Origin: Calgary, Alberta (Canada)

LOVERBOY

Matt Frenette - Paul Dean - Scott Smith - Mike Reno - Doug Johnson

Loverboy albums:

	st - 1980 (with lyrics)
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	Get lucky - 1981 (with lyrics)
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	Keep it up - 1983 (with lyrics)
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	Lovin' every minute of it - 1985 (with lyrics)
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	Wildside - 1987 (with lyrics)
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- Loverboy's story began in Calgary, Alberta, in 1978, when Mike Reno and Paul Dean met in a warehouse that Dean was using as a rehearsal space, behind the Refinery nightclub [1, 2, 3]. Dean, whose earlier bands included Scrubbaloe Caine, had been fired from Streetheart after one album, *Meanwhile Back in Paris*, and was making ends meet by playing bass in a covers band; Reno, who had sung on Moxy's fourth album, *Under the Lights* (1978), as Mike Rynoski, was working construction [2, 3, 4, 5]. The Refinery was co-owned by Lou Blair, Dean's friend and former manager, who took the pair on as co-manager on the strength of a two-track demo they recorded at the back of the club, and who brought in the Vancouver manager Bruce Allen and the producer Bruce Fairbairn [6]. The day after they first got together, Dean and Reno wrote "Always on My Mind", which would end up on their debut album [4, 7]. With the keyboardist Doug Johnson, whom Dean had also met in Calgary, they moved to Vancouver to be near Allen, and the drummer Matt Frenette, Dean's former bandmate in Streetheart, joined them [4, 8].

Loverboy made its live debut on 19 November 1979, opening for Kiss at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver after just four days of rehearsal and with a lineup that was not yet the definitive one [5, 9, 10]. On bass that night was Jim Clench, formerly of April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive, who was soon replaced by Scott Smith, a bassist who had played with Lisa Dal Bello [4, 9, 11, 12]. Turned down by the major US labels, the band signed with CBS Records Canada, whose vice-president of A&R, Jeff Burns, flew from Toronto to Vancouver to meet them and offered a contract with a recording budget [6, 9, 10]. Sessions for the first album began on 20 March 1980 at Little Mountain Sound in Vancouver, with Bruce Fairbairn producing, Bob Rock engineering and Mike Fraser as assistant engineer, and the contract was signed with the recording already under way [7, 8, 9]. The booklet thanks Wayne Kozak for the saxophone and Nancy Nash for the backing vocals on "Turn Me Loose" and "Always on My Mind", credits the cover to Barbara Astman and singles out Jeff Burns in its special thanks [7]. Released in Canada in the summer of 1980, *Loverboy* yielded the singles "The Kid Is Hot Tonite" and "Turn Me Loose", the latter reaching No. 7 in Canada and No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 [6, 9, 13]. Columbia released the album in the United States that November; it climbed to No. 13 on the Billboard 200 and went double platinum there, while Canadian sales passed 700,000 copies [1, 9, 13, 14]. To promote it, Bruce Allen booked more than two hundred shows, many of them supporting Cheap Trick, ZZ Top, Kansas and Def Leppard [6, 9].

*Get Lucky* was released in October 1981, while Loverboy was opening for Journey [9, 13]. Produced by Fairbairn and Dean, it was recorded at Mushroom Studios in Vancouver with the engineer Keith Stein and mixed by Bob Rock at Little Mountain Sound [15]. With the singles "Working for the Weekend" (No. 29) and "When It's Over" (No. 26), the latter with Nancy Nash on backing vocals, it reached No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and, with four million copies sold in the United States, became the band's best-selling album there [9, 13, 15]. At the Juno Awards in April 1982, Loverboy won six awards in a single night, a record: Group of the Year; Album of the Year, for the debut; Single of the Year for "Turn Me Loose", which also earned Dean and Reno Composer of the Year; Producer of the Year for Dean and Fairbairn, for their work on *Get Lucky*; and Recording Engineer of the Year for Keith Stein and Bob Rock [3, 5, 14, 16]. *Get Lucky* was named Album of the Year at the 1983 Junos, and Loverboy won Group of the Year again in 1983 and 1984 [5, 14].

