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CAREER The band was named after a 1954 Play by James Baldwin . Initially they specialised in a Blues and Jazz -orientated style, but were steered by their record companies into more commercial pastures. Their first Singles and Album appeared on Decca 's subsidiary label Deram , but they left at the end of 1968 to join Immediate , where they were instantly rewarded with a No. 1, " (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice " (originally a Song by Italian Songwriter Lucio Battisti ) in early 1969, followed by another top five entry with the Roy Wood composition "Hello Susie". After recording a live album, ''Farewell To The Real Magnificent Seven'', and a final single, a rather premature cover version of The Beatles ' " Get Back ", they disbanded at the end of 1969. While sax players Alan Jones and Mike Smith went on to form Judas Jump , guitarist and vocalist Andy Fairweather-Low led Dennis Byron (drums), Blue Weaver (organ), Clive Taylor (bass) and Neil Jones (guitar) into a new band, Fair Weather . The band scored a UK No.6 hit with "Natural Sinner" in 1970 and recorded one album before disbanding a year later. Fairweather-Low went on to a successful solo career in the 1970s, notably with the top ten hit "Wide Eyed and Legless" (1975); he became a regular player with Eric Clapton , George Harrison and Roger Waters . He also worked with The Strawbs and the Bee Gees . Blue Weaver also played keyboards for the Bee Gees from the mid-Seventies through to the Nineties. Amen Corner's Decca back catalogue has been reissued as part of 'The Collection' series; and their Immediate work, including their singles, live album and material recorded for an unreleased studio album, on ''If Paradise Was Half as Nice: The Immediate Anthology''. BAND MEMBERS Amen Corner comprised of :-
DISCOGRAPHY Singles
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