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We enjoyed booking Air Supply at a recent special event and can assist in providing them for yours too! Air Supply's million selling hits include:

Lost In Love
All Out Of Love
Every Woman In The World
The One That You Love
Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)
Sweet Dreams
Even The Nights Are Better
Young Love
Two Less Lonely People
Making Love Out of Nothing at All
Just As I Am

Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock first met in 1974, during an Australian production of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’. Both had auditioned and secured roles as apostles in the production. On break time between rehearsals, Graham would sit by himself and play his guitar. It didn’t take long before a curious Russell wandered over one day and began to sing along with Graham’s tunes, and the two quickly discovered a smooth musical harmony as well as a friendship that would prove to endure over the years.

air supply booking They began singing in the local coffeehouses in Australia, sometimes for their meals, and often performing soft, mellow love songs, which were contrary to ‘hard rock’ and ‘glam rock’, both of which were popular then. They formed their own group, dubbing it ‘Air Supply’, a name that Graham says ‘came to him in a dream...on a billboard.’ He thought of their music as a ‘breath of fresh air’, and indeed it was. It was also a hit!

After the completion of ‘Superstar’ in 1975, they joined up with Frank Esler-Smith (music director of ‘Superstar’) as well as Jeremy Paul, signed a contract with CBS records, and released their first big hit, Love & Other Bruises in 1976, which also saw them rank on the Australian music charts at a whopping #5! This they followed with a gold record from the self-titled album Air Supply, and in 1977, scored another big hit, Do What You Do, from their second album The Whole Thing’s Started.

air supply agent The same year, their good friend Rod Stewart asked them to join him on a tour through the United States and Canada; this opportunity would provide the stepping stones that would see Air Supply begin to reach their famous status in America. It was also during this time that Jeremy Paul left them (later joining the DeVinyls) and the band got rearranged. In April 1979, they released Life Support in Australia, their third album. One of the songs, Lost In Love charted immediately, upon its release, within the top 20.

Meanwhile in America, Clive Davis at Arista signed Air Supply to a $1.5 million international deal, and released a revised, more ‘hip’ version of Lost In Love in the United States, and in February 1980, the song had already reached #3 on Billboard’s chart hits. This song was the first of seven consecutive singles to enter the American top 5.

Over the next three years, Air Supply produced hit after chart-rating hit: All Out Of Love, Every Woman In The World, Just Another Woman, The One That You Love, Here I Am, Sweet Dreams, Even The Nights Are Better, and the Jim - Steinman - penned song smash hit Making Love Out Of Nothing At All, which remained at the #2 spot on Billboard for 3 weeks.

After a 2-year break, they came back in 1985 with the single Just As I Am, on yet another self-titled album, followed the very next year by another album, Hearts In Motion, and followed still by The Christmas Album. There would then be another break, one in which Graham Russell would return to England to create the rock opera ‘Sherwood’, and Russell Hitchcock would release his solo album, the self-titled Russell Hitchcock. The late 80’s saw a break from the Arista label, and 1991 saw Air Supply come back strong, and under a new label: Giant released The Earth Is. This album has a theme to it, mainly the preservation of peace and love through out the world.

Thus began a trend where they would release another album, every other year. In 1993, they released The Vanishing Race, an album dedicated to the education of the world as to the plight of the Native American Indian. Then, in 1995, News From Nowhere which features songs that seem to have a ‘timeless, never-ending love’ quality about them. As well as new music styles, Air Supply was still incorporating their soft, mellow sound into their work in the 90’s, with very beautiful and intriguing results, and all largely due to the fantastic songwriting ability of Graham, and the 3 1/2 octave range of Russell.

Also, a Greatest Hits Live album was produced in Taipei, Taiwan in 1995, followed up by the latest album, Book of Love, in 1997. It is full of acoustic and instrumental talents as well as the traditional harmonies which made Air Supply famous initially. Along the way, they produced a CD-Rom, entitled As Close As This, 2 Laser Discs, a Karaoke video, and numerous other videos. There is even another album in the works as this is written. So, what is to come next from this fantastic group? We shall all have to wait, but one thing is certain, it will definitely contain more of the soft, melodic harmony of Graham and Russell, filled with the acoustical talents of a great band, and be instantly bought up by the fans, who have yet still will ‘Never Get Enough’ of Air Supply!

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