Joe Lynn Turner

Joe Lynn Turner ( born August 2, 1951 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is an American singer. He is best known for his involvement in the rock bands Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen 's Rising Force and Deep Purple.

Biography

After his first experience in the bands Filet of Soul and Ezra, Joe Lynn Turner, 1977, the formation Fandango joined as a guitarist and singer. Created four albums in that time. Through his work at Fandango Ritchie Blackmore became aware of him, as it was looking for a lead singer for his band Rainbow. Since consisting predominantly of British band now until then had an American as a singer, they tried to land on the U.S. market.

1984 Rainbow was laid by Blackmore on ice to leave Deep Purple rise again. Turner first worked alone and brought in 1985 his first solo LP out, " Rescue You". He recorded a number of albums and it also developed into one of the most sought after session musicians in the industry.

In the fall of 1986, the former Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Asia drummer Carl Palmer tried in New York City, put together a new band. Possible musicians this Joe Lynn Turner, former Foreigner keyboardist Al Greenwood and the Californian singer, bassist and guitarist Robert Berry had brought. But the common samples were unsatisfactory for all concerned and a band did not materialize.

1990 Turner then worked at Deep Purple during the recording of the album " Slaves And Masters " and on the tour. Her follow-up album was already in the works, but there were internal things in the band, on the basis of which he was again replaced by the previous singer Ian Gillan and Deep Purple left. He now turned to projects such as Brazen Abbot and Mother 's Army.

Since 1997, appear regularly solo albums by Turner, and since 2002 there is the " Hughes Turner Project" together with Glenn Hughes. Previously released two studio albums " HTP " and " HTP 2 " and the live album "Live In Tokyo". A planned third album since 2004 not appeared so far. In 2003, another solo album by Turner with the simple title " JLT ". In 2006, he took along with Blackmore and his partner Candice Night for their joint project Blackmore 's Night, a new version of the Rainbow - Street of Dreams hits on this is to listen to the extended version of the album The Village Lanterne. In the 2013 published Avantasia album The Mystery Of Time, he took a vocal role in 4 titles.

Joe Lynn Turner was also active solo. Emerged several albums from his time at Fandango, Rainbow, Brazen Abbot, Mothers Army, Deep Purple and other projects. The following discography is not exhaustive, there are other projects in which Turner was there, such as at St. Nicholas Kotzev, Stuart Smith, Yngwie Malmsteen and Billy Joel.

2014 he is with Carmine Appice (drums, ex- Ozzy Osbourne ), Tony Franklin ( Bass, Blue Murder ) and Jeff Watson (guitar, ex- Night Ranger ) go under the name Legacy X on tour. It was originally planned as a guitarist for the band Bruce Kulick, who, however, was ruled out of his appointments with Grand Funk Railroad. However, Jeff Watson was shortly afterwards replaced by Karl Cochran, who had also played in Joe Lynn Turner's solo band. The band is now called Rated X.

Discography

Joe Lynn Turner

• Rescue You ( 1985)
• Nothings Changed (1995 )
• Under Cover (1997)
• Hurry Up and Wait (1998)
• Waiting for a Girl Like You (1999)
• Under Cover 2 (1999)
• Holy Man (2000)
• Challenge Them All (2001)
• Slam (2001)
• JLT (2003)
• The Usual Suspects (2005)
• Second Hand Life (2007)

Fandango

• Fandango (1977 )
• One Night Stand (1978 )
• Last Kiss (1979 )
• Cadillac (1981 )

Yngwie J. Malmsteen 's Rising Force

• Odyssey (1988 )
• Trial by Fire - Live in Leningrad (1989 )
• Inspiration ( 1996)

Rainbow

• Difficult to Cure (1981 )
• Straight Between the Eyes ( 1982)
• Bent Out of Shape ( 1983)
• Finyl Vinyl ( 1986)

Deep Purple

• Slaves and Masters (1990 )

Brazen Abbot

• Eye of the Storm ( 1996)
• Bad Religion (1997)
• Guilty As Sin (2003)
• A Decade of Brazen Abbot ( 2004)
• My Resurrection ( 2005)

Mothers Army

• Mothers Army ( 1993)
• Planet Earth ( 1993)
• Fire on the Moon (1998)

Hughes Turner Project

• HTP (2002)
• HTP - Live in Tokyo (2002)
• HTP 2 (2003)

Sunstorm

• Sunstorm (2006)
• House of Dreams (2009)
• Emotional Fire ( 2012)