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The name Eloy is based on the futurist race of humans from the book The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (there spelled "Eloi"). Bornemann described the origin of the name of the band thus: "Wells describes in his book the situation of mankind about 800,000 years later, and 'Eloy' is a human race in his story.
During the autumn of 1979, Hannes Arkona joined Eloy as a touring member, a second guitarist along the band's leader Frank Bornemann.As personal tensions led to the departure of Detlev Schmidtchen and Jürgen Rosenthal, Bornemann decided to make Arkona a full-time member, and with the addition of Hannes Folberth and Jim McGillivray, the new Eloy lineup was completed by the spring of 1980. [9]
Power and the Passion was a commercial success, selling more than 30,000 copies soon after its release, [7] but Eloy quickly broke-up. The reason was their insurmountable disagreements with their manager Jay Partridge, who had significant financial and creative influence over the band during the album's creation. [7]
Matziol was working closely with Eloy during the 1992-1994 period too, as he was a guest musician in the albums Destination (1992), Chronicles I (1993) and Chronicles II (1994). Trying to achieve a more vintage sound, Eloy used analogue keyboards and recorded the entire album in 3M magnetic tape .
Eloy is the debut album by German rock band Eloy, released in 1971.. The album's front cover depicts a garbage can lid, which is printed as an extra flap on the LP cover. When flipped, the bottom of the lid and the inside of the bin are revealed, as if someone opened an actual garbage
At the time of its release, it was the first Eloy album in eleven years, as they were in hiatus since December 1998, two months after the release of Ocean 2: The Answer. [12] Despite the long break, the reunited band had the same four members as the last time they were active, with the addition of Hannes Folberth, a former Eloy member from the ...
Floating is the third studio album by German rock band Eloy, released in 1974.. This is Eloy's first album to feature bassist Luitjen Janssen, replacing Wolfgang Stöcker. . During the album's composition, the four members of the band decided to rent an apartment together, in order to rehearse more regularly and achieve better cohesi
Planets was the first Eloy album that did not enter the German charts since Dawn, although it's sequel Time to Turn did. [9] The German music press was negative towards it, but the complete Planets/Time to Turn project was very well received in the UK, where both albums were released simultaneously in 1982.