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John Waite was born on July 4, 1955 in Lancaster, Lancashire ENGLAND;
it was during the winter of 1975 that the British singer+bass player &
songwriter first cut his teeth with The Babys playing gigs on the London
scene. This group disbanded in 1981, after five albums and a handful of
great songs, such as "Isn't It Time" and "Every Time I
Think Of You".
After relocating to New York, Waite embarked on a solo career, releasing
his debut album, "Ignition", in 1982, it reached the #68 position
on the U.S. Top 200 LPs & Tapes chart and its main single, "Change",
cracked the top 20 of The Mainstream Rock chart.
Two years later he released the breakthrough "No Brakes", which
rose to #14 on American Billboard Top 200 chart, lead by an international
smash single, "Missing You", it peaked at #1 on The Billboard
Hot 100 and reached #12 on Mainstream Rock chart, the track also hit #9
in the British chart becoming an album-Rock radio staple around the globe;
the second album yielded another hit single, "Tears" which soared
to #8 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks chart plus the minor hit "Restless
Heart".
The singer followed-up in 1985 with "Mask Of Smiles", an album
which reached a respectable #36 in U.S. Top 200 chart and generated the
Mainstream Rock top 5 hit "Every Step Of The Way" and "Welcome
To Paradise", which scraped the lower reaches of The Billboard Hot
100.
A year later, Waite contributed the song, "If Anybody Had A Heart",
to the soundtrack for the movie "About Last Night", released
as a single the track entered The Billboard Hot 100 at #76 and made top
30 on Mainstream Rock chart.
His next album, "Rover's Return", was released in 1987, it reached
#77 on The Billboard 200 list and produced a couple of Billboard's Hot
100 charting single: "Don't Lose Any Sleep" and "These
Times Are Hard For Lovers", the latter of which hit #6 on The Mainstream
Rock Tracks list; the third single, the ballad "Act Of Love",
failed to chart.
John Waite returned to the top of the charts in the late '80s with the
Pop-Rock super group Bad English, the
band boke-up after two albums, in 1991. That same year, the singer resumed
his solo career with a single called "Deal For Life", this excellent
power ballad became part of the soundtrack for the Tom Cruise movie "Days
Of Thunder".
Four years later, he had a new Billboard's Hot 100 chart hit with the
ballad "How Did I Get By Without You", the song was included
in his fifth solo effort, "Temple Bar".
In September 1997 was released "When You Were Mine", but this
album was completely ignored.
Waite resurfaced, nearly four years later, with another disappointing
album titled "Figure In A Landscape".
With his voice in fine form, he would release "The Hard Way"
in autumn of 2004, the album included the Adult Contemporary top 30 hit
"New York City Girl".
"Downtown Journey Of A Heart", issued through the Italian Frontiers
label in July 2006, is a collection of new recordings of John Waite's
greatest hits, including a duet with Alison Krauss on a new rendition
of the unforgettable "Missing You" plus re-recordings of other
songs Waite made famous such as The Babys' "Isn't It Time" and
Bad English's "When I See You
Smile"; he also adds the sweeping ballad "St. Patrick's Day".
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