Releases
In 1988, Rock Machine released their first album, Rock’n’Roll Renegade. Hailed as India's first all-original rock album, it was a huge success and was widely pirated in regions where distribution was scarce, as in the northeastern Indian states of Assam, Nagaland and Meghalaya. Rock Machine's well-rehearsed and high-voltage stage performances made them very popular among rock audiences all across India. Their follow-up album, The Second Coming, was released in 1990 and featured a more slickly produced sound than their debut album. The Second Coming also contained "Pretty Child", a song that went relatively unnoticed at the time, but which was to catapult the band to supergroup status a few years later.
The early 1990s saw a major shift in the entertainment landscape in India. The arrival of MTV onto Indian airwaves in 1992 made new American and British music more accessible to Indian listeners. It was also the year that Mark Menezes left Rock Machine and was replaced by drummer Bobby Duggal. Rock Machine’s first music video to air on MTV Asia was very successful. “Top of the Rock,” directed by Deven Khote of UTV, was put on heavy rotation by MTV in the light of enthusiastic viewer response. The success of the video served as a launchpad for a spate of bands and artists across the country. Rock Machine had moved from “college darlings” to national rock icons.
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