History
Pronounced (JOR-DEE)The original (from February, 1972) line-up included: Vic Malcolm (born Albert Victor Malcolm, 3 December 1946, South Shields (lead guitar,songwriter vocals), Tom Hill (bass guitar), Brian Gibson (drums) (born 6 March 1951, Newcastle upon Tyne) and Brian Johnson Born Dunston, Gateshead (vocals).
Their first single, "Don't Do That" broke into the UK Top 40 in December 1972. In March 1973, Geordie released their debut album, Hope You Like It on EMI's Regal Zonophone label. Trying to compete with such British glam rock outfits as Slade and Sweet (Geordie supported the former on a UK tour, as well as the latter at a concert at the Rainbow Club, London in March 1973), they had several UK Top 10 hit, "All Because Of You" (April 1973) and several UK Top 20 hit, "Can You Do It" (July 1973) and several appearances on BBC Television including 15 appearances onTop of the Pops one of which was in November 1972. But their second album, Don't Be Fooled By The Name (1974), including a cover of The Animals' "House Of The Rising Sun" failed to yield a hit. Brian Johnson played 'House of the Rising Sun' by 'Geordie' on his debut BBC Radio 2 show on 31st Sept 2012. Amongst his other reminiscences during the debut show, were his days in 'Geordie', appearing with them on TV in Belgium, and meeting Freddy Mercury of 'Queen'. After their 1976 album Save The World, frontman Johnson left for a solo project. The band's final album, No Good Woman, in 1978 consisted of three unreleased tracks with Johnson and new material recorded by Malcolm with future Dire Straits keyboardist Alan Clark, vocalist Dave Ditchburn, bassist Frank Gibbon, and drummer George Defty. Johnson had meanwhile begun to perform as Geordie in a new line-up in which he was the only original member. The band signed a recording contract in 1980, but finally folded that spring when Johnson became a member of AC/DC to replace the late Bon Scott.
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