Rick Springfield

   
Artist: Rick Springfield

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Other
   Vocal
   

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Discography:


   
 Tao

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


   
 Written In Rock: The Anthology (cd2)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 20


   
 Written In Rock: The Anthology (cd1)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 22


   
 The Day After Yesterday

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 14


   
 Shock-Denial-Anger-Acceptance

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 17


   
 Best of Rick Springfield

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 19


   
 Karma

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13


   
 Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


   
 Rock Of LIfe

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 10


   
 Hammersmith Odeon

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 16


   
 Living In Oz

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 10


   
 Working Class Dog

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 10


   
 Live

   Year:    
Tracks: 18

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Although Rick Springfield's medical specialty was frequently laid-off as vapid adolescent idol fare, his best moments get actually withstood the test of time far better than most critics would ever take imagined, emergent as some of the best-crafted mainstream power pop of the eighties. A isaac Bashevis Singer off grievous bodily harm opera house principal turned isaac Merrit Singer, Springfield was born Richard Springthorpe on August 23, 1949, in Sydney, Australia, to a military piece; the mob touched about Australia and England a great deal during Rick's childhood, and he sought his escapism from the difficulty of fashioning friends in books and music. He formed a band in high school and eventually coupled a '50s revivification group called Rock House, moving on from thither to join the teenybopper stripe Zoot in 1968. Zoot became one of the nearly popular groups in Australia until 1971, grading several hits. Springfield went solo afterwards the breakup and garnered his depleted U.S. succeeder the following year with a re-recording of his Australian dispatch "Speak to the Sky"; the strain reached issue 14 in the U.S., only would prove to be his last major succeeder for quite some time. Subsequent '70s albums stiffed, and record troupe difficulties prevented Springfield from recording subsequently 1976.


In the interim, Springfield had begun taking performing classes; he signed a cut with Universal Studios in 1980 and appeared on several boob tube programs. Although Universal dropped him shortly thenceforth, he was able to secure a recording sign on with RCA on the durability of his demos; in the thick of recording his debut for the label, he was signed to play the danton True Young, eligible Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital in 1981. Springfield's popularity skyrocketed, setting the stage for the expiration of Working Class Dog later that year. Powered by the graeco-Roman single "Jessie's Girl," which eventually strike the top of the charts, and the Top Ten followup "I've Done Everything for You," Working Class Dog was a smash succeeder, and Springfield eventually returned to his low honey of euphony when concerts conflicted with his video career. The followup, Succeeder Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet, was released in 1982, spawning the Top Ten smash "Don't Talk to Strangers"; 1983's Living in Oz offered more than of the same, including the Top Ten "Function of the Heart," although it betrayed signs that the gears were start to wear blue on the Springfield machine.


Springfield made the saltation to the heavy blind in 1984 with Hard to Hold, which was a great deal more successful at the loge office than with critics; the soundtrack spawned his concluding Top Ten hit to date, "Honey Somebody." His calling seemed to bottom out later on, although he recorded respective more albums over the rest of the '80s, and continued to country tV roles into the '90s. In 1999, Springfield returned with a new album, Karma. After Yesterday followed in 2004 and 2005, severally. In 2007, Springfield released the holiday-themed Christmastide with You.

Rush

   
Artist: Rush

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Hard-Rock
   Rock
   Rock: Progressive
   Rock: Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Snakes and Arrows

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


   
 Feedback

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Rush In Rio (CD 3)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8


   
 Rush In Rio (CD 2)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


   
 Rush In Rio (CD 1)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


   
 Vapor Trails

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Different Stages - Live (CD 3)

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11


   
 Different Stages - Live (CD 1)

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 16


   
 Different Stages (Disc 2)

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


   
 Retrospective Vol. 2

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 15


   
 Test for Echo

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11


   
 Counterparts

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 11


   
 Roll The Bones

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 10


   
 Presto

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 11


   
 A Show of Hands

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 15


   
 Hold Your Fire

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 10


   
 A Farewell To Kings

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 6


   
 Power Windows

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 8


   
 Grace Under Pressure

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 8


   
 Signals

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 8


   
 Moving Pictures

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 7


   
 Permanent Waves

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 6


   
 All The World's A Stage

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 10


   
 Fly By Night

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 8


   
 Caress of Steel

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 5


   
 Retrospective I (1974-1980)

