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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

DAVE BAINBRIDGE PROG VIRTUOSO RELEASES CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED SOLO ALBUM 'TO THE FAR AWAY' EXCLUSIVE ZOOM TV INTERVIEW WITH RAY SHASHO

DAVE BAINBRIDGE

PROGRESSIVE ROCK

GUITARIST-KEYBOARDIST

ARRANGER-COMPOSER

IONA

CELESTIAL FIRE

LIFESIGNS

STRAWBS

DOWNES BRAIDE ASSOCIATION

Releases critically-acclaimed 4th Solo Album

“To The Far Away”

EXCLUSIVE ZOOM TV INTERVIEW

with RAY SHASHO

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IN ITS ENTIRETY

Despite all the traumas and uncertainties of 2020, it turned out to be a very busy year for Dave Bainbridge. As well as producing the epic 17 CD “Book of Iona” box set celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Iona, Dave contributed in various degrees to new albums by Kimmo Porsti, Cronofonia, Downes Braide Association, Lifesigns, Nick Fletcher, Glass Hammer, Celtish and Strawbs. However, in between all this activity Dave was also taking time out to put together the concept and music for his 4th solo album, “To The Far Away.”

Iona fans might recognize the title as a quote from the lyrics of the song “Edge of the World” from “Beyond These Shores” and there are definitely parallels in the themes of the two albums. “Shores” recounts the ancient story of St Brendan’s epic voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, whilst “To The Far Away” tells a more contemporary story of lovers on opposite sides of the Atlantic ocean, separated for many months by the global pandemic. Both albums, however, end on a note of optimism. Brendan finally returns safely home, whilst our contemporary lovers are finally reunited after an epic trip across the same ocean.

The album’s 71 plus minutes of music draws upon the Celtic, progressive, rock, and classical influences that have permeated Dave’s music since he started composing at the age of eleven and which he honed during his years with Iona and through his previous solo and many collaborative releases.

Purchase

DAVE

BAINBRIDGE

To The Far Away

His Latest Solo Album

at www.musicglue.com/iona

Dave Bainbridge “To The Far Away” was released on Dave’s Open Sky Records label & distributed by Gonzo Multimedia, the album is available in 5 formats:

*DIGITAL DOWNLOAD 24 bit wav files

*SINGLE CD

*2CD WITH BONUS DISK featuring over an hour’s worth of alternate mixes, demos and previously unreleased tracks recorded exclusively for this release

*2CD AS ABOVE, SIGNED BY DAVE

*LIMITED EDITION DELUXE PHOTO BOOK featuring the 2CD version, accompanying A4 size hardback book of 123 of Dave’s evocative landscape photos, 6 postcards of Dave’s photos & a signed and numbered certificate.

For more information

About

DAVE

BAINBRIDGE

VISIT

www.davebainbridgemusic.com

official website

https://lifesignsmusic.co.uk/home

Lifesigns official website

https://www.strawbsweb.co.uk/index0.asp

STRAWBS official website

www.iona.uk.com

IONA official website

www.facebook.com/ionaband

facebook

https://twitter.com/ionaband

twitter

www.downesbraide.co.uk

Downes Braide Association

LIFESIGNS UK TOUR (PART 2) 2022

APRIL 2022

8th Queen Victoria Hall, Oundle

9th The Bread Shed, Manchester

10th Robin 2, Bilston

12th The Half Moon, Putney, London

13th 1865, Southampton

MAY 2022

2nd - 7th Cruise to the Edge

(playing with Lifesigns, Fernando Perdomo's Out to Sea Band & Gabriel Agudo)

DAVE BAINBRIDGE

DISCOGRAPHY

Solo

Veil of Gossamer (2004)

Celestial Fire (2014)

The Remembering (2016)

Live in the Studio (DVD) (2018) Dave Bainbridge & Sally Minnear

To the Far Away (2021)

Celestial Fire Band

Celestial Fire - Live in the UK (2017)

with Iona

Studio recordings

Iona (1990)

The Book of Kells (1992)

Beyond These Shores (1993)

Journey into the Morn (1996)

