While Perry had retreated from the public eye, Schon and Cain spent the rest of 1987 collaborating with artists such as Jimmy Barnes and Michael Bolton before teaming up with Cain’s ex-Babys bandmates John Waite and Ricky Phillips to form the supergroup Bad English with drummer Deen Castronovo in 1988,…
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He had in fact been diagnosed as HIV positive in 1987, but did not make his illness public, with only his inner circle of colleagues and friends aware of his condition.
In 1987, during the filming of Eat the Rich – in which Lemmy was taking a starring role alongside well-known comedy actors such as Robbie Coltrane , Kathy Burke , the regulars from the Comic Strip ensemble, and various other musician cameo appearances – Gill left the band and Taylor…
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It was the band’s first album to be certified Gold on November 4, 1986
In November 1986 Frehley signed a six-album deal with Megaforce Records . Sabino and Regan had left the band at that point but Regan returned from touring with John Waite and Patti Smith after the recording deal was signed. In December 1986, before they made their initial record, with producer…
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Triumph took a more commercial turn with their 1986 studio album, The Sport of Kings . Rik Emmett’s “Somebody’s Out There” reached the American Top 40 in late 1986, a significant amount of radio and video exposure. Written and recorded in the eleventh hour of The Sport of Kings sessions,…
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In 1986, Alice Cooper officially returned to the music industry with the studio album Constrictor . The album spawned the hits ” He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask) ” (the theme song for the movie Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives ; in the video for the song…
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Not satisfied with the album’s keyboard-dominated production nor the band’s commercialized image, John Norum decided to leave Europe in October 1986 to pursue a solo career. “I didn’t really like the direction the band was going in,” Norum said, “We became this teeny-bopper, bubblegum band and I hated that whole…
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Black Sabbath began work on new material in October 1986 at AIR Studios in Montserrat with producer Jeff Glixman .
In October 1986, two months after his final concert, Mercury, on his return to London from holiday, was confronted by a tabloid frenzy at Heathrow Airport with the British newspapers the News of the World and The Sun reporting he had his blood tested for HIV/AIDS at a Harley Street…
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