\m/ 80's metal \m/

Bristol based JAGUAR elevated themselves to NWoBHM notoriety with their 'Axe Crazy' in 1982, although the band was actually formed in December 1979. JAGUAR did not record until vocalist Paul Merrell was found in April 1980. With frontman Bob Reiss in tow the group demoed and entered a 'Battle Of The Bands' contest coming fourth and a further demo followed at the end of 1980.
It was from the second demo that JAGUAR secured the track 'Stormchild' on the 1981 Heavy Metal Records compilation album 'Heavy Metal Heroes' and Heavy Metal followed this up with the 'Back Street Woman' single, which went on to sell over 4000 copies. However, JAGUAR fell out with Heavy Metal over re-pressing the single and, as well as losing their record company, JAGUAR lost their vocalist when Reiss left the band in early 1982.
Former HELLRAIZER and STORMTROOPER singer Paul Merrill was recruited (after a temporary liaison with Bristol singer Andy Fox, now in-house promoter at the Bierkeller) and JAGUAR set off for Holland to headline a Dutch Rock festival. Neat Records mentor Dave Wood was in attendance and offered the band a deal, which they promptly took. The resulting debut Neat single, 'Axe Crazy', was a huge underground hit, being Neat's best selling single to date, and was much in demand on the American Heavy Metal circuit. JAGUAR promptly toured in Britain supporting the likes of STAMPEDE, THE RODS and THE STARFIGHTERS before going in to record their debut album, 'Power Games', in November 1982. By this time they had lost drummer Les Foster to TOK-IO ROSE. Career prospects looked promising for the band as the album garnered enthusiastic praise from the media and the band hooked up with Greybray Management, handling MOTЦRHEAD and GIRLSCHOOL at the time, in 1984.
Although featured on the second album 'This Time', drummer Chris Lovell was replaced shortly after it's recording by Gary Davies. Many critics believed the band had mellowed out their characteristic sound too much with ‘This Time’ and the introduction of keyboard player Gareth Johnson for live work as support to GIRLSCHOOL seemed to bear this out. Having lost momentum with the album the band entered turbulent times. Davies decamped and Will Ng joined for recording of demos and subsequently Les Foster was re-recruited but by the close of 1985 JAGUAR called it a day.

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