Quiet Riot found fame in the glam metal days of the 80s, when their single, a cover of Slade’s “Cum on Feel the Noize” hit the charts and resulted in the band’s inclusion in VH1s Greatest One Hit Wonders list.
Quiet Riot formed in the mid-70s when Kelly Garni and Randy Rhoads pulled together a band and started to gig in the L.A. nightclubs. Their eponymous debut wasn’t released until 1978 and it was followed by Quiet Riot II a year later. Rhoads left after the second album and joined Ozzy Osbourne’s band. Quiet Riot almost folded and for two years operated under the surname of their lead singer, Kevin DuBrow.
When Rhoads died in a plane crash in 1982, DuBrow tried to reform Quiet Riot but none of the original members were interested. He assembled a new group of musicians instead and by 1983, they had released Metal Health, which was the first Quiet Riot album to be released in America. “Cum on Feel the Noize”, from that album, rose to No.5 in the Billboard charts - the first heavy metal song to do so – and it pulled the album to the top of the charts with it.
Subsequent albums failed to recapture the glories of their debut and tensions began to surface between DuBrow and his fellow band members. After the release of a second album called Quiet Riot (1988) which failed to ignite the charts, the band split. By 1991, they were back together again and released further albums before breaking up yet again in 2003. A further reformation in 2005 resulted in Rehab (2006), but by 2007 DuBrow was dead from an accidental cocaine overdose. The band was dissolved shortly thereafter, this time for good.
