Tokyo Blade - The band that Management couldn't leave alone.

Tokyo Blade went through numerous line up changes during their career, but the only constants throughout it all was founding member guitarist Andy Boulton and management's constant interference them.  After going by such names as White Diamond, Killer, and Genghis Khan, the group eventually settled on Tokyo Blade, and released their self titled album, Tokyo Blade, in 1983.  Well, it was self-titled in the United Kingdom, but everywhere else it was called Midnight Rendezvous.  The band then recorded their next album, Night Of The Blade, in 1984.  This album featured a new singer Vic Wright, who replaced original singer Alan Walsh.  However, the album was originally recorded with Alan Marsh on vocals, but it turns out Marsh had been forced out of the band by the record company who wanted a more 'commercially viable' vocalist in the band. Thus, management officially flushed Marsh's work down the toilet and issued the album in their own vision, with Wright handling vocal duties.  Talk about some petty bull$$$$!  This move would backfire big-time, however, by the time the next album, Blackhearts and Jaded Spades, was released.  The direction and sound of the band, not to mention sales, similarly went down the toilet.  Hoping to possibly save face after this debacle, management tried to make amends and a quick buck by releasing the original version of Night Of The Blade with Marsh's original vocals, in 1997, as Night of the Blade... The Night Before.  To make matters more complicated, most of the band in the interim had reformed as Mr. Ice.  The tunes they recorded were added as bonus tracks to the Night Before album, after management forced them to change their name back to Tokyo Blade.  After all this, founding member Andy Boulton left the band.  The remainder members hooked up with Jez Lee and recorded an album called Pumphouse, but, WAIT FOR IT... that album was held in company vaults and not released until 6 years later, when it was finally released under the Tokyo Blade name, in a last gasp effort to cash in on the Tokyo Blade name.