Bandit ( UK ) : Bandit / Partners in Crime

Bandit ( UK )

released two albums

 with different line-ups. 

Bandit's debut

 Bandit 

was released in

 late 1976 

on Arista Records.

 This album featured

 Jim Diamond 

on lead vocals, 

Danny McIntosh

 on guitar, 

future AC/DC 

bassist

 Cliff Williams,

 James Litherland, 

and drummer

 Graham Broad,

 now of

 Roger Waters' band. 

A single entitled

 "Ohio" 

was also released. 

The punk rock

 music scene 

of the time

 caused a lack 

of attention 

and the band 

later parted ways. 

Diamond went on

 to join Ph.D.,

 and gained a 

UK Top 10 hit 

with

 "I Won't Let You Down".

 He later went solo 

and scored two

 more chart-toppers.

The second album,

 Partners in Crime

 was produced by

 Matthew Fisher

of Procol Harum

 and released by

 Ariola Records in 1978.

 One Way Love

 a single from

 the album

 reached 76

 in the American

 Billboard Chart. 

The only member

 of the original line-up 

to feature on

 the second album

 was McIntosh. 

The other band members 

for the second album 

were

 Gerry Trew

 on lead vocals, 

drummer 

Theodore Thunder 

(John Dentith), 

and bassist 

Tony Lester.

 Both albums are 

LONG OUT OF PRINT !!

 McIntosh is now 

the guitarist for,

 and husband of, 

the singer-songwriter

 Kate Bush.

** This is not

 the same 

Bandit 

from the U.S. 

who released

 their only album

 in 1975

 on ABC Records,

 nor any other act 

with the

 same name since.

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