Category: Melodic Rock | AOR

In the late 80s keyboardist Eric Ragno (Takara, Ted Poley, Steve Grimmett, American Angel, Danny Vaughn, Hugo/Ramos and countless others) started a new band called CHINA BLUE, with many songs that were written at the time.

Eric’s career gained momentum performing & recording with various bands and moved in a different directions until he played some of the old China Blue demos to his friend Michael Riesenbeck. Michael encouraged Eric to take the best out of the songs and add new material to round out a complete album. He and Eric co-wrote some great songs together and he pushed Eric to start the job to put together a recording line-up for the album and just go out and do his own thing.

On vocals, Eric recruited none other than at the time new

Genre: Hard Rock
Year of publication: 2008-2010
Country of artist (group): pic UK

2008. Thunder – The Joy of Six (3 EP Box Set) 2008, UK, STC Recordings
CD1: Six Of One…
CD2: …Half A Dozen Of The Other
CD3: The Joy Of Six

2010. Thunder – Live At The BBC 1990-1995 (Box Set) 2010, EU, EMI BOOTBOX4

CD1: Hammersmith Odeon, London 9th December 1990, Part 1
CD2: Hammersmith Odeon, London 9th December 1990, Part 2 + Wembley Arena, London 20th January 1991
CD3: Monsters Of Rock Festival 1992, Castle Donington 22nd August 1992
CD4: Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield 6th June 1993
CD5: Shepherds Bush Empire, London 8th December 1994
CD6: BBC Sessions – Live Aco

Artist: Colin Blunstone  Album: The Ghost Of You And Me  Genre: Melodic  Rock, AOR  Format: APE (image+.cue, log, scans)  | MP3 CBR 320  Size: 273 Mb | 98 Mb

Tracklist:

01. The Ghost Of You and Me
02. Follow
03. Dance With Life
04. Second Avenue
05. Beginning / Let’s Keep The Curtains Closed Todey
06. Any Other Way
07. Now I Know I’ll Never Get Over You
08. Feels Like Rain
09. Love Left A Long Time Ago
10. The Sun Will Rise Again

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Grant Stevens is a truly unique globe-trotting artist that I’m thrilled to announce as my first MRC Tasmanian signing. The album is Grant’s AOR flavoured singer/songwriter CBS Records major label debut, ‘Grant Stevens’, originally released in 1989.

Grant Stevens grew up in Sydney’s western suburbs, forming his first band in high-school then leaving for London at age 18 to gain experience in the European market. He was fortunate to meet and perform with the The Who producer Kit Lambert and to get major label record deals with 2 London bands, Soho Jets and Razar. He built his home and career in Germany since 1985, was the establishing himself in the music business, writing lyrics for many different artists and also singing both in th

All we know the melodic hard rock side of Paul Sabu since the mid-Eighties as solo artist, while also collaborating with the likes of David Bowie and Madonna to Precious Metal, Silent Rage, and many others in between.
But a young Sabu started his career in the Seventies recording some stuff mixing the popular ‘disco music’ of the era with Rock.
The band or alter ego Kidd Glove was his first approach to pure Melodic Rock, with an AOR / Radio Rock sound typical of the year (1984) in the U.S. We already featured here the YesterRock and Rock Candy Records reissues of the self-titled album “Kidd Glove”.

But there’s other version – requested here – appeared in 1995 via excellent label Long Island Records, an

Genre: AOR, Pop, Rock, Christian
Country of disc (release): USA
Year of publication: 1988, 1984/1986
Publisher (label): BENSON Records
Catalog number: CD02462
Country of artist (group): USA

Tracklist:
01. Stand
02. Here I Am Again
03. Only the Overcomers
04. You Alone Are Holy
05. Children Things We Throw Away
06. Not By Might
07. The Watchman
08. Choose You This Day
09. Sing About the Blood
10. The Battle Is the Lord&#821

Genre: Rock
Country of disc (release): EU
Year of publication: 2024
Publisher (label): BMG
Catalog number: BMGCAT918CD
Country of artist (group): USA

Tracklist:
01. Cheap Shots
02. These Doors
03. Insomnia
04. Nomad
05. Escape
06. On The Table
07. This Is A Test
08. Nihilist

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DAVID ROBERTS‘ magnum opus ‘All Dressed Up’ (1982) is considered as a milestone in the AOR / Westcoast genre and it’s easy to explain why. Although it was David’s first album, the man knew how to write catchy songs and  perform them in a breathtaking AOR way. Add to that the support of an excellent producer in

Artist: Amaze Me  Album: Dream On  Genre: Melodic Hard Rock, AOR Format: FLAC (image+.cue, log, scans)  | MP3 CBR 320  Size: 397 Mb | 116 Mb

Tracklist:

1. Dream On
2. It’s All Over
3. Danger
4. My Heart Says Forever
5. Wild Dogs
6. That Night
7. What About Heaven
8. Hold On To Love
9. All I Ever Wanted
10. I Am Waiting
11. I’m Never Coming Back (bonus)

Band:

Peter Broman – all instruments, backing vocals
Conny Lind – lead vocals

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