London - Non Stop Rock (1985) (Roadrunner Records Edition 2019)

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London - Non Stop Rock (1985) (Roadrunner Records Edition 2019)

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London - Non Stop Rock (1985) (Roadrunner Records Edition 2019)

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Year : 1985 (Roadrunner Records Edition 2019)
Style : Glam Hard Rock , Glam Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 91 mb


Bio:

London is an American glam hard rock & heavy metal band based in Hollywood, California.The band included several members that would go on to play in more famous bands, such as Mötley Crüe, Guns N' Roses, W.A.S.P. and Cinderella. The band paved the way for larger bands that became popular in the glam metal movement. London started out as a glam rock group, influenced by the likes of Sweet, New York Dolls and Mott the Hoople. By the time the group started recording material in the mid 1980s with vocalist Nadir D'Priest in the band, they were playing glam metal. Nadir was influenced by bands like Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Queen. London was formed in 1978 by Lizzie Grey, Nikki Sixx and Dane Rage. The three met when Sixx and Rage were recruited to play bass and drums for Sister, the band that Grey was in with Blackie Lawless.This lineup did not last long and soon Grey, Sixx and Rage left to form London.London was briefly joined by Michael White as the vocalist, who bore a resemblance, both in voice and image, to Robert Plant. After disagreements with the band, White left to focus on his own band, The White. For years, London tried to get a record deal, but the formula was not working until 1984, when Nadir D'Priest and Brian West joined the band. By 1979, White had been replaced by vocalist Henri Valentine and keyboard player John St. John. Nigel Benjamin, an English vocalist who had sung for glam rock band Mott and English Assassin, joined the band after Valentine left. Henri Valentine has since died.Becoming jaded with all of the member changes and looking to move on, Sixx and Benjamin were next to leave the band. Nikki Sixx went on to form the world-famous band Mötley Crüe. A song that Nikki and Lizzie had written together while in London, "Public Enemy No. 1", was included on Mötley Crüe's debut album Too Fast for Love. Benjamin joined Satyr and later recorded the soundtrack to the horror movie Rocktober Blood with Sorcery. Blackie Lawless was brought into the band to replace Sixx on bass, but this didn't last very long and the band fell apart. Rage would become Dane Scarborough, leaving drumming to become an inventor, eventually establishing the toy company Überstix LLC in 2005 . After the original London had fallen apart, founder Lizzie Grey became involved with a couple of other groups, including hard rockers St. Valentine in 1983, featuring Nigel Itson (Ruby Slippers) and Desi Rexx (D'Molls). After the original London had disbanded, co-founder Dane Rage recruited Scott Free, Paul Hanson and Bobby Blitz to form the Brooklyn Brats. During this time, Paul Hanson taught guitar at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood and recorded the guitar soundtrack for the movie "Back to the Future". Michael J. Fox rehearsed with the band to prepare for the movie and played live with the Brooklyn Brats on one occasion with Chuck Berry in attendance. 1984 saw the rebirth of London, although it was now a different beast. The new lineup consisted of Grey, Itson, an English vocalist named John Ward and a bassist named Donny Cameron.By 1985, the lineup consisted of Grey and Izzy Stradlin, vocalist Nadir D'Priest, drummer Bobby Marks (Keel, Steeler) and bassist Brian West (TKO). Marks soon left to form the first lineup of Keel, and Fred Coury was brought in as his replacement. Stradlin then left to join Hollywood Rose/Guns N' Roses with close friend Axl Rose. Steven Adler was also in the lineup, playing on some early demos while with Nadir, Brian, Lizzie Fleetwood Mac former guitarist Bob Welch. Adler left the band and eventually joined up with G&R. Non-Stop Rock, London's debut album, was recorded at this point. Soon after the album was finished, Coury left the band, eventually becoming part of Cinderella. Wailin' Jennings Morgan replaced him. Before the band's second album Don't Cry Wolf (produced by Kim Fowley) was recorded, two new members, drummer Derek Shea and guitarist Frankie Jones joined.In 1988, London appropriately appeared in the Penelope Spheeris film The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years describing their band as a "rock star training academy".After a decade, two albums, 19 different members and very little commercial success, founding member and guitarist Lizzie Grey left London in 1988. He went on to play with the groups Ultra Pop and Spiders and Snakes. Although the band now had no more original members, London carried on for two more years in Los Angeles. Brian West and vocalist Nadir D'Priest were joined by guitarists Amos Sanfilippo and Sean Lewis and performed shows in the Hollywood and San Fernando Valley areas. London also made an appearance in the 1989 film Hollywood Boulevard II, starring Ginger Lynn.D'Priest moved to Arizona for a brief period, but returned to continue working with West and Sean Lewis. They released a third and final album, Playa Del Rock in 1990, but by this time the band agreed with new label Noise International to rebrand the band D'Priest. Some versions of the album had the new band name, but many were released as London. By this time the band was managed by Eric Greif, coincidentally an early assistant manager of Sixx's band Mötley Crüe, with drummer Alan Krigger, formerly of Ike and Tina Turner and Giuffria replacing Yasui, and San Filippo replaced by occasional keyboardist for The Cult Vince Gilbert. A last burst of publicity via an MTV-played, David Bellino-directed video for the single Ride You Through the Night, coupled with a supporting tour, fizzled quickly, with the band breaking up by late 1991 after internal strife and a label wind-down. London/D'Priest charted on the Z-Rock "Z-50" as well as on MTV and toured extensively during 1990–1991 at Z-Rock affiliate and subscriber markets. London, with the Playa Del Rock lineup of D'Priest, Lewis, West and Krigger, performed a reunion show at the Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, CA in early 2010, a show in Redondo Beach, CA in April 2011, and the Sunset Strip Music Festival at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go in Summer 2011. It was reported that Nadir D'Priest reformed London.The group stated their plans as appearing live, first in Europe on November 21 – December 5, 2012. London is planning and releasing a single and video of London Live! 2012–13 filmed in Nashville, Tennessee. The duo, including drummer Tim Yasui, recorded a track for Cleopatra Records, Shout at the Devil, a tribute to Mötley Crüe which also featured tracks by Pretty Boy Floyd, Marq Torien and Jack Russell of Great White. Cleopatra Records also released "London The Metal Years", a compilation of demos cut on the fly at American Recording Studios. London is currently in studio mixing the new album titled "Mastered LIVE!" which was mixed by producer Michael Wagener at Double Trouble Productions in Nashville. The album will include two new tracks, one Rock En Español song and one classic metal track.

