5 Bands from the 1970s and ’80s That Never Released an Album [Video]

Shortly after electro-pop trio Planet Ha Ha—consisting of brothers Tony Mansfield (New Musik) and Lee Mansfield and Rob Fisher of the British new wave duo Naked Eyes—released “Home,” everything fell apart. The single, an homage to Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, was withdrawn by EMI to avoid legal issues with the film and brought an abrupt end to the band, who were never able to release their album and moved on to other musical projects.

Sliding off the glam rock era of David Bowie, T. Rex, and Slade, the Yorkshire, England-bred Jackal released one obscure single in 1974, the Chinese zodiac-inspired “Year of the Tiger.” The band disappeared afterward though bassist Geoff Appleby, who previously played with Mick Ronson in the late ’60s, went on to play on Ian Hunter‘s eponymous 1975 debut and with the short-lived Screen Idols.

Throughout music history, there were plenty of one- and no-hit wonders and those bands that …