The Edgar Broughton Band, founded in 1968 in Warwick, England, was an English psychedelic rock group. The band started their career as a blues group under the name of The Edgar Broughton Blues Band, playing to a small following in the region around their hometown of Warwick. However, when the band began to lean towards the emerging psychedelic movement, dropping the Blues from their name as well as their music, Victor Unitt left. In 1968, the Edgar Broughton Band moved to Notting Hill Gate, London, seeking a recording contract and a wider audience, and were picked up by Blackhill Enterprises. Blackhill landed them their first record deal, on EMIs progressive rock label Harvest Records, in December 1968. Their first single was Evil/Death of an Electric Citizen, released in June 1969, which was also the first single released by Harvest. The first single was followed by the Edgar Broughton Bands first album, Wasa Wasa. Wasa Wasa retained a heavily blues influenced sound that was hard-driven and propelled by Edgar Broughtons gritty vocal style, which was similar to that of Captain Beefheart and Howlin Wolf. The Broughtons entered into an attempt to capture their live sound on record by organising a performance at Abbey Road on 9 December 1969. Only one track was released at the time: a rendition of Out, Demons Out!, an adaptation of The Fugs song Exorcising the Demons Out Of the Pentagon, which had become the bands set-closer and anthem. The rest of the recording was lost until its rediscovery and release in a remixed form in 2004 as Keep Them Freaks a Rollin: Live at Abbey Road 1969. The Edgar Broughton Band disbanded in 2010, with Edgar Broughton opting to continue to perform as a solo artist.
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