Bruce Turgon
Bruce Turgon (born April 25, 1952) is an American bass guitarist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer. Bruce has played in several bands throughout his career including: Foreigner, The Lou Gramm Band, Shadow King, Steve Stevens, Warrior, Black Sheep and Showcase. Biography Turgon was born and raised in North Chili, New York, a suburb of Rochester, and near the hometown of future bandmate and singer Lou Gramm. Turgon began playing as a multi-instrumentalist in elementary school. In high school, he joined the Rochester-based cover band Showcase, competing in the same market as the Gramm-fronted band Poor Heart. Turgon and Gramm started the band Black Sheep in late 1971, which built a strong regional following over the next two years. The Gramm-Turgon EP ''Stick Around'', which led the group to be signed to Capitol, was released on Chrysalis in 1974. The band released two albums in 1974, and was poised for continued success when a highway accident in 1975 damaged their ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chili, New York
Chili ( ) is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States. The population was 28,625 at the 2010 census. It is a suburb of the city of Rochester. The Town of Chili was established in 1822 from part of the Town of Riga. North Chili was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Black Creek Park is one of many parks in Chili where visitors can make use of nature trails that run along the creek. History The Chili area was once the hunting ground of the Seneca Indians. The first white settler was Captain Joseph Morgan who purchased land from Peter Sheffer of neighboring Wheatland. The area of Chili became part of the newly formed Northampton. With the formation of Monroe County the area became part of the Town of Riga before splitting off into its own Town of Chili on February 22, 1822. Chili was named after the country of Chile which was striving for independence at the time. Some suggest that the town was named after the Chiliasts religion embraced by some of the early sett ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rochester, New York
Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, and Yonkers, New York, Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in Western New York, the city of Rochester forms the core of a larger Rochester metropolitan area, New York, metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties. The city was one of the United States' first boomtowns, initially due to the fertile Genesee River Valley, which gave rise to numerous flour mills, and then as a manufacturing center, which spurred further rapid population growth. Rochester rose to prominence as the birthplace and home of some of America's most iconic companies, in particular Eastman Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb (along with Wegmans, Gannett, Paychex, Western Union, French's, Cons ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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True Blue Love
"True Blue Love" is a single by Lou Gramm, from his second solo album ''Long Hard Look'', released in 1989 (See 1989 in music). Chart positions References 1989 songs 1989 singles Songs written by Lou Gramm Songs written by Peter Wolf (producer) Atlantic Records singles Song recordings produced by Peter Wolf (producer) {{1980s-pop-song-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Just Between You And Me (Lou Gramm Song)
"Just Between You and Me" is a single by American singer Lou Gramm from his second solo album ''Long Hard Look'', released in 1989 (see 1989 in music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989. __TOC__ Specific locations * 1989 in British music * 1989 in Norwegian music * 1989 in American music Specific genres *1989 in country music * 1989 in heavy metal ...). It was a No.6 hit in the United States and peaked at No.2 in Canada. Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References 1989 singles Songs written by Holly Knight Atlantic Records singles Songs written by Lou Gramm 1989 songs {{1980s-pop-song-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Long Hard Look
''Long Hard Look'' is the second solo album from original Foreigner lead vocalist Lou Gramm, released in 1989 (See 1989 in music). Track listing #"Angel with a Dirty Face" (Gramm, Ina Wolf, Peter Wolf) - 5:14 #" Just Between You and Me" (Gramm, Holly Knight) - 4:56 #"Broken Dreams" (Gramm, Ina Wolf, Peter Wolf) - 5:54 #"True Blue Love" (Gramm, Peter Wolf) - 4:58 #"I'll Come Running" (Gramm, Bruce Turgon) - 4:06 #"Hangin' on My Hip" (Gramm, Bruce Turgon) - 3:38 #"Warmest Rising Sun" (Gramm) - 5:11 #"Day One" (Gramm, Bruce Turgon, Peter Wolf) - 3:17 #"I'll Know When It's Over" (Gramm, Bruce Turgon) - 4:35 #"Tin Soldier" (Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott) - 3:24 Charts Production * Arranged by Peter Wolf, Lou Gramm and Bruce Turgon. * Produced by Peter Wolf, except "Tin Soldier" (produced by Peter Wolf and Eric "E.T." Thorngren). * Recorded by Gonzalo Espinoza and Paul Ericksen, except bass on "Warmest Rising Sun" recorded bu Jules Bowen and Eric Thorngren. * Additional recording ass ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Midnight Blue (Lou Gramm Song)
"Midnight Blue" is a song by American rock singer-songwriter Lou Gramm, issued as a 7" single in the United States in January 1987 by Atlantic Records. It was the lead-off single from Gramm's debut album, '' Ready or Not'', released in February 1987. An extended remix of the song was available as a 12" single. Reception In a contemporary review, '' Cash Box'' praised the single as being "riveting" and "triumphant." Bret Adams has described "Midnight Blue" as "a terrific pop/rock song" on AllMusic. He has claimed that "despite its hit status, it's one of the decade's truly underappreciated singles". Stephen Thomas Erlewine, while reviewing the Foreigner retrospective collection ''Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology'' (2000), has called the song "the last great single of the album-rock era". The single peaked at number 5 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and spent five weeks on the top of the Mainstream Rock chart, starting on 14 February 1987. "Midnight Blue" has remained ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ready Or Not (Lou Gramm Album)
