VANCOUVER, BC (December 13, 2010) - Contemporary Artist Ron Sombilon hailing from Vancouver, BC has created a unique collection of Loverboy guitars featuring the band members of Loverboy. Loverboy will donate their share of the proceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Check out the Loverboy Art Boutique.
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LOVERBOY RETURNS TO THE STUDIO WITH BOB ROCK...
VANCOUVER, BC (January 8, 2011) - Loverboy has been invited by legendary producer, Bob Rock (Michael Buble, Metallica, Motley Crue) to record two new tracks at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, Canada. “Heartbreaker”, a classic Loverboy rocker and “Tommorrow”, a powerful ballad were rehearsed, performed, recorded all in an amazing two day marathon. Stay tuned for release dates....
VANCOUVER, BC (March 29, 2009) - Formed out of Calgary, AB, Loverboy signed their first deal with Columbia Records Canada in 1980 and immediately went into the studio with legendary producer Bruce Fairbairn and 2007 Canadian Music Hall of Fame recipient Bob Rock to record their self-titled debut album. Releasing hits such as ”Turn Me Loose” and ”The Kid Is Hot Tonite,” LOVERBOY flew off the shelves setting record sales for a debut album at the time with over 700,000 albums sold in Canada. Soon after its U.S. release, the album surpassed 2 million copies in North America and 4 million worldwide. More...
LOVERBOY OFFICIALLY INDUCTED INTO THE CANADIAN MUSIC HALL OF FAME...
Mike, Paul, Doug, Matt and Bob Rock on stage, as Loverboy is officially inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame
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LOVERBOY KEEPS “WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND” 30 YEARS LATER
Los Angeles, CA (March 1, 2011) - For 30 years, Loverboy has been “Working for the Weekend,” delighting audiences around the world since forming in Calgary, Alberta, when vocalist Mike Reno was introduced to local guitar hot shot Paul Dean, both veterans of several bands on the scene. And now they’re back, having reunited with their original engineer, legendary producer Bob Rock [Metallica, Aerosmith, The Cure, Bon Jovi], who worked under Bruce Fairbairn at the time. More...
LOVERBOY KEEP IT UP ON TODAY.COM
Loverboy has never really gone away, but these days, the veteran Canadian rockers are not only continuing to entertain audiences young and old, but, to quote one of their biggest hits, they’re “Lovin’ Every Minute of It.”
The group’s new single, “Heartbreaker,” produced by Juno award winner Bob Rock, who was the engineer on Loverboy’s self-titled, 1980 debut, is now a video. It premiered exclusively on NBC’s The Today Show site Today.com, with an accompanying article which you can read at http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44062156/ns/today-entertainment/. Rock also has a cameo in the clip, which was inspired by the kind of DIY viral videos popular on YouTube.
Guitarist Paul Dean, who formed the band in Calgary, Alberta, 30 years ago with vocalist Mike Reno, going on to sell 10 million albums, said, “I really like that the video looks organic and real. We learned from the best videographers around…all those kids who post their short films on the Internet, like the skateboarders."
Reno also points to the Web for the renewed interest in the band, whose four multi-platinum albums have yielded such arena-rock hits as “Working for the Weekend,” “Hot Girls in Love” and “Turn Me Loose.”
"I'm happy and gratified with what we're doing now," Reno told Today.com. "We're still here, the fans are still here, now they're bringing their kids. For me, it just couldn't get better. We are surrounded by a whole new breed of youngsters that know all the words.They got the headbands on, they got the T-shirts…"
The band has also been in the popular culture spotlight with references on 30 Rock (with Scott Adsit’s Pete Hornberger claiming to be Loverboy’s original bassist at http://www.hulu.com/watch/217096/30-rock-its-never-too-late-for-now) and Comedy Central’s Regular Show on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4AC0uvU0jQ.) The group was also part of the classic Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Patrick Swayze and the late Chris Farley as Chippendale dancers auditioning to “Working for the Weekend” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PSDTEbr7nE
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LOVERBOY WILL BE “LOVIN’ EVERY MINUTE” OF JOURNEY TOUR
Veteran Multi-Platinum Canadian Rockers Embark on Arena Tour with Journey and Pat Benatar featuring Neil Giraldo, Starting July 21 in San Bernardino’s San Manuel Amphitheatre
April 9, 2012—They’ll not only be working for the weekend, but almost every night in between, as legendary Canadian rockers Loverboy return to the road and keep it up with Journey and Pat Benatar featuring Neil Giraldo for an arena tour that gets underway July 21 at the San Manuel Amphitheatre in San Bernardino, CA, running all the way through December. Scheduled 2012 tour information is listed below.
