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Despite the singer’s troubles, including an incapacitating motorcycle accident in January 1981, Crespo and Tyler forged a songwriting and touring partnership. Crespo co-wrote six of the songs on Aerosmith’s 1982 album Rock in a Hard Place with Tyler. Crespo performed most guitar duties on the album.

John Cooper Lawton (11 July 1946 - 29 June 2021) was a #rock and #blues #vocalist best known for his work with Lucifer's Friend, Uriah Heep and the Les Humphries Singers.

Lawton began his musical career in North Shields, UK, in the early '60s with The Deans, a bunch of kids who decided at random that he should be singer. He then moved on to West One and later Stonewall which included John Miles, Vic Malcolm (later of Geordie) and Paul Thompson (later of Roxy Music).

After Stonewall finished their stint at Top Ten Club in Hamburg in 1969, Lawton decided to stay in Germany, after having been offered the job as singer with legendary German rock cultband Lucifer's Friend (1969–1976 and 1979–1995) with whom he recorded seven studio albums. He also joined the Les Humphries Singers, in the early '70s (which included the Eurovision Song Contest in '76).

In 1976 Lawton joined Uriah Heep as their frontman, recording the albums Firefly, Innocent Victim, Fallen Angel[1] and Live in Europe '79, touring Europe and the U.S. until September 1979.

Lawton died unexpectedly in 29 June 2021, at the age of 74.[2]

Don reformed Dokken in the early 1990s and has been continuing on with the band ever since. He released his second solo album, titledSolitary in 2008; it was a stylistic departure from his Dokken material.

Relics (A Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios) is a 1971 compilation #album by #progressive #rock #band Pink Floyd. The album was released in the UK on 14 May 1971 and in the United States on the following day. Initially released by Starline, the compilation was reissued by Music for Pleasure in the United Kingdom, while Harvest and Capitol distributed the album in the United States. A remastered CD was released in 1996 with a different album cover, picturing a three-dimensional model based on the sketch drawn by drummer Nick Mason for the album's initial release.

He has also acted in both reality television and television drama shows. He starred in The Surreal Life season 6 and the The Surreal Life: Fame Games. DeVille also formed a solo band in 1998 called Samantha 7.

After losing his voice during the writing of the album,[5] lead vocalist Klaus Meine had to undergo surgery on his vocal cords and it was uncertain whether he would be able to record it. Demos of the material were recorded with Don Dokken as vocalist; however none of those recordings are featured on the album.

Rudolf Schenker could not choose between his guitar solos on “China White”, so the US and European releases differed in this small detail.

A self-portrait of artist Gottfried Helnwein[5] is featured on the cover of the album. Rudolf Schenker portrays this character in the “No One Like You” music video. Shirts with this album artwork on them are amongst the most popular Scorpions T-shirts.

The RIAA certified Blackout Gold on June 24, 1982 and Platinum on March 8, 1984.

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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While Ann was in Canada, Nancy started college and sought someone to play with, but never found a regular musical partner and was restless. In the fall of 1972, Nancy moved to Forest Grove, Oregon to attend Pacific University. The next year she transferred to Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, hoping the bigger city would invigorate her more.

By then, Steve and Roger had moved to Vancouver and had reformed as “Heart”. Each time Nancy “went north” to visit her sister, Ann was trying to get Nancy to join the band. Nancy began to think of transferring again, to the University of Washington in Seattle where in-state tuition fees were less. She wrote to a friend outlining her situation, and asked if she should join the band. The friend replied with an emphatic “YES, YES, YES”.

On her next visit to Ann, Nancy asked if the band would include more acoustic songs if she joined. Ann responded “that’s why I want you to join”. Nancy left school in mid-1974 and joined Ann and Heart in West Vancouver.[9]

DeGrasso was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and graduated from Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1981 where he was a member of the world-renowned Grenadier Band.

DeGrasso has also performed with the Argentine band A.N.I.M.A.L., David Lee Roth, Lita Ford, Ozzy Osbourne, White Lion,[1] Suicidal Tendencies,[2]and Y&T.[3] More recently, DeGrasso was a member of Megadeth,[2] a multi-platinum heavy metal band.

He was Alice Cooper’s drummer who played in Wayne’s World (at the very end of the ‘Hey Stoopid’ tour), South America ‘95, Summer ‘96 and ‘97 tours along with filling in for his good friend Eric Singer in Summer ‘08. Prior to his work with Alice Cooper, he played with Talas (before they recorded),Suicidal Tendencies and White Lion.

