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 Heatwave
- Biography
Heatwave,
one of the most popular soul bands of the past
few decades, with their inimitable blend of
sweet soul grooves and great pop/soul/dance
songs are back with a vengeance.
Although based in Britain, Heatwave was formed
by the Wilder brothers, Johnnie and Keith, on
their discharge from the US Army. An advert in a
music paper yielded Hull's, England born
songwriter Rod Temperton,
With hits like 'Mind Blowing Decisions', 'Boogie
Nights' and the all time classic 'Always and
Forever', Heatwave are no strangers to chart
success with a string of hits reaching the top
twenty, and the foot stomping 'Boogie Nights'
climbing all the way to number one in
1977,Heatwave were on "The Word" & "The Lily
Savage TV Show" plus they were on channel five's
"NIGHT FEVER SHOW" & have done "The Diamond
music awards TV show" in Belgium, so far this
year the band have done "The Clive James TV
show" on ITV channel 1, and had a half page
write up in the "Times news paper".
Rod Templeton the bands keyboard player and the
bands main songwriter, wrote songs for Michael
Jackson (including the multi-million selling
title to Michael's album "THRILLER") George
Benson, and Herbie Hancock, Heatwave recorded
two more album,, 'Current' and 'Candles'
spurning the hits: 'Gangsters Of The Groove' and
'Jitterbugin'. They recently re-record the very
best of their songs from the late 70's and early
80's with the best of today's producers and
DJ's. The line up of producers include: Aswad,
FAT BOY SLIM A.K.A. Norman Cook, Simon Harris,
and Ben Liebrand.
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Everything has been re-recorded with the soul
essence of yesteryear and the hard funkiness of
the 90's. NOTHING HAS BEEN REMIXED!
The album 'Gangsters Of The Groove - The 90's
Mix' is a fourteen-track album with four brand
new songs produced and written by Heatwave. It
has the sweet Ohio sound reminiscent in many
ways of the great soul groups of the early 80's
such as The O'Jays, The Whispers and Levert,
mixed with a melodic European influence.
The new songs on the album show a definite step
forward in style. "The whole purpose of putting
the new songs on the album is to show people
that we're not just banking off the old songs,
which have been re-recorded anyway", says Keith
Wilder.
Based in the UK and the USA the band love the
spontaneity of playing live and will be
embarking on a tour.
So what more could you ask for? Serious
production, soaring vocals and oooodles of
talent. It's all there already .... Nuff said!
Apply the sun tan oil and roast yourself in the
sounds of Heatwave today.
At the end of 1999 Heatwave opened for Earth
Wind & Fire on their last UK tour up in
Newcastle, a great way to end the year, century
and millennium.
The band played live on the American TV show
"Motown Live" along with Montell Jordan and
Michael McDonald.
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