Gordon, Ellis and Steel

In the early 1970's Rick Gordon, Ross Ellis, John Steel and Chris Howard, came together through a mutual love of music to form a band called Gordon, Ellis & Steel.

Taking their inspiration from the then emerging American west coast country-rock sound and artists like the Eagles, Jackson Browne, Loggins & Messina & Crosby Stills Nash & Young, they began writing songs and gigging, and soon built up a local following, playing mainly around the north London pub circuit along with wine bars, youth clubs & folk clubs.

Described as: "back-to-the-land singer-songwriters and righteously obscure rural rockers", they signed a record deal with Mushroom Records, with whom they recorded an album at Chalk Farm Studios, London. Financial issues with the record label forced it to close before the album was fully completed, which meant the album was never properly finished and didn't get released at that time.

However, remarkably, it did make it into the public arena some 40 years later when a selection of those songs were finally released as the album "Looking Forward Thinking Back" by Cherry Red Records in 2018, after the original recordings, which were assumed to have been lost, were rediscovered in 2017.

​They have also had tracks featured on a couple of compilation box set albums; "Spaced Out - The Story of Mushroom Records" and "Across The Great Divide - Getting It Together In The Country" which features artists such as Rod Stewart, The Hollies, Procol Harum & Heads Hands and Feet.