"Jelly Roll" Blue Murder Group Signed Album Cover PAAS COA

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"Jelly Roll" Blue Murder Group Signed Album Cover. Signers are;
Carmine Appice and Tony Franklin
.
This item is certified authentic by
Todd Mueller Autographs
and comes with their Letter of Authenticity.
ES-1677
Blue Murder was formed by John Sykes in 1988. As he was partially responsible for the success of
Whitesnake
's multiplatinum-selling self-titled album, their label
Geffen
signed a record deal with Sykes following his dismissal from the band.In the nascent stages of the band, drummer
Cozy Powell
- with whom Sykes had played in Whitesnake - was attached to the project.
Ray Gillen
, who had previously sung for
Black Sabbath
and later for
Badlands
- not the same band
Badlands
(née John Sloman's Badlands) that Sykes once played in - sang for an early version of Blue Murder, and reportedly the band recorded demos with him. Additionally,
Tony Martin
(who replaced Gillan in Black Sabbath), Derek St. Holmes and David Glen Eisley briefly worked with the band, but never in an official capacity.Upo n comparing the original demos with Sykes' vocals to the demos with Ray Gillen, A&R executive
John Kalodner
encouraged Sykes to handle the vocal duties himself. Blue Murder released two studio albums:
Blue Murder
in 1989 and
Nothin' but Trouble
in 1993. A live album,
Screaming Blue Murder
was released in Japan only in 1994, but has since been released elsewhere via iTunes. The band was dropped by their label in the mid-90s, at which point Sykes (the only consistent member in the changing line-ups) recorded
Out of My Tree
in 1995 with Blue Murder members
Marco Mendoza
and Tommy O'Steen, effectively transforming Blue Murder into an "official" Sykes solo project. On 13 March 2016 keyboardist Nik Green died from cancer.
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