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In 1983, band members Alan Silson, Chris Norman and Terry Uttley collaborated with Agnetha Fältskog, singing together on the track "Once Burned Twice Shy" from her first English language solo album entitled Wrap Your Arms Around Me. The band say it was on the flight to record this song in Sweden that they decided to part ways.
- The Early Years
- The Hit Machine
- Rebirth
- Tragedy
- A New Millenium
To be rock 'n' roll survivors is an achievement. To be Europe's top live band, forty three years after its inception is truly fantastic; but to still be enthusiastic, fresh, totally committed and in love with the music is a positive miracle. In some ways miraculous is an adjective that suits 'SMOKIE' down to the ground. The original members, Terry ...
The first public offering by the newly named band 'Smokie' was promptly banned by Radio One as they feltPass It Around conjured up visions of extremely nasty drugs. It took quite a long period of time for the 'Smokie' hit machine to slip into gear. In fact the band were actually recording their second album for Chinn and Chapman in Paris when the n...
It was the local Yorkshire Musician John Verity who was responsible for the re-birth of 'Smokie' back in 1986. The Bradford City Football Club had just suffered one of the worst disasters in sporting history when the club's main stand caught fire during a match with considerable loss of life. A relief fund for relatives was set up in Bradford and b...
By 1995, Smokie were even stronger, with headlining tours booked across Europe. Tragically on their way to Dusseldorf airport the tour bus careered off the road in a freak hailstorm. There were three band members on the bus, Alan Silson, Terry Uttley and Alan Barton. Alan Silson and Terry Uttley suffered bad cuts and bruises. However, Alan Barton's...
The new millennium also saw the band continuing to go from strength to strength. It started in 2000 with the recording of another bigselling album -Uncovered, which achieved double platinum status. There was a TV documentary, a first UK tour in over a decade and was followed by another album in 2001,Uncovered 2. In 2002 a double CD album, “The Dani...
Spirit of Smokie. The legend lives on. History of “Smokie” and “Spirit of Smokie”. Originating in the early sixties in the City of Bradford, England, school friends Ron Kelly, Chris Norman, Alan Silson and Terry Uttley formed their first line up. After several recording contracts and name changes the name “Smokie” was decided upon.
Three band members, Alan Silson, Terry Uttley, and Alan Barton, were on the tour bus in Germany when it crashed, with Alan Barton sustaining fatal injuries. After Alan died, the band faced an ...
Terry Uttley. 9th June 1951-16th December 2021. Bass guitarist Terry Uttley, one of the founder members of the band SMOKIE back in the 1970s sadly and unexpectedly passed away after a short Illness. Terry was a pupil at St. Bede's School in Bradford when the group was first formed and remained as the 'daddy' of the band throughout the decades.
Terry was a pupil at St. Bede's School in Bradford. [1] [2] Uttley formed Smokie in 1964 with St. Bede students Chris Norman, Alan Silson, [2] and Ron Kelly (later replaced by Pete Spencer). Terry had initially turned down the offer to join the band, as he was an apprentice printer, but after the third time, he accepted. [2]
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Nov 1, 2013 · But in 1995, tragedy struck when the band’s tour bus careered off the road during a freak hailstorm whilst on their way to Dusseldorf airport. Alan Barton, Alan Silson and Terry Uttley were all travelling in the bus at the time. While Silson and Uttley suffered bad bruising and cuts, Barton sustained critical injuries in the crash and he ...
