Hackensack - Band

Hard rockin' live band, almost famous in 1972.

Hackensack formed in September 1969 from the remaining members of a professional band playing a residency in London’s Leicester Square where singer-songwriter Nicky Moore and bassist Stu Mills brought in guitarist Mick Sweeney and drummer Billy Rankin. Moore, an ex-chorister, was heavily into blues but also took inspiration from Jeff Beck, The Doors and, of course, Led Zeppelin. It wasn’t ‘til March 1972 that Hackensack’s ‘final’ line-up was achieved, and
signed to Island Records, touring became the norm, first with Mott the Hoople’s Rock’n’Roll Circus and later with Free as well as overseas tours in Holland, Germany and Switzerland.