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Biography
Infobox musical artist | | name = McGuinness Flint| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = England | genre = Rock music|Rock , blues-rock | years_active = 1970–1975| label = Capitol Records | associated_acts = Manfred Mann , Gallagher and Lyle , The Blues Band , Stonebridge McGuinness| website =| current_members =| past_members = Tom McGuinness (musician)|Tom McGuinness Hughie Flint Dennis Coulson BennyGallagher Graham Lyle Dixie Dean Lou Stonebridge Jim Evans McGuinness Flint was a rock band formed in 1970 by Tom McGuinness (musician)|Tom McGuinness , former bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann , and Hughie Flint , former drummer with John Mayall ; plus singer|vocalist and keyboard instrument|keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and multi- instrumentalist s and songwriter s BennyGallagher and Graham Lyle .cite web |first= |last= |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p19258|pure_url=yes |title=Biography by Bruce Eder |publisher=Allmusic.com |accessdate=19 February 2009 With a varying subsequent line-up, "they earned a loyal following in Britain, but in the United States they were scarcely more than a cult act, despite a top-flight lineup and a sound that should have been a natural for the era."
Career
Their first single (music)|single " When I'm Dead and Gone " reached No.2 on the UK Singles Chart at the end of 1970 (and No.47 in the United States|U.S. Billboard Hot 100 record chart|chart ) and the debut album McGuinness Flint also made the Top 40|Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart .cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 339 In 1999, it received another outing, in the soundtrack of the film , East Is East (film)|East is East .
A follow-up single, "Malt and Barley Blues", was a UK No.5 hit in 1971, but the group floundered under the pressures of instant success, being required to sound recording and reproduction|record a second album and reproduce their recorded sound adequately on stage, which resulted in disappointing concert s. At the time of release, Roy Orbison was so impressed with the "Malt and Barley Blues", that he considered recording it.
The second album Happy Birthday Ruthy Baby failed to record chart|chart , as did the title track when released as a single, but contained some Gallagher and Lyle songs, notably "Sparrow", which attracted cover versions. (There was no drop in quality; the second album contained some of their strongest material, including "Reader To Writer", "Fixer" and "Piper Of Dreams", among others.)
Gallagher and Lyle quit towards the end of 1971 to record as a duet (music)|duo . The group then recruited bassist Dixie Dean, and sound recording and reproduction|recorded Lo and Behold , an album of Bob Dylan songs (which had not yet been officially recorded and released by the writer himself), as credited to Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint, and issued in 1972. A single "Let The People Go" was List of songs banned by the BBC|banned by the BBC as it related to the Ulster Workers' Council Strike|Ulster crisis , a fate which also befell a contemporary single by Paul McCartney and Wings (band)|Wings , " Give Ireland Back to the Irish ".
Coulson left and was replaced by Lou Stonebridge on keyboard instrument|keyboards and Jim Evans on guitar . This new line-up recorded two further albums, Rainbow (1973) and C’est La Vie (1974), but interest had evaporated, and they disbanded in 1975. A splinter group, Stonebridge McGuinness, had a minor hit in 1979 with "Oo-Eeh Baby" (No. 54 in the UKcite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 534) and released the album Corporate Madness on RCA Records the following year. This group proved short-lived, however, and afterwards McGuinness and Flint both joined The Blues Band , fronted by former Manfred Mann vocalist and harmonica player, Paul Jones (singer)|Paul Jones .
See also
List of performances on Top of the Pops
List of performers on Top of the Pops
List of NME covers
Christmas number two
References
reflist DEFAULTSORT:Mcguinness Flint Category:British rock music groups Category:Musical groups established in 1970 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1975
