Terraplane (band)

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Terraplane were a 1980s pop/rock group from London, England, featuring three musicians who would go on to form the hard rock act Thunder.

Singer Danny Bowes, guitarist Luke Morley and drummer Harry James were joined by bassist Nick Linden and second guitarist Rudi Rivière. Their debut album, Black and White (originally titled Talking To God On The Great White Telephone) and released by Epic Records in 1985 was critically well received, but by 1987 record company pressure was pushing the band (against their wishes) into a more soulful direction, with the resulting album Moving Target alienating the band's fans and failing to attract new ones.

Morley, Bowes and James would regroup in 1989 to form Thunder; all three remain in that band to this day.