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This Pop-Metal band was founded in mid-'80s in Boston, Massachusetts
USA, by singer Gary Cherone and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, the pair hooked
up with bass player Pat Badger, drummer Paul Geary and began touring throughout
the States.
A recording contract with A&M Records was quickly secured and in
1989 the foursome released their self-titled debut album which cracked
the The Billboard 200 chart and generated their first Mainstream Rock
top 40 hit, "Kid Ego".
In September of 1990 the group launched their breakthrough LP, "Extreme
II: Pornograffitti", the record climbed into the top 10 of The Billboard
Top 200 chart and included the simple acoustic ballad, "More Than
Words", which topped The Billboard Hot 100 and stormed the European
charts reaching the #2 in Britain where another single, "Get The
Funk Out", entered the top 20, the group's second album yielded another
big hit, "Hole Hearted", it peaked at #4 and #2 spots respectively
on The Billboard Hot 100 and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts.
Almost exactly two years later, "III Sides To Every Story" was
released and entered the top 10 of both the U.S. and U.K. Albums charts,
its first single, "Rest In Peace", shot to #1 on Billboard's
Active Rock chart, two more singles, "Stop The World" and "Everything
Under The Sun: II. Am I Ever Gonna Change", ranked in the top 10
in the same chart.
In the summer of 1994, Mike Mangini replaced Geary on drums and the band
started recording the fourth album, "Waiting For The Punchline",
which arrived in January 1995 but scraped the lower reaches of the top
40 of The Billboard Top 200 chart and generated only one Mainstream Rock
top 30 hit, "Hip Today".
After the commercial failure of the record Extreme announced they were
breaking up, Bettencourt announced plans to release a solo album and Cherone
went on to front Van Halen for 1998's
"Van Halen III".
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