Thursday 19 June 2008

Bob Sege

Bob Sege   
Artist: Bob Sege

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band   
 Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 10




Originally a hard-driving rocker in the vein of fellow Michigan garage rockers the Rationals and Mitch Ryder, Bob Seger developed into one of the most popular heartland rockers over the grade of the '70s. Combining the driving charge of Ryder's Detroit Wheels with Stonesy garage rock and devotion to hard-edged soul and R&B, he crafted a distinctively American heavy. While he never attained the decisive regard of his present-day Bruce Springsteen, Seger did develop a dedicated following through constant touring with his Silver Bullet Band. Following various years of missed chances and bemused opportunities, Seger at long last achieved a national interview in 1976 with the back-to-back freeing of Live Bullet and Night Moves. After the atomic number 78 success of those albums, Seger maintained his popularity for the next deuce decades, releasing seven-spot Top Ten, platinum-selling albums in a row.


Seger began playing music in 1961 as the drawing card of the Detroit-based ternary the Decibels; his future managing director, Eddie "Punch" Andrews was as well a member of the band. Moving to Ann Arbor, he played with the Town Criers before he became the keyboardist and vocaliser for Doug Brown & the Omens. Billing themselves as the Beach Bums, the band released "The Ballad of the Yellow Beret," a takeoff of the Sgt. Barry Sadler song "The Ballad of the Green Beret." The single was withdrawn in short after its freeing after Sadler threatened a lawsuit. In 1966, Seger released his number 1 solo single, "East Side Story," which became a regional strike. Several other local hit singles followed on Cameo Records, including "Persecution Smith" and "Heavy Music," before his label folded. In 1968, he formed the Bob Seger System and sign-language with Capitol Records, releasing his debut album, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, in the spring of that year. The title track became a national strike, mounting to number 17, simply the group's followup, Noah, stiffed and Seger distinct to quit the music business at the end of 1969 to go to college.


By the last of the summer, Seger had returned to rock & roll with a new mount banding, releasing Mongrel at the last of the class. For 1971's Brand New Morning, he disbanded his group and recorded a singer/songwriter elbow grease. Following its release, he began playacting with the duette Dave Teegarden and Skip "Van Winkle" Knape, and the yoke provided backing on 1972's Smokin' O.P.'s, which was the showtime outlet on Palladium Records, a pronounce he formed with Andrews. The album failed to sell, as did Back in '72 (1973) and Seven (1974), and he affected back to Capitol Records for 1975's Beautiful Loser. For the recording of Beautiful Loser, Seger formed the Silver Bullet Band, which consisted of guitarist Drew Abbott, bassist Chris Campbell, keyboardist Robyn Robbins, saxophonist Alto Reed, and drummer Charlie Allen Martin. Seger supported Beautiful Loser with an extensive duty tour with the Silver Bullet Band, and while it didn't build the album a strike, it provided a widespread grassroots following across the country. The touring gainful off in 1976, when Live Bullet, a double album recorded in Detroit, became a murder, disbursal over three years on the U.S. charts and going gold; the album would eventually go quadruple pt.


The groundswell slow Live Bullet sent Seger's future studio album, Night Moves (1976), into the Top Ten early in 1977. Nighttime Moves became a blockbuster, generating the stumble singles "Night Moves," "Mainstreet," and "Rock & Roll Never Forgets." Stranger in Town, released in the summer 1978, was just as successful, featuring the hits "Soundless the Same," "Hollywood Nights," "We've Got Tonite," and "Onetime Time Rock & Roll." Stranger in Town positive his status as ane America's about popular bikers. Seger's future album, 1980's Against the Wind, became his showtime number ane album and all of its big hits -- "Fire Lake," "Against the Wind," "You'll Accomp'ny Me" -- were ballads. The live album Nine Tonight continued his multi-platinum success in 1981, merchandising three gazillion copies and peaking at number tierce.


Seger returned with The Distance in 1982. The Distance was the showtime album since Seven to be recorded with the plus of session musicians, which caused guitar player Abbott to depart the band in thwarting. Over the class of the next 10, the membership of the Silver Bullet Band shifted constantly. While The Distance featured "Attaint on the Moon," his biggest murder single to escort, its gross revenue plateaued at a gazillion copies, suggesting that his popularity was beginning to layer turned. Seger likewise began to drastically reduce his transcription and touring schedules -- he just released unitary other record album, 1986's Like a Rock, during the '80s. Like a Rock and its supporting spell were both successes, pavement the way of life for "Shakedown," a sung dynasty taken from the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop II, to suit Seger's lone number one hit in 1987. Four age after its sacking, he returned with The Fire Inside. Although the album went atomic number 78 and reached the Top Ten, it only appealed to Seger's devoted next, as did 1995's It's a Mystery, which became his first album since Live Bullet to fail to go atomic number 78, demolishing off at gold status. In 2006, after an 11-year hiatus, Seger released Face the Promise.





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Saturday 14 June 2008

British singer Craig David relaunching U.S. career

DETROIT (Billboard) - Armed with a hot David Bowie sample and a successful overseas track record, British R&B singer Craig David is ready to re-invade America -- and says he's willing to work to make the Yanks care about it.


"I'm going to have to slowly but surely build momentum back in the States," David told Billboard.com. He's not necessarily a stranger to the U.S.; his 2000 debut "Born To Do It" went platinum with hits such as "Fill Me In" and "7 Days," while 2002's "Slicker Than Your Average" was certified gold.


But, David said, "It's been a good, like, four years or so that I've been away from America. To come back in and say, 'I'm here! Accept me!,' I'd be fooling myself. America's not waiting for me. It's open with all arms if you're hungry and you go in and make things happen, so I know I've got to work from the grass roots upward."


With his fourth album, "Trust Me" (Warner Bros.) issued in the United States last month after a 2007 release overseas, David is busy trotting around the U.S., visiting radio stations to drum up excitement for the single "Hot Stuff (Let's Dance)," which is built on a Bowie-approved sample from his 1983 hit "Let's Dance." David, who has a second residence in Miami these days, then hopes to return with his band for a concert tour some time this summer.


"You have to split yourself off from the success you may be having elsewhere," said David. "You're playing (London's) Wembley Arena, and the next thing you're in a program director's office playing to that one person acoustically ... while the person's messing around with his sticky notes and talking to people on the phone. But you're hoping that record gets added, which you know can create an incredible ripple and domino effect, so you do what you have to do to make things happen."


And, David added, he's willing to be patient about that process. "I'm young -- I'm only 27 now -- and I've got a new record and I'm excited. If this album just stars the ripple to which I drop a next record, then that's what it's all about. I'm not expecting to just come here and, bang!, Craig David's back. I have to work it hard."


Reuters/Billboard