Loverboy
Encyclopedia
Loverboy is a Canadian rock
group formed in 1980 in Calgary
, Alberta
. Throughout the 1980s, the band accumulated numerous hit songs in Canada and the United States, earning four multi-platinum albums and selling millions of records. After being rejected by many American record label
s they signed with Columbia/CBS Records Canada
and began recording their first album March 20, 1980, with Mike Reno
on lead vocals, Paul Dean
on guitars, Scott Smith
on bass guitar, Doug Johnson on keyboards, and Matt Frenette on drums. The band's hit singles, particularly "Turn Me Loose" and "Working for the Weekend
", have become arena rock
staples and are still heard on many classic rock
radio stations across the United States and Canada. They are currently based in Vancouver
, British Columbia
.
of Canada, and on March 20, 1980, Loverboy went into the studio with producer Bruce Fairbairn
and engineer Bob Rock
to record what would be their self-titled debut album.
Over that summer, the record became a huge hit with eventually over 700,000 records sold in Canada alone. The album made its American debut in November 1980, and would go on to sell two million copies. The band went on a touring spree that year putting on over 200 shows with bands such as Cheap Trick
, ZZ Top
, Kansas
, and Def Leppard
.
The band's follow-up album, Get Lucky, released in 1981 when they were opening for Journey
, included the hit tracks "Working for the Weekend
" and "When It's Over". It became their best selling album in the U.S., reaching #7 on the Billboard
album charts and selling over four million copies. In the same year Loverboy received six Juno Award
s (Canada's highest award for music) in one year, a record that still stands today. The band would later receive an additional three Juno Awards, bringing their total to nine, which is the most received by a single group or individual.
Loverboy released their third album, Keep It Up
, in 1983. Its first single "Hot Girls in Love
" became their most successful to that date, reaching #11 on the U.S. charts. The video for the song as well as for the follow-up single "Queen of the Broken Hearts" were hugely popular on MTV, and the band embarked on its first tour as headliners.
Also in 1984 Loverboy recorded a song called "Destruction" which appeared on the 1984 soundtrack of a re-edited version of the 1927 film Metropolis
.
Lovin' Every Minute of It
, the band's fourth album, and the first not produced by Fairbairn (it was produced by Tom Allom
, best known for producing Judas Priest
) was released in 1985, with the title single written by Mutt Lange and "This Could Be The Night" co-written by Journey
's Jonathan Cain
becoming their first U.S. Billboard
top 10 hits respectively. In 1986 the band recorded "Heaven In Your Eyes
", a song featured in the movie Top Gun
, which peaked at #12 on the Billboard charts. However, Doug Johnson refused to appear in the video as he felt that the film glorified war.
The 1987 release of Wildside
followed. While the band scored a minor hit with "Notorious", co-written by Jon Bon Jovi
and Richie Sambora
, the album sold relatively poorly and the band broke up in 1988 due to the departure of Johnson and creative and personal differences between Dean and Reno. A greatest-hits album, Big Ones
, was released in 1989 to fulfill Loverboy's obligation to Columbia Records
. The group briefly reunited in late 1989 to tour to promote it (with Geraldo Valentino Dominelli on keyboards in Johnson's place) but broke up again at the tour's conclusion.
and Bon Jovi
to help raise money for a friend and fellow recording artist Brian MacLeod
of Chilliwack
who was fighting cancer. The band reportedly recalled that the concert was the most fun that they had had in years and decided that they wanted to do it again. The band went on another live touring spree in Canada the following year before launching a 64-concert tour in the United States in 1993. The band's record label released their second and third compilation albums, Loverboy Classics
and Temperature's Rising
, in 1994. Loverboy Classics went Gold in 1998, coinciding with another American tour. During this time Doug Johnson was not with the band; former Trooper
keyboardist Richard Sera replaced him. Following the releases of Six
and Super Hits in 1997, the band continued touring (Johnson rejoined the band in 2000) until November 30, 2000, when bassist Scott Smith
was declared dead after being lost at sea. The band went on to release their first live album, Live, Loud and Loose
in 2001, which consisted of refurbished early live concert recordings from the band's intense touring years from 1982 to 1986. 2001 also brought another round of touring, this time dedicated to their late band member Scott Smith.
" and a cover version of "Hero" by Chad Kroeger/Josey Scott on the show. Currently the band features all the original members except for Scott Smith, who is now replaced on bass by Ken Sinnaeve
(a former member of Dean and Frenette's pre-Loverboy band Streetheart
).
