A Pomp Rock style outfit signed to Casablanca Records. 707, named after the classic American workhorse airliner the Boeing 707, claimed roots in the Mid-Western Rock scene. Having formed in Detroit, Michigan before moving to Los Angeles, the band's intital line-up featured keyboard player Duke McFadden, but he was out of the group by the time the appropriately titled 'The Second Album' was released a year later in 1981 which found the group going in a slightly heavier direction. and relocated in San Francisco. This move to the Bay Area prompted some people, who had never heard the group before, believing that the group hailed from nearby Petaluma as the city possessed the telephone dialing code of 707.

Whilst the band was pictured as a trio on the cover of the second record additional keyboard work came from Andy Celley and THE RUNAWAYS vocalist CHERIE CURRIE sang backing vocals on the track 'Rockin' Is Easy'. On the back of 'The Second Album' the trio was personally invited by REO SPEEDWAGON to open dates on the 'Hi-Infidelity' tour. The group then entered the studio to cut a new album entitled 'The Bridge'. However, these sessions, which found Phil Bryant's original vocal lines re-cut by new singer KEVIN CHALFANT, were strangely shelved.

A third album finally emerged on the newly established Boardwalk label, Neil Bogart's newly established company, having sold off Casablanca to PolyGram in 1980, and 707 was bolstered by the arrival of keyboardist / guitarist Tod Howarth and frontman Kevin Chalfant. The latter had been recruited after months of fruitless searching for a frontman although Russell and McFadden had nothing to feel ashamed about with their vocal performances on the first two albums.

The 'Megaforce' album took its name from one of the band's songs, used as the theme for Golden Harvest the sci-fi motion picture 'Megaforce'. This union fared well for the band as the title track duly delivered a Bilboard hit single. ANGEL bassist Felix Robinson was involved in the final few months of the band's lifespan having worked with Kevin Russell and Jim McClarty some years previously. 707 split up sometime during 1983. Chalfant turning up in 1984 fronting STEELBREEZE and later in the JOURNEY splinter group THE VIEW, which eventually became THE STORM. Russell, meantime, was added to the touring line-up of the short-lived PHANTOM, ROCKER AND SLICK in 1985.

Tod Howarth would later tour with TED NUGENT in early 1984 before joining ex-KISS guitarist Ace Frehley's FREHLEY'S COMET and a reworking of the 707 'Megaforce' track was used on the band's first album under the new title of 'Calling To You'. Kevin Russell would briefly be back in the limelight during 1989 with KEEP, a band unit featuring singer 'Michael McDonald' (actually the WHITE TIGER and BLACK SABBATH credited David Donato under a pseudonym), bassist Joey Mudarri and KISS co-founder PETER CRISS on drums. Russell soon exited from this combo. Howarth subsequently toured as a side musician with CHEAP TRICK following his departure and released a self-financed solo album during 1995.

The first two 707 albums were repackaged and released together on CD in early 1998 by Renaisance Records and after an 18 year gap Russell resurrected the 707 name for a 2000 Blues orientated album 'Trip To Heaven'. Joining the singer were bassist Don Bassey and former WHITESNAKE and HEART drummer Denny Carmassi.

2004 saw MTM Classics releasing the shelved album 'The Bridge' for the first time, adding a further three extra tracks to the original sessions. Kevin Russell announced the formation of retro 70's orientated LET IT ROCK in January 2007, involving a cast of seasoned Rock players comprising vocalist / guitarist Davey Pattison, of GAMMA and the ROBIN TROWER band, bass player Tom Miller, of the GREG ALLMAN and EDDIE MONEY bands, with Andy Doerschuk, of RICK DERRINGER and STEPPENWOLF repute, on the drums.