Tarney/Spencer Band

Tarney/Spencer Band were a rock band formed in 1975 with Trevor Spencer on drums and Alan Tarney on lead guitar, bass guitar and lead vocals – both had been in Australian bands, including James Taylor Move, prior to relocating to the United Kingdom where they formed the duo. The group issued three albums, Tarney and Spencer (1976), Three's a Crowd (1978) and Run for Your Life (1979). Their single, "No Time to Lose" (1979), received airplay in the United States on album-oriented rock radio stations. It charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in both 1979 and again in 1981 upon re-issue. By the end of 1979 Tarney/Spencer Band had broken up and both founders undertook careers as song writers, session musicians and record producers.

1967–74: Early years: before formation

Future founding mainstay members of Tarney/Spencer Band, Trevor Spencer and Alan Tarney, met in Adelaide as members of the Hurricanes. Later they were members of Johnny Broome and The Handels, an R&B group, then the Vectormen and, in 1967, James Taylor Move, a psychedelic pop and progressive rock band. For that group Spencer provided drums and Tarney was on organ; fellow band mates included Kevin Peek on guitar (also ex-the Hurricanes, Johnny Broome and the Handels). In 1968 Peek, Spencer and Tarney formed the Kevin Peek Trio as a jazz group and relocated to the United Kingdom in the following year.