Tickets for some concerts are already on sale with additional on-sales starting this Friday (4/13), at all the usual online, phone and physical retail outlets, including select Wal Mart Ticketmaster locations across the country.
Founding Loverboy member Paul Dean commented: "It's great coming full circle 30 years later. We first toured with Journey in 1982 on the success of our Get Lucky album. It was an amazing package then and it's an amazing package today."
With trademark red leather pants and bandanas to match their huge rock sound and high-energy live shows, Loverboy has sold more than 10 million albums and earned multi-platinum plaques for albums such as their self-titled debut LP, Get Lucky, Keep It Up and Lovin’ Every Minute of It. The string of hits includes the band’s smash anthem Working for the Weekend, and the hits “Hot Girls in Love,” “Turn Me Loose” and “Lovin’ Every Minute of It.”
The band recently reunited with Bob Rock, who engineered their very first album back in 1980 which was produced by Bruce Fairbairn, for a new song, “Heartbreaker.” In addition, lead singer Mike Reno penned “Flying High,” the anthem for the Vancouver Canucks’ Stanley Cup playoff run last spring. Last June, Loverboy performed “Working for the Weekend” live on Fox News Channel’s top-rated Fox and Friends. A performance of the new single, “Heartbreaker,” was made available as an exclusive on www.foxandfriends.com as part of the program’s “All American Summer Concert Series.”
Loverboy’s pop culture credibility was cemented by last season’s 30 Rock episode in which Scott Adsit’s amateur musician Pete Hornberger revealed he was actually Loverboy’s original bassist, showing him inserted into vintage ‘80s footage of the band wailing away on “Working for the Weekend,” which you can see at http://www.hulu.com/watch/217096/30-rock-its-never-too-late-for-now. The same song was also featured on a recent episode of Comedy Network’s popular Regular Show, now posted on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4AC0uvU0jQ. It was also part of a memorable Saturday Night Live skit featuring the late Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze as a pair of Chippendale dancers here.
Loverboy still includes original members Mike Reno on vocals, Paul Dean on guitar, Doug Johnson on keyboards and Matt Frenette on drums, with Ken “Spider” Sinnaeve (a former member of Dean and Frenette’s pre-Loverboy band Streetheart), who replaced the late Scott Smith on bass.
For more information, go to www.loverboyband.com
Scheduled 2012 Tour Dates (more dates will be added):
Sat 21-Jul San Bernardino, CA San Manuel Amphitheatre
Sun 22-Jul Stateline, CA Harvey's Outdoor Arena
Tue 24-Jul Paso Robles, CA Main Grandstand, California Mid-State Fair
Thu 26-Jul Cheyenne, WY Cheyenne Frontier Nights
Sat 28-Jul George, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
Sun 29-Jul Spokane, WA Northern Quest Casino Amphitheater
Fri 3-Aug Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
Mon 6-Aug Sturgis, SD Buffalo Chip Campground Amphitheatre*
Fri 10-Aug Wantagh, NY Nikon @ Jones Beach Theatre
Tue 14-Aug Watertown, NY Watertown Fairgrounds Arena
Wed 15-Aug Canandaigua, NY Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center
Fri 17-Aug Louisville, KY Freedom Hall
Sat 18-Aug Des Moines, IA Grandstand, Iowa State Fair
Fri 24-Aug Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Sat 25-Aug Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
Fri 31-Aug Kansas City, KS Livestrong Sporting Park
Sat 1-Sep St Paul, MN Grandstand, MN State Fair
Fri 21-Sep Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Sat 22-Sep Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
Fri 28-Sep Bangor, ME Waterfront Park
Sat 6-Oct Atlanta, GA Aaron's Lakewood Amphitheatre
Fri 12-Oct Tampa, FL 1-800-ask-Gary Amphitheatre
Sat 13-Oct W. Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre
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