Stone The Crows – In Concert – John Peel Sunday Concerts – June 7, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 –
Stone The Crows in concert to end the week. Broadcast on June 7th 1970 and part of the John Peel Sunday Concert series over BBC Radio 1.
Stone The Crows were a band destined for success – they had all the earmarks and all the indications of being a wildly successful band all over the world. But it wasn’t meant to be. Fate had other plans in the form of an onstage electrocution of Stone The Crows lead guitarist and co-founder Les Harvey during a gig in 1973.
Not only did the event create a traumatic situation for the audience, who witnessed the entire accident and the death of Harvey in the middle of a performance, it also destroyed the band, who broke up soon after.
Prior to the tragic accident, Stone The Crows were a highly regarded Blues band whose vocalist Maggie Bell gained a reputation as one of the premier British Blues singers of the 1960s. After the accident they carried on for a while, recruiting young Jimmy McCulloch from Thunderclap Newman and released “‘Ontinuous Performance.” Although the rock press lauded the singing of Bell, her group couldn’t seem to emerge from the shadows and they broke up after this last album, with McCulloch flying away to join Paul McCartney in Wings.
To get an idea what Stone The Crows was like before tragedy struck, here is the concert recorded for John Peel and broadcast over BBC Radio 1 on June 7, 1970.
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