Lone Star

Lone Star were a Welsh rock band formed in Cardiff, Wales in 1975. They released two albums on CBS Records before splitting up in 1978. An embryonic line-up consisted of former Iona members Kenny Driscoll and Tony Smith, former Quest bassist Ray Jones, and drummer Jim Mathews. The band took on the Lone Star moniker in early 1975 with bassist Pete Hurley and drummer Dixie Lee replacing Jones and Mathews, respectively, and the addition of Canadian keyboardist Rick Worsnop and guitarist Paul "Tonka" Chapman (a cousin of famed Welsh rocker Dave Edmunds).
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== Links to Peel ==
The band recorded a studio session for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in early 1976, and recorded their self-titled debut album in August 1976 at Sweet Silence studios in Copenhagen, with Roy Thomas Baker producing. Driscoll had suffered a broken collarbone in a car crash (that left his girlfriend paralysed from the neck down) shortly before recording the album, and claimed to have recorded all the vocals for the album in three hours while drunk, and was disappointed with the results. The album charted at No. 47 on the UK Albums Chart, and was supported by a UK tour with label mate Ted Nugent.
A second Peel session was recorded in April 1976 and broadcast around the time of the first album's release that August. The band's profile would get a further boost with a BBC Radio 1 In Concert broadcast, recorded at the Paris Theatre in London on 23 September 1976 while on tour as openers for Mott.
The band's third BBC studio session, with Sloman now on vocals, was recorded in February 1977, and was originally broadcast in July of that year on Alan Freeman's Saturday Show, before broadcasting on Peel's show. This was an experimental quadrophonic broadcast trialling the BBC's Matrix H system. The band's second album, Firing on All Six, produced by Gary Lyons and released in August 1977, bettered its predecessor and reached No. 36 on the UK Albums Chart. 
That same month, the band undertook their most high-profile gig yet with an appearance at the Reading Festival on 26 August, followed by a live broadcast on the BBC's Sight & Sound programme on 29 September, recorded at Queen Mary College in East London whilst sharing a bill with Canadian guitarist Pat Travers. Both the BBC In Concert and Sight & Sound broadcasts were released in 1994 as the BBC Radio One Live In Concert CD.
== Sessions ==
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*First two sessions available on Lone Star (Reissue) CD, 2011 (Rock Candy CANDY116)
1. Recorded: 1976-01-29. Broadcast: 24 February 1976. Repeated: 25 October 1976, 24 December 1976, 16 June 1977
*Flying In The Reel / A Million Stars / She Said
2. Recorded: 1976-04-15. Broadcast: 05 August 1976.
*Hypnotic Mover / Spaceships
3. Recorded: 1977-02-28. Broadcast: 06 July 1977. Repeated: 08 August 1977, 24 August 1977, 28 December 1977
*Bells Of Berlin / From All Of Us / Lonely Soldier
== Other Shows Played ==
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;1976
*31 August 1976: Flying In The Reel (album - Lone Star) Epic S EPC 81545
*22 October 1976: Lonely Soldier (album - Lone Star) Epic S EPC 81545
*01 November 1976: Spaceships (album - Lone Star) Epic S EPC 81545
;1977
*01 August 1977: The Bells Of Berlin (album - Firing On All Six) CBS S 82213
*01 August 1977: Lovely Lubina (album - Firing On All Six) CBS S 82213
*01 August 1977: Seasons In Your Eyes (album - Firing On All Six) CBS S 822
*01 August 1977: Rivers Overflowing (album - Firing On All Six) CBS S 82213
*01 August 1977: All Of Us To All Of You (album - Firing On All Six) CBS S 82213
*23 August 1977: Hypnotic Mover (album - Firing On All Six) CBS S 82213
;1978
*02 August 1978: Bells Of Berlin (album - Firing On All Six) CBS S 82213
== See Also ==
*Sounds
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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