Album:

Non-Stop Rock is the first studio album the American glam metal band London, released in 1985 by Shrapnel Records.The riff during the intro to the song "Radio Stars" is taken from the song "Too Fast for Love" by Mötley Crüe.The album is slated for reissue in 2017.Ah London — the much and often maligned, sometimes deservedly so, black sheep of the 80’s Hollywood Sunset Strip sleaze metal scene. Their opening effort, Non-Stop Rock, is a typical 80’s low budget, poorly produced album containing some nice moments of fist pumping rock. This record, for me, once again reinforces everything that people have said about London, that they should have been huge but just didn’t seem to get there. Non-Stop Rock is the same, it should be good but everything just seems to fall that little bit short of the promise that it teases you with. Still it’s worth a listen just to hear the very definition of ‘should have been’,“Dirty City” is a nice little opener, with a head-bobbing little riff/solo and a Nadir D’Priest scream within the first 10 seconds. The title track starts of well and has a fist pumping in the air vibe happening, but from there the CD starts to go off course.“Werewolves In London” is a song I really want to like, but it’s just there and no more as it can’t seem to decide if it is a ballad or a chest beater. You can see what London had in mind on “It’s Rock N’ Roll”, name some cities and get the local crowds to cheer, but it ends up being bland and ultimately fails. “Stand Back” is just horrible as the chorus kills it and the solo is way too short, while I couldn’t even get past the first 20 seconds of “No Tell Motel”. This is one to avoid. “Party In Hollywood” has its moments, as the title tells you what this band is all about. “Masters Of The Airwaves” is the very definition of a song that tries too hard. It should be so much better, but it’s not. Wrapping up this album is “Radio Stars”, a song I want to dislike but really don’t. Its got a really cheesy riff, cheesy chorus and cheesy solo yet it all somehow works, even though it shouldn’t.

Line Up:

Nadir D'Priest - vocals
Freddie Coury - drums
Brian West - bass
Lizzie Grey - guitars

Additional Musicians:

Peter Szucs - keyboards on track 3
Fred Coury - drums (on LP sleeve but did not play on the album)

Production:

Bret Newman - engineer, mixing on tracks 2, 3, 5, 7
Steve Fontano - mixing

Tracklist:

01. Dirty City 2:35
02. Non-Stop Rock 3:36
03. Werewolves in London 4:29
04. It's Rock N' Roll 3:53
05. Stand Back 2:37
06. No Tell Motel 3:11
07. Party in Hollywood 2:56
08. Masters of the Airwaves 3:55
09. Radio Stars 3:31

+ Video "Radio Stars" (Official Video)


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