Kenneth Clark Loggins (born January 7, 1948)^[3] is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.^[4] His early songs were recorded with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970,^[5] which led to seven albums recorded with Jim Messina as Loggins and Messina from 1972 to 1977.^[6] His early soundtrack contributions date back to A Star Is Born in 1976,^[7] and he is known as the King of the Movie Soundtrack.^[4][8] As a solo artist, Loggins experienced a string of soundtrack successes, including an Academy Award nomination for “Footloose” in 1985.^[9] Finally Home was released in 2013, shortly after Loggins formed the group Blue Sky Riders with Gary Burr and Georgia Middleman.^[10] He won a Daytime Emmy Award, two Grammy Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Early life[edit]

Loggins was born in Everett, Washington, the youngest of three brothers. His father, Robert George Loggins, was a salesman of English and Irish ancestry,^[11] while his mother, Lina (née Massie), was a homemaker of Italian descent, from Avezzano.^[12] They lived in Detroit and Seattle before settling in Alhambra, California. Loggins attended San Gabriel Mission High School, graduating in 1966. He formed a band, The Second Helping, that released three singles during 1968 and 1969 on Viva Records. Greg Shaw described the efforts as “excellent punky folk-pop records” that were written by Loggins who was likely to be the bandleader and singer as well; Shaw included “Let Me In” on both Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 2 and the Pebbles, Volume 9 CD.^[13]

Loggins had a short gig playing guitar for the New Improved Electric Prunes in 1969 before writing four songs for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band that were included on their album Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy.^[14] During his early 20s, he was in the band Gator Creek with Mike Deasy. The first recorded version of “Danny’s Song” (later recorded by Loggins and Messina and a No. 7 Hot 100 hit for Anne Murray in 1973) was included on their only album, released on Mercury Records.

Loggins and Messina[edit]

Jim Messina, formerly of Poco and Buffalo Springfield, was working as an independent record producer for Columbia Records in 1970 when he was introduced to Loggins, then a little-known singer-songwriter who was signed to ABC-Dunhill.

The two recorded a number of Loggins’s compositions in Messina’s home living room. When Columbia signed Loggins (with Messina’s help) to a six-album contract, recording began in earnest for Loggins’s debut album, with Messina as producer. In addition to providing rehearsal space, equipment and amps, Messina worked long hours with Loggins and encouraged him to buy an electric guitar to play on his debut album. He also assembled The Kenny Loggins Band by summoning his old friends bassist Larry Sims and drummer Merel Bregante (both formerly of the Sunshine Company, a disbanded 1960s group from Los Angeles), violinist/multireedist Al Garth and multireedist Jon Clarke. Keyboardist Michael Omartian also played on the album and despite dropping out at the start of the touring, continued to play keyboards on the next two albums. Los Angeles-based session percussionist Milt Holland, described by Messina as an ethnomusicologist, also contributed.^[15]

Messina originally intended to lend his name to the Loggins project only to help introduce the unknown Loggins to Messina’s well-established Buffalo Springfield and Poco audiences. But by the time the album was completed, Messina had contributed so much to the album in terms of songwriting, arrangement, instrumentation and vocals that an “accidental” duo was born. Thus the full name of their first album was Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sittin’ In. The album’s first single release, the Caribbean-flavored “Vahevala”, found top 3 success on WCFL on May 18, 1972.^[16]

A publicity photo, c. 1980

Although the album went unnoticed by radio upon release, it eventually found success by fall 1972, particularly on college campuses where the pair toured heavily. Loggins and Messina’s vocal harmonies meshed so well that what was begun as a one-off album became an entity in itself. Audiences regarded the pair as a genuine duo rather than as a solo act with a well-known producer. Instead of continuing to produce Loggins as a sole performer, they decided to record as a duo, Loggins & Messina.

“When our first album, Sittin’ In, came out, we started receiving a lot of excitement about the music and good sales,” Messina recalled in 2005.

