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Sam Apple Pie were a British blues-rock band, of the late 1960s and 1970s, noted for having played at the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970, and for playing a role in the early careers of several musicians including Gary Fletcher, Dave Charles and Malcolm Morley.〔(NME Biography of Sam Apple Pie ) Retrieved 29 October 2009〕 ==Biography== Formed in Walthamstow, London, where they ran their own club 'The Bottleneck Blues Club', Sam Apple Pie soon attracted a large live following, with a mix of goodtime blues and boogie, interspersed with humour.〔 In October 1969 they played the Amougies Festival, in Belgium, where Frank Zappa jammed with them.〔(United Mutations (Zappa History) ) Retrieved 29 October 2009〕 They wrote all but one of the songs on their first album ''Sam Apple Pie'' (1969) which featured lead singer Sam "Tomcat" Sampson with Mike "Tinkerbell" Smith and Steve Jolly on guitars, bassist Bob "Dog" Rennie, Malcolm Morley on keyboards and Dave Charles on drums.〔(Allmusic review of ''Sam Apple Pie'' by Richie Unterberger ) Retrieved 29 October 2009〕 In 1970 they played the first Glastonbury Festival, after which Morley and Charles left to form Help Yourself and Steve Jolly to join Procol Harum offshoot Freedom. After several more line up changes, the band recorded their second album ''East 17'' in 1973, with Sam Sampson and Bob Rennie from the first album supported by Andy Johnson and Denny "Pancho" Barnes on guitars, and Lee Baxter Hayes on drums.〔(Allmusic credits for ''East 17'' ) Retrieved 29 October 2009〕 They disbanded in 1974, but reformed the next year. During the hiatus, from mid 1974 to February 1975, the band members performed with Vincent Crane as Vincent Crane's Atomic Rooster. Further line up changes included bassist Gary Fletcher, who subsequently joined The Blues Band, keyboard player, Steven Golick〔(Steven Golick biography on abiband.com ) Retrieved 24 August 2013〕 and drummer Martin Bell. The band continued into the late 1970s, changing its name to The Vipers,〔(Gary Fletcher on GTA agency site ) Retrieved 11 November 2009〕 (not to be confused with the new wave band of the same name) before disbanding. Former member, Andy Johnson, died from throat cancer on Friday 5 March 2010 in Hastingwood, Essex, at the age of 62.〔(Thedeadrockstarsclub.com – accessed March 2010 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sam Apple Pie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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