In a video interview from March 2007, Mike Reno confirmed that the band finished recording a new studio album released in 2007. Titled Just Getting Started , it was released in October, with a clip of the first single “The One That Got Away” available on the band’s MySpace page.…
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Loverboy celebrated 25 years together in 2005 and began to perform in selected cities to commemorate this milestone. That tour continued with live concerts scheduled well into August 2006. Also in 2005, Loverboy was one of the featured bands on the American version of Hit Me, Baby, One More Time…
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In 2006, twenty-five years after its initial release, Get Lucky was remastered and re-released with several previously unreleased songs, including the original demo of ” Working for the Weekend “.
The band went on to release a live album, Live, Loud and Loose , in 2001, which consisted of refurbished early live concert recordings from the band’s intense touring years from 1982 to 1986. The year 2001 also brought another round of touring, this time dedicated to Scott Smith. Ken…
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The band continued touring until November 30, 2000, when bassist Scott Smith was presumed dead after being washed overboard by a large wave while sailing in San Francisco Bay. He was 45 years old.
Keyboardist Richard Sera came on to fill in for Johnson in December 1996 through 1997.
The band’s record label released its second and third compilation albums, Loverboy Classics and Temperature’s Rising , in 1994. Loverboy Classics went Gold by 1998, coinciding with another American tour. This was followed by the releases of Six and Super Hits in 1997.
On October 6, 1991, the band reunited again to join fellow rockers Bryan Adams , Colin James , Chrissy Steele, and Bill Henderson of Chilliwack at a benefit show at Vancouver’s 86 Street Music Hall to raise over $50,000 for Henderson’s former bandmate, Brian MacLeod , who was fighting cancer…
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Dean released a solo album, Hardcore , in May 1989 and a Loverboy greatest-hits album, Big Ones , was released later that same year, in October, to fulfill Loverboy’s obligation to Columbia Records . The group briefly reunited in late 1989 to tour (with Geraldo Valentino Dominelli on keyboards filling…
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The release of Wildside , the band’s fifth album, followed in September 1987. While it scored a minor hit with “Notorious”, co-written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora , the album sold relatively poorly and the band broke up in 1988 due to tensions between Dean and Reno.