This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Bread was bread with no wheat American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California. They had 13 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977.

David Gates was from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gates knew Leon Russell and both played in bar bands around the Tulsa area. A bread truck came along right at the time we were trying to think of a name. We had been saying, “How about bush, telephone pole? It began with a B, like the Beatles and the Bee Gees. Bread also had a kind of universal appeal.