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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. English rock band from Bradford, Yorkshire. The band found success at home and abroad after teaming up with Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. They have had a number of line-up changes and were still actively touring in 2018. This section does not cite any sources. The band was formed as “The Yen” after a chance meeting between Ron Kelly and Alan Silson in Moore’s Music Shop, North Parade, Bradford, in October 1963. Two days after that meeting they were joined by Chris Norman for rehearsals, but without finding a suitable bass player, just practiced together for a year.

The addition of Terry Uttley on bass guitar at the beginning of 1965 completed the line-up and The Yen’s first gig was at Birkenshaw School in February 1965. In April 1968, the group found a manager in Mark Jordan, who advised them to rename themselves “The Elizabethans”. The group now became fully professional, and the members garnered higher salaries. In June 1968, Terry Uttley joined the group as a replacement for Arthur Higgins, who had left the band in order to carry on his education. My Desire”, and it was released under the pseudonym “Fuzzy and The Barnets” due to contractual difficulties encountered by Storm. During the band’s Decca contract, Eager used his contacts with the Manchester-based agency Kennedy Street Enterprises, to gain the band an audition to be Peter Noone’s backing band.

They purchased new instruments and in late 1974 began recording their debut album Pass It Around which was released 14 February 1975. The album spawned the title track as a single but failed to gain significant attention. On 22 September 1975, Smokie released their second album, Changing All the Time. The first single from the new album, “If You Think You Know How to Love Me”, became a hit in many European countries, peaking at No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

Around this time, Smokey Robinson threatened to file a lawsuit, alleging that the band’s name would confuse the audience. In order to avoid legal action, the group changed the spelling to “Smokie”. They began their first tour as headline act, after the release of their second album. The third LP was partly produced in the US, where Nicky Chinn had relocated. Called Midnight Café, it built on the popularity of Changing All the Time. At the peak of Smokie’s success in 1978, Chris Norman teamed up with Suzi Quatro and released a duet single, “Stumblin’ In” — another Chinnichap composition.