when they were spotted by Peter Meaden, former manager of The Who. This led to the Steve Gibbons Band joining The Who's management stable and recording their first Polydor album Any Road Up in 1975 (With John Entwistle of The Who playing on a few tracks). This was followed in 1976 by a tour with The Who in the UK, Europe and the United States. Playing the concert arenas, they shared the stage with Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Electric Light Orchestra, The J. Geils Band, Rufus, and Nils Lofgren. In 1977 their second album, Rollin' On included their biggest hit single, "Tulane", a cover of a Chuck Berry song, produced by Kenny Laguna. The single reached No. 12 in the UK Singles Chart and spent eight weeks in the Top 40. They performed the song live on Show 4, of Marc Bolan's Marc (TV series), broadcast on 14 September., 1977. 1977 also saw the release of the live album Caught in the Act. The band made two further studio albums with Polydor, Down in the Bunker (1978) and Street Parade (1980). In 1981, after a change in personnel, The Steve Gibbons Band recorded Saints & Sinners for RCA, and later responded to an invitation from the German Democratic Republic to become one of the first western rock bands to tour the major cities of East Germany in 1982. Gibbons played at the Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert 1986 which featured George Harrison. Nine more albums were released in the 1980s and 1990s, and the touring continued. The Dylan Project Gibbons formed the Dylan Project in the late 1990s. The trio covered Bob Dylan songs and played material by Gibbons. Brum Rocks Gibbons continues to tour with his band, and is also a member of the hit UK show 'Brum Rocks Live', along with Bev Bevan (The Move, ELO), Trevor Burton (The Move), Danny King, and writer Laurie Hornsby. The show toured the UK, and was produced and promoted by Brian Yeates Associates. Gibbons lives with his wife Suzie in Edgbaston, Birmingham. They have two sons and a daughter. Gibbons played in concert for the Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children in February 2011. References Other sources Laurie Hornsby: Brum Rocked! The story of the people and places that shaped Birmingham's role in the history of rock edited by Mike Lavender with foreword by Carl Chinn, Birmingham 1999. Laurie Hornsby, Brum Rocked