Sweet Thursday (band)
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Sweet Thursday was a short-lived late-1960s English
rock band
.
The group included famed session
keyboard player Nicky Hopkins
, who had worked with The Beatles
, The Rolling Stones
, Jeff Beck
, and many others; folk guitarist, singer, and past session man Alun Davies
(subsequently a frequent collaborator of Cat Stevens
'); and singer, guitarist, composer and past Davies cohort Jon Mark (later of Mark-Almond
). Thus Sweet Thursday was arguably a minor instance of the "supergroup" phenomena
. Other members were drummer Harvey Burns and bassist, woodwinds player and songwriter Brian Odgers.
The group's lone album Sweet Thursday
was released in August 1969 in the U.S. on Tetragrammaton Records
(the band had signed with that label in November 1968). It is most remembered for the moody, evocative, ten-minute-long progressive rock radio
turntable hit "Gilbert Street". The record company went bust soon thereafter, after only a very limited record pressing. Sweet Thursday dissolved.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
rock band
Rock Band
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.
The group included famed session
Session musician
Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...
keyboard player Nicky Hopkins
Nicky Hopkins
Nicholas Christian "Nicky" Hopkins was an English pianist and organist.He recorded and performed on noted British and American popular music recordings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s as a session musician....
, who had worked with The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
, The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
, Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
, and many others; folk guitarist, singer, and past session man Alun Davies
Alun Davies (guitarist)
Alun Davies is a Welsh guitarist, studio musician, recording artist, and composer who rose to fame primarily with his supporting guitar work and backing vocals as accompanist for English musician Cat Stevens, from early 1970 to 1977...
(subsequently a frequent collaborator of Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam , commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam....
'); and singer, guitarist, composer and past Davies cohort Jon Mark (later of Mark-Almond
Mark-Almond
Mark–Almond were an English band of the late 1960s and early 1970s, who worked in the territory between rock and jazz.In 1970 Jon Mark and Johnny Almond formed Mark-Almond...
). Thus Sweet Thursday was arguably a minor instance of the "supergroup" phenomena
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....
. Other members were drummer Harvey Burns and bassist, woodwinds player and songwriter Brian Odgers.
The group's lone album Sweet Thursday
Sweet Thursday (album)
Sweet Thursday is the self-titled debut, and only, album by the late 1960s British rock band Sweet Thursday. Its chance of success was cut short by the almost-immediate failure of the record label.-History:...
was released in August 1969 in the U.S. on Tetragrammaton Records
Tetragrammaton Records
Tetragrammaton Records was an American record label, founded by artist manager Roy Silver, Bruce Post Campbell, Marvin Deane, and comedian Bill Cosby in the late 1960s. The name references a term for the un-nameable name of God....
(the band had signed with that label in November 1968). It is most remembered for the moody, evocative, ten-minute-long progressive rock radio
Progressive rock (radio format)
Progressive rock is a radio station programming format that prospered in the late 1960s and 1970s, in which the disc jockeys are given wide latitude in what they may play, similar to the freeform format but with the proviso that some kind of rock music is almost always what is played...
turntable hit "Gilbert Street". The record company went bust soon thereafter, after only a very limited record pressing. Sweet Thursday dissolved.