Black Sheep (rock band)

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Black Sheep
Origin	Rochester, New York, United States
Genres	Hard rock
Years active	1974–1976

Past members	Lou Gramm Donald Mancuso Larry Crozier Bruce Turgon Ron Rocco Patsy Sciortino Mike Bonafede

Black Sheep was an American, Rochester, New York-based, 1970s rock music band, one of vocalist Lou Gramm's early working bands (it followed Poor Heart, which broke up c. 1970). The group released the single "Stick Around" in 1974, the album Black Sheep in 1975, and the album Encouraging Words in late 1975.^[1] They were invited to open for Kiss on tour, but a truck accident destroyed their equipment. The band was no longer performing when Gramm was invited by Mick Jones to join the band Foreigner in 1976. Don Mancuso and Ron Rocco were later members of Cheater, a local hard rock band from Rochester that released a 10-inch record entitled Ten Cent Love Affair in 1980 on Mallard Records.

Black Sheep's bass player Bruce Turgon played on Lou Gramm's solo albums in the late 1980s^[1] (which also featured contributions from another Black Sheep alumnus, guitarist Don Mancuso) and joined Gramm in one of Foreigner's later incarnations, in 1992.

Albums

"Black Sheep" (1975) - Capitol Records / Capitol ST-11369

Side One

"Payin' Yer Dues" - (Lou Grammatico, Don Mancuso, Larry Crozier, Ron Rocco) - 4:08
"Broken Promises" - (Grammatico, Crozier, Bruce Turgon) - 3:20
"Woman Back Home" - (Grammatico, Turgon) - 3:20
"Piano Prelude" - (Crozier) - 1:04
"Let Me Stay" - (Grammatico, Turgon) - 7:15

Side Two

"Power To Heal" - (Grammatico, Turgon) - 3:19
"Far Side Of The Sun" - (Grammatico, Mancuso, Rocco) - 6:56
"A Little Or A Lot" - (Grammatico, Mancuso, Turgon) - 3:34
"Freight Train" - (Grammatico, Mancuso, Rocco) - 3:00
"Woman" - (Paul Rodgers, Andy Fraser) - 8:19 - Cover of the sixth track of Free's self-titled second album

Personnel

Lou Grammatico - vocals
Don Mancuso - guitar
Larry Crozier - keyboards
Bruce Turgon - bass
Ron Rocco - drums

"Encouraging Words" (1975) - Capitol Records / Capitol ST-11447

Side One

"Halfway Home" - (Lou Grammatico, Bruce Turgon) - 4:19
"Encouraging Words" - (Grammatico, Don Mancuso, Turgon) - 5:27
"To Whom It May Concern" - (Grammatico, Larry Crozier) - 3:51
"No Worry, No Pain" - (Grammatico, Turgon) - 4:11
"When It All Makes Sense" - (Grammatico, Crozier) - 4:24

Side Two

"The Change" - (Turgon) - 5:13
"All I Am" - (Turgon) - 3:35
"Shauna" - (Grammatico, Mancuso) - 3:44
"Chain On Me" - (Grammatico, Mancuso) - 4:21

Personnel

Lou Grammatico - vocals
Don Mancuso - guitar
Larry Crozier - keyboards
Bruce Turgon - bass
Mike Bonafede - drums^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Colin Larkin, ed. (1995). The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal (Second ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 0-85112-656-1.
^ "Black Sheep | Album Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved November 12, 2019.

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Mick Jones Thom Gimbel Jeff Pilson Kelly Hansen Michael Bluestein Chris Frazier Bruce Watson Dennis Elliott Lou Gramm Al Greenwood Ian McDonald Ed Gagliardi Rick Wills Johnny Edwards Jeff Jacobs Mark Schulman Bruce Turgon Brian Tichy Denny Carmassi Jason Bonham Paul Mirkovich Jason Sutter
Studio albums	Foreigner Double Vision Head Games 4 Agent Provocateur Inside Information Unusual Heat Mr. Moonlight Can't Slow Down
Compilations	Records The Very Best ... and Beyond Complete Greatest Hits The Definitive Collection No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner 40
Live albums	Classic Hits Live/Best of Live Extended Versions Can't Slow Down ... When It's Live!
Singles	"Feels Like the First Time" "Cold as Ice" "Long, Long Way from Home" "Hot Blooded" "Double Vision" "Blue Morning, Blue Day" "Dirty White Boy" "Head Games" "Love on the Telephone" "Women" "Urgent" "Juke Box Hero" "Waiting for a Girl Like You" "Break It Up" "Luanne" "I Want to Know What Love Is" "That Was Yesterday" "Reaction to Action" "Growing Up the Hard Way" "Down on Love" "Say You Will" "I Don't Want to Live Without You"
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