''Ready or Not'' is the debut solo studio album by American rock singer-songwriter Lou Gramm, released in February 1987 by Atlantic Records. Production Eight of the ten songs, which comprise ''Ready Or Not'', were written by Gramm in partnership with former Black Sheep bandmate Bruce Turgon. The album was recorded in 1986 at Bear Tracks Recording in Suffern, New York and The Hit Factory Recording in New York City. It was produced by Gramm and Pat Moran, who is known as an engineer on recordings by such performers as Rush and Robert Plant. Reception ''Ready Or Not'' was a commercial success, reaching number 27 on the US ''Billboard'' 200. It generated two hit songs. The lead-off single, "Midnight Blue", peaked at number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and climbed to the top of the Mainstream Rock chart. It has been Gramm's only song to have charted in the United Kingdom. The second single from the album was the title song, which reached number 54 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Crazy Nights
''Crazy Nights'' is the fourteenth studio album by American rock band Kiss, recorded from March to June 1987 and released on September 21, 1987, by Mercury worldwide and Vertigo in the UK. This was the second album to feature the line-up of Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, and Eric Carr. The album is notable for featuring heavy use of pop-metal keyboards and synthesizers. It was re-released in 1998 as part of the Kiss Remasters series and is the last Kiss album to have been remastered. A relatively high number of songs from ''Crazy Nights'' were performed live during its supporting tour, but during and especially immediately following the tour, most of those songs were dropped and were never performed again. Only the song "Crazy Crazy Nights" was retained in their setlist for the ''Hot in the Shade Tour'' which followed a couple of years later; it was dropped after that tour and would not return for nearly 20 years until the ''Sonic Boom Over Europe Tour''. This makes ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Desmond Child
John Charles Barrett (born October 28, 1953), known professionally as Desmond Child, is an American songwriter and producer. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008. His hits as a songwriter include Kiss's "I Was Made for Lovin' You"; Joan Jett & the Blackhearts' "I Hate Myself for Loving You"; Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin' on a Prayer", " Bad Medicine", and "Born to Be My Baby "; Aerosmith's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady), "Angel", " What It Takes" and "Crazy"; Cher's "We All Sleep Alone" and "Just Like Jesse James"; Alice Cooper's "Poison"; Michael Bolton's "How Can We Be Lovers?"; and Ricky Martin's "The Cup of Life" and "Livin' la Vida Loca". Career Child's career started when he formed an R&B-influenced pop rock band, Desmond Child & Rouge in 1975 with singers Myriam Valle, Maria Vidal, and Diana Grasselli, backed by hired musicians. The band was known for their inclusion on the soundtrack to '' The Warriors'' in 1979, with the song "Last o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paul Stanley
Paul Stanley (born Stanley Bert Eisen; January 20, 1952) is an American musician who is the co-founder, frontman, rhythm guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the hard rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's most popular songs. Stanley established The Starchild character for his Kiss persona. Stanley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as a member of Kiss. In 2006, ''Hit Parader'' ranked him 18th on their list of the Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. A Gibson.com readers' poll in 2010 named him 13th on their list of Top 25 Frontmen. Early life Stanley Bert Eisen was born January 20, 1952, in upper Manhattan, New York City, near 211th St. and Broadway; the Inwood neighborhood near Inwood Hill Park. Both of his parents are Jewish. He was the second of two children; his sister Julia was born two years earlier. Their mother came from a family that fled Nazi Germany to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and then to New York City. His father's p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Prism (band)
Prism (styled as PRiSM) is a Canadian rock band formed in Vancouver in 1977. They were originally active from 1977 to 1984 and have been active again from 1987 to present. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Ron Tabak, guitarist Lindsay Mitchell, keyboardist John Hall, bassist Allen Harlow and drummer Rocket Norton. The band's sound is a mix of album-oriented rock ( AOR) and pop rock and they have released a total of eight studio albums, three compilation albums and one live album. Prism's success has been primarily in Canada where they won the Canadian music industry Juno Award for 'Group of the Year' in 1981, although they also reached the US top 40 charts with 1981's " Don't Let Him Know". Prism is also noteworthy for launching the careers of several former group members, including international record producer Bruce Fairbairn, songwriter Jim Vallance, Powder Blues Band frontman Tom Lavin and Headpins and Chilliwack musician Ab Bryant. A pre-fame Bryan Adams als ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nick Gilder
Nicholas George Gilder (born 21 December 1951) is a British-Canadian musician who first came to prominence as the frontman for the glam rock band Sweeney Todd. He later had a successful solo career as a singer/songwriter. Biography Born in London, England, Gilder was raised in Vancouver, Canada. He began his career as front-man for the glam rock band Sweeney Todd, which later briefly featured a very young Bryan Adams. Sweeney Todd had a number one hit, "Roxy Roller", that held on to the top spot in the Canadian music charts for three weeks in 1976. It went on to win a Juno Award for " Best Selling Single" in 1977. Feeling they had international scope, Gilder and fellow band member, guitarist, and songwriting partner James McCulloch left the band and signed a US record deal. It was his second solo album, which spawned the hit "Hot Child in the City", that gave Gilder chart success in the United States. That song went to No. 1 both in Canada and the US. It also earned him two mo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |