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In the early 1980s, Sweet and his brother started a band called Roxx Regime and played in small venues. They were a trio for a period of time with Sweet being the only guitar player in the band. This band would later become Stryper. The band challenged the stereotype of heavy metal being satanic and took Christian rock into mainstream.[2]

With the band, Sweet was not only the lead vocalist and shared lead guitar duties, but he also wrote most of the music for the band as well as co-producing and arranging the music as well. The band recorded five successful studio albums. The band’s reputation declined in the 1990s.

John Charles Waite (born 4 July 1952) is an English #musician. He was #lead #vocalist for The Babys and #rock #band Bad English. As a solo artist, he scored several international hits, including 1984’s “Missing You”, a No. 1 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 and a top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart.

His next album, No Brakes, resulted in international attention. It was a Top 10 Billboard album in the US due to the smash hit “Missing You” which went to No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[5] It knocked Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” out of No. 1. For that very reason, Turner later recorded and released Waite’s smash song herself. (Turner’s single peaked at No. 84 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1996.) “Missing You” also hit No. 1 on Billboard‍ '​s Album Rock Tracks as well as the Top 10 of Billboard‍ '​s Adult Contemporary chart. No Brakes sold over a million and a half US copies yet has never been certified above the RIAA Gold standard (a record company must apply to the RIAA for such certification). Two more singles from No Brakes followed, including “Tears” which was a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts.

Although he was originally the leader of the group, Jones’s fellow band members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards soon overshadowed him, especially after they became a successful songwriting team. He developed a serious drug problem over the years and his role in the band steadily diminished. He was asked to leave the Rolling Stones in June 1969 and guitarist Mick Taylor took his place in the group. Jones died less than a month later by drowning in the swimming pool at his home on Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex.

Original Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman said of Jones, “He formed the band. He chose the members. He named the band. He chose the music we played. He got us gigs. … Very influential, very important, and then slowly lost it – highly intelligent – and just kind of wasted it and blew it all away.”

Jim Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an #singer, #songwriter, and poet best remembered as the #lead #singer of #blues #rock #band the Doors.

Because of his songwriting, wild personality, performances, and the dramatic circumstances surrounding his life and death, he is regarded by critics and fans as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock music history. In the later part of the 20th century, he was one of the popular culture's most rebellious and oft-displayed icons, representing the generation gap and youth counterculture. He was also well known for improvising spoken word poetry passages while the band played live. Morrison was ranked number 47 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", and number 22 on Classic Rock magazine's "50 Greatest Singers In Rock". Ray Manzarek said Morrison "embodied hippie counterculture rebellion".

Morrison was sometimes referred to by other monikers, such as "Lizard King" and "King of Orgasmic Rock".

Andrew McLan "Andy" Fraser (3 July 1952 – 16 March 2015) was an English #songwriter and #bass #guitarist whose career lasted over forty years, and includes two spells as a member of the #rock #band Free, which he helped found in 1968, aged 15.

Fraser produced and co-wrote the song "All Right Now" with Rodgers, a No. 1 hit in over 20 territories and recognised by ASCAP in 1990 for garnering over 1,000,000 radio plays in the United States by late 1989. In October 2006, a BMI London Million-Air Award was given to Rodgers and Fraser to mark over 3 million radio and television plays of "All Right Now".[2] Simon Kirke later recalled: "'All Right Now' was created after a bad gig in Durham. We finished our show and walked off the stage to the sound of our own footsteps. The applause had died before I had even left the drum riser. It was obvious that we needed a rocker to close our shows. All of a sudden the inspiration struck Fraser and he started bopping around singing 'All Right Now'. He sat down and wrote it right there in the dressing room. It couldn’t have taken more than ten minutes."[3]

Fraser died on 16 March 2015 at his home in California of a heart attack caused by atherosclerosis.[9] Fraser is survived by his daughters Hannah and Jasmine Fraser.[10]

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Pearcy has also worked as an actor, playing a killer hippie, Timothy Bach, in the horror film Camp Utopia.[2] And recently a small part in the short lived TV series “Wicked City”“, with Mickey Ratt music and cover band in the episode.

After he and the band moved to Los Angeles in 1980, the band’s name was shortened to Ratt in 1981 and the original lineup was solidified in 1983. Playing clubs like The Troubadour, The Roxy and The Whisky, Ratt amassed a large local following. After releasing an eponymous six song EP in 1983 selling 200,000 copies, Ratt released their breakthrough album Out of the Cellar on Atlantic Records in 1984. Opening arena shows and tours for ZZ Top, Ozzy Osbourne and Billy Squier. 

Laura Ann Branigan (July 3, 1957 – August 26, 2004) was an #singer, #songwriter, and actress best known for her 1982 platinum-certified hit “Gloria” and for the top-5 single “Self Control”. Branigan is also remembered for the top-10 song “Solitaire”, and for the No. 1 Adult Contemporary (AC) hit “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You”, as well as several other U.S. top-40 songs. Branigan also contributed songs to notable motion picture and television soundtracks, including the Grammy and Academy Award-winningFlashdance soundtrack (1983), the Ghostbusters soundtrack (1984), and the Baywatch soundtrack (1994). Her signature song “Gloria” by Umberto Tozzi stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, at the time a record for a female artist; the song holds a place in the top-100 singles of both 1982 and 1983. Branigan died at her home in 2004 from a previously undiagnosed cerebral aneurysm.

