Terraplane were a 1980s

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band from London, England. Composed of five musicians, they released two albums before disbanding in 1988. The band featured three musicians who would go on to form the

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act,

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. They are distinct from the German psychedelic groove rock band Terraplane, based in Wernigerode, which released three albums between 2000 and 2007: ''Psychedelic Wonderland'', ''Into the Unknown'' and ''Low Tide and Shockwave''.

History

Singer

Danny Bowes Daniel John 'Danny' Bowes (born 14 April 1960, West Ham, Essex, England) is a British singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Thunder. Education Bowes was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College. Life and career B ...

, guitarist

Luke Morley Luke Morley (born 19 June 1960 in Camberwell, London, England) is the guitarist, chief songwriter and producer for the hard rock band Thunder from 1989 to present (with a break from 1999–2002, and 2009–2011). Previous to that he was a memb ...

and drummer Harry James and bassist Nick Linden were the original recording line-up. After releasing a single on the independent 'City' label, they soon signed with

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. With the much-delayed debut album almost completely recorded, they recruited second guitarist Rudi Rivière in time for him to appear on just one track on that release. That first studio album, ''Black and White'' (originally titled ''Talking to God on the Great White Telephone'') was released by Epic Records in January 1986 and was well received by critics. However, by 1987 their record label was exerting pressure on the band to follow up with another album of a soulful direction, with the resulting album ''Moving Target'' alienating the band's

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. Morley, Bowes and James regrouped in 1989 to form

; all three remain in that band as of December 2023.

Discography

Albums

*''Black and White'' (

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, 1985) –

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No. 74 *''Moving Target'' (Epic, 1987) *''We Survive'' (

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) (

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, 2005)

Singles

*"I Survive" (City Records, 1983) /w "Gimme The Money", "Turn Me Loose", "I Want Your Body" UK No. 108 *"I Can't Live Without Your Love" (Epic, 1985) UK No. 78 *"When You're Hot" (Epic, 1985) UK No. 186 *"Talking to Myself" (Epic, 1985) UK No. 103 *"If That's What It Takes" (Epic, 1986) UK No. 106 *"Good Thing Going" (Epic, 1987) UK No. 131 *"Moving Target" (Epic, 1987) UK No. 188

References

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History

Discography

Albums

Singles

See also

References