Biography
Having emerged from Birmingham England's early-'60s Brumbeat milieu, Mike Sheridan and Rick Price launched a songwriting partnership in 1968, shortly before Roy Wood invited Price into the Move. Price stepped into the guitarist/singer role vacated by Trevor Burton after the latter's exit soon following the appearance of "Blackberry Way." Their writing continued across Price's stint in the group, which concluded in 1969 around the moment Jeff Lynne entered the lineup and Wood began shaping the Electric Light Orchestra; the Move placed one Sheridan/Price composition, "Lightning Never Strikes," on the reverse of "Brontosaurus" during that interval. Once Price departed the Move, the two secured a joint recording deal with President Records.
Their affiliation with the company spanned a single year and yielded singles issued under Rick Price & Sheridan, Sheridan/Price, and assorted other variants, though Sheridan/Price remained the billing attached to their only official album, This Is to Certify: Gemini Anthology. Tracks on the album carried separate credits for each participant, an arrangement that left the precise nature of their partnership somewhat unclear even to the label, which treated Price as the lead artist. The pair remained together in name through 1970, producing finely melodic pop/rock in the vein of the Move's most commercial work. In 2004 President Records issued the double-CD set This Is to Certify, which gathered the duo's complete recordings together with Price's solo material for the imprint.
Their affiliation with the company spanned a single year and yielded singles issued under Rick Price & Sheridan, Sheridan/Price, and assorted other variants, though Sheridan/Price remained the billing attached to their only official album, This Is to Certify: Gemini Anthology. Tracks on the album carried separate credits for each participant, an arrangement that left the precise nature of their partnership somewhat unclear even to the label, which treated Price as the lead artist. The pair remained together in name through 1970, producing finely melodic pop/rock in the vein of the Move's most commercial work. In 2004 President Records issued the double-CD set This Is to Certify, which gathered the duo's complete recordings together with Price's solo material for the imprint.
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