In 2006, twenty-five years after its initial release, Get Lucky was remastered and re-released with several previously unreleased songs, including the original demo of Working for the Weekend
.
In a video interview from March 2007, lead singer Mike Reno confirmed that the band finished recording a new studio album released in 2007. The new album is titled Just Getting Started and was released in October, with a clip of the first single "The One That Got Away" available on the band's MySpace page. The band continues to tour throughout Canada and the United States.
The band was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame
during the 2009 Juno Awards
.
On February 21, 2010, the band performed at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics awards ceremony.
" was featured in an extremely popular Saturday Night Live
sketch involving Chris Farley
and Patrick Swayze
auditioning to be Chippendales dancers
. The song was also featured in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
, playing on Rock
station V-Rock
, as well as the video games Saints Row 2
, and Shaun White Snowboarding. It is also featured in the 2001 comedy film Zoolander
. The song was also featured, in full, at the end of the Rob Zombie
film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
. It was used as the background music to a Diet Pepsi
television commercial in which a man is asked what else he would like to experience that is youthful, and he chooses his old van from the 1980s. The song also made a brief appearance in the movie Click. The song was even featured in the third episode of "Regular Show
", Caffeinated Concert Tickets as well as the film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
.
Several of their songs were featured in the 2001 cult comedy Wet Hot American Summer
, which takes place in August 1981. In 2006, "Turn Me Loose" was featured in the action movie Crank
starring Jason Statham
.
An early episode of South Park
(An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
) made multiple references to a fictional Loverboy song, "Pig and Elephant DNA Just Won't Splice."
In Aqua Teen Hunger Force
s episode Revenge of the Mooninites, Err uses the "Foreigner
belt" to "Turn Master Shake Loose" to "Hot Girls in Love" because he's "Working for the Weekend". When it didn't work, it was revealed that "those are Loverboy songs, and Loverboy has always sucked." (although Carl said that he saw them at the Madison Square Garden
in 1985 and they "kicked ass".)
"The Kid is Hot Tonight" is featured on the soundtrack of MLB 2K9 by 2K Sports
and was included in the closing scenes of an episode of cartoon "American Dad," titled "Office Spaceman," Season 3, Episode 56, May 4, 2008, Production Code 3AJN13, where character Roger posed for a PlayGirl magazine photo shoot.
In an episode of Drew Carey's Green Screen Show
, Brad Sherwood remarks to a character called 'Hover-boy', "I loved your album Get Lucky!"
In the 2006 independent film A Dog's Breakfast
, there is a Loverboy poster on the childhood bedroom wall of Marilyn (played by Kate Hewlett
).
In the 15th episode of season 5 on 30 Rock
, "It's Never too Late for Now," Scott Adsit
's character Pete Hornberger tells Frank Rossitano he was in the band Loverboy for 3 months before leaving the band for a college scholarship in "TV Budgeting."
In the 9th episode of 5th season of Scrubs Todd imitates Mike Reno's performance of working for the weekend while attending the air-band 'Cool Cats' audition in the beginning of the episode.
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
group formed in 1980 in Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
. Throughout the 1980s, the band accumulated numerous hit songs in Canada and the United States, earning four multi-platinum albums and selling millions of records. After being rejected by many American record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
s they signed with Columbia/CBS Records Canada
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
and began recording their first album March 20, 1980, with Mike Reno
Mike Reno
Mike Reno , born January 8, 1955 in New Westminster, British Columbia is a Canadian musician, drummer, and lead singer of the rock band Loverboy. He has also fronted other bands, including Moxy....
on lead vocals, Paul Dean
Paul Dean (guitarist)
Paul Dean is the lead guitarist for the Canadian rock band Loverboy which reached huge fame in the early 1980s.-Biography:...
on guitars, Scott Smith
Scott Smith (musician)
Donald Scott Smith , born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was the original bassist for the Canadian rock band Loverboy, best known for their hit singles "Working for the Weekend" and "Turn Me Loose", although their U.S...
on bass guitar, Doug Johnson on keyboards, and Matt Frenette on drums. The band's hit singles, particularly "Turn Me Loose" and "Working for the Weekend
Working for the Weekend
"Working for the Weekend" is a song released in 1981 on the rock band Loverboy's second album Get Lucky. The song contains more of a pop feel than the other songs that the band produced, but this new sound proved to generate a lot of success, as the song reached #29 on the pop singles charts, and...