We had a choice. It was either I now go on and continue to produce him and we do the solo career or we stay together and let this work. For me, I did not desire to go back out on the road. I had had enough of that and I wanted to produce records. But Clive Davis (then president of the record company) intervened and said, “You know, I think you’d be making a mistake if you guys didn’t take this opportunity. Things like this only happen once in a lifetime. It may merit you sleeping on it overnight and making a decision that will be in your best interest.” He was absolutely correct. Kenny made the decision as well. It delayed his solo career, but it gave him an opportunity, I think, to have one.^[17]

Both members of the duo were guitarists: Loggins played rhythm guitar with both acoustic and electric guitar and harmonica and Messina played lead guitar with both acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin and Dobro. Over the next four years they produced five more albums of original material in the studio, plus one album of covers of other artists’ material and two live albums. They sold 16 million records and were the most successful duo of the early 1970s, surpassed later in the decade only by Hall & Oates.^[17] Their work also included Lynn Anderson‘s “Listen to a Country Song“, which was released in 1972 and reached No. 3 on the charts, “Danny’s Song” and “A Love Song“, which reached No. 12 in March 1974. A greatest-hits album, The Best of Friends, was released a year after the duo broke up.

The later studio albums often found Loggins and Messina more as two solo artists sharing the same record than as a genuine partnership. As they both noted in 2005, their collaboration eventually became more a competition. The pair had by 1976 quietly but amicably parted to pursue solo careers, following the release of Native Sons and their final concert in Hawaii.

Solo career[edit]

Loggins performing in 1977

In 1977, Loggins produced his first solo album, Celebrate Me Home, which included the successful song “I Believe in Love“, originally sung by Barbra Streisand in A Star Is Born. Nightwatch, a popular album released in 1978, included the hit song “Whenever I Call You Friend”, a duet with Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, co-written with Melissa Manchester. Loggins followed that in 1979 with Keep the Fire and in 1982 with High Adventure. The latter contained his rock duet with Journey frontman Steve Perry, “Don’t Fight It“, which rose to No. 17 on the US Billboard Top 100. Loggins abandoned the harmonica in his solo career but continued to play guitar, just as he had done with Loggins & Messina.

With Michael McDonald[edit]

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Loggins also co-wrote the song “What a Fool Believes” with Michael McDonald. Each recorded his own version of it, with McDonald recording as a member of the Doobie Brothers. Loggins’ version was released first, but the Doobie Brothers’ version achieved greater success, reaching No. 1 on the pop chart and earning Loggins and McDonald the 1980 Grammy for Song of the Year.

In 1979, Loggins and McDonald wrote “This Is It“. The song was a love song and ultimatum to a woman having an affair and stringing her lover along, while refusing to make a final decision. Every phrase or verse in the song implies, “It’s him or me” and the lyrics state, “Leave him behind”. There is much confusion about this song, because Loggins dedicated the song to his father, who was struggling with cancer. Because the lyrics are so empowering, they might be used for any purpose to imply “victim to victory”…for example, a sports team anthem. The song earned Loggins the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. NBC used the song as theme music for its coverage of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in 1980 and 1981.

Soundtracks[edit]

During the next decade, Loggins recorded so many successful songs for film soundtracks that he became known as the King of the Movie Soundtrack.^[18][19] It began with “I’m Alright” from Caddyshack. Hits followed with “Footloose” and “I’m Free (Heaven Helps the Man)” from Footloose; “Meet Me Half Way” from Over the Top; and “Danger Zone” and “Playing with the Boys” from Top Gun. Loggins also performed “Nobody’s Fool” for the film Caddyshack II. He performed as a member of USA for Africa on the famine-relief fundraising single “We Are the World“, which led to an appearance performing “Footloose” at the Philadelphia leg of the July 13, 1985, Live Aid famine-relief dual-venue charity concert and global television broadcast.^[20]

During the 1990s, Loggins continued his album career, including the popular 1994 children’s album Return to Pooh Corner, which included the title single, a reworking of “House at Pooh Corner“, written for his newborn son Luke.

In 1991, Loggins recorded and produced Leap of Faith, which included the single “Conviction of the Heart“. Vice President Al Gore called this song “the unofficial anthem of the environmental movement“. On Earth Day 1995, Loggins performed at The National Mall in Washington, D.C., before a live audience of 500,000.

In 1997, Loggins released the album The Unimaginable Life, based on a book he co-wrote with his then-wife Julia. Tracks include “Now That I Know Love”, “The Art of Letting Go” and “One Chance at a Time”. The album was produced by Loggins and Randy Jackson with background vocals by Skyler Jett, Lamont VanHook and Howard Smith.

