Graham Bonnet

   
Artist: Graham Bonnet

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Day I Went Mad

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Day I Went Mad

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 Underground

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Here Comes The Night

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12


   
 Line-Up

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 11


   
 No Bad Habits

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 11


   
 Graham Bonnet

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 10

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In the eighties, hard stone and sonorous metal were all more or less the manner you looked. If you didn't have long hair and dress up in studs, spikes, leather, or spandex, you stuck out like a afflictive thumb. Singer Graham Bonnet -- wHO sported a take care that was equal parts James Dean and Miami Vice-era Don Johnson -- was a prize example of this, disdain fronting (albeit concisely) such celebrated acts as Rainbow, the Michael Schenker Group, and Alcatrazz. Born December 23, 1947, in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, Bonnet had his first gustation of success in the music biz in the late '60s, when he scored a off with his band, the Marbles -- "Only One Woman." Bonnet supposedly worn out nigh of the '70s doing commercial jingles, before issue a self-titled solo debut in 1977, which became a hit in Australia due to a cover of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," and grading some other cover hit a year subsequently with the Bee Gees' "Warm Ride." Just in front the close of the decennium, Bonnet was elect to replace Ronnie James Dio in Rainbow, which saw the chemical group transform into a more melodious and radio-friendly work with 1980's Down to Earth.


Just Bonnet's land tenure with Rainbow was passing, as he then returned to a solo career, marking a U.K. hit single with "Night Games" cancelled of 1981's Line Up. Up next was some other brief association, with the Michael Schenker Group, which also lasted for a single record album -- 1982's Rape Attack. A year later, Bonnet co-formed an all new band, Alcatrazz, which featured two of the biggest careen guitar heroes of the '80s -- Yngwie Malmsteen (on 1984's No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll and Live Sentence) and Steve Vai (on 1985's Perturbing the Peace). However, after a third studio album, 1986's Unsafe Games, Alcatrazz were kaput. Subsequently, Bonnet has appeared on albums by others -- including Pretty Maids, Impellitteri, and Eddie Hardin -- and has also periodically issued further solo sets (1991's Hither Comes the Night, 1997's Underground, and 1999's The Day I Went Mad).





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