The Edgar Boughrow Band started their career as thr Edgar Boughrous Blues and from Warwick, England in 1969. However, when the band began to lean towards the emerging psychedelic movement, they dropped the "Blues" from their name as well as their music. In 1968, the band moved to London in search of a recording contract as well as a bigger fan base, and they were picked up by Blackhill Enterprises who landed them a deal with EMI's progressive label Harvest. This single was their first and subsequently the first single released on Harvest as well. In 1968, the Edgar Broughton Band moved to Notting Hill Gate, London, seeking a recording contract and a wider audience. Blackhill landed them their first record deal on EMI's progressive rock label Harvest Records, in December 1968. Their first single was "Evil" b/w "Death of an Electric Citizen", released in June 1969, which was also the first single released for Harvest.
Th e first single was followed the band's first album, Wasa Wasa. Wasa Wasa retained a heavily blues influenced sound that was hard driven and propelled Edgar Broughton's gritty vocal style, which was similar to that of Captain Beefheart and Howlin' Wolf. The Broughton's entered into an attempt at capturing their live sound on record by organizing a performance at Abbey Road on 9 Dec.,1969. Only one track was released at the time, a rendition of "Out Demon Out", an adaptation of the Fug's song "Exorcising the Demon Out of the Pentagon" which had become the band's set closer and anthem. The rest of the recording was lost until rediscovery and release in a remixed form in 2004 as "Keep them Freaks Rollin'' Live at Abby Road 1969. The band's touring attracted some controversy from their series of concert locations such as children's playgrounds , and from a number of cases of civil disorder occurring at their shows The most notorious incidents were a show in Redcar at which a fight broke out between audience members and led to violent police intervention, and a show in Keele where the audience vandalized the venue with paint given to them by the band. Though the band denied doing anything to incite any of these incidents (in the case of Keele the band admitted to giving them paint but declared 'we didn't tell 'em to do anything with it"), several towns band the groups concerts.
The Edgar Broughton Band kept recording, releasing the live performance of "Out Demons Out" as a single (b/w "Mama's Reward (Keep the Freaks Rollin' )), a polemic on the 1970 General Election declaring their intention to drop out. The song featured a string arrangement by David Belford. in 1971, the band decided that existence as a power trio was limiting, and asked Victor Unitt, who meanwhile had been playing in the Pretty Things, to rejoin the band. In May, with the new lineup, they released their eponymous third album, which contained "Evening Over Rooftops" (again with strings by David Bedford).
With the success of their third album, The Edgar Broughton Band. The band relocated to Devon to begin recording for their next album, "In Side Out" The band then recorded their fifth album Oora, in 1972. Following the release of this album Unitt left the band.
In 1975 the band signed to Nems. In the same year, John Thomas joined the band on guitar for the Broughton's sixth album, Bandages. This feature a softer sound than previous releases. Shortly after the album's release John Thomas left and was replaced by Terry Cottam/ In 1976, having recorded the lave album "Live is Harder (which was not released until 1979)" The Edgar Broughton Band dissolved.
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