Air Supply / The Book Of Love

Air Supply had huge success in 1980 when they released their debut album “Lost In Love” on Arista, selling two million copies of the album led by the hit singles "Lost in Love," "All Out of Love," and "Every Woman in the World." However, their golden years did not last so long. After unsuccessful commercial sales of the 1986 album “Hearts in Motion”, the band broke up. Three years later, Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell, the two lead singers reunited and started to record new materials, thus the album “Earth Is...” was released, then did “ Vanishing Race” in 1993, “News From Nowhere” followed in 1995. However, those albums failed to make the charts in USA, whilst they were popular in Southeast Asian countries. Air Supply delivered their fourteenth studio album in the end of 1997. The album was a serious attempt for the band to penetrate the US charts, mainly focusing on mature adult contemporary songs and actually the album featured plenty of good melodies I thought then. Though the album didn't have any chart entries, the singles "So Much Love" and "When I Say" have gained critical acclaim in USA, although in Asia the single "Strong Strong Wind" was a big hit.

Release: 9 December, 1997 (Japan: 17 December, 1997)
Label: Giant Records, USA (9 24695-2) / Arista Records, Japan (BVCG-704)

Tracks:
1. The Book Of Love
2. Strong, Strong Wind*
3. So Much Love
4. When I Say
5. We The People
6. Once
7. Let's Stay Together Tonight
8. Daybreak
9. Mother Said
10. Would You Ever Walk Away
11. All That You Want
* Bonus track for Asian and Latin America editio only, not included on USA edition.

Producer: Sageman

Air Supply:
Russell Hitchcock: Vocals
Graham Russell: Vocals, Guitar

- Musicians -
Bass: Abraham Laboriel, Larry Antonino, Clif Rehrig
Guitars: Rex Goh
Keyboards: Randy Kerber, Guy Allison
Piano: Jed Moss
Drums, Percussion and Keyboards: Mark Williams
Percussion: Rafael Padilla, Paulinho Da Costa
Strings: Phil Shenale
Cello: Martin Tillmann
Background Vocals: Michael Sherwood, Waters Family

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