", have become arena rock
Arena rock
Arena rock is a term used to describe rock music that utilised large arena venues, particularly sports venues, for concerts or series of concerts linked in tours...
staples and are still heard on many classic rock
Classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...
radio stations across the United States and Canada. They are currently based in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
.
1980 to 1983
It's been reported their name was chosen while browsing through a magazine, where they saw a Cover Girl ad. Cover Girl became Cover Boy became Loverboy. Originally rejected by all the major record labels in the United States, the band signed with Columbia RecordsColumbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
of Canada, and on March 20, 1980, Loverboy went into the studio with producer Bruce Fairbairn
Bruce Fairbairn
Bruce Earl Fairbairn was a Canadian musician and international record producer from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was active as a producer from 1976 to 1999 and is considered one of the best of his era...
and engineer Bob Rock
Bob Rock
Robert Jens Rock, , is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer best known for producing bands such as Aerosmith, The Cult, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, 311, Metallica, Our Lady Peace, The Offspring and most recently Bush.-Payola$ and Rock and Hyde:Rock began his music career in Langford,...
to record what would be their self-titled debut album.
Over that summer, the record became a huge hit with eventually over 700,000 records sold in Canada alone. The album made its American debut in November 1980, and would go on to sell two million copies. The band went on a touring spree that year putting on over 200 shows with bands such as Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973. The band consists of members Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E...
, ZZ Top
ZZ Top
ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
, Kansas
Kansas (band)
Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on Album-Oriented Rock charts, and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"...
, and Def Leppard
Def Leppard
Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...
.
The band's follow-up album, Get Lucky, released in 1981 when they were opening for Journey
Journey (band)
Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between the 1978 and 1987, after which it temporarily disbanded...
, included the hit tracks "Working for the Weekend
Working for the Weekend
"Working for the Weekend" is a song released in 1981 on the rock band Loverboy's second album Get Lucky. The song contains more of a pop feel than the other songs that the band produced, but this new sound proved to generate a lot of success, as the song reached #29 on the pop singles charts, and...
" and "When It's Over". It became their best selling album in the U.S., reaching #7 on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
album charts and selling over four million copies. In the same year Loverboy received six Juno Award
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
s (Canada's highest award for music) in one year, a record that still stands today. The band would later receive an additional three Juno Awards, bringing their total to nine, which is the most received by a single group or individual.
Loverboy released their third album, Keep It Up
Keep It Up
Keep it Up was the third album released by the rock band Loverboy in 1983. With new hit tracks like "Hot Girls in Love", the album became an instant hit, and reached #7 on the charts, as did the previous album released by the band.- Track listing :...
, in 1983. Its first single "Hot Girls in Love
Hot Girls in Love
"Hot Girls in Love" is a song recorded by the rock band Loverboy. It appeared on their third album, Keep it Up, in 1983. When released as a single later that year, it reached number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Top Rock Tracks chart....
" became their most successful to that date, reaching #11 on the U.S. charts. The video for the song as well as for the follow-up single "Queen of the Broken Hearts" were hugely popular on MTV, and the band embarked on its first tour as headliners.
1984 to 1989
In 1984 Loverboy recorded the United States Team theme for the 1984 Summer Olympics, "Nothing's Gonna Stop You Now". The song appeared only on The Official Music of the 1984 Games not on any of their albums or compilations. It can be heard here. They would often play it on tour mixing it in during the performance of "Queen of the Broken Hearts".Also in 1984 Loverboy recorded a song called "Destruction" which appeared on the 1984 soundtrack of a re-edited version of the 1927 film Metropolis
Metropolis (film)
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and...
.
Lovin' Every Minute of It
Lovin' Every Minute of It
Lovin' Every Minute of It was an album released in 1985 by the rock band Loverboy. The album became a hit thanks to the title track. It went double platinum, the last album of the band's to do so.- Track listing :...
, the band's fourth album, and the first not produced by Fairbairn (it was produced by Tom Allom
Tom Allom
Tom Allom is an English sound engineer and record producer, mainly active in the 1970s and 1980s. Allom is known for his work on seminal albums by Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, KIX, and Rough Cutt...
, best known for producing Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1969. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band has gone through several drummers over the years,...
) was released in 1985, with the title single written by Mutt Lange and "This Could Be The Night" co-written by Journey
Journey (band)
Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between the 1978 and 1987, after which it temporarily disbanded...
