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Inspired by famous brands the authorities, Toto, and Tears for Worries, multi-instrumentalist Olaf Baumann is a mainstay for the German AOR scene because the 1980s. Getting started his career carrying out in a variety of blues rings, he later on teamed up with keyboardists Jochen Haller and Andreas Burwig, bassist …

If a music fan was desiring to make a game like the one based on actor Kevin Bacon and his seemingly endless ties to other actors, singer Fergie Fredericksen will dsicover himself to be always a suitable candidate. During his profession, he has been around bands (or offers replaced users) …

An innovative, intense drummer, Simon Phillips embarked on his music career young. He demonstrated affinity for the drums quickly — you start with a plaything kit at age group four, shifting to some snare and cymbal arranged at six; by age group 12, Phillips was carrying out and recording along …

A product from the L.A. session-musician community (which also created the harder-rocking Toto), Mr. Mister liked a short but substantial burst of recognition during the middle-’80s, crafting an atmospheric, vaguely intensifying variant on slick, radio-ready pop/rock and roll. While they vanished nearly as quickly because they arrived, their two number …

Making use of their heavily orchestrated, sweet ballads, the Australian soft rock and roll group Air Supply became a staple of early-’80s radio, scoring a string of seven straight Top Five singles. Atmosphere Supply, for some intents and reasons, was the duo of vocalists Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell; additional …

Originally, .38 Special were among the many Southern rock bands within the vein from the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd; actually, the music group was led by Donnie Truck Zant, the sibling of Skynyrd’s head, Ronnie Truck Zant. After launching several albums of straight-ahead Southern boogie, the music group revamped …

Satellite television Party emerged from former Jane’s Dependency and Porno for Pyros frontman Perry Farrell’s personal perception that individuals can transform the world 1 step at the same time. Commensurate with the global and religious awareness entirely on his 2001 single album, Song However to become Sung, this documenting effort …

Evening Ranger is most beneficial known for “Sister Christian,” a 1984 one that reached the very best 10 within the U.S. and Canada that afterwards turned into an electrical ballad perennial. Ahead of “Sister Christian,” Evening Ranger had a set of main strikes on American Record Rock and roll radio …

Latin rock-band from Chile Matahari was shaped in 1996 by keyboardist Claudio Nervi, bassist Ernesto Duboy, and guitarist Edison Belmar, who have been later joined up with by singer Karla Argandoña and Andrés Baeza. After documenting a demonstration tape, mostly affected by American blues-rock, the music group started touring the …

Three bands were the undisputed arena rock kings of the first ’80s — Styx, Trip, and REO Speedwagon — yet all weren’t overnight success tales (actually, each group began pursuing different musical designs originally — prog rock, fusion, and straight-ahead hard rock, respectively, before transforming slowly into chart-topping mainstream rockers). …