Lantern-jawed Peter Cetera was the bassist and occasional vocalist of the band Chicago throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was well known for its jazz-inflected pop and distinctive horn section (“Saturday in the Park”, “25 or 6 to 4″), but added another wrinkle in 1976, when the Cetera-penned ballad “If You Leave Me [...]
This song actually hit #70 on the Hot 100 in 1983, but surprisingly did not hit on the Mainstream Rock chart, where many a horrible “rock” song did hit. This video is so bad and so cheesy it HAS to be seen. Is that lead singer a dude?
80s R&B hitmaker Michael Bolton went through a rock phase early in his career. After a couple of failed singer-songwriter solo albums in the mid-1970s, Bolton gave hard rock a try as the frontman of Blackjack, a four-piece unit that also featured future KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick. Bolton (then going by his real name Bolotin), [...]
While Tom Scholz was known as the mastermind and lead guitarist of Boston, the band also featured another talented guitar player that was featured on a few leads himself: Barry Goudreau. After Scholz created the Boston demos in his basement and laid in Brad Delp’s vocals, the song “More Than a Feeling” was instrumental [...]
