Gerry Williams of Eruption: In Loving Memory (✝2020)

This week we lost one of the original members of Eruption, their keyboard player Gerry Williams. Founded in London in the early 70s, the group won a talent contest and a recording contract with RCA, debuting with Let Me Take You Back In Time in 1975. It was during a tour in Germany the following year that the group caught the eye of Frank Farian who signed them to open for Boney M. on their first European tour of 1977. To coincide with that Eruption released their first single on Hansa International, Party, Party, but their major breakthrough came with the follow-up singles I Can’t Stand The Rain (#5 in the UK, #7 Germany, #18 in the US) and One Way Ticket (#9 UK, #7 Germany), featuring Precious Wilson on lead vocals. She left for a solo career in 1979 and was replaced by Kim Davis who landed another hit for the group with Go Johnnie Go (#8 Germany) before her untimely death of a brain haemmorrhage. Eruption made a few more records with Jane Jochen on lead vocals before disbanding in 1985. With