Eric Carmen
Eric Carmen
Eric Howard Carmenis an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist. He scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and 1980s, first as a member of the Raspberries, and then with his solo career, including hits such as "All By Myself," "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again," "She Did It," "Hungry Eyes," and "Make Me Lose Control."...
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth11 August 1949
CityCleveland, OH
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There was a period of time when there were so many bad feelings among the various members that a reunion seemed very unlikely,
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A couple of years earlier, I toured with Ringo Starr and played the House of Blues in Chicago. I remembered being struck by how (well-run) it was.
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It's not just one of these reunions where it's the original drummer and three guys you never heard of.
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But now, we don't have that pressure, and we don't have to stay out on the road for six months,
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A certain mythology has grown up around the band after 30 years. We didn't want to come back until we felt we could play and not pop that bubble.
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We looked like a garage band. We didn't know if it was going to work out, so we rented a lot of the stuff.
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We didn't see a cover of ours (in advance) until our fourth album.
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When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up,