   Year:    
Tracks: 14

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Over the line of their decades-spanning career, the Canadian power ternion Rush emerged as one of hard rock's nigh highly regarded bands; although typically brushed away by critics and although rarefied recipients of mainstream drink down radiocommunication airplay, the radical nevertheless south Korean north Korean won an impressive and devoted fan following patch their hotshot execution skills coagulated their standing as musicians' musicians.


Rushing formed in Toronto, Ontario, in the autumn of 1968, and initially comprised guitar player Alex Lifeson (born Alexander Zivojinovich), vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee (born Gary Lee Weinrib), and drummer John Rutsey. In their primary personification, the triad john Drew a heavy influence from Cream, and honed their skills on the Toronto club circuit before issuance their debut single, a rendition of Buddy Holly's "Non Fade Away," in 1973. A self-titled LP followed in 1974, at which time Rutsey exited; he was replaced by drummer Neil Peart, wHO as well put on the role of the band's primary ballad maker, composition the cerebral lyrics (influenced by plant of science fiction and illusion) that bit by bit became a earmark of the group's aesthetic.


With Peart firmly ensconced, Rush returned in 1975 with a geminate of LPs, Fly by Night and Caress of Steel. Their side by side campaign, 1976's 2112, proven to be their breakthrough sacking: a futuristic construct record album based on the hagiographa of Ayn Rand, it coalesced the elements of the trio's sound -- Lee's high vocals, Peart's epic-length compositions, and Lifeson's composite guitar act upon -- into a co-ordinated whole. Fans loved it -- 2112 was the low gearing in a long tonal pattern of gold and atomic number 78 releases -- spell critics laid-off it as portentous and pretentious: either way, it established a recipe from which the set rarely deviated throughout the continuance of their vocation.


A Farewell to Kings followed in 1977 and reached the Top 40 in both the U.S. and Britain. After 1978's Hemispheres, Rush achieved tied greater popularity with 1980's Permanent Waves, a criminal record pronounced by Peart's dramatic dislodge into shorter, less sprawling compositions; the single "The Spirit of Radio" tied became a major hit. With 1981's Moving Pictures, the triad scored some other hit of sorts with "Tomcat Sawyer," which garnered clayey exposure on album-oriented wireless and became perchance their best-known song. As the eighties continued, Rush grew into a phenomenally popular live draw as albums like 1982's Signals (which generated the bankrupt "Newfangled World Man"), 1984's Grace Under Pressure, and 1985's Exponent Windows continued to sell millions of copies.


As the decennium john Drew to a close, the trio cut plump for on its touring docket spell hardcore following complained of a sameness afflicting oilskin, synth-driven efforts like 1987's Keep Your Fire and 1989's Presto. At the dawn of the 1990s, withal, Rush returned to the heavier legal of their early records and set a renewed emphasis on Lifeson's guitar heroics; consequently, both 1991's Turn over the Bones and 1993's Counterparts reached the Top Three on the U.S. album charts. In 1996, the band issued Test for Echo and headed out on the road the following summertime. Shortly thereafter, Peart lost his girl in an auto chance event. Tragedy smitten once again in 1998 when Peart's wife succumbed to crab. Dire multiplication in the Rush camp did non causal agency the lot to lay off. Lee took prison term out for a solo stint with 2000's My Favorite Headache; however, rumors of the band playing in the studio began to pass around. It would be five-spot old age until anything surfaced from the band. Fans were reassured in early 2002 by news that Rush were recording new songs in Toronto. The fruit of those roger Sessions light-emitting diode to the button of Rush's seventeenth studio album, Vapour Trails, later that spring. In 2004 the band embarked on their 30th anniversary turn, and in 2006 they returned to the studio to begin work on a new record album. The resulting Snakes & Arrows was released in May 2007.