's Jonathan Cain
Jonathan Cain
Jonathan Cain is an American musician, best known for his work with The Babys, Journey and Bad English.-Early life:...
becoming their first U.S. Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
top 10 hits respectively. In 1986 the band recorded "Heaven In Your Eyes
Heaven in Your Eyes
"Heaven in Your Eyes" was a single released in 1986 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy, for the Top Gun soundtrack. It later appeared on Loverboy's 1989 hits compilation Big Ones. The power ballad reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the U.S.The song was originally written by Mae Moore...
", a song featured in the movie Top Gun
Top Gun
Top Gun may refer to:* Top Gun is a 1986 film starring Tom Cruise.**Top Gun , soundtrack to the movie**Top Gun , a number of games based on the movie...
, which peaked at #12 on the Billboard charts. However, Doug Johnson refused to appear in the video as he felt that the film glorified war.
The 1987 release of Wildside
Wildside (album)
Wildside was an album released in 1987 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. This was the first album that the band had released that did not go platinum, signaling a general decline in the band's success....
followed. While the band scored a minor hit with "Notorious", co-written by Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as the founder, occasional rhythm guitarist, and lead singer of rock band Bon Jovi, which was named after him...
and Richie Sambora
Richie Sambora
Richard Stephen "Richie" Sambora is an American rock guitarist, producer, musician, singer, and songwriter who is the longtime lead guitarist of the rock band, Bon Jovi. He and frontman Jon Bon Jovi form the primary songwriting unit of the band...
, the album sold relatively poorly and the band broke up in 1988 due to the departure of Johnson and creative and personal differences between Dean and Reno. A greatest-hits album, Big Ones
Big Ones (album)
Big Ones was an album released in 1989 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. The album was the band's first compilation, including hit tracks such as "Working for the Weekend" and "Lovin' Every Minute of it"...
, was released in 1989 to fulfill Loverboy's obligation to Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
. The group briefly reunited in late 1989 to tour to promote it (with Geraldo Valentino Dominelli on keyboards in Johnson's place) but broke up again at the tour's conclusion.
1992 to 2004
In 1991, the band re-united to join fellow rockers Bryan AdamsBryan Adams
Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...
and Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...
to help raise money for a friend and fellow recording artist Brian MacLeod
Brian MacLeod (Canadian musician)
Brian Oliver "Too Loud" MacLeod was a Canadian musician, songwriter and music producer, best known as a member of the bands Chilliwack and Headpins....
of Chilliwack
Chilliwack (band)
Chilliwack are a Canadian rock band that had their heyday during the 1970s and 1980s. Although they are a Canadian band, the members were all born in, as well as reside in, the United States of America. They are perhaps best remembered for their five biggest songs "My Girl ", "I Believe", "Whatcha...
who was fighting cancer. The band reportedly recalled that the concert was the most fun that they had had in years and decided that they wanted to do it again. The band went on another live touring spree in Canada the following year before launching a 64-concert tour in the United States in 1993. The band's record label released their second and third compilation albums, Loverboy Classics
Loverboy Classics
Loverboy Classics was a compilation album by the Canadian rock band Loverboy, released on October 11, 1994. The album covered more ground than the previous compilation album released five years prior, and outsold it by far as well...
and Temperature's Rising
Temperature's Rising
Temperature's Rising was an album released in 1995 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. The album was the third compilation by the band, but this particular compilation aimed at the more rarely heard songs by the band, and the minor hits that the previous compilations did not cover...
, in 1994. Loverboy Classics went Gold in 1998, coinciding with another American tour. During this time Doug Johnson was not with the band; former Trooper
Trooper (band)
Trooper is a Juno Award winning Canadian rock band that developed from a group formed by vocalist Ramon McGuire and guitarist Brian Smith in 1975...
keyboardist Richard Sera replaced him. Following the releases of Six
Six (Loverboy album)
Six was an album released by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. Released in 1997, it was the band's first album with new material since 1987.-Track listing:#"Big Picture" - 6:19#"Love of Money" - 4:01...
and Super Hits in 1997, the band continued touring (Johnson rejoined the band in 2000) until November 30, 2000, when bassist Scott Smith
Scott Smith (musician)
Donald Scott Smith , born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was the original bassist for the Canadian rock band Loverboy, best known for their hit singles "Working for the Weekend" and "Turn Me Loose", although their U.S...
was declared dead after being lost at sea. The band went on to release their first live album, Live, Loud and Loose
Live, Loud and Loose
Live, Loud and Loose was an album released by the rock band Loverboy in 2001. After the death of their good friend and bassist Scott Smith, the band decided to release their first live album. This album contains refurbished recorded live tracks from the band's intense touring days from 1982 to 1986...
in 2001, which consisted of refurbished early live concert recordings from the band's intense touring years from 1982 to 1986. 2001 also brought another round of touring, this time dedicated to their late band member Scott Smith.