In 1998, Loggins recorded a version of the Sesame Street song “One Small Voice” for the ABC television special Elmopalooza, which was included as a track on the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack album.

The Cranberries were an Irish rock band^[2] formed in Limerick, Ireland. Originally named the Cranberry Saw Us, the band was formed in 1989 by lead singer Niall Quinn, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan, and drummer Fergal Lawler. Quinn was replaced as lead singer by Dolores O’Riordan in 1990 and they changed their name to the Cranberries. The band classified themselves as an alternative rock group, but incorporated aspects of indie rock, jangle pop, dream pop, folk rock, post-punk and pop rock into their sound.

The Cranberries rose to international fame in the 1990s with their debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, which became a commercial success. Some of the band’s hit singles include “Dreams” (1992), “Linger” (1993), “Zombie” (1994), “Salvation” (1996), and “When You’re Gone” (1997). Five of the band’s albums reached the Top 20 on the Billboard 200 chart and eight of their singles reached the Top 20 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.^[3]

In early 2009, after a six-year hiatus, the Cranberries reunited and began a North American tour followed by shows in Latin America and Europe.^[4][5] The band’s sixth studio album, Roses, was released in February 2012 and its seventh, Something Else, followed in April 2017.^[6][7][8]

On 15 January 2018, O’Riordan was found dead of drowning in a London hotel room.^[9][10][11] The Cranberries confirmed in September 2018 that they would not continue as a band; their final album, In the End, was released in April 2019 and they disbanded afterwards.^[12]

The Cranberries rank as one of the best-selling alternative acts of the 1990s, having sold nearly 50 million albums worldwide as of 2019. They have received an MTV Europe Music Award, a World Music Award, an International Group nomination at the Brit Awards, a Juno nomination, a Juno Award win, an Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement and a BMI Award with a Special Citation of Achievement. In the End earned them a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. With the video for their song “Zombie”, the Cranberries became the first Irish band to reach one billion views on YouTube.

• The B-52’s (1979)
• Wild Planet (1980)
• Whammy! (1983)
• Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986)
• Cosmic Thing (1989)
• Good Stuff (1992)
• Funplex (2008)

Collective Soul is an American rock band originally from Stockbridge, Georgia.^[2] Now based in Atlanta, the group consists of lead vocalist Ed Roland, rhythm guitarist Dean Roland, bassist Will Turpin, drummer Johnny Rabb, and lead guitarist Jesse Triplett. Formed in 1992, the original lineup consisted of the Roland brothers, Turpin, guitarist Ross Childress, and drummer Shane Evans. Collective Soul released their Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid album on the independent label Rising Storm Records in 1993. The band went from obscurity to popularity that year after the album’s lead single “Shine” received regional radio play. The album was then re-released in 1994 by the major label Atlantic Records; thus, “Shine” became a national hit as it peaked at No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock and No. 4 on the Mainstream Top 40 charts.

Collective Soul released a self-titled album in March 1995. Considered by Ed Roland to be the band’s true debut album, Collective Soul spent 76 weeks on the Billboard 200 charts and went triple-platinum, becoming the band’s highest-selling album. The singles “December“, “The World I Know“, and “Where the River Flows” each reached No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock charts. About two years later, Collective Soul released Disciplined Breakdown. Although not as successful in sales as their previous two albums, Disciplined Breakdown contained two No. 1 Mainstream Rock chart hits with “Precious Declaration” and “Listen“. The band released a fourth studio album, Dosage, in 1999. The album’s first single, “Heavy“, spent a then record-breaking 15 weeks on the top spot of the Mainstream Rock charts.

The band released Blender in 2000, their fifth and final album with the original starting lineup, as lead guitarist Childress left the band in 2001. About two weeks after Childress’ departure, Collective Soul released Seven Year Itch, a compilation of their greatest hits between 1994 and 2001. Collective Soul established their own label, El Music Group, prior to releasing Youth in 2004. Original drummer Evans then departed from the band at the end of 2005. Collective Soul has since released five more albums: Afterwords (2007), a second self-titled album (2009), See What You Started by Continuing (2015), Blood (2019), and Vibrating (2022).