Open Sky (2000)

The Circling Hour (2006)

Another Realm (2011)

Live recordings

Heaven's Bright Sun (1997)

Woven Cord (1999 – featuring the All Souls Orchestra)

Live in London (2008)

Edge of the World: Live in Europe (2013)

Collection

Treasures (or The Very Best Treasures) (1996)

Box set

The River Flows: Anthology (2002 - four-CD box-set)

The Book of Iona (2020 - seventeen-CD box-set)

Other collaborations

Various Artists - Songs for Luca (2003)

Various Artists - Songs for Luca 2 (2007)

Videography

Iona, DVD (2004) very early live concert

Live in London, DVD (2006)

With Dave Fitzgerald

Eye of the Eagle (1998)

Eye of the Eagle (DVD) (2005)

Life Journey (Dave Bainbridge) (2009)

With Troy Donockley

When Worlds Collide (2005)

From Silence (2005)

From Silence (DVD) (2005)

with Strawbs

The Ferryman's Curse (2017)

Settlement (2021)

with Lifesigns

Cardington (2017)

Altitude (2021)

Other collaborations

Songs for Luca (2003) (with other Iona members and various other artists)

Songs for Luca 2 (2007) (with other Iona members and various other artists)

Breaking of the Dawn (2007) (with Nick Fletcher, featuring Yvonne Lyon)

Cathedral of Dreams (2009) (with Nick Fletcher)

Chronofonia (2020) (with an international ensemble)

Halcyon Hymns (2021) (with Downes-Braide A

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SERIES ONE

CHRONICLES, TRUTHS, CONFESSIONS AND WISDOM FROM THE MUSIC LEGENDS THAT SET US FREE

BY RAY SHASHO

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Featuring over 45 intimate conversations with some of the greatest rock legends the world will ever know.

CHRIS SQUIRE... DR. JOHN... GREG LAKE... HENRY MCCULLOUGH... JACK BRUCE … JOE LALA… JOHNNY WINTER... KEITH EMERSON... PAUL KANTNER... RAY THOMAS... RONNIE MONTROSE... TONY JOE WHITE... DAVID CLAYTON-THOMAS… MIKE LOVE... TOMMY ROE... BARRY HAY... CHRIS THOMPSON... JESSE COLIN YOUNG... JOHN KAY... JULIAN LENNON... MARK LINDSAY... MICKY DOLENZ… PETER RIVERA ...TOMMY JAMES… TODD RUNDGREN... DAVE MASON... EDGAR WINTER... FRANK MARINO... GREGG ROLIE... IAN ANDERSON... JIM “DANDY” MANGRUM... JON ANDERSON... LOU GRAMM... MICK BOX... RANDY BACHMAN… ROBIN TROWER... ROGER FISHER... STEVE HACKETT... ANNIE HASLAM… ‘MELANIE’ SAFKA... PETULA CLARK... SUZI QUATRO... COLIN BLUNSTONE… DAVE DAVIES... JIM McCARTY... PETE BEST

THE ROCK STAR CHRONICLES

BOOK TRAILER

BOOK REVIEW

-By Literary Titan (5) STARS

The Rock Star Chronicles, by Ray Shasho, is a splendid book written by a music enthusiast who has poured their heart and soul into it. It’s a story of a boy who loved rock music, and his obsessive passion of it earned himself the name Rock Raymond. He went to school but instead was schooled in all matters of music while his peers were buried chin-deep in coursework. He then became a radio DJ and has now compiled a book on all interviews he held with Rock gods who raided the airwaves back in the 70s and 80s. It’s a compilation of interviews with outstanding vocalists, legendary guitarists and crazy drummers in the rock music scene. Each interview gives a reader an in-depth view into their personal lives and the philosophies that guide their lives which all serve to humanize these great icons. For readers who are old enough to call themselves baby boomers this book will bring old memories back to life. Millennials, on the other hand, may think of this book as a literal work of the Carpool Karaoke show.

The Rock Star Chronicles is a book I didn’t know I was waiting for. To come across a book that will talk me into trying something new. One brave enough to incite me to venture into new frontiers. This book made me a believer- I am now a bona fide Rock and Roll music fan.

