Glenn Hughes
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Glenn Hughes (bass/vocals) was born 21 august 1951 in Cannock, Staffordshire, England. He is most known as a member of the legendary hard rock band Deep Purple between 1973-75, but has made several solo albums as well as beeing the lead singer of Black Sabbath between 1985-86.
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Early career
Glenn Hughes started his music career when he drop school in the 60's at the age of 16. Back then he was amember of a band called "Finders Keepers" which later changed their name to "Trapeze". In this band was also guitarist Mel Galley (later Whitesnake) and drummer David Holland (later Judas Priest). Glenn's early influences was mainly from Motown artists and he developed a funky style of bass playing along with a voice full of soul. With Trapeze he made four albums: "Trapeze", "Medusa", "You Are The Music, We're Just The Band" and "Final Swing". Trapeze were also the opening act for Moody Blues on their U.S tour in 1969, but the never really made it to the charts, even that "You Are The Music, We're Just The Band" was causing a minor success.
The Big Break
When Roger Glover and Ian Gillan left Deep Purple in 1973, Glenn was called to replace both of them in conjunction with David Coverdale. The idea seemed to be to have two lead singers of a great caliber.
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