George Lawrence Thorogood (born February 24, 1950) is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Wilmington, Delaware.^[1] His “high-energy boogie-blues” sound became a staple of 1980s rock radio, with hits like his original songs “Bad to the Bone” and “I Drink Alone“.^[2] He has also helped to popularize older songs by American icons, such as “Move It on Over“, “Who Do You Love?“, and “House Rent Blues/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer“.^[3]

With his band, the Delaware Destroyers (often known simply as “The Destroyers”), Thorogood has released over 20 albums, two of which have been certified Platinum and six have been certified Gold. He has sold 15 million records worldwide. Thorogood and his band continue to tour extensively, and in 2014, the band celebrated their 40th anniversary of performing.

Music career[edit]

Thorogood began his career as a solo acoustic performer in the style of Robert Johnson and Elmore James^[2] after being inspired in 1970 by a John P. Hammond concert.^[4] In 1973, he formed a band, the Delaware Destroyers, with high school friend and drummer Jeff Simon.^[2] With additional players, the Delaware Destroyers developed its sound, a mixture of Chicago blues and rock and roll.^[4] The band’s first shows were in the Rathskeller bar at the University of Delaware and at Deer Park Tavern, both in Newark, Delaware.^[5][6] Eventually, the band’s name was shortened to the Destroyers. During this time, Thorogood supplemented his income by working as a roadie for Hound Dog Taylor.^[7]

Thorogood’s demo Better Than the Rest was recorded in 1974, but was not released until 1979. His major recording debut came with the album George Thorogood and the Destroyers, which was released in 1977. In 1978, Thorogood released his next album with the Destroyers titled Move It on Over, which included a remake of Hank Williams‘s “Move It on Over“. He followed those recordings in 1979 with “Please Set a Date” and a reworking of the Bo Diddley song “Who Do You Love“, both released in 1979. The band’s early success contributed to the rise of folk label Rounder Records.^[8]

Thorogood performing at William Paterson College, April 23, 1986

During the late 1970s, Thorogood and his band were based in Boston. He was friends with Jimmy Thackery of the Washington, D.C.-based blues band, The Nighthawks. While touring in the 1970s, the Destroyers and the Nighthawks were playing shows in Georgetown at venues across the street from each other. The Destroyers were engaged at the Cellar Door and the Nighthawks at Desperados. At midnight, while both bands played Elmore James‘s “Madison Blues” in the same key, Thorogood and Thackery left their clubs, met in the middle of M Street, exchanged guitar cords and went on to play with the opposite band in the other club.^[9] The connection with the Nighthawks was extended further when Nighthawks bass player Jan Zukowski supported Thorogood’s set with Bo Diddley and Albert Collins at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 1985.^[10]

Thorogood gained his first mainstream exposure as a support act for the Rolling Stones during their 1981 U.S. tour.^[10] He was also the featured musical guest on Saturday Night Live (Season 8, Episode 2) on the October 2, 1982, broadcast. During this time, Thorogood and the Destroyers became known for their rigorous touring schedule, including the “50/50” tour in 1981,^[11] on which the band toured all 50 US states in 50 days.^[12] After two shows in Boulder, Colorado, Thorogood and his band flew to Hawaii for one show and then performed a show in Alaska the following night. The next day, Thorogood and his band met his roadies in Washington and continued the one-show-per-state tour. In addition, he played Washington, D.C., on the same day that he performed a show in Maryland, thereby playing 51 shows in 50 days.^{[citation needed]}

Thorogood receives the MMP Music Award and Hall of Fame Honors with William Lewis IV, Alexis Paige, Commander Joseph W. Clark, and Kevin Edwards

With his contract with Rounder Records expiring, Thorogood signed with EMI America Records and, in 1982, released the single “Bad to the Bone” and an album of the same name that went gold. The song became the band’s most well-known song^[13] through appearances on MTV and use in films, television and commercials. Thorogood and his band went on to have two more gold studio albums in the 1980s, Maverick and Born to Be Bad. The former features Thorogood’s only Billboard Hot 100 hit, a remake of Johnny Otis‘s “Willie and the Hand Jive“, and his concert staple “I Drink Alone“.^[14]

Thorogood’s popularity waned in the 1990s, although he had a No. 2 hit on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart in 1992 with “Get a Haircut“.^[14]

In 2012, Thorogood was named one of the “50 Most Influential Delawareans of the Past 50 Years”.^[15] He released his first proper solo album in 2017, titled Party of One.

