Vi skickar denna artikel fraktfritt så att du har den på releasedagen om du förhandsbokar innan releasedatum. Robin Becks nya album är fyllt av briljant AOR i samma anda som Heart lät när de var som bäst på 80-talet. Eller ja - Robin med för den delen… Mycket keyboards, härliga refränger och en riktigt bra produktion signerad maken James Christian. Älskar du melodiös rock som den lät när det var som bäst på 80-talet så är Robins nya platta ett gjutet kort. IN THE BEGINNING: “I dreamed about being an artist and a songwriter since I was about 9 years old,” recalls the Brooklyn native. “The first song I ever wrote was when I was 10 - ‘The Key to My Heart.’ I was so proud of it. It sounded a bit country, actually.” But, though she was drawn to The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin - and even attended Woodstock at age 12! - she grew up hearing Barbra Streisand on the radio. “So naturally,” she says, “some of her rubbed off on me. I gained a lot of strength imitating other singers. I was a bit of a parrot. This became very useful later on in years.” Though Beck didn’t have any formal vocal training, she learned a lot about music on the streets of her old neighborhood. “There were a few boys that used to gather on the corner with a guitar, and I was drawn to the sound like a moth to a flame,” she admits. “They always invited me to sing, and” - no surprise here! - “I was loud!” HER BIG BREAK: Beck was still just a kid when she left home for Daytona Beach to chase her dream of singing in a rock band. By the time she was 17, she had achieved it - she was on the road with a group called Deep South. Soon after, she signed her first recording contract and released her debut single, “Still in Love.” But it wasn’t until after that, back in New York, that things really started to take off for her. While working on everything from a Broadway musical (“Got to Go Disco”) to her premier album (1979’s “Sweet Talk,” with Kenny Lehman of “Dance, Dance, Dance”), she got to collaborate with some of the greatest musicians in the world as part of, of all things, the jingle biz! In fact, it was when her song, “First Time,” was chosen for use in Coca-Cola commercials in 1988 that her name became a household one! (Not only that, but the song became a huge hit around the globe and spent three weeks at No. 1 in the UK!) ALL-STARS: By then officially a Very Big Deal, Beck fielded contributions for her next album, “Trouble or Nothin’,” from such A-listers as Steve Lukather (Toto), Paul Stanley (KISS), Diane Warren, Desmond Child and her long-standing writing partner, Jeff Kent. “Human Instinct,” released in 1992, again featured the crème de la crème of the session world (Jeff Porcaro, Kim Bullard, Tim Pierce, Michael Landau, Lee Ritenour, Michael Thompson, etc.) and a line-up of blue-chip songwriters (Mark Spiro, Jeff Kent, Journey’s Jonathan Cain, Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson, Sue Shifrin, Glen Burtnik etc.). Two years later, “Can’t Get Off” included songs co-written by everyone from Clif Magness (Avril Lavigne, Steve Perry) and Steve Kipner to Michael Bolton and Marc Jordan.
