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Slik were formed as the Glasgow based band 'Salvation' in June 1970, comprising brothers Kevin McGinlay (vocals) and Jim McGinlay (bass), Nod Kerr (drums), Mario Tortolano (keyboards), and Ian Kenny (guitar).
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Here is surely one of the strangest and most obscure number 1s of the 70s, perhaps of all time. Before his solo career, before Band Aid, before Ultravox, Midge Ure was in a group called Slik, who briefly lorded it over the charts with a bizarre mix of Gothic horror and Bay City Rollers-style pop.
Slik started out as Glasgow-based heavy-rock band Salvation in 1970. The original line-up featured the McGinlay brothers, Kevin and Jim, Nod Kerr, Mario Tortolano, and Ian Kenny. The line-up changed several times but stabilised in 1972 with Kevin on vocals, Jim on bass, Kenny Hyslop on drums, Billy McIsaac on keyboards and Jim Ure on guitar. In a b...
I can still recall the first time I saw this on a BBC Four repeat of Top of the Pops. It blew my mind. Who the hell decided the opening section should insinuate we were about to hear some proggy, concept single or Black sabbath style metal obscurity? Considering Kenny and Slik’s version starts the same way, it must have been Martin and Coulter’s id...
Slik, Martin and Coulter tried to repeat their surprise success with the follow-up Requiem, but only got to 24. This wasn’t helped by Ure being injured in a car accident which forced the band to cancel promotional appearances. Their eponymous LP soon followed, but didn’t even dent the top 40. In March 1977 Jim McGinlay left to be replaced by Russel...
Weirdly, this is the first of two songs called Forever and Ever to reach number 1 in 1976, as Demi Roussosachieved the same accolade when an EP featuring his song topped the charts that summer.
Jul 16, 2024 · After Salvation's singer Kevin McGinlay left to pursue a solo career, Midge took on vocal duties in the band, changing their name to Slik. Bay City Rollers ' songwriters Bill Martin and Phil Coulter began writing Slik's songs, with the band going on to achieve a UK number one single in 1976 with 'Forever and Ever'.
Slik were formed as the Glasgow based band 'Salvation' in June 1970, comprising brothers Kevin McGinlay (vocals) and Jim McGinlay (bass), Nod Kerr (drums), Mario Tortolano (keyboards), and Ian Kenny (guitar).
Slik. Slik formed in the mid-70s from the ashes of a Glasgow (Scotland) heavy metal group called Salvation which contained Jim McGinlay and his brother Kevin. By 1972, the brothers had decided to drop the other members of Salvation and form a more viable version of the band, to include James Ure (better known as Midge), drummer Kenny Hyslop ...
The origins of the famed teenybop quartet lay in a group called Salvation, formed in Glasgow in 1970 by two brothers, Kevin and Jim McGinlay. Their simple intention had been to create a hard-edged guitar rock band very much in the style of Ten Years After .
Best remembered today as the band which offered Midge Ure his first taste of his future superstardom, Slik -- or Salvation, as they were then known -- were formed in Glasgow in 1970 by brothers Jim (guitar)…. Read Full Biography.