On March 14, 2020, Thorogood was inducted into the Mississippi Music Project Hall of Fame in Biloxi, Mississippi, and was awarded the MMP Music Award for his lifelong commitment to the music industry.^[16]

Bread

Bread songs are the songs by the soft rock band Bread¹². Some of their best known songs are “Make It With You”, “Baby, I’m-a Want You”, “The Guitar Man”, “If”, and “Everything I Own”². They also have songs like “Aubrey”, “Been Too Long On The Road”, and “Change Of Heart”¹.

Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California. They had 13 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977.^[2]

The band was fronted by David Gates (vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, violin, viola, percussion), with Jimmy Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion) and Robb Royer (bass guitar, guitar, flute, keyboards, percussion, recorder, backing vocals). On their first album session musicians Ron Edgar played drums and Jim Gordon played drums, percussion, and piano. Mike Botts became their permanent drummer when he joined in the summer of 1969, and Larry Knechtel replaced Royer in 1971, playing keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, and harmonica.^[3][4][5]

Beginnings and fame[edit]

David Gates is from Tulsa, Oklahoma.^[4] He released a song in the late 1950s entitled “Jo-Baby”/”Lovin’ at Night”.^{[citation needed]} Gates knew Leon Russell and both played in bar bands around the Tulsa area. Both Gates and Russell headed for California to check out the music scene there. Before forming Bread, Gates had worked with Royer’s previous band, the Pleasure Fair, who recorded one album for the UNI Records label with Gates producing and arranging. Royer then introduced Gates to his songwriting partner, Griffin, and the trio joined together in 1968 and signed with Elektra Records in January 1969. Gates later explained the genesis of the band’s name:^[6]

A bread truck came along right at the time we were trying to think of a name. We had been saying, “How about bush, telephone pole? Ah, bread truck, bread.” It began with a B, like the Beatles and the Bee Gees. Bread also had a kind of universal appeal. It could be taken a number of ways. Of course, for the entire first year people called us the Breads.

The group’s first single, “Dismal Day”, was released in June 1969 but did not chart. Their debut album, Bread, was released in September 1969 and peaked at No. 127 on the Billboard 200. The songwriting on the album was split evenly between Gates and the team of Griffin-Royer. Session musicians Jim Gordon and Ron Edgar accompanied the band on drums for the album.

On July 25, 1969, Bread appeared in concert for the first time, with Gordon on drums, at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood, opening for the Flying Burrito Brothers. When Gordon’s schedule conflicted and he proved unavailable for future outings, they brought in Mike Botts as their permanent drummer. Botts, whom Gates had previously worked with in Botts’s group The Travelers 3 as a producer, appeared on their second album, On the Waters (released in July 1970 and peaking at No. 12 on the Billboard 200). This time their efforts quickly established Bread as a major act with the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Make It with You” in 1970. “Make It with You” would be Bread’s only No. 1 on the Hot 100.

For their next single, Bread released a re-recorded version of “It Don’t Matter To Me”, a Gates song from their first album. This single was a hit as well, reaching No. 10. Bread began touring and recording their third album, titled Manna (March 1971), which peaked at #21 and included “Let Your Love Go” (which preceded the album’s release and made No. 28) and the Top 5 hit single, “If“. As with the first album, songwriting credits were split evenly between Gates and Griffin-Royer.

Royer, after conflicts with other members of the band, left the group in the summer of 1971 after three albums, although he would continue to write with Griffin. He was replaced by Larry Knechtel, a leading Los Angeles session musician who played piano and harpsichord on The Beach Boys Pet Sounds album and on Simon & Garfunkel‘s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” single in 1970.^[7]

In January 1972 Bread released Baby I’m-a Want You, their most successful album, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. The title song was established as a hit in late 1971 before the album was released, also hitting No. 3. Follow-up singles “Everything I Own” and “Diary” also went Top 20.

The next album, Guitar Man, was released ten months later and went to No. 18. The album produced three Top 20 singles, “The Guitar Man” (#11), “Sweet Surrender” (#15), and “Aubrey” (#15), with the first two going to No. 1 on Billboard‘s adult contemporary chart.

Split and reunion[edit]

By 1973, fatigue from constant recording and touring had set in despite the band’s success, and personal relationships began to show strain, especially between Gates and Griffin. All eleven of Bread’s charting singles between 1970 and 1973 had been written and sung by Gates. Elektra Records had invariably selected Gates’ songs for the A-sides of the singles, while Griffin felt that the singles should have been split between the two of them. There was also some dissatisfaction with the songs planned for a sixth album. After their equipment and instruments were destroyed in a truck accident prior to a scheduled concert at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City in June 1973, Bread decided to disband.