By then Loverboy, which had emerged in 1980 dressed in red and black, had a clearly defined image and a sound that Dean himself described as "a cross between new wave and heavy metal" [10]. *Keep It Up* (1983), again produced by Fairbairn and Dean, recorded at Mushroom Studios and mixed by Bob Rock at Little Mountain, added Fairlight programming by Jean Piché on three tracks, and its photography was by Annie Leibovitz [10]. The lead single, "Hot Girls in Love", written by Dean and Fairbairn, reached No. 11 on the Hot 100 and was the band's biggest hit to that point; its video and that of "Queen of the Broken Hearts" were widely played on MTV, and the album reached No. 7 and went double platinum [9, 10, 13]. In his introduction to an interview with Dean printed on the inner sleeve, Tom Harrison put the band's sales at seven million albums, the reward for almost three years of nonstop touring [10], and the album was followed by Loverboy's first tour as headliners [9]. In 1984 Reno recorded "Almost Paradise", a duet with Ann Wilson of Heart for the *Footloose* soundtrack, which reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 [5, 12].

*Lovin' Every Minute of It* (1985) was the first Loverboy album not produced by Fairbairn [9]. The band turned to Tom Allom, known for his work with Judas Priest, who shared production duties with Dean; the album was recorded and mixed at Little Mountain Sound with the engineer Mark Dodson and mastered by Bernie Grundman [12, 17]. Bill Wray co-wrote seven of its nine songs, five of them with Davitt Sigerson as well, and the album drew on other outside writers: Robert John "Mutt" Lange wrote the title track, Journey's Jonathan Cain co-wrote "This Could Be the Night" with Dean, Reno and Wray, and Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance contributed "Dangerous" [9, 17]. The backing singers included Mark LaFrance, Ra McGuire, Rick Livingstone, Tommy Thayer, Jaime St. James and Nancy Nash [17]. The title track (No. 9) and "This Could Be the Night" (No. 10) gave Loverboy its first two US Top 10 singles, and the album reached No. 13 and went double platinum [9, 13]. In 1986 the band contributed "Heaven in Your Eyes" to the *Top Gun* soundtrack, and the song reached No. 12 [9, 13]. Columbia also presented Loverboy with its Crystal Globe award, the first given to a Canadian group, for selling more than five million albums outside Canada [1, 14].

Fairbairn returned to produce *Wildside* (1987); Bob Rock and Mike Fraser engineered it at Little Mountain Sound, and Rock mixed every track except "Can't Get Much Better", which Ed Thacker mixed in Burbank [18]. Only "Break It to Me Gently" was written by Dean and Reno alone; the other ten songs involved outside writers: Todd Cerney took part in five and Taylor Rhodes in four; Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora wrote "Notorious" with Dean, Reno and Cerney; Bryan Adams co-wrote "Hometown Hero", Alfie Zappacosta "That's Where My Money Goes" and Brian MacLeod "Don't Let Go", the last with Reno [18]. Darrell Mansfield played harmonica on "Notorious" and "Walkin' on Fire", Fairbairn added backing vocals, and Paul Hyde and Alison Glass recorded voice-overs for "That's Where My Money Goes" [18]. Although "Notorious" reached No. 38, the album peaked at No. 42 and went gold, the band's first album not to reach platinum [12, 13]. With sales falling and tensions between Dean and Reno, Loverboy split up in 1988 [9, 12]. In October 1989 Columbia released the compilation *Big Ones* to fulfil the band's contract, and Loverboy briefly reunited for a promotional tour before splitting again [5, 9, 12, 13].

On 6 October 1991 Loverboy reunited at Vancouver's 86 Street Music Hall for a benefit concert, also featuring Bryan Adams, for Brian MacLeod of Chilliwack and the Headpins, who was being treated for cancer and had co-written "Don't Let Go" [9, 12, 18]. The experience encouraged the band to return to the road, touring Canada in 1992 and the United States in 1993 [9, 12], and in 1997 it released *VI*, its first studio album in ten years [12, 13]. On 30 November 2000 Scott Smith, aged 45, was swept overboard by a wave of about 25 feet from the *Sea Major*, a 37-foot sailboat on which he was sailing from Vancouver to Mexico, about four miles off San Francisco's Ocean Beach [19, 20]. The US Coast Guard called off its search the next day, and his body was never found [19, 21]. The band dedicated its 2001 tour to him, with Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve, who had played with Dean and Frenette in Streetheart, taking over on bass; that year it also released *Live, Loud and Loose*, a collection of concert recordings from 1982 to 1986 [1, 9, 12].