Hey Stoopid is the twelfth #solo #album by #rock #singer Alice Cooper, released on July 2, 1991. After his smash 1989 hit album Trash, Cooper attempted to continue his success with his follow-up album, which features guest performances from Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, Vinnie Moore, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars (both of Mötley Crüe). Hey Stoopid was Cooper's last album to feature bassist Hugh McDonald before he joined Bon Jovi in 1994.

4, also known as Foreigner 4, is the fourth #studio #album by #rock #band Foreigner, released on July 2, 1981 on Atlantic Records. Several singles from the album were hugely successful, including “Urgent”, “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and “Juke Box Hero”.

The album was an immediate smash worldwide, holding the #1 position on the Billboard album chart for a total of 10 weeks. It eventually sold over seven million copies in the United States alone.

Mark Hart (born July 2, 1953), is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist best known for being a member of both Supertramp (1986–1988, 1996–2002) and Crowded House (1993–1996, 2007–2016). As well as being a group member, touring and session musician for acts such as Ringo Starr, Hart has composed film scores and is a record producer.

Hart began his association with British rock band Supertramp in 1986, initially as a studio and touring musician, taking on the vocal and keyboard parts previously done by Roger Hodgson. He provided guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals for their album, Free as a Bird, which was issued in October 1987.[2] He again participated on the ensuing tour, which was recorded on the album Live '88.

Hart also shared the same manager as pop-rockers Crowded House, who suggested he fill in for their keyboardist Eddie Rayner with session work for the band after they experienced difficulties working together. In 1991 Hart contributed to Woodface as a session musician, later joining the band as a touring member when Tim Finn left.[3][4] In 1993 Hart was credited as a full member for Together Alone.[3] He stayed with the band after founding drummer Paul Hester left,[3] and is seen along with the group's founders Neil Finn and Nick Seymour in the photographs from the sleeve for Recurring Dream, the 1996 greatest hits album. Hart played with the band during their farewell concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in November 1996, known as Farewell to the World.[3][4]

Johnny Colla (born 2 July 1952) is an #musician, playing the #guitar and #saxophone is a founding member of #rock #band Huey Lewis and the News. He has been heavily involved in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for more than 35 years, having been in several other bands, including Sly and the Family Stone, Sound Hole, and Johnny Colla & The Lucky Devils.[2]

The first bands that Colla was involved with were Yewess Army and Cottonmouth from Fairfield CA and the Furlanders.[2] After these he joined Sound Hole as a saxophonist. Sound Hole was successful at a local level and became Van Morrison’s backing band for a time. Other members of Sound Hole were drummer Bill Gibson and bassist Mario Cipollina. Sound Hole was the major local competition to Huey Lewis’ band, Clover. After Sound Hole, Colla was part of Sly and the Family Stone for a few months and recorded with them. In the late 1970s Sound Hole and Clover merged to form a new group, the American Express, which later became known as Huey Lewis and the News. For the News, Colla became saxophonist, rhythm guitarist,backing singer and songwriter.

Colla co-wrote hit songs such as “The Heart of Rock & Roll”, “If This Is It”, “The Power of Love”, and “Back in Time”. Lewis and Colla co-produced the band’s 2001 album Plan B.

Frederick William Schneider III (born July 1, 1951) is an American #singer, #songwriter, #arranger, and #musician, best known as the #frontman of the #rock #band The B-52's, of which he is a founding member.[1]

The B-52's got their start in 1976 when founders Cindy Wilson, Ricky Wilson, Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland, and Schneider played an impromptu number after drinking at a Chinese restaurant in Athens, Georgia.[5] The band played their first real gig in 1977 at a Valentine's Day party for their friends.[6]

The band's first single was "Rock Lobster" which was recorded for DB Records in 1978. It was an underground success,[7] and sold over 20,000 copies in total.[8] In 1979, the B-52's signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records for South America, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. They also signed with Island Records for Europe and Asia. After the death of Ricky Wilson in 1985, the band went on hiatus.[5] They reformed in 1989 and went on to mainstream success.

With her distinctive photogenic features and two-tone bleached-blonde hair, Harry quickly became a punk icon.[22] Her look was further popularized by the band’s early presence in the music video revolution of the era. She was a regular at Studio 54. In June 1979, Blondie was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone. Harry’s persona, combining cool sexuality with streetwise style, became so closely associated with the group’s name that many came to believe “Blondie” was the singer’s name. The difference between the individual Harry and the band Blondie was famously highlighted with a “Blondie is a group” button campaign by the band in 1979.[23] In 1981, Harry issued a press release to clarify that her name was not “Debbie Blondie” or “Debbie Harry”, but Deborah Harry, though Harry later described her character in the band as being named “Blondie”, as in this quote from the No Exit tour book.

Joining his schoolfriends Billy Gould and Mike Bordin in Faith No More in 1982 (replacing Wade Worthington), Bottum remained in the band until its demise in 1998. However, after 1992’s Angel Dust and its ensuing tour, Bottum’s input into Faith No More was reduced significantly. In an interview made available to fans on the band’s King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime album (vinyl collection box set), Bottum explained that his contributions to the band’s efforts had necessarily declined because of the death of his father that year.

In 1994 and 1995, Bottum formed Imperial Teen with Lynn Perko, another Bay Area music veteran. The band is perhaps best known for their single “Yoo Hoo”, used in the 1999 film Jawbreaker.

In 2009, Bottum returned to Faith No More for a reunion tour and possibly a recording.[3]