(for the Scottish rock band known just as 'Gun', please see
Gun) The Gun (1968-1969) was a short-lived
hard rock group from England that had a top ten hit with "
Race With the Devil" in 1968. Formed by brothers Paul and Adrian Curtis (a.k.a
Paul Gurvitz and
Adrian Gurvitz) alongside Louis Farrell, their first album on Epic was a heavy,
psychedelic affair with orchestral touches. Their second album,
Gunsight, already showed signs of the sound that made the Gurvitz brothers later famous. Still, the
power trio never managed to quite sustain the mainstream success tha…
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