LOVERBOY

TURN ME LOOSE	Mike Reno	1980	35	VIDEO	[Q] Paul Dean: "We had just signed with Columbia, and we were all on holiday. We had been working hard, and we had the week off. We were all down in Mexico - Mike, Matt, and me, with our girls. I think we got a call from out manager saying, 'We're shooting a video for 'Turn Me Loose' at a club in New York City, the Ritz.' So that was our first foray into that. The director thought the song was a parody. He didn't take the lyrics serious. We wrote the lyrics serious - it was a put-down to this girl. It's all fiction... that's why they call it 'creative writing' you know? So anyway, the director, his take was 'This should be a comedy.' Who are we to argue? We were a fledgling thing... We were just thrilled to be asked, because we knew the marketing value of MTV." (MTV Ruled the World - The Early Years of Music Video) Mike Reno: "You re in luck because that is one of my favorite stories. Bob Rock and the band were all recording and it was time to review some of the guitar parts. I took the day off. Now, this is back in the day where if you changed anything, you had to change the reel and you had to change the board and redo everything by hand and it took hours. I was driving around and I just had this feeling that I wanted to go back to the studio and sing Turn Me Loose. I went in and they said, No, we have moved on and it will take hours to do it. Bob Rock said I could do it, so the guys were kind of mad at me. Bob took the reels off and he reset the entire board. The guys started playing the song and Bob got me a really good headphone mix. They looked at me like, Okay, brilliant man, go sing the song. I sang the song and that time I put the scream in the song, as the scream was not in the song up to that point. After I did it, I gave them a thumb s up and I took my headphones off and went outside. I took a deep breath of cool air and looked up and it was a full fucking moon. I went, Wow! " (Classic Rock Revisited) KILL ME [P] (Paul Dean, Mike Reno) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums, Percussion Nancy Nash - backing vocals Produced: Bruce Fairbairn Engineerd/Mixed: Bob Rock Recorded at: Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, B.C., Canada KILL ME W S
WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND	Mike Reno	1981	29	VIDEO	[Q] Mike Reno: "That one was originally, 'Everybody's Waiting for the Weekend.' I was walking down close to where I was living. It was a Wednesday afternoon, beautiful afternoon, and I'm walking in this heavily populated area, and it was deserted. Everybody was at work. And me being the musician, I'm out working and my work is, okay, what am I going to do for inspiration and where can I find it? So I'm out on the beach and wondering, 'Where is everybody? Well, I guess they're all waiting for the weekend.' So that experience spurred that. And Mike had the great idea of, 'Why don't we call it, Working for the Weekend?' and I said, 'Yeah, that's good. That's fine.' Not a huge difference, still works, it's kind of cool, it's quirky with a little bit of a twist on the lyrics, so yeah, let's go." (2012:Songfacts) Paul Dean: "It took a long time to develop that tune, but the germ of it was written in a hotel room in Montreal after a show. I just had my guitar, my trusty old funky Strat that I'd built in '74, and a ghetto blaster that I always carried with me that I could plug in an simulate an amp. I started singing it, and kind of had the germ of it, at least the chorus and the verses. There were a couple of other weird things, transitions that I hadn't worked out yet. But the tricky part, too, is the key changes that go back and forth to the guitar solo, the little theme, and where it goes to the pre-chorus and then the short chorus sets that up behind a guitar riff, a heavier guitar riff that we were playing in bars when we first started." KILL ME [P] (Paul Dean, Mike Reno, Matt Frenette) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums Produced: Bruce Fairbairn Engineer: Bob Rock Recorded at: Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, B.C., Canada KILL ME W S
HEAVEN IN YOUR EYES	Mike Reno	1986	12	VIDEO	[Q] Mike Reno: "That one sold twenty seven million copies. That Top Gun story is a pretty good story actually. I got called down to Los Angeles to meet these two young bucks from L.A. and I had to sign in to get into the Paramount Studios which means you have to get a badge, they take you through and it s pretty heavy security. I go into this office and there s this popcorn machine popping popcorn and these two guys are walking around like their on speed or too much caffeine, and it was Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. I think we all know what they ve done, I mean Don died but Bruckheimer is now the head of the C.S.I. trilogy. They were kind of talking and yapping and then they realized that I was standing in the room for my appointment and one of them goes Reno, good, glad you re here. Listen we got something top secret, can you keep a secret? and I go Yeah , so he goes I want you to sit down and he throws this video cassette in and all of a sudden I m watching Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis do this love scene. They showed