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Armageddon (British band)

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184:, in 1971/72. Steamhammer's dissolution took place the same year of the album's release, as they had undergone numerous personnel changes since their inception, not the least of which was the death of drummer Mick Bradley in February 1972. The remaining Steamhammer alumni, Pugh and Cennamo, shared a flat and were asked by Keith Relf to move to Los Angeles with him early in 1974 with a view of forming a new band. They set out to recruit a drummer and happened across Bobby Caldwell (who had also been suggested to the band by 279:
was auditioned for the band, but was eventually found to be musically unsuitable. Further auditions did not result in an acceptable replacement, and the idea to reform was shelved. Apart from that, guitarist Pugh appears to have retired from music after 1975, though he did emerge to play guitar on
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In a 2001 interview, drummer Caldwell mentioned that the band's management became increasingly more difficult to communicate with; consequently they were not being promoted properly. Bassist Cennamo stated in liner notes of the CD re-release of the album on the
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in the bands Stairway and Renaissance Illusion. Drummer Caldwell returned to Captain Beyond for an album and tour.
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There was an attempt in the 1980s by Pugh and Caldwell to re-form the band, as they had secured some interest from
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After Armageddon folded, bassist Cennamo reunited with his Renaissance bandmates under the name
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in Hollywood; they began rehearsing together in late 1974/early 1975. Cennamo's old friend,
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Armageddon & Steamhammer guitarist Martin Pugh joins 7th Order in the studio
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Keith Relf had helped with post production of the final Steamhammer LP,
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sessions alongside American rock guitarist Geoff Thorpe of
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label in 1999 that Caldwell and Pugh's drug problems (
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Index

Armageddon (A&M band)
England
Hard rock
progressive rock
heavy metal
A&M
Bobby Caldwell
Louis Cennamo
Martin Pugh
Keith Relf
hard rock
Armageddon
A&M Records
supergroup
Bobby Caldwell
Captain Beyond
Keith Relf
the Yardbirds
Renaissance
Martin Pugh
Steamhammer
Louis Cennamo
Aynsley Dunbar
The Rainbow
Peter Frampton
Dee Anthony
Peter Frampton
Humble Pie
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Jerry Weintraub

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