At this point Webb reformed the band as a trio with John Glascock on bass and Paul Hancox on drums, and they recorded Imagination Lady. Chicken Shack continued recording and performing live, releasing a few more albums and having some success with the single "Tears in the Wind" (c/w "The Things You Put Me Through").Īfter being dropped by Blue Horizon, pianist Paul Raymond, bassist Andy Silvester, and drummer Dave Bidwell all left in 1971 to join Savoy Brown. After Perfect’s departure from the band in 1969, she was quickly replaced by Paul Raymond from Plastic Penny. The exact single recording by Chicken Shack of “I’d Rather Go Blind” was included on Perfect’s eponymous album “Christine Perfect” released on the same label, Blue Horizon. Because of the success of the single, the band’s record label, Blue Horizon, convinced her to release a solo album before considering retirement.
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By this time, she had already quietly married bass player from John McVie from the blues band Fleetwood Mac and did not wish to be touring in a separate band. The single "I'd Rather Go Blind" had been recorded after the release of the first two LPs and Perfect had already decided to leave the band and retire from the music business before the single had become successful. Christine Perfect's departure Original member Christine McVie (pictured in 2017) left to join Fleetwood Mac in 1969 The single was successful enough that it garnered Perfect the Top Female Singer on the Melody Maker’s Reader’s Poll in 1969.
The single " I'd Rather Go Blind" (c/w "Night Life") ended up becoming very successful with Christine Perfect singing lead vocals. Worried that the band's popularity would fade without a successful radio single, they decided to record a song that had been successful for Etta James in the US. "I'd Rather Go Blind" single Ĭhicken Shack had become a mainstay of the white blues boom in the late 1960s, and they enjoyed some commercial success with their two first albums reaching the TOP 20 in UK album chart. Christine Perfect composed and provided piano and lead vocals on both tracks but the single was only mildly successful. The flipside “Hey Baby” was an outtake of the O.K. The band then decided to release a song from the first album ( 40 Blue Fingers.), "When The Train Comes Back” (BH 57-3146) after overdubbing a horn section to the original track. 9, unlike the initial LP, it quickly dropped out of the charts due to the lack of an album single to support it. While it did surpass the first album by reaching No. Ken? was released in February 1969 and also garnered chart success. Both songs were composed and sung by Stan Webb. While waiting to finish their second LP, the band released a second single, "Worried About My Woman / Six Nights In Seven" (BH 57-3143) in late 1968 with little fanfare. The first single and the debut LP attracted a lot of attention and 40 Blue Fingers… ended up having considerable chart success (No. Both sides of the first single were not included in the first LP release. Christine Perfect composed and sang on side A of the first single and Stan Webb composed and sang the flip side.
Their first single “It's Okay With Me Baby / When My Left Eye Jumps” (BH 57-3135), was released in 1968, shortly before their first LP release 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve was released later that year. Over the next few years the band had a residency at the Star-Club, Hamburg with Morley, then Al Sykes, Hughie Flint (who was John Mayall's drummer when Eric Clapton was in the band) and later Dave Bidwell on drums.Ĥ0 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve Ĭhicken Shack made their first UK appearance at the 1967 National Jazz and Blues Festival, Windsor and signed to Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon record label in the same year. Chicken shacks (open-air roadside chicken stands) had also been frequently mentioned in blues and R&B songs, as in Amos Milburn's hit, " Chicken Shack Boogie". With a new line-up Chicken Shack was formed as a trio in 1965, naming themselves after Jimmy Smith's Back at the Chicken Shack album. The band also included Christine Perfect and Chris Wood (later to join Traffic) amongst others in their line up. They invited Stan Webb, who was leaving local band The Shades 5, to join them. Chicken Shack has performed with various line-ups, Stan Webb being the only constant member.ĭavid "Rowdy" Yeats and Andy Silvester had formed Sounds of Blue in 1964 as a Stourbridge-based rhythm and blues band.
Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (later McVie) (vocals and keyboards) in 1967.
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