Gates and Griffin returned to their solo careers with mixed results. The Best of Bread compilation album from March 1973 was a huge success, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and staying on the chart for over two years. The follow-up, The Best of Bread, Volume 2, was released in May 1974 and went to No. 32.

The reunion of the group in 1976 came about after Elektra Records expressed interest in another Bread album. Gates, Griffin, Botts and Knechtel returned to the studio that year and recorded Lost Without Your Love, released in January 1977. The title track, again written and sung by Gates, was the band’s last Top 10 hit, peaking at No. 9 on the singles chart. This comeback record reached No. 26 on the Billboard 200 and was Bread’s seventh consecutive album (including the two best ofs) to be RIAA-certified gold. In March 1977, Elektra released a second single, “Hooked On You”. It was less successful on the pop chart (peaking at No. 60) but it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

The four members of Bread (along with session guitarist Dean Parks) toured throughout the spring of 1977 to support their comeback album. After a short break, they commenced the tour’s third leg that summer without Griffin, whom Gates failed to invite after further rising tensions and Griffin’s worsening substance abuse troubles. They ended the year with no further plans to record as a group.

Following the break-up[edit]

In 1978, Gates enjoyed success as a solo artist with the hit singles “Goodbye Girl” (#15; from the movie The Goodbye Girl) and “Took the Last Train” (#30). He then continued to tour with Botts and Knechtel as “David Gates & Bread”, making TV appearances, including a guest shot on The Hardy Boys Mysteries which aired in November 1978. The group’s 1978 touring line-up once again included Dean Parks for their June tour of the UK and Europe. By their fall dates back in the US, Parks had left and the stage lineup had expanded to include Warren Ham (ex-Bloodrock; woodwinds, keyboards, backing vocals), Bill Ham (guitars) and David Miner (bass). This led to a legal dispute with Griffin over the use of the band’s name, of which Griffin was co-owner. In the dispute, Griffin again complained that Gates’ songs were given preference as singles over his. The resulting litigation, which resulted in the Bread name being retired altogether by late 1978, was not settled until 1984.

After leaving Bread in 1971, Royer stuck mostly to songwriting (still teaming up with Griffin on occasion). As with Griffin, he eventually kicked his drug problems and his success was mostly in writing for artists in the country music field in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1994, Royer, Griffin and Knechtel re-united under the name “Toast”. Knechtel had continued to be an in-demand session player, backing up such artists as Elvis Costello. In September 1994, after being out of the spotlight for thirteen years, Gates released a new solo album, Love Is Always Seventeen.

In 1990, Griffin founded the country music supergroup Black Tie with Billy Swan and former Eagles member Randy Meisner. After this entity broke up, he recorded two albums as a member of another country music group, The Remingtons.^[8]

Final reunion[edit]

In 1996, having settled their differences, the original members Gates, Griffin, Botts and Knechtel reunited Bread for a final and successful “25th Anniversary” tour of the United States, South Africa, Europe and Asia. This time out, the group was accompanied by Randy Flowers (guitars), Scott Chambers (bass) and a string section to help them capture the sound of the records. This tour was extended into 1997, which would be the last year the members of Bread would ever perform together. Gates and the others then resumed their individual careers. Bread was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2006.

1. Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)” (Remix) (John Moon Martin) — 3:15
2. “Pride” — 4:05
3. “Addicted to Love” (Edit) — 4:21
4. “Sweet Lies” (Robert Palmer, Frank Blair, Dony Wynn) — 3:05
5. “Woke Up Laughing” (Remix) — 4:06
6. “Looking for Clues” (Remix) — 4:54
7. “Some Guys Have All the Luck” (Jeff Fortang) — 3:06
8. “Some Like It Hot” (Robert Palmer, Andy Taylor, John Taylor) — 5:05
9. “What’s It Take?” — 3:28
10. “Every Kinda People” (Andy Fraser) — 3:26
11. “Johnny and Mary” — 4:05
12. “Simply Irresistible” — 4:18
13. “Style Kills” (Robert Palmer, Gary Numan) — 4:16