2005 to present
Loverboy celebrated 25 years together in 2005, and began to perform in selected cities to commemorate this milestone. That tour continued with live concerts scheduled well into August 2006. Also in 2005, Loverboy was one of the featured bands on the American version of Hit Me Baby One More Time. They performed "Working for the WeekendWorking for the Weekend
"Working for the Weekend" is a song released in 1981 on the rock band Loverboy's second album Get Lucky. The song contains more of a pop feel than the other songs that the band produced, but this new sound proved to generate a lot of success, as the song reached #29 on the pop singles charts, and...
" and a cover version of "Hero" by Chad Kroeger/Josey Scott on the show. Currently the band features all the original members except for Scott Smith, who is now replaced on bass by Ken Sinnaeve
Ken Sinnaeve
Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve is a Canadian musician, best known for playing bass with Tom Cochrane and Cochrane's earlier band Red Rider.He was a founding member of the band Streetheart prior to playing with Cochrane, making amongst others a live cover of "Under my Thumb"...
(a former member of Dean and Frenette's pre-Loverboy band Streetheart
Streetheart (band)
Streetheart is a Canadian rock band, from Winnipeg, Manitoba that got its start in Regina, Saskatchewan. Their best known songs include "Action", "Hollywood", "Teenage Rage", "One More Time", "Tin Soldier", "What Kind of Love is This", and their disco remake of "Under My Thumb".-Biography:Keyboard...
).
In 2006, twenty-five years after its initial release, Get Lucky was remastered and re-released with several previously unreleased songs, including the original demo of Working for the Weekend
Working for the Weekend
"Working for the Weekend" is a song released in 1981 on the rock band Loverboy's second album Get Lucky. The song contains more of a pop feel than the other songs that the band produced, but this new sound proved to generate a lot of success, as the song reached #29 on the pop singles charts, and...
.
In a video interview from March 2007, lead singer Mike Reno confirmed that the band finished recording a new studio album released in 2007. The new album is titled Just Getting Started and was released in October, with a clip of the first single "The One That Got Away" available on the band's MySpace page. The band continues to tour throughout Canada and the United States.
The band was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame
Canadian Music Hall of Fame
The Canadian Music Hall of Fame honors Canadian musicians for their lifetime achievements in music. The ceremony is held each year as part of the Juno Award ceremonies. Members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame represent many of the world's great talents...
during the 2009 Juno Awards
Juno Awards of 2009
The Juno Awards of 2009 honoured music industry achievements in Canada in the latter part of 2007 and in most of 2008. These ceremonies were held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada during the weekend ending 29 March 2009....
.
On February 21, 2010, the band performed at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics awards ceremony.
Media references
In 1990, Loverboy's "Working for the WeekendWorking for the Weekend
"Working for the Weekend" is a song released in 1981 on the rock band Loverboy's second album Get Lucky. The song contains more of a pop feel than the other songs that the band produced, but this new sound proved to generate a lot of success, as the song reached #29 on the pop singles charts, and...
" was featured in an extremely popular Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
sketch involving Chris Farley
Chris Farley
Christopher Crosby "Chris" Farley was an American comedian and actor. Farley was a member of Chicago's Second City Theatre and cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995....
and Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was best known for his tough-guy roles, as romantic leading men in the hit films Dirty Dancing and Ghost, and as Orry Main in the North and South television miniseries. He was named by People magazine as its "Sexiest...
auditioning to be Chippendales dancers
Chippendales dancers
Chippendales is a touring dance troupe best known for its male erotic dancing performances and for its dancers' distinctive upper body costume of a bow tie and shirt cuffs worn on an otherwise bare torso....
. The song was also featured in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a 2002 open world action computer and video game developed by British games developer Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the second 3D game in the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise and sixth original title overall...
, playing on Rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
station V-Rock
V-Rock
V-Rock may refer to:* WSTB, a radio station in Streetsboro, Ohio which used the "V-Rock" brand during the 1990s* V-Rock, the name of a fictional radio station featured on the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories soundtracks...
