The Two Main Reasons April Wine Broke Up in the 80s, Myles Goodwyn Interview 

Miles was a brilliant singer / songwriter and lead guitarist 🎸... Gone but not forgotten...🤟✌️♥️

Its kind of sad that people (like myself) don't really appreciate someone until they are gone. Living in the U.S. I was aware of April Wine and remember liking the couple songs I heard, but I never dug any deeper into their catalog. Now I am doing that and am amazed at how many great songs and excellent albums they produced over their long career. Myles was a true talent that should have received much more acclaim south of the Canadian border.

One of the top 10 singer/ SWs of all time for schizzle !!

Thank You for bringing this interview to the viewers.

Recall watching APRIL WINE 🍷Concert in the 90’s at private campground 🏕️🛵🏍️ Bikers Festivals … They finally did Rock -> Harder Faster 🎸🔥🌟

Thank you so much for sharing this. I’ve been a big fan since the 70s. I’m Canadian and then moved to the States in1980 right when a lot of Canadian bands, we’re getting big in the states like April Wine triumph, Rush loverboy. And just like triumphs, April Wine sort of broke up in the 80s when their style of music was really popular and in both cases, I broke my heart to see them break up That’s sad as Miles Goodwin says in this interview if they had gone the more hair metal route they would’ve broken up by 92 anyways after grunge came along. Of course, if they had gone the more short hair route like a Duran Duran or loverboy, they would’ve broken up also. It’s interesting to hear Miles say he didn’t wanna go the harder route because he is such a rocker. But like he said in his book, he always enjoyed doing all sides, the rockers, but also the ballads. And he wrote and sang some beautiful ballads.

April Wine did a free show at the Victoria Park band shell in London to announce gettin the band back together it was a nice sunny day i was about 40 ft back south of centre and it sounded fantastic, had the bell there too. I like to rock

Miles WAS April Wine, without his voice and song writing they promptly ceased to exist. The other members should have followed his lead without asking questions.

Myles was a genius.

Myles Goodwyn same as Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman led the charge for bringing our awesome Canadian music to America and beyond Myles legacy is wonderful and fantastic bringing his kick ass brand of rock and roll for all of the world and generations to come we like to rock and Myles we all always will

I've said this before in other comments about 70s bands coming into the 80s, but they really had to decide who they wanted to compete with, because that was a difficult decade for many of those bands just to be themselves. You either had to go harder like Motley Crue or go techno, like Duran Duran. I'm thinking of Kansas, REO, Rush, Styx, Journey, 38 Special when I say this. And most of them found they couldn't compete either way. You could remain your 70s personna up until about 1983, but after MTV, and it was all about being visual--most of the faceless bands dropped off in popularity

I take it This band and Triumph are your favs

The harder Wine would have been awesome!! 🤘

They broke up because the rest of the band wanted to go harder. Oh, what could have been...

Canadians wanted more 🎸🔥 Harder Faster April Wine 🍷 not silly 😜 little love 💗 songs a la’ McCartney & Wings 🪽

I heard about Jim Clench joining Bachman Turner Overdrive, replacing Randy Bachman himself. I don't know why they never changed their name to Clench-Turner Overdrive! (oh well-that doesn't have the same ring to it!)

creative guy.

April Wine was never a band. It was Myles Goodwyn running the show. The other members were hired guns. He didn't pay them well. I remember in 1985 or 1986 I was at Steve's music store in Montreal and who pulls up in a beat up Honda Civic with a bass drum in the back? None other than Jerry Mercier the drummer for April Wine.

I am in contact with one of the earliest members Y did he quit? Drugs + Booze He thought he'd be dead very quickly if he stayed in the band

Man I wish Myles would’ve been on board with the other guys and went heavy!! Not leather and studs metal; but more like Harder Faster - rather than where they went with Nature of the Beast and on. Myles awesome singing voice juxtaposed against a heavier sound was great and could’ve been even better!! Myles’ synth-laced self titled album really aged poorly - bad 80’s synth. Yuck!

Sad that the band broke up just when they were getting hotter .