Cutting Crew
Cutting Crew was an Anglo- Canadian band, which became known in the 1980s with songs such as (I Just) Died in Your Arms and I've Been in Love Before.
Band History
Was founded Cutting Crew by the Englishman Nicholas "Nick" Van Eede and the Canadians Kevin MacMichael. 1986 the debut album Broadcast, which was also the most commercially successful album of the band. The single release (I Just) Died in Your Arms reached # 1 on the U.S. Billboard charts. The two follow-up albums The Scattering and Compus Mentus could not build on the success of the first album.
After bassist Colin Farley and drummer Martin Beedle had left the band after the second album to Cutting Crew in the early 1990s broke up definitively. The band members remained active in the music business. So played guitar MacMichael with Robert Plant. Singer Van Eede toured during the Christmas season in 2002 with " The Nokia Night of the Proms " by Germany.
On 31 December 2002 MacMichael died of lung cancer.
Nick van Eede started in 2003 the music project Grinning Souls and 2005 released a self-titled album, which he dedicated to his late friend MacMichael. The album was not available in retail stores, but could only be ordered online.
In January 2006, Grinning Souls was then published as " the new Cutting Crew album" in Germany. In February 2006 Nick van Eede toured with guest musicians under the name Cutting Crew by Germany. Colin Farley and Martin Beedle were not on stage.
Discography
- Broadcasting (1986)
- The Scattering (1989 )
- Compus Mentus (1992 )
- Grinning Souls (2005/2006)