They were a cover band. They translated Little Richard relatively successfully. Then they became a boy band ( but that was brilliant marketing by Brian Epstein

They were a cover band. They translated Little Richard relatively successfully. Then they became a boy band ( but that was brilliant marketing by Brian Epstein ). But for a boy band, they had real power in the rhythm section. Those recordings have muscle. They couldn't tour ( there was no PA as we now know it and they couldn't get over the crowds ) so they pivoted to recording. Had Crown introduced the DC-300 earlier... who knows? In 1980, it was still racks of DC-300s behind stage with a guy to turn them off to keep them from flaming out...