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Credits:Photo Provided By Caroline Bickle
Gigs
Gig: 4/4/1984, The Alarm, The Agora, Cleveland, OH
4/4/1984: The Alarm, The Agora, Cleveland, OH Summary The Pretenders “Learning To Crawl” tour. The Alarm were touring to support the Declaration albumPress Release Set List Includes “Unsafe Building”,”Reason 41″ and extended “Howling Wind”Band Comments Fan Comments My girlfriend and I were in about the 9th row and were going INSANE when The Alarm was on, but not many people around us were, which was good for us, because we [read more]
Archive
Strength album recording start with Mike Howlett
Mike Howlett replaces the absent Jimmy Iovine to produce “Strength”. Recording starts the Roundhouse in London. With the band recoding silly covers of a overa dozen songs. A few of the tracks appear on the “Abolsute Tour” flexi disc.
Archive
Event: 9/21/1983, The Alarm, “Top of the Pops” BBC TV, UK
9/21/1983: The Alarm, “Top of the Pops” BBC TV, UK Summary The bands first appearance on the BBC’s flagship “Top Of The Pops” chart show with their first hit single, “68 Guns”. Although the band played live in the studio, the BBC dubbed the recorded version over the broadcast pictures. The single would spend 7 weeks in the UK chart, peaking at number 17.Press Release Set List Band Comments Fan [read more]