Air Supply
The friendship between Englishman Graham Russell and Australian Russell Hitchcock began during the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, where they played and sang under the direction of pianist Frank Smith, who later collaborated with the duo on several songs.
The musical was staged in Melbourne in the early 1970s. Graham and Russell were part of the cast of musicians and also sang in the show's chorus, which is how they became partners. They recorded their first album in 1976, but only became known as Air Supply from the following year, with the release of Love & Other Bruises.
The album debuted on the Australian charts with the songs 'Love and Other Bruises' at number 2 and 'Empty Pages' at number 18, attracting the attention of singer Rod Stewart, who invited them to open for him on his US and Canadian tour.
The third album came out while they were packing their bags. The Whole Thing Started was also released in '77, adding another song to the local charts. 'Do What You Do' reached number 16 and in just one year they achieved more than they could have imagined, proving the saying "join the good guys..." true. In fact, the visibility provided by the association with Rod Stewart was fundamental in boosting Air Supply's career, although today it's just a detail in the duo's musical history.
Life Support, recorded in 1978 and released in 1979, featured the hit 'Lost in Love' at number 1 on the Australian charts and also achieved success in the United States in another version. The following year they were already artists at Arista Records, with a multi-platinum debut album featuring the hits 'All Out of Love', 'Every Woman in the World' and the title track 'Lost in Love', which occupied the 2nd, 3rd and 5th positions on the American Top 5 – the first of eight of them. Furthermore, Air Supply was proclaimed Best Pop Group and received several awards for best song.
In 1981, The One That You Love was voted the second best album of the year in the United States, earning the duo a BIM Award and six more platinum records for the songs 'Here I Am', 'Sweet Dreams', and the title track. The 1982 album also went multi-platinum, as did the others released throughout the decade. Then, in 1988, Graham and Russell embarked on solo careers, reuniting years later for the albums Vanishing Race (1993), News From Nowhere (1995), The Book of Love (1997), and several compilations. In this decade they released Yours Truly (2001), Across the Concrete Sky, and Forever Love (2003).
In their definition, "air supply is the essential air for the survival of romantic music that pleases people all over the world," and Graham Russell understands romanticism well, being the main lyricist of the duo. Since this adventure began, he has composed about 300 songs, in addition to being very good with melodies, as he himself says, influenced by the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and the Tony Bennett records he listened to in his adolescence. In July 2005, Graham and Russell released the DVD It Was 30 Years Ago Today to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary.
In 2007, composer and vocalist Graham Russell began a solo project, composing songs to be released alongside his 2007 tour, an album called The Future. This was the first time Graham released an album in which he was the sole singer, without his partner Hitchcock.
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Air Supply
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