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Blue Öyster Cult is an American hard rock band from Long Island, New York. Formed in 1967, the group originally consisted of guitarist and vocalist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, bassist Andrew Winters, drummer Albert Bouchard, keyboardist and later rhythm guitarist and vocalist Allen Lanier, and rhythm guitarist John Wiesenthal.
Blue Öyster Cult (/ ˈ ɔɪ. s t ər / OY-stər; sometimes abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in the hamlet of Stony Brook, in 1967. The band has sold 25 million records worldwide, including 7 million in the United States. [ 1 ]
Donald Roeser [1] [2] (born November 12, 1947), known professionally as Buck Dharma, is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. [3] He is the sole constant member of hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult since the group's formation in 1967.
The Revölution by Night is the ninth studio album by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on November 8, 1983.The album was intended to capitalize on the success of Fire of Unknown Origin two years prior, hence the blend of straight-ahead rock and pop elements.
The following is the discography of the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult. Blue Öyster Cult has released 16 studio albums, the most recent being released in 2024, entitled Ghost Stories. In 2012, the Blue Öyster Cult albums released by Columbia were re-released in a box set of 16 CDs and one DVD.
The concept and the character of Imaginos were originally created by the young Sandy Pearlman for a collection of poems and scripts called The Soft Doctrines of Imaginos (sometimes reported as Immaginos [3]), written in the mid-1960s [4] during his formative years as a student of anthropology and sociology at Stony Brook University, Brandeis University and The New School. [5]
On Your Feet or on Your Knees is the first live album by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on Feb. 27, 1975 by Columbia Records.The album features three songs from each of the band's first three studio albums, two covers ("I Ain't Got You", albeit with modified lyrics, and "Born to Be Wild"), and one ("Buck's Boogie") original instrumental that remains a staple of the band's live ...
Gordon Fletcher of Rolling Stone wrote a rave review of the album and called Blue Öyster Cult "one of the best bands America's got". [12] Robert Christgau , writing for The Village Voice , praised the band's disregard for "the entire heavy ethos" but wondered if the "parody-surreal refraction of the abysmal 'poetry' of heavy" in the lyrics ...