Biography
Icehouse
Effective period / Period of releases: 1981 - 2021
Members: Guy Pratt, Iva Davies, Simon Lloyd, John Lloyd, Keith Welsh, Michael Hoste, Masaki Tanazawa, Andy Qunta, Robert Kretschmer, Paul Wheeler, Stephen Morgan, David Chapman (2), Glen Krawczyk, Steve Bull, Paul Gildea, Michael Paynter, Glenn Reither, Hugo Lee
Australian band, originally formed in 1977 as Flowers and sounding very much like Roxy Music, the band started by playing covers of the latter together with T-Rex, David Bowie and the like...The first album Icehouse was released under the moniker of Flowers. On signing to Chrysalis Records in 1981, the band changed their name to the more familiar Icehouse (named after the first album) due to potential legal issues with another band also named Flowers.