You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish is the seventh #studio #album by #rock #band REO Speedwagon, released on March 16, 1978. It was their first album to be co-produced by lead singer Kevin Cronin and lead guitarist Gary Richrath. The album was REO's first to make the Top 40, peaking at #29.[3] The album sold over 2 million copies in the U.S. which led it to go 2× Platinum.

This is the first album to feature Bruce Hall on bass, replacing Gregg Philbin. In 2013, the album was released on CD by UK-based company Rock Candy Records, with expanded liner notes and photos.

The track "Time for Me to Fly" was covered by Dolly Parton on her 1989 album White Limozeen. In 2005, the album cover was featured inPitchfork Media's list of "The Worst Record Covers of All Time",[4] and in 2014 its title was featured in NME's list of "The 50 Worst Album Titles in History."[5]

Bruce was a guitarist, keyboard player and vocalist for the original Alice Cooper group[1] (Vince Furnier aka Alice Cooper/Michael Bruce/Glen Buxton/Dennis Dunaway/Neal Smith). He co-wrote many of the hit songs with some or all of the other members of the band. Many times, Michael already had lyrics and music written for a song. The lyrics would then be reworked by Furnier. Two examples of this process are “Halo of Flies“ and ”No More Mr. Nice Guy”. There are several Bruce-only credited songs including “Be My Lover” from Killer. Bruce also sang lead vocal on the majority of “Sing Low, Sweet Cheerio” on the first album Pretties For You and all of “Below Your Means” and “Beautiful Flyaway” on the follow-up Easy Action, prior to the band’s breakthrough album Love It to Death on the Warner Bros. label; Love It to Death was the first Alice Cooper album produced by Bob Ezrin (Pretties For You was produced by Frank Zappa and Ian Underwood;Easy Action was produced by David Briggs who worked with Neil Young).

The Alice Cooper group released five more albums (Killer, School’s Out, Billion Dollar Babies, Muscle of Love and Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits) before taking a break from touring in 1974; Several of the members wanted to record their own solo albums. Welcome to My Nightmare would prove to be the most successful of these solo ventures. A full-length, feature film of the original group was also released to the American cinema in 1974; Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper. The concert footage was shot on the Billion Dollar Babies Tour in 1973 and included a fictional story about an angry director seeking revenge against the band that was shot at Universal Studios in Los Angeles (A scene in the Welcome To My Nightmare concert film, where Alice smashes the neon headstone with a shovel, was also shot during this time). The live concert portion was filmed mostly in Texas (A good deal of which was shot at Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston, Texas) between the Dallas-Fort Worth Area and Houston. Also appearing in Good To See You Again were Bob Dolin, Mick Mashbirand The Amazing Randi; Dolan performed on keyboards, Mashbir on guitar and Randi as the dentist and Alice’s executioner.

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The Chemical Wedding is the fifth #solo #album by #heavy #metal #singer Bruce Dickinson, released on 14 July 1998 through Sanctuary Records. The record draws some inspiration from the works of William Blake, featuring sung and spoken excerpts of his prophetic works and poetry (notably And did those feet in ancient time on the track Jerusalem), and with cover art from his painting The Ghost of a Flea, although the name of the album and its title track derive from the Rosicrucian manifest the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. As with the previous album, it featured Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith, then a member of Dickinson’s solo outfit.

During Cinderella’s temporary break-up in the mid-1990s, LaBar supported himself by running a pizza shop with his brother and by doing assorted construction jobs.

LaBar was also in a side band with Cinderella bandmate Eric Brittingham called Naked Beggars. In April 2007 LaBar and his wife parted ways with Naked Beggars.[3] They hosted an internet radio show “Late Night with the LaBar’s” on Realityradio.biz.[4]

In 2012, LaBar and Cinderella completed their 30th anniversary tour with fellow rock veterans Poison, who were also celebrating 30 years in the business.[5]

LaBar was born in Darby, Pennsylvania and grew up in Upper Darby, just outside Philadelphia.[7]

In an interview from 2016, LaBar admitted to having a substance abuse problem with alcohol for years, and blamed the substance abuse for Cinderella’s inactivity.[8]

LaBar has a son named Sebastian from a previous marriage. Sebastian is the lead guitarist in a band called Mach22 and Tantric.[9]