Christie-Christie (1970)

Christie was a British pop-rock band that was formed in the city of Leeds in the late 1960s by Jeff Christie, Vic Elmes and Mike Blakely. Jeff Christie, who had already served in professional groups and had done serious work, became the leader of the band.
Christie had previously had a band called Outer Limits, which had some hits like "Just one more chance" or "Help me please" (1967), even becoming hits in the United States. However, the following songs were a resounding failure, which led to the breakup of the group, so Jeff decided to continue as a composer.
In 1970, Christie composed a song called "Yellow River" that was originally directed to the group The Tremeloes, but they rejected it because it seemed like a pop very far from the usual in their repertoire.
Thus, with this panorama, Christie himself founded a band to record the song and which he called his own name and published the song in April 1970, which reached number one in half the world and an astonishing sixth place in the North American charts, selling more than three million copies.
Shortly after, that same year they published "San Bernardino", which would also be a success, followed by "Iron Horse", one of the best compositions of the group.
When they were recording the songs for their third album, relations between Jeff and Vic Elmes deteriorated and the group temporarily disbanded in 1973. Jeff was considering starting his solo career, but decided to mold a new Christie, with Roger and Terry Fogg and the guitarist. , Danny Krieger.
From then on they began to live off their old successes, since the successive albums would go completely unnoticed.