Trapeze - not to be confused with the debut (1976)
- Hold On (1979); also known as Running (Rare Album) ; Re-Issued in 1998 as Hold On
- (1980);
- Welcome to the Real World - live 1992 (1993)
- - best of 1970-1976 (1996)
- Way Back to the Bone (1998)
- On the Highwire best of 1970-1994 (2003) (9 Studio/14 Live Tracks)
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