Mr. Mister
Mr. Mister was an American pop band that existed 1982-1990. They celebrated their biggest success with the album, released in the fall of 1985 Welcome to the Real World, on which the two hits Broken Wings and Kyrie were.
- 2.1 albums
- 2.2 Singles
History
1978-1984: Beginnings
Richard Page worked as a studio musician ( for Quincy Jones and Others ), and composed for Michael Jackson, Donna Summer, Kenny Loggins, Al Jarreau and many others.
End of the 1970s he founded with his friend Steve George, also a very active studio musician in Phoenix (Arizona ), the band pages. In 1978, their first album, simply called Pages. A year later the album Future Street appeared with the single from the album I Do Believe in You (US- Charts Platz 84, December 15, 1979). This track was recorded a year later by the band America on the album Alibi ( Capitol Records ), with Richard Page was involved as a background singer.
The title also contained on Future Street Who's Right, Who 's Wrong released in 1979 on Kenny Loggins ' platinum album Keep the Fire. 1981 Pages published her third and final album, as the first under the same name.
From Pages Mr. Mister went forth with I Wear the Face released their first album on RCA Records in the spring of 1984. The single Hunters of the Night reached # 57 on the Billboard singles chart. The follow - extraction Talk the Talk, released as a radio remix on 12 ", could not place itself.
After release of the album Richard Page was offered to replace Bobby Kimball, the lead singer of Toto, as it had temporarily left the band in 1984. Page refused, as well as the subsequent offer to replace the 1985 stepped out Peter Cetera of Chicago.
1985-1986: Breakthrough with Welcome to the Real World
My breakthrough came in the band in the fall of 1985 with the album Welcome to the Real World, from which the song Broken Wings and Kyrie came and were able to place as number one hits in the United States. The third single, Is It Love reached eighth place. The album reached number one on the U.S. charts and went platinum.
1987-1990: Subsiding success and resolution
The third published in late summer 1987 album Go On ... could not build on the successes to date, although the lead single Something Real ( Inside Me / Inside You ), which on the film soundtrack Youngblood (RCA) was published in 1985, it after all (albeit barely ) managed in the U.S. in the top 30. In 1988 there were differences within the band, after which Steve Farris got out.
The fourth album in 1989, completed the pull was not published, after the record label dropped the band also broke up the following year.
Only in the fall of 2010, twenty years later, this album was released under the direct marketing label Little Dume Recordings, which was founded by Richard Page.
Since 1990: Current activities of the individual members
After the dissolution of the band Richard Page was back as a songwriter ( co-author for Madonna I'll Remember ( number two on the U.S. singles chart in 1994) ) and also as a background singer for many artists worked in 1996 and brought the album Shelter Me ( Blue Thumb Records) out as a solo artist.
In a limited edition CD with four acoustic versions of products on the album Shelter Me song The Best Thing, A Simple Life, Even the Pain, Shelter Me, as well as the number -one hit Broken Wings yet been released.
In 1994 the album Meanwhile the band's 3rd Matinee with Page as the lead singer and Madonna producer Patrick Leonard on keyboards. 2003 appeared on the album Sincerely published in Japan ( Mariya Take Uschi Songbook II ) of the title Pure Love Lucky Star, also with Richard Page on vocals.
Steve Farris toured with Whitesnake and took to pieces with Tori Amos, the 4 Non Blondes and others; Mastelotto played for XTC, King Crimson, Mastica and others; Steve George was until 1997 the musical director for Kenny Loggins and toured with Jewel; John Lang later founded the band Djinn.
Mr. Mister may be considered as representative for the typical sound of the pop-rock of the 1980s. Her two most famous and successful songs are Broken Wings and Kyrie (1985).
Discography
Albums
- 03.1984: I Wear the Face
- 11.1985: Welcome to the Real World
- 09.1987: Go On ...
- 11.2010: Pull ( although already completed in 1989 produced )
- 2010: Peculiar Life (as Richard Mp3 Download Page )
Singles
- 03.1984: Hunters of the Night
- 07.1984: Talk the Talk
- 09.1985: Broken Wings
- 12.1985: Kyrie
- 03.1986: Is It Love
- 08.1987: Something Real ( Inside Me / Inside You )
- 11.1987: Healing Waters (Europe only )
- 11.1987: The Border ( U.S. only)
- 02.1988: Stand and Deliver
Others
- In the 2009 released song Hey, Soul Sister Train the band referring to Mr. Mister in the chorus:
" Hey, Soul Sister, is not that Mr. Mister on the radio, stereo, ... "