Answering the question posed by the new documentary What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? takes only a moment for Bobby Colomby. "They were an unbelievably good band and they were screwed – ...
At the outset of the 1970s, Blood, Sweat & Tears were riding high with an enviable succession of million-selling singles (“You Made Me So Very Happy,” “Spinning Wheel,” “And When I Die”) pulled from ...
Imagine an on-the-road concert documentary shot in the anything-goes days of 1970 — a hurly-burly vérité jamboree like “Mad Dogs & Englishmen” or “Elvis on Tour.” It’s about the biggest rock band in ...
“A few months before I met [filmmaker] John [Scheinfeld], a friend of mine, a former executive for EMI, and I had dinner, and he asked me a question. He said, ‘Man, I really loved your band! I used to ...
“I wasn’t political when I was in Blood, Sweat & Tears,” recalls saxophonist Fred Lipsius. Yet Lipsius and his bandmates found themselves in a geopolitical maelstrom when the hit-making horn band went ...
Trends can rise out of nowhere in the world of pop music. It takes some savvy and skill for a band to get in on such a trend and take advantage of it while it’s hot. In the case of Blood, Sweat & ...