in 1972 james signed to the moody blues's threshold records, and released two more albums: "every home should have one" (1973) and "thunderthroat" (1976), as well as four further singles, including "black dream" in 1972 and "maggie" in 1976. on 20 august 1973, the nicky james band recorded for john peel's radio show on bbc radio 1.