, as well as the video games Saints Row 2
Saints Row 2
Saints Row 2 is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 systems. It is the second title in the Saints Row series, after the release of Saints Row in 2006. It is succeeded by Saints Row: The...
, and Shaun White Snowboarding. It is also featured in the 2001 comedy film Zoolander
Zoolander
Zoolander is a 2001 American satirical comedy film directed by and starring Ben Stiller. The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the VH1 Fashion Awards television specials in 1996 and 1997. The short films and the...
. The song was also featured, in full, at the end of the Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...
film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto is a 2009 animated comedy exploitation film that also combines elements of horror and thriller films. It is based upon the comic book series created by Rob Zombie that follows the character of El Superbeasto and his sidekick sister, Suzi-X, voiced by Sheri...
. It was used as the background music to a Diet Pepsi
Diet Pepsi
Diet Pepsi is a no-calorie carbonated cola soft drink produced by PepsiCo, introduced in 1964 as a variant of Pepsi-Cola with no sugar. First test marketed in 1963 under the name Patio Diet Cola, it was re-branded as Diet Pepsi the following year, becoming the first diet cola to be distributed on a...
television commercial in which a man is asked what else he would like to experience that is youthful, and he chooses his old van from the 1980s. The song also made a brief appearance in the movie Click. The song was even featured in the third episode of "Regular Show
Regular Show
Regular Show is an American animated television series created by J. G. Quintel...
", Caffeinated Concert Tickets as well as the film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is a 2003 American action comedy film. It is the sequel to 2000's Charlie's Angels. It opened in the United States on June 27, 2003, and was number one at the box office for that weekend and made a worldwide total of $259.2 million.The cast again includes Cameron...
.
Several of their songs were featured in the 2001 cult comedy Wet Hot American Summer
Wet Hot American Summer
Wet Hot American Summer is a 2001 satirical comedy film written by David Wain and Michael Showalter, and directed by Wain. The film takes place during the last day at a fictional Jewish summer camp in 1981, before closing for the summer...
, which takes place in August 1981. In 2006, "Turn Me Loose" was featured in the action movie Crank
Crank (film)
Crank is a 2006 American comedy movie, written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, and starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Efren Ramirez, and Dwight Yoakam...
starring Jason Statham
Jason Statham
Jason Statham born 12 September1967) is an English actor and former diver, known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Revolver, Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels...
.
An early episode of South Park
South Park
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...
(An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
"An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" is the fifth episode of the first season of the animated television series South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on September 10, 1997. In the episode, the boys of South Park try to force Kyle's pet elephant Biff to crossbreed with...
) made multiple references to a fictional Loverboy song, "Pig and Elephant DNA Just Won't Splice."
In Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Aqua Teen Hunger Force , retitled Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 in 2011, is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network late night programing block, Adult Swim, as well as Teletoon's Teletoon at Night block and later G4 Canada's ADd block in Canada...
s episode Revenge of the Mooninites, Err uses the "Foreigner
Foreigner (band)
Foreigner is a British-American rock band, originally formed in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm...
belt" to "Turn Master Shake Loose" to "Hot Girls in Love" because he's "Working for the Weekend". When it didn't work, it was revealed that "those are Loverboy songs, and Loverboy has always sucked." (although Carl said that he saw them at the Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...
in 1985 and they "kicked ass".)
"The Kid is Hot Tonight" is featured on the soundtrack of MLB 2K9 by 2K Sports
2K Sports
2K Sports is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. It comprises a single development studio, Visual Concepts, which was purchased from Sega in the year 2005. 2K Sports mainly develops and publishes American sports video games such as NBA 2K series...
and was included in the closing scenes of an episode of cartoon "American Dad," titled "Office Spaceman," Season 3, Episode 56, May 4, 2008, Production Code 3AJN13, where character Roger posed for a PlayGirl magazine photo shoot.
In an episode of Drew Carey's Green Screen Show
Drew Carey's Green Screen Show
Drew Carey's Green Screen Show is an improvisational comedy television series that aired in the fall of 2004 on The WB Television Network, and the fall of 2005 on Comedy Central. The show was hosted by Drew Carey, and was somewhat a follow-up to the show he formerly hosted, Whose Line Is It Anyway?...
, Brad Sherwood remarks to a character called 'Hover-boy', "I loved your album Get Lucky!"
