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URCHIN

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Black Leather Fantasy  Vinyl, 7",

45 RPM  1977

 

Tracklist

 

A  Black Leather Fantasy    

               

B  Rock & Roll Woman    

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Bass – Alan Levett

Drums – Barry Tyler

Guitar – Adrian Smith, Maurice Coyne

Vocals – David Hall

She's A Roller  Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM  1978

Tracklist

A    She's A Roller    

B    Long Time No Woman  

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Bass – Alan Levett

Drums – Barry Tyler

Guitar – Adrian Smith, Dave Murray    

Vocals – Adrian Smith

   

Urchin was an English band, best known for featuring guitarist Adrian Smith, and later Dave Murray, the longtime guitar duo of Iron Maiden.  Their 1977 single Black Leather Fantasy stated the following: "Urchin could prove to be the forerunners of a new revival of heavy British rock music.”  They were almost right, Urchin didn't amount to anything, but Smith & Murray would take the metal world by storm several years later with the aforementioned Iron Maiden.

Robscure fact:  Urchin or urcheon is the Middle English term for "hedgehog".

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