Martin John Pugh is a British guitarist who came to prominence after joining blues-rock band Steamhammer in 1968, staying with that band through 5 years and 4 albums. The debut Steamhammer album, also known as Steamhammer, was released in 1969 and yielded a minor hit record in Europe, "Junior's Wailing". Pugh also played on the first Rod Stewart solo album, An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (aka The Rod Stewart Album).[1]
Following the dissolution of Steamhammer in 1973, Pugh and Steamhammer bassist Louis Cennamo
joined up with former the Yardbirds vocalist Keith Relf[2] (who had played with Cennamo in Renaissance and had helped produce the final Steamhammer LP[3]) and drummer Bobby Caldwell to form Armageddon in 1975. According to liner notes of a CD re-release of their only album on the Repertoire Records label in 1999, drug problems[4] interfered with the band's work ethic - although the record had received favorable reviews and significant radio airplay upon its release.[5] Their demise was finalized after the untimely death of Relf in May 1976.[6]
While he appears to have retired from music after 1975, he did emerge to play guitar (alongside Geoff Thorpe of Vicious Rumors) on studio sessions in Seattle with the Hawaii-based rock and roll band, 7th Order on their debut CD, The Lake of Memory - released on the Big Island Sounds[7] label in 2007.[8]