In 2005 Loverboy celebrated its 25th anniversary with a tour that led to *Just Getting Started* (2007), its first studio album in a decade [1, 9]. In March 2009 the band was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the Juno Awards in Vancouver [1, 14]. In 2012 it worked with Bob Rock again on new songs for *Rock 'n' Roll Revival*, which paired them with new recordings of nine of its classics, and in 2014 it released *Unfinished Business* [4, 9, 12]. Loverboy has kept touring, sharing bills with Journey and Pat Benatar in 2012 and with REO Speedwagon and Styx in 2022 [9]. On 28 September 2023 it was one of thirteen rock acts inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame at Toronto's Massey Hall [22]. In June 2024 earMUSIC released *Live in '82*, a 1982 concert filmed on 16 mm and restored by Dean from his own archive, and that year Music Canada and Sony Music Canada honoured the band for fifteen million albums sold worldwide [1, 6, 23]. On 26 September 2026, also at Massey Hall, Reno and Dean were inducted as songwriters into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame [24, 25]. Loverboy's current lineup is Mike Reno, Paul Dean, Doug Johnson, Matt Frenette and Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve [1]. -

Notas sobre Loverboy:

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- La historia de Loverboy comenzó en Calgary (Alberta) en 1978, cuando Mike Reno y Paul Dean se conocieron en el almacén que Dean usaba como local de ensayo, detrás del club nocturno Refinery [1, 2, 3]. Dean, que había pasado por grupos como Scrubbaloe Caine, había sido despedido de Streetheart tras un solo disco, *Meanwhile Back in Paris*, y se ganaba la vida tocando el bajo en un grupo de versiones; Reno, que con el nombre de Mike Rynoski había cantado en *Under the Lights* (1978), el cuarto disco de Moxy, trabajaba en la construcción [2, 3, 4, 5]. El Refinery era en parte propiedad de Lou Blair, amigo y antiguo mánager de Dean, que pasó a ser cománager de los dos a raíz de una maqueta a dos pistas que grabaron en la parte trasera del club y fue quien atrajo a Bruce Allen, mánager de Vancouver, y al productor Bruce Fairbairn [6]. Al día siguiente de juntarse por primera vez, Dean y Reno compusieron «Always on My Mind», que acabaría en su primer disco [4, 7]. Con el teclista Doug Johnson, al que Dean también había conocido en Calgary, se trasladaron a Vancouver para estar cerca de Allen, y el batería Matt Frenette, antiguo compañero de Dean en Streetheart, se unió a ellos [4, 8].

Loverboy debutó en directo el 19 de noviembre de 1979 como telonero de Kiss en el Pacific Coliseum de Vancouver, tras solo cuatro días de ensayo y con una formación que aún no era la definitiva [5, 9, 10]. Aquella noche tocó el bajo Jim Clench, procedente de April Wine y de Bachman–Turner Overdrive, al que poco después sustituyó Scott Smith, un bajista que había tocado con Lisa Dal Bello [4, 9, 11, 12]. Rechazado por las grandes discográficas estadounidenses, el grupo firmó con CBS Records Canada, cuyo vicepresidente de A&R, Jeff Burns, voló de Toronto a Vancouver para conocerlo y le ofreció un contrato con presupuesto de grabación [6, 9, 10]. Las sesiones del primer disco comenzaron el 20 de marzo de 1980 en Little Mountain Sound, en Vancouver, con Bruce Fairbairn como productor, Bob Rock como ingeniero y Mike Fraser como ayudante, y el contrato se firmó con la grabación ya en marcha [7, 8, 9]. El libreto agradece a Wayne Kozak el saxofón y a Nancy Nash los coros de «Turn Me Loose» y «Always on My Mind», atribuye la portada a Barbara Astman y destaca a Jeff Burns en sus agradecimientos especiales [7]. Publicado en Canadá en el verano de 1980, *Loverboy* dio los sencillos «The Kid Is Hot Tonite» y «Turn Me Loose»; este último llegó al número 7 en Canadá y al 35 del Hot 100 de Billboard [6, 9, 13]. Columbia lo editó en Estados Unidos en noviembre; allí alcanzó el número 13 de la lista de álbumes de Billboard y fue doble disco de platino, mientras que en Canadá superó las setecientas mil copias [1, 9, 13, 14]. Para promocionarlo, Bruce Allen le cerró al grupo más de doscientos conciertos, muchos como telonero de Cheap Trick, ZZ Top, Kansas y Def Leppard [6, 9].

