Peter Jacques Band

Peter Jacques band

One year after Jacques Fred Petrus' and Mauro Malavasi's first production together, 1979 was to become one of their most hectic year in their common career.

After a rather slow start in 1978 with their studio group "Macho's" mini-album Petrus/Malavasi aimed much higher this time with four complete albums simultaneously produced. One of them was Petrus "own" group Peter Jacques band (PJB), a name that played a little bit with his own name reversing the order of it.
The first release of PJB was "Fire night dance" in 1979. PJB was, like all Petrus productions at the time, a pure studio concept and not a real band. Petrus simply recorded a few songs with his in house Italian songwriters, used some fancy photos on the album cover and hired a touring staff (that may alter) to act as the band on tour, and that was it. The touring staff in 1979 is unknown and the three persons on the cover seems to be there just for the looks of things. One that did get an offer though was Mic Murphy that acted as road manager of the funk band Kleeer at the time and later became the co-runner of Petrus Little Macho office in NYC. He was together with a few friends offered a touring contract but the money was ridiculously low so that was a no deal.