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It Bites - Once Around The World
THE 80S POP-PROG REVIVAL WASN’T ALL GENESIS AND MARILLION – IT BITES ALSO HIT BIG WITH CALLING ALL THE HEROES AND THEIR SUPREMELY CONFIDENT SECOND STUDIO ALBUM, ONCE AROUND THE WORLD, HAS SINCE BECOME A LOST CLASSIC.
MATT PHILLIPS
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The received critical wisdom about It Bites was that they were too pop to be heavy metal, too heavy to be pop, more interested in musical excellence than hit singles and driven by a reverence for quality progressive rock and jazz-fusion. But in their relatively short recording history (at least with the original line-up of Francis Dunnery on guitar/vocals, keyboardist John Beck, bassist Dick Nolan and Bob Dalton on drums) between 1986 and 1989, they nonetheless managed one huge hit, Calling All The Heroes, several other near-hits and three well-received studio albums.
Emerging from Cumbria in the early 80s, after an initiation period as a covers band playing songs by the likes of Haircut One Hundred and Level 42, they knuckled down to writing their own material and were signed by Virgin Records in 1985, releasing their debut collection, The Big Lad In The Windmill, on the label the following autumn. It reached No.35 in the UK and spawned that famous one-hit wonder.
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