Artist: Bread Genre(s):
Rock
Blues
Pop
Discography:
Sound of Bread Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Very Best of Bread Year: 1989
Tracks: 16
Guitar Man Year: 1972
Tracks: 12
Baby I'm - A Want You Year: 1972
Tracks: 12
Manna Year: 1971
Tracks: 12
On the Waters Year: 1970
Tracks: 12
Anthology Year:
Tracks: 20
Bread was one of the nearly popular pop groups of the early '70s, earning a string of well-crafted, melodic soft rock singles, all of which were written by keyboardist/vocalist David Gates. A sitting musician and producer, Gates met in 1968 guitarist/vocalist James Griffin, world Health Organization had already released a solo album called Summer Holiday. Griffin hired Gates to produce a new album, and the pair off shortly became a mathematical group, adding guitarist/vocalist Robb Royer from the band Pleasure Fair, world Health Organization Gates had produced early in its life history. The trio before long signed with Elektra Records, becoming one of the label's low gear pop bands. Naming themselves Bread, the group released its self-titled debut album in late 1968. Although it was filled with approachable, melodic subdued careen that became the band's signature heavy, the record had no hit singles.
With their second album,
On the Waters, Bread established themselves as hitmakers. "Make It With You," the first base single released from the album, became a number nonpareil hit, which light-emitting diode to "It Don't Matter to Me," a birdcall taken from
Wampum, becoming a Top Ten hit. With
On the Waters seemly a gold record book, the group embarked on a turn, adding a full-time drummer, Mike Botts, to the lineup.
Manna, released in the natural spring of 1971, wasn't as large a remove as the former book, even so it launched some other Top Ten hit with "If." Royer left wing the group after the album and was replaced by Larry Knechtel, a Los Angeles session musician world Health Organization played on records by the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and the Monkees, among others. The new batting order released its get-go single, "Mother Freedom," in the summertime of 1971; the single scraped the Top 40 at number 37. Bread's side by side single, "Babe I'm-a Want You," became a number terzetto collide with at the end of the year. After "Everything I Own" reached number five in January of 1972, an record album called
Baby I'm-a Want You was released. Peaking at number terzetto, the record book became the group's most successful album. The group's fifth record album,
Guitar Man, followed in the fall of 1972.
At the beginning of 1973, Bread disbanded later on a difference between Gates and Griffin. Griffin claimed that, when the chemical group was conceived, the pair off agreed that the singles would be dual-lane equally between the deuce songwriters; Gates wrote most of Bread's hits and wanted to keep to pen the singles. The 2 parted shipway, with each of the musicians pursuing solo careers. Bread reunited in 1976, releasing
Confused Without Your Love in early 1977. The claim rail became their last Top Ten hit, peaking at number nine-spot. The success could non maintain the group together as tensions 'tween Gates and Griffin began to step up once again. After Griffin split from the group, Gates assembled a new interpretation of the stria and toured under the name Bread. Griffin sued Gates for victimization the identify, which the span co-owned. A judge ordered the group not to perform, disk, or collect royal line payments until the causa was resolved; it wasn't resolved until 1984. In the meantime, Gates and Griffin chased solo careers. Of the 2 musicians, Gates was more successful, marking a number 15 make in 1978 with the title topic to
Sayonara Girl. However, his career declined in the '80s; by the '90s, he was running a California cattle ranch. Griffin relocated to Nashville, forming Dreamer with Randy Meisner in the early '90s.
Bill Whelan
