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United Kingdom (1978 – 1982)

Gillan is a rock band closely associated with but not directly arising from the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, formed in 1978 by Ian Gillan and Colin Towns in the UK.

In 1978 Ian Gillan had become dissatisfied with the jazz fusion style of his band called Ian Gillan Band and dissolved it, retaining only keyboard player Colin Towns, and formed a new band entitled Gillan. He added Steve Byrd on guitar, Liam Glenocky on drums and John McCoy (ex-Zzebra) on bass, and initially pursued a progressive rock direction, releasing their eponymous debut in 1978, although they could only get a record deal in Japan. This recording has subsequently become more widely available as The Japanese Album.

The album was sufficiently successful to attract more attention and in 1979 the band secured a European deal with Acrobat Records. Before a new album was recorded, Byrd was replaced by Bernie Tormé and Glenocky by Mick Underwood, Ian Gillan’s former colleague in Episode Six. Torme’s “screaming guitar” sound fundamentally altered the dynamics and Gillan took a heavy metal direction. This lineup’s first album was released as Mr. Universe and contained many re-worked songs from The Japanese Album. The band caught the rise of the NWOBHM at just the right time and the group gained popularity in Europe. At Christmas Gillan turned down an offer from Ritchie Blackmore to join Rainbow, but Blackmore did make a “legendary” guest appearance for Gillan at their Christmas show.
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  • holyrebels

    Glory Road wins.

    30 Jan 2:15am Reply

  • metallmile

    MAGIC...........

    17 Mar 2012 Reply

  • Rammsteinova

    ♥♥♥

    9 Mar 2012 Reply

  • karish12

    Ian Gillan/Mihalis Rakintzis = My Heart Remains The Same Gillan Lovers You Have To Hear That One

    10 Dec 2011 Reply

  • PabloFromPoland

    Why "Bluesy Blue Sea" isn't on Top Tracks? It's the best Gillan's song!

    18 Sep 2011 Reply

  • EricPZ

    My first concert was seeing Gillan on their Double Trouble tour....Budgie opened for them that night. How's that for an introduction to good music? ;)

    16 May 2011 Reply

  • DJWiny

    ...jetzt mit Biografie (-2008) ;-)

    8 May 2011 Reply

  • KingFossil

    All Gillan fans, please listen to Concierto Para Ellos by Barón Rojo. Colin Towns had a guest appearence in that genious song.

    9 Feb 2011 Reply

  • claudiomanzano

    Child in Time

    9 Nov 2010 Reply

  • PhelipeStanley

    Voice Of Rock

    17 Oct 2010 Reply

  • Silvuple

    Genius.

    28 Jun 2010 Reply

  • kalyr

    Hugely underrated band - you really had to see them live to fully appreciate them.

    12 Jan 2010 Reply

  • WatsonPepeLives

    Secret of The Dance!!! Gillan was a great nwobhm band!

    5 Jan 2010 Reply

  • Partymacher

    FANTASTIC!

    3 Nov 2009 Reply

  • GrantRS

    For Gillan Fans Only now has artwork uploaded to last.fm.

    10 Sep 2009 Reply

  • GrantRS

    Confusion over whether to tag Gillan songs as Gillan or Ian Gillan must contribute toward the low playcount, but if you look at the individual songs' playcounts most of the ones I've looked at only have 200 odd listeners. Some of which could well be legitimate scrobbles of later live recordings. Combined listener totals of 400-500 listeners are still fairly unknown songs especially compared to Deep Purple songs like the 100,000 listeners of Fireball or for a random 'lesser known' example 22,000 of No No No. Figures like this imply that only 1 in every 44 listeners of No No No have heard tracks from Mr. Universe.

    7 Jun 2009 Reply

  • Insvims

    I think this new picture of Ian is very good. His expression says a lot. 40 years of rock history. A true legend! Please vote for this picture: http://www.last.fm/music/Ian+Gillan/+images/26855947

    12 Apr 2009 Reply

  • CaptureTheCat

    yeahh :)

    8 Mar 2009 Reply

  • sirkenneth

    I think one of the reasons that there are so few plays is that Mediaplayer automatically sets the artist name to Ian Gillan rather than Gillan if you update the album info online through that. Great great band nonetheless.

    1 Jul 2008 Reply

  • XBend

    CERCASI BATTERISTA e BASSISTA 18-23 anni a Bari o vicinanze x formazione nn ancora avviata (cover & inediti). Genere: Hard n Heavy/Heavy Metal. Cover: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Manowar, Saxon, Running Wild, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Black Sabbath e simili. inediti: le influenze provengono dai gruppi di cui si eseguiranno le cover. Requisiti Batterista: ·Max serietà; ·Passione e conoscenza x i generi sopra citati; ·Tecnica doppio pedale abbastanza avanzata; ·Tecnica generale abbastanza avanzata; ·Persona socievole; ·Disponibilità min di 1 volta a settimana; ·Discrete abilità di canto x eventuali seconde voci (facoltativo); ·Buona esperienza in gruppi passati (facoltativo). Requisiti Bassista: ·Max serietà; ·Passione e conoscenza x i generi sopra citati; ·Tecnica generale abbastanza avanzata; ·Persona socievole; ·Disponibilità min di 1 volta a settimana; ·Discrete abilità di canto x eventuali seconde voci (facoltativo); ·Buona esperienza in gruppi passati (facoltativo).

    29 Jun 2008 Reply
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