Ray Shasho masterfully gets the interviewees talking. He smartly coaxes answers from them with crafty questions designed to get a story rolling out of them. The artists talk about diverse issues ranging from music, politics, and their social engagements. Having been on the music seen all his life, Ray Shasho knows the buttons to press, how to get them comfortable about talking about their lives.

The book’s cover is befitting of its subject matter with the leather look offering a royal background to the golden letter print. It speaks to how high a level rock music holds in the pecking order- arguably, modern music as we know it has originated from blues and rock music. The second noteworthy thing is the use of high-definition pictures to reference the musician being interviewed in every sub-chapter. This ensures that the book is for both original rock and roll lovers and aspiring new ones. Together is makes for a refreshing and consistently enjoyable read.

I recommend this book to rock music enthusiasts, aspiring musicians wondering what it takes and all readers curious to learn new things by going back in time.

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Monday, February 7, 2022

SUZI QUATRO 'THE ROCK QUEEN' EXCLUSIVE ZOOM TV INTERVIEW FROM THE UK WITH RAY SHASHO ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS: ROCK STARS & CELEBS

S U Z I

Q U A T R O

'THE DEVIL IN ME'

THE LATEST RELEASE BY

THE QUEEN OF ROCK

ZOOM TV EXCLUSIVE

ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

with RAY SHASHO

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IN ITS ENTIRETY

Suzi Quatro is an internationally renowned renaissance woman. Although most of her extraordinary achievements in the arts were celebrated outside the United States, she has left a momentous impression as the original first lady of rock ‘n’ roll.

The leather clad, bass guitar slingin,’ Motor City- rock ‘n’ roll queen- Quatro, first gained notoriety in the early 60’s playing venues around Detroit in an all-female garage rock band called The Pleasure Seekers. Her sister Arlene became the bands piano player and Suzi’s older sister Patti Quatro their guitarist. Patti would later become epitomized as a member for yet another all-girl rock sensation ‘Fanny’ (“Butter Boy” #29 Hit on Billboard’s Hot 100).The Pleasure Seekers shared the limelight in those early days with future rock legends Bob Seger, Grand Funk Railroad, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper and many other acts. In 1965, The Pleasure Seekers recorded two singles, “Never Thought You’d Leave Me” and “What a Way to Die.”

In 1968, Mercury Records signed The Pleasure Seekers to a recording contract and the band began touring extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally. Also that year, the band toured with Eric Burdon and The Animals.

With the music scene rapidly changing into heavier album rock format FM radio, the band quickly shifted gears. They formed a new band called ‘Cradle’ which spotlighted the sensational vocalizations of Suzi and Nancy Quatro. Cradle became an incredible psychedelic/hard rock act that toured with groups like The Jefferson Airplane, Jeff Beck, Santana, Ten Years After, Traffic, Mountain, and numerous other bands. The band broke up in 1973.

Suzi Quatro’s vivacious performances in Cradle caught the attention of legendary British producer Mickie Most (The Animals, Herman’s Hermits, The Jeff Beck Group, Donovan, Hot Chocolate and Lulu). In 1971, Quatro moved to England permanently and signed onto Mosts’ label RAK Records.

Her first single was called, “Rolling Stone” (#1 Hit in Portugal) and featured Peter Frampton (Humble Pie) on guitars, Micky Waller (Jeff Beck Group) on drums and Errol Brown (Hot Chocolate) on back-up vocals. After modest success from her debut single, Most brought in the songwriting and production team of Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Quatro immediately hit the road on a UK tour supporting the bands Thin Lizzy and headliners Slade.

Suzi Quatro’s second single; “Can the Can” became a #1 Hit in Europe and Australia in 1973. Quatro followed with a string of hits, “48 Crash,” “Daytona Demon,” and “Devil Gate Drive.” Each sold over a million copies.