In the 2006 independent film A Dog's Breakfast
A Dog's Breakfast
A Dog's Breakfast is a Canadian comedy independent film produced in 2006. It was the first film to be written and directed by David Hewlett, who is best known for his role in the TV series Stargate Atlantis. Hewlett created the film as a private off-season project and stars alongside his real-life...
, there is a Loverboy poster on the childhood bedroom wall of Marilyn (played by Kate Hewlett
Kate Hewlett
Katherine Emily "Kate" Hewlett is a Canadian actress, writer and songwriter.-Biography:Hewlett was born in Toronto, Ontario. Her brother is actor David Hewlett, who portrayed Rodney McKay in Stargate Atlantis who was also her brother on-screen. Kate guest-starred as McKay's sister Jeannie in four...
).
In the 15th episode of season 5 on 30 Rock
30 Rock
30 Rock is an American television comedy series created by Tina Fey that airs on NBC. The series is loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live...
, "It's Never too Late for Now," Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit is an American actor, writer and improvisational comedian. He is currently co-starring as Pete Hornberger in the hit NBC comedy 30 Rock and worked in the Adult Swim stop-motion animation programs Moral Orel and Mary Shelley's Frankenhole.-1990s:After attending Columbia College Chicago,...
's character Pete Hornberger tells Frank Rossitano he was in the band Loverboy for 3 months before leaving the band for a college scholarship in "TV Budgeting."
In the 9th episode of 5th season of Scrubs Todd imitates Mike Reno's performance of working for the weekend while attending the air-band 'Cool Cats' audition in the beginning of the episode.
Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak positions | Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales threshold) |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS... |
US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
NZ | |||||||
| 1980 | Loverboy
|
17 | 13 | 12 |
Canadian Recording Industry Association Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada... : 5× Platinum Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States... : 2× Platinum |
||||
| 1981 | Get Lucky
|
8 | 7 | 21 |
|
||||
| 1983 | Keep It Up Keep It Up Keep it Up was the third album released by the rock band Loverboy in 1983. With new hit tracks like "Hot Girls in Love", the album became an instant hit, and reached #7 on the charts, as did the previous album released by the band.- Track listing :... |
9 | 7 | — |
|
||||
| 1985 | Lovin' Every Minute of It Lovin' Every Minute of It Lovin' Every Minute of It was an album released in 1985 by the rock band Loverboy. The album became a hit thanks to the title track. It went double platinum, the last album of the band's to do so.- Track listing :... |
22 | 13 | — |
|
||||
| 1987 | Wildside Wildside (album) Wildside was an album released in 1987 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. This was the first album that the band had released that did not go platinum, signaling a general decline in the band's success.... |
21 | 42 | — |
|
||||
| 1997 | Six Six (Loverboy album) Six was an album released by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. Released in 1997, it was the band's first album with new material since 1987.-Track listing:#"Big Picture" - 6:19#"Love of Money" - 4:01... CMC International CMC International was an American independent record label founded by Tom Lipsky in 1991, focused mainly on classic rock, and classic heavy metal. The label was the haven of many hard rock, arena rock, glam metal and AOR artists in the period when all the majors were investing all their financial... |
— | — | — | |||||
| 2007 | Just Getting Started Just Getting Started Just Getting Started is the latest release by the Canadian rock band Loverboy, released in 2007.-Track listing:#"Just Getting Started"#"Fade to Black"#"One of Them Days"#"Back for More"#"Lost With You"#"I Would Die for You"#"The Real Thing"... |
— | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
Live albums
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Live, Loud and Loose Live, Loud and Loose Live, Loud and Loose was an album released by the rock band Loverboy in 2001. After the death of their good friend and bassist Scott Smith, the band decided to release their first live album. This album contains refurbished recorded live tracks from the band's intense touring days from 1982 to 1986...
