Gord Lewis, of Canadian punk band Teenage Head, died on this day, 2022. An original member of the iconic punk band, Gord Lewis was found murdered in his home. His son Jonathan Lewis was arrested shortly after the crime and charged with second-degree murder.
Teenage Head is a punk rock band from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada that rose to prominence in the early 1980s.
Frankie Venom (Frank Kerr), Gord Lewis, Steve Mahon, and Nick Stipanitz founded the band in 1975 in Hamilton, Ontario.
The name of the band is a tribute to The Flaming Groovies' 1971 album Teenage Head, which Gord Lewis saw advertised in a music magazine but had not heard, and resolved to establish a band with that name one day.
Teenage Head was created in 1975 while the band members were students at Hamilton's Westdale High School.[2] Gord Lewis on guitar, Steve Park on guitar, Frankie Venom on drums, and Dave Desroches on vocals comprised the initial lineup. Frankie Venom immediately took over as the new vocalist, and Lewis enlisted the help of longtime mates Steve Mahon on bass and Nick Stipanitz on drums.
DesRoches later formed his own band, The Shakers. In the mid-1980s (for the album Electric Guitars), he rejoined Teenage Head as vocalist, and he did so again in 2016.[3] Steve Park eventually left to form Simply Saucer, another Hamilton band.
Their debut performance occurred on October 17, 1975, at the cafeteria of Westdale Secondary School.[4] The band's first professional performances took place in February.
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