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Eric Carmen, the previous lead vocalist of The Raspberries and singer of “All by Myself,” is lifeless, in line with his website. He was 74, in line with IMDb.
“It’s with large unhappiness that we share the heartbreaking information of the passing of Eric Carmen,” a submit on his web site says. “Our candy, loving and proficient Eric handed away in his sleep, over the weekend.”
“It introduced him nice pleasure to know, that for many years, his music touched so many and might be his lasting legacy,” the submit mentioned.
No reason behind dying was given.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Carmen rose to fame because the frontman of the Nineteen Seventies pop-rock group The Raspberries, whose tidy haircuts and matching fits appeared to reference the uniform appears of The Beatles and different defining teams of the British Invasion.
“We turned immensely in style by going fully in opposition to the grain in 1970,” Carmen wrote in his website bio. “Prog-rock was ‘in,’ and FM radio clutched it to its bosom. I hated it. I liked the Beatles, The Who, the Byrds, the Stones, the Seaside Boys and the Small Faces. I liked bands that would WRITE!”
Collectively, the band churned out hits together with “I Wanna Be with You” and the provocative “Go All of the Method” – sung from the angle of a girl. However it wouldn’t take lengthy earlier than cracks started to kind within the group.
“Critics preferred us, women preferred us, however their 18-year-old, album-buying brothers mentioned ‘no,’” Carmen wrote. “We bought annoyed and imploded.”
After the band broke up in 1975, Carmen constructed his solo profession on knockout ballads similar to “All by Myself” – later belted to legendary heights by Celine Dion – and “Hungry Eyes,” which offered the steamy soundtrack backdrop for an intensifying love between Johnny and Child in “Soiled Dancing.”
One other of Carmen’s most memorable hits was written for a film soundtrack. He co-wrote “Nearly Paradise,” the love theme of the film “Footloose,” which was carried out by Mike Reno and Ann Wilson. The track earned him his sole Grammy nomination when the soundtrack competed for Greatest Album of Unique Rating Written for a Movement Image.
“All by Myself,” “Make Me Lose Management and “Hungry Eyes” peaked in high 10 of Billboard’s Sizzling 100 and every spent greater than 4 months on the chart. In all, 13 of Carmen’s songs had a spot on the chart.
Carmen declined to hitch The Raspberries after they reunited in 1999 to launch the “Raspberries Refreshed” EP. However he did be part of them onstage in 2004 for a efficiency at Cleveland’s Home of Blues and the crew briefly launched into a mini-tour in 2005, in line with Case Western Reserve’s Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.
The group’s remaining efficiency collectively was at Cleveland’s KeyBank State Theatre in December 2007.
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