Metz Baking Co. just wanted a great advertising campaign for its Old Home Bread. It got the legendary 'C.W. McCall,' trucker anthem 'Convoy,' and led to Mannheim Steamroller.
The song was intended as a deliberately dark response to the more playful macabre antics of Alice Cooper. But it would end up shaping Talking Heads’ future ...
Formed in 1973 by singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke (both former members of Free) alongside ex- Mott The Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and former King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell, they took ...