*Get Lucky* salió en octubre de 1981, cuando Loverboy abría los conciertos de Journey [9, 13]. Producido por Fairbairn y Dean, se grabó en Mushroom Studios, en Vancouver, con el ingeniero Keith Stein, y lo mezcló Bob Rock en Little Mountain Sound [15]. Con los sencillos «Working for the Weekend» (número 29) y «When It's Over» (número 26), esta última con Nancy Nash en los coros, el disco llegó al número 7 de la lista de álbumes y, con cuatro millones de copias vendidas en Estados Unidos, se convirtió en el más vendido del grupo en ese país [9, 13, 15]. En la gala de los premios Juno de abril de 1982, Loverboy ganó seis galardones en una sola noche, un récord: grupo del año; álbum del año, por su debut; sencillo del año por «Turn Me Loose», que también dio a Dean y Reno el de compositores del año; productores del año para Dean y Fairbairn, por su trabajo en *Get Lucky*, e ingenieros de grabación del año para Keith Stein y Bob Rock [3, 5, 14, 16]. *Get Lucky* fue elegido álbum del año en los Juno de 1983, y Loverboy repitió como grupo del año en 1983 y 1984 [5, 14].

Para entonces, Loverboy, que se había dado a conocer en 1980 vestido de rojo y negro, tenía una imagen bien definida y un sonido que el propio Dean describía como «un cruce entre new wave y heavy metal» [10]. *Keep It Up* (1983), producido de nuevo por Fairbairn y Dean, grabado en Mushroom Studios y mezclado por Bob Rock en Little Mountain, incorporó programaciones de Fairlight de Jean Piché en tres temas, y sus fotografías son de Annie Leibovitz [10]. El primer sencillo, «Hot Girls in Love», firmado por Dean y Fairbairn, llegó al número 11 del Hot 100 y fue el mayor éxito del grupo hasta entonces; su videoclip y el de «Queen of the Broken Hearts» se emitieron con frecuencia en MTV, y el disco alcanzó el número 7 y fue doble disco de platino [9, 10, 13]. En la presentación de una entrevista con Dean impresa en la portadilla interior, Tom Harrison cifraba las ventas del grupo en siete millones de discos, fruto de casi tres años de giras sin descanso [10], y al disco le siguió la primera gira de Loverboy como cabeza de cartel [9]. En 1984, Reno grabó con Ann Wilson, de Heart, «Almost Paradise», un dúo para la banda sonora de *Footloose* que alcanzó el número 7 del Hot 100 [5, 12].

*Lovin' Every Minute of It* (1985) fue el primer disco de Loverboy que no produjo Fairbairn [9]. El grupo recurrió a Tom Allom, conocido por su trabajo con Judas Priest, que compartió la producción con Dean; el disco se grabó y mezcló en Little Mountain Sound con el ingeniero Mark Dodson, y lo masterizó Bernie Grundman [12, 17]. Bill Wray cofirmó siete de sus nueve canciones, cinco de ellas también con Davitt Sigerson, y el disco contó con otros compositores externos: Robert John «Mutt» Lange escribió la canción que le da título, Jonathan Cain, de Journey, compuso «This Could Be the Night» con Dean, Reno y Wray, y Bryan Adams y Jim Vallance aportaron «Dangerous» [9, 17]. Entre los coristas figuraban Mark LaFrance, Ra McGuire, Rick Livingstone, Tommy Thayer, Jaime St. James y Nancy Nash [17]. La canción titular (número 9) y «This Could Be the Night» (número 10) dieron a Loverboy sus dos primeros sencillos en el Top 10 estadounidense, y el disco llegó al número 13 y fue doble disco de platino [9, 13]. En 1986, el grupo aportó «Heaven in Your Eyes» a la banda sonora de *Top Gun*, y la canción llegó al número 12 [9, 13]. Columbia concedió además a Loverboy su premio Crystal Globe, el primero para un grupo canadiense, por haber vendido más de cinco millones de discos fuera de Canadá [1, 14].