|
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays.... |
US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US Main | US AC Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States... |
AUS ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
NZ | UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
||||||||
| 1981 | "Turn Me Loose" | 7 | 35 | 6 | — | 3 | 5 | — | Loverboy | |||||
| "The Kid Is Hot Tonite" | 30 | 55 | 42 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| "Working for the Weekend Working for the Weekend "Working for the Weekend" is a song released in 1981 on the rock band Loverboy's second album Get Lucky. The song contains more of a pop feel than the other songs that the band produced, but this new sound proved to generate a lot of success, as the song reached #29 on the pop singles charts, and... " |
10 | 29 | 2 | — | 16 | 11 | — | Get Lucky | ||||||
| 1982 | "When It's Over" | 18 | 26 | 21 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Jump" | — | 101 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 1983 | "Hot Girls in Love Hot Girls in Love "Hot Girls in Love" is a song recorded by the rock band Loverboy. It appeared on their third album, Keep it Up, in 1983. When released as a single later that year, it reached number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Top Rock Tracks chart.... " |
9 | 11 | 2 | — | — | — | — | Keep It Up | |||||
| "Queen of the Broken Hearts Queen of the Broken Hearts Queen of the Broken Hearts was a song released on the Canadian rock band Loverboy's album titled Keep it Up in 1983. The band released as a single later that year, and it reached #34 on the charts... " |
29 | 34 | 11 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 1985 | "Lovin' Every Minute of It Lovin' Every Minute of It (song) "Lovin' Every Minute of It" is a song released in 1985 on the Canadian rock band Loverboy's album of the same title. The song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 when released as a single later that year. It was written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange.... " |
17 | 9 | 3 | — | — | — | — | Lovin' Every Minute of It | |||||
| "Dangerous" | 67 | 65 | 23 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 1986 | "This Could Be the Night" | 44 | 10 | 9 | 30 | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Lead a Double Life Lead a Double Life "Lead a Double Life" was a song released in 1985 on the Canadian rock band Loverboy's hit album Lovin' Every Minute of It. When released as a single in 1986, it failed to have any major impact on the Billboard charts.... " |
— | 68 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| "Heaven In Your Eyes Heaven in Your Eyes "Heaven in Your Eyes" was a single released in 1986 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy, for the Top Gun soundtrack. It later appeared on Loverboy's 1989 hits compilation Big Ones. The power ballad reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the U.S.The song was originally written by Mae Moore... " |
24 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | Top Gun Top Gun (soundtrack) Top Gun is the soundtrack from the film of the same name, released in 1986 by Columbia Records. In 1999, it was reissued in a Special Expanded Edition with additional songs. In 2006, it was reissued again in a Deluxe Edition with more additional songs... (soundtrack) |
||||||
| 1987 | "Notorious" | 24 | 38 | 8 | — | — | — | — | Wildside | |||||
| 1988 | "Break It to Me Gently" | — | — | — | — | — | — | 97 | ||||||
| 1989 | "Too Hot" | — | 84 | 27 | — | — | — | — | Big Ones | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||||||||
Compilations
| Year | Album | CRIA Canadian Recording Industry Association Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada... |
RIAA Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States... |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Big Ones Big Ones (album) Big Ones was an album released in 1989 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. The album was the band's first compilation, including hit tracks such as "Working for the Weekend" and "Lovin' Every Minute of it"... |
— | — |
| 1994 | Loverboy Classics Loverboy Classics Loverboy Classics was a compilation album by the Canadian rock band Loverboy, released on October 11, 1994. The album covered more ground than the previous compilation album released five years prior, and outsold it by far as well... |
— | Gold |
| Temperature's Rising Temperature's Rising Temperature's Rising was an album released in 1995 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. The album was the third compilation by the band, but this particular compilation aimed at the more rarely heard songs by the band, and the minor hits that the previous compilations did not cover... |
— | — | |
| 2003 | Love Songs | — | — |
| 2005 | Rock Breakout Years: 1985 | — | — |
| 2006 | We Are The '80s | — | — |
| 2007 | Turn Me Loose Turn Me Loose (album) Turn Me Loose is the debut album of American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in 1984 on RCA Records. The album produced three chart singles on the Billboard country charts in "Victim of Life's Circumstances", "Oh Carolina", and the title track, which respectively reached #40, #38,... |
— | — |
| 2008 | Playlist: The Very Best Of Loverboy | — | — |
| 2009 | Greatest Hits...The Real Thing | — | — |
See also
- Canadian rockCanadian rockCanadian rock describes a wide and diverse variety of music produced by Canadians, beginning with American style rock 'n' roll in the mid-20th century. Since then Canada has had a considerable impact on the development of the modern popular music called rock...
- Music of CanadaMusic of CanadaThe music of Canada has influences that have shaped the country. Aboriginals, the British, and the French have all made unique contributions to the musical heritage of Canada. The music has subsequently been heavily influenced by American culture because of its proximity and migration between...
- Canadian Music Hall of FameCanadian Music Hall of FameThe Canadian Music Hall of Fame honors Canadian musicians for their lifetime achievements in music. The ceremony is held each year as part of the Juno Award ceremonies. Members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame represent many of the world's great talents...