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Grease is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers and set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School in Northwest Chicago [1] (based on Taft High School in Chicago, Illinois, [2] and named after rock singer Bobby Rydell [3]), the musical follows ten working-class teenagers as ...
Henry McCullough was the Grease Band's lead guitarist, a role he later occupied in Paul McCartney's Wings, and continued as a solo artist until his death in June 2016. [2] Rowland, Spenner, Hubbard and McCullough all played on the original 1970 recording of Jesus Christ Superstar .
Spenner played bass live at Woodstock in 1969 with Joe Cocker and the Grease Band and can be seen on The Woodstock Directors Cut DVD. In 1975, he played on Bryn Haworth's album Sunny Side of the Street. In August 1982, he played on Roxy Music's VHS/DVD The High Road, filmed live in Fréjus, France.
The soundtrack was released on April 14, 1978, two months ahead of the film's release. [1] As with most musicals of the period, the vocal takes recorded for the album release–and in some cases the instrumental background as well–do not lock to picture but were recorded during entirely different soundtrack sessions often months prior or subsequent to the performances used for lip sync in ...
[1] [6] He later played on the Grease Band's eponymous album. During his time with the band he appeared as lead guitarist on the studio album of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and on the progressive Spooky Tooth album The Last Puff (1970). [7]
On January 31, 2016, DNCE made a cameo during Fox's television special Grease: Live; a live production of the Broadway musical Grease. The band performed as Johnny Casino and the Gamblers during a high school dance scene, which incorporated a 1950s-inspired rendition of "Cake by the Ocean" and a cover of the Crickets' "Maybe Baby" alongside the ...
Cidny Bullens (formerly known as Cindy Bullens; born March 21, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, who is best known for serving as backup vocalist on tours and albums with Elton John and Rod Stewart, providing vocals on the soundtrack of the 1978 feature film Grease, and for nine critically acclaimed solo albums.
Rowland was born at Park Royal, Middlesex, on 22 May 1941. [1] [2] [3] In 1968, he played drums on the Wynder K. Frog album "Out of the Frying Pan", [4] and in 1969 joined The Grease Band, who were then Joe Cocker's backing band.