Ethel the Frog (band)
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Ethel the Frog was a New Wave of British Heavy Metal band formed in 1976 in Hull, England. The band's unusual name was taken from a Monty Python episode.
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[edit] Career
After building a local following, they released a heavy version of The Beatles song "Eleanor Rigby" in 1978. Ethel the Frog also contributed the song "Fight Back" to one of Neal Kay's Metal for Muthas compilations. In 1979, they signed a recording contract with EMI, which re-released the "Eleanor Rigby" single with "Whatever Happened to Love" as the B-side.[1]
Reports vary on when the group broke up, but it was either immediately prior to, or shortly after, the release of their self-titled debut album, which was released in 1980. The album cover artwork for Ethel the Frog was done by David Dragon.
A CD release on a small record label, British Steel, appeared in 1997.
[edit] Post Ethel
Hopkinson (MA, PhD) is now a lecturer at the University of Leicester School of Archaeology. He was a Research Fellow at St John's College in Cambridge for three years before joining the University of Leicester in 2002.
Tognola and Conyers went on to join a band called Salem, releasing one single called "Reach for Eternity" before that band also split.
[edit] Line-up
The final line-up was:-
[edit] Discography
- Metal for Muthas - Compilation (1980) Sanctuary Records
- Ethel the Frog (1980) EMI
[edit] External links
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