Blog: Pop Go The '80s

From its opening, heralded by a thumping bassline, Loverboy's Turn Me Loose immediately grabbed radio listeners and made for an attention-getting introduction to the Canadian band. The song, from their 1981 self-titled debut album, came less than two years after the group's formation in Toronto and launched a career that would make them one of the most successful mainstream hard rock acts of the first half of the '80s. Driven by lead singer Mike Reno, who punctuates the usual hard rock delivery with falsetto climaxes, Loverboy managed to deftly blend crunching guitars with synthesizer sheen in [...]

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