Quatro supported Alice Cooper on his ‘Welcome to my Nightmare’ tour in 1975 but couldn’t duplicate the notoriety she earned in the UK and Australia. But in 1979, Suzi scored big in the U.S. with the hit, “Stumblin’ In” (#4 Hit on Billboard’s Hot100) a Chinn/ Chapman penned composition performed as a duet with Chris Norman (Smokie).

Suzi Quatro became a household name in the U.S. as ‘Leather Tuscadero’ on the hit Television sitcom, ‘Happy Days.’ Leather was the leader of an all-girl band called, ‘Leather Tuscadero and the Suedes.’ Her sister in the series was ‘Pinky Tuscadero’ a former girlfriend of ‘The Fonz.’ Garry Marshall offered her an audition after seeing a picture of Suzi on his daughter’s bedroom wall.

In 2005, Quatro was featured in a documentary film called, ‘Naked Under Leather’ illustrating her life and much-esteemed career. Also that year she recorded a tribute song, “Singing With Angels” dedicated to her lifetime idol Elvis Presley at Emerald Studios in Nashville with Presley’s original backup singers The Jordanaires. Quatro released her self-written autobiography, ‘Unzipped’ in 2007.

In 2010, Quatro was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame. Quatro released her fifteenth studio album, In the Spotlight in 2011.

Suzi’s most recent release is entitled The Devil In Me, and she says it’s the best album in my career to date!”

Suzi Quatro has sold over 50-million records and helped pave the wave for generations of women rockers. Some of the women inspired by Quatro are Joan Jett, The Runaways, Pat Benatar and Deborah Harry to name just a few.

Let’s hope the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame realizes that too.

And just think … it all began when her father gave her a 1957 Fender Precision, her first bass guitar, which she still plays today.

In 2014 Suzi celebrated 50 years as a professional and her famous quote says it all …

"I WILL RETIRE WHEN I GO ONSTAGE, SHAKE MY ASS, AND THERE IS SILENCE"

PURCHASE THE LATEST RELEASE

SUZI QUATRO

THE DEVIL IN ME

Available at amazon.com

It’s got to be a very special release that has Suzi Quatro announced proudly:

“The Devil In Me"

Is the best album in my career to date!” After all, the American rock vocalist would hardly utter such superlatives lightly.

Suzi’s enthusiasm for her latest offering has many reasons, twelve of them to be precise. Because The Devil In Meconsists of exactly a dozen songs, each of them – from the opening track and title song to the final ‘Motor City Riders’ – a real highlight.

The reasons for Suzi’s remarkable creative explosion: on the one hand the lockdown, which kept her from her usual touring life in spring 2020, and on the other another collaboration with her son Richard Tuckey, which had already worked out extremely well on her predecessor album No Control.

Suzi: “Starting spring 2020, almost one hundred of my shows were cancelled and Richard would also have been on tour with his band had not all concerts been cancelled or postponed. So, I said to him: ‘We should make the most of our free time, write new material and allow ourselves to be inspired by the things that are currently going on in the world.’ I already knew that Richard and I make a brilliant team, after all No Control had been a major success and a very special recording for us.

Although I would never have thought that we’d be able to surpass it. But everybody who’s heard The Devil In Me and all the people who had worked on the previous album have told us: ‘This album is even stronger!’”

The album presents Suzi’s full range of musical diversity plus a number of surprises. From rock tracks such as ‘The Devil In Me’, ‘Get Outta Jail’, ‘Motorcity Riders’ and ‘Hey Queenie’ to fairly unusual numbers such as the pub atmosphere-inspired ‘Loves Gone Bad’ with its intimate mood or ‘In The Dark’ which is accompanied by elegant piano and provocative saxophone sounds, Suzi presents herself from a whole range of different aspects. “Richard wanted this album to have a through line, so that you could put any track on, and it just fit… he also said he wanted this album to be as important and groundbreaking as my first one. So that is how we approached this project, and that is what we accomplished.”

