Device (Pop-Rock-Band)
Device was a short-lived American pop- rock trio, consisting of keyboardist, bassist and vocalist Holly Knight, vocalist Paul Engemann and guitarist Gene Black.
Career
The only album of the group, 22B3, was released in spring 1986. The decoupled Hanging on a Heart Attack reached number 35 on the U.S. charts, the second single Who Says made it to number 79 Both songs were released as Maxis with remix versions, the videos came into the rotation on MTV. The third single from the album, which reached # 73 on the Billboard 200 and was produced by Mike Chapman, was Did not I Read You Right.
Works outside the band
Knight, who is known as a songwriter, her career began in the early 1980s with the band Spider. They wrote hits for Pat Benatar, Scandal, Heart, Cheap Trick, Tina Turner and many others. Turner coverte Spiders Better Be Good to Me on their album Private Dancer and had a hit with it in 1984.
After the separation of Device Holly Knight released an eponymous 1988 solo album on which their own version of Love Is a Battlefield, which she had written for Pat Benatar, was to find and continued writing songs for other artists. She has published in the late 1980s another solo album.
Paul Engemann on the soundtrack, produced by Giorgio Moroder, sang before, Animotion be followed. It replaced the original singer Bill Wadhams, and sang with Cynthia Rhodes at Animotions Top 10 hit Room to Move From the soundtrack of the movie My Stepmother Is an Alien. Coincidentally, Knight took the original version of Animotions biggest hit obsession on as a duet with Michael Des Barres; they wrote the song A heavenly lout from 1983 appeared on the soundtrack of the film, together.
Black Gene continued to work as a session musician and played in the band Wild Blue, the most famous singles Fire with Fire and International Language of Dance were.
22B3 was re-released on CD by Renaissance Records in 2007.