Fairbairn volvió a producir *Wildside* (1987); Bob Rock y Mike Fraser fueron los ingenieros en Little Mountain Sound, y Rock mezcló todos los temas salvo «Can't Get Much Better», que mezcló Ed Thacker en Burbank [18]. Solo «Break It to Me Gently» la firmaban Dean y Reno en solitario; en las otras diez intervinieron compositores externos: Todd Cerney participó en cinco y Taylor Rhodes en cuatro; Jon Bon Jovi y Richie Sambora escribieron «Notorious» con Dean, Reno y Cerney; Bryan Adams coescribió «Hometown Hero»; Alfie Zappacosta, «That's Where My Money Goes», y Brian MacLeod, «Don't Let Go», esta última con Reno [18]. Darrell Mansfield tocó la armónica en «Notorious» y «Walkin' on Fire», Fairbairn añadió coros, y Paul Hyde y Alison Glass grabaron voces habladas para «That's Where My Money Goes» [18]. Aunque «Notorious» llegó al número 38, el disco no pasó del 42 y fue disco de oro, el primero del grupo que no llegó al platino [12, 13]. Con las ventas a la baja y tensiones entre Dean y Reno, Loverboy se separó en 1988 [9, 12]. En octubre de 1989, Columbia publicó el recopilatorio *Big Ones* para cumplir el contrato del grupo, que se reunió brevemente para una gira de promoción antes de volver a separarse [5, 9, 12, 13].

El 6 de octubre de 1991, Loverboy volvió a reunirse en el 86 Street Music Hall de Vancouver para un concierto benéfico, en el que también actuó Bryan Adams, a favor de Brian MacLeod, de Chilliwack y Headpins, que recibía tratamiento contra el cáncer y era coautor de «Don't Let Go» [9, 12, 18]. La experiencia animó al grupo a volver a la carretera, con giras por Canadá en 1992 y por Estados Unidos en 1993 [9, 12], y en 1997 publicó *VI*, su primer disco de estudio en diez años [12, 13]. El 30 de noviembre de 2000, Scott Smith, de 45 años, cayó al mar arrastrado por una ola de unos siete metros y medio desde el *Sea Major*, un velero de unos once metros de eslora en el que navegaba de Vancouver a México, a algo más de seis kilómetros de Ocean Beach, frente a San Francisco [19, 20]. La Guardia Costera de Estados Unidos suspendió la búsqueda al día siguiente y su cuerpo nunca apareció [19, 21]. El grupo le dedicó su gira de 2001, en la que el bajo pasó a manos de Ken «Spider» Sinnaeve, que había tocado con Dean y Frenette en Streetheart, y ese mismo año publicó *Live, Loud and Loose*, una selección de grabaciones en directo de 1982 a 1986 [1, 9, 12].

En 2005, Loverboy celebró su 25.º aniversario con una gira que desembocó en *Just Getting Started* (2007), su primer disco de estudio en una década [1, 9]. En marzo de 2009 ingresó en el Salón de la Fama de la Música Canadiense durante la gala de los premios Juno, celebrada en Vancouver [1, 14]. En 2012 volvió a trabajar con Bob Rock en las canciones nuevas de *Rock 'n' Roll Revival*, que las combinaba con nuevas grabaciones de nueve de sus clásicos, y en 2014 publicó *Unfinished Business* [4, 9, 12]. El grupo no ha dejado de girar y ha compartido cartel con Journey y Pat Benatar en 2012 y con REO Speedwagon y Styx en 2022 [9]. El 28 de septiembre de 2023 fue uno de los trece grupos de rock que ingresaron en el Paseo de la Fama de Canadá, en una ceremonia celebrada en el Massey Hall de Toronto [22]. En junio de 2024, el sello earMUSIC publicó *Live in '82*, un concierto de 1982 filmado en 16 mm y restaurado por Dean a partir de su archivo personal, y ese mismo año Music Canada y Sony Music Canada distinguieron al grupo por haber vendido quince millones de discos en todo el mundo [1, 6, 23]. El 26 de septiembre de 2026, también en el Massey Hall, Reno y Dean ingresaron como compositores en el Salón de la Fama de los Compositores Canadienses [24, 25]. La formación actual de Loverboy la integran Mike Reno, Paul Dean, Doug Johnson, Matt Frenette y Ken «Spider» Sinnaeve [1]. -

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