ALSO

Purchase

SUZI Q

on DVD

Suzi Q by Australian Director Liam Firmager charts the professional career of Detroit-born, UK-based singer/ songwriter/bassist /bandleader / actor / poet Susan Kay Quatro. The first female-rocker to break into the mainstream and the rightful Queen of Rock n Roll. The film includes Alice Cooper, Deborah Harry, Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads), Joan Jett and Cherie Currie (The Runaways), Happy Days co-star Henry Winkler, KT Tunstall, Australian-born record-producer/songwriter Mike Chapman, numerous members of the very musical Quatro family and many more

available AT AMAZON.COM

UNZIPPED

A MEMOIR BY SUZI QUATRO

The original memoir by glam rock sensation Suzi Quatro, subject of feature documentary 'Suzi Q'

You've seen Suzi Q, the feature documentary about legendary 70s rocker Suzi Quatro. Now read Unzipped, the story of how Little Susie from Detroit grew up to become an international superstar musician - as told by the glam rock sensation herself.

The glam rock icon behind such hits as 'Can the Can', 'Devil Gate Drive' and 'Your Mamma Won't Like Me' has sold over 50 million records worldwide and has worked, partied and rocked out with legendary figures such as Noddy Holder, Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop. Suzi Quatro's transformation from girl to glam rocker was fuelled by huge talent, determination, hard work and a fabulous sense of humour, but it wasn't easy.

In Unzipped, Quatro tells her story of life behind the scenes and in the thick of it as one of the first major break-out female rock bassists. Later, she went on to Hollywood to join the cast of Happy Days, juggling her acting and music career with a turbulent personal life and constant touring around the world. Through it all, she never lost her passion to perform or her sense of adventure.

Suzi Quatro remembers it all in this brilliantly personal and funny book, a thrilling account of a life lived going hell for leather.

Available at amazon.com

THROUGH

THOUGHTS

SUZI’S ILLUSTRATED

COFFEE TABLE BOOKS

The third in my series of illustrated coffee table books, 1 year in lockdown,1 year on this roller coaster called life, 1 year where you can go through every single emotion you have in 5 minutes. Sometimes you smile, sometimes you cry, many times you just hit the wall. I faithfully did my instagram posts every morning sharing my feelings and tribulations, trying to lift people's spirits. It helps to share. It helps to know you're not alone. Enjoy my moods! (I blame being a Gemini!!) Suzi Quatro

Available at

www.waterstones.com/books/search/term/suzi+quatro

FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

SUZI

QUATRO

VISIT

www.suziquatro.com

Official website

www.facebook.com/Suziquatrorocks

facebook

https://twitter.com/Suzi_Quatro

twitter

www.instagram.com/suziquatroreal

instagram

SUZI QUATRO

DISCOGRAPHY

Suzi Quatro (1973)

Quatro (1974)

Your Mamma Won't Like Me (1975)

Aggro-Phobia (1976)

If You Knew Suzi... (1978)

Suzi ... and Other Four Letter Words (1979)

Rock Hard (1980)

Main Attraction (1982)

Annie Get Your Gun – 1986 London Cast (1986)

Oh, Suzi Q. (1990)

What Goes Around – Greatest & Latest (1995)

Unreleased Emotion (1998)

Free the Butterfly (1999)

Back to the Drive (2006)

In the Spotlight (2011)

Quatro, Scott & Powell (2017)

No Control (2019)

The Devil in Me (2021)

SUZI QUATRO

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with RAY SHASHO

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RAY’S BEST-SELLING BOOK

ENTITLED

THE ROCK STAR CHRONICLES

(featuring Suzi Quatro)

SERIES ONE

CHRONICLES, TRUTHS, CONFESSIONS AND WISDOM FROM THE MUSIC LEGENDS THAT SET US FREE

BY RAY SHASHO

…Order yours today on (Collector edition) Hardcover or E-book at bookbaby.com and amazon.com

Featuring over 45 intimate conversations with some of the greatest rock legends the world will ever know.

THE ROCK STAR CHRONICLES

BOOK TRAILER

BOOK REVIEW

-By Literary Titan (5) STARS

I recommend this book to rock music enthusiasts, aspiring musicians wondering what it takes and all readers curious to learn new things by going back in time.

https://literarytitan.com/2020/05/03/literary-titan-book-awards-may-2020/ Gold Award Winner

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