me about 3 minutes of it and they said We want you to write a song for that scene, can you do it? and I said Abso-fuckin -loutely . Then they said, The only thing is we need it by the end of the week and I said It s fuckin Wednesday! They took the tape out and threw it in my lap and I hoped a flight back to Vancouver. I got together with a few people that I had worked with in the past, and along with Paul we came up with Heaven In Your Eyes and they loved it. " (2007:Classic Rock Revisited) Mike Reno: "I got called into the office of these two famous people, Bruckheimer and Simpson, who produced major movies, and they were in this big office space with a popcorn machine. They were walking by as if I wasn't in the room, flashing ideas back and forth, both on telephones talking to different people, and finally one of them stops and says, "Can I help you?" I said, "You wanted to see me. My name's Mike Reno," and they went, "Oh, good, sit down here and watch this little piece." So, I sat down in this chair, and they started playing me this piece of a movie starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. It was Tuesday morning, and they said, "Could you write a song for this scene right here?" I said, " Play it again." They ran the scene and I said, "Yeah, I can do that. When do you need it?" They said, "Friday." "This Friday?" I said, and they went, "Yeah." I said, "Well, I'd better get out of here." I flew back home and got together with Paul Dean and another guy that I work with sometimes, John Dexter, and we banged it out. We just kind of came up with the concept loosely around a paradise kind of a vibe because that's what they wanted--they wanted a song that was "Almost Paradise"-ish, but not necessarily a duet. So, we came up with this, banged it off, and there goes another big one. I think that album sold over twenty-three million copies." (2014:Huffington Post) KILL ME [P] (Paul Dean, Mike Reno, Mae Moore, John Dexter) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums Produced: Paul Dean, John Dexter Recorded at: Vancouver, B.C., Canada KILL ME W
WHEN IT'S OVER	Mike Reno	1982	26	VIDEO	[P] (Paul Dean, Mike Reno) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums Nancy Nash - backing vocals Produced: Bruce Fairbairn Engineer: Bob Rock Recorded at: Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, B.C., Canada KILL ME W
THIS COULD BE THE NIGHT	Mike Reno	1985	10	VIDEO	[Q] Mike Reno: "Paul and I had that song going on so many versions that I finally said, I can t sing this song anymore. At one point, I just kind of threw my hands up and said, I m going fishing I ve had enough of this, and that s when I think he took This Could Be the Night and met Jonathan Cain, who we had toured with with Journey. Paul had a little bit more patience than I did." (2015:Ultimate Classic Rock) Mike Reno: "I crashed at his house for a couple of days and we went into the studio and he said, What s this about? And I went, I don t know. So we did some serious soul searching, because he wanted it to be heartfelt and true and honest. A lot of our tunes, like Turn Me Loose, it was just make-believe and it was just like, Let s imagine this scenario here somebody s probably going through this. Let s make up a story. Most of our tunes were like that. For this one, Jonathan, in his wisdom, insisted." (2015:Ultimate Classic Rock) KILL ME [P] (Jonathan Cain, Paul Dean, Mike Reno, Bill Wray) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums Produced: Paul Dean, Tom Allom Engineered: Mark Dodson Recorded at: Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, B.C., Canada KILL ME W
THE KID IS HOT TONITE	Mike Reno	1981	55	VIDEO	[I] The song is about a burgeoning rock star who might become famous, but could also be just a flash in the pan. (Songfacts) KILL ME [P] (Paul Dean, Bernie Aubin) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums, Percussion Produced: Bruce Fairbairn Engineerd/Mixed: Bob Rock Recorded at: Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, B.C., Canada KILL ME > W S
HOT GIRLS IN LOVE	Mike Reno	1983	11	VIDEO	[Q] Paul Dean: "I wrote "Hot Girls In Love" the same weekend I wrote "Queen Of The Broken Hearts." My wife Denise and I were in Hawaii for a break. It was over Christmas and around the same time that Teac released the first portable four-track cassette recorder. It made an excellent Christmas present, and I was really into it. I originally recorded it as a rockabilly tune, with slap echo and all. Back in a real studio some months later, the band put our sound to it." (2012: Guitar World) KILL ME [P] (Paul Dean, Bruce Fairbairn) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums Produced: Bruce Fairbairn, Paul Dean Engineer: Lindsay Kidd Recorded at: Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, B.C., Canada KILL ME W
LOVIN' EVERY MINITE OF IT	Mike Reno	1985	9	VIDEO	[Q] Mike Reno: "A lot of times it comes from a catchphrase that you come up with or you hear and you like. You might hear a cool phrase like Lovin Every Minute of It. You have heard people say that for years, right? You take a phrase like that and make it into a hit song. That is a prime example! When you write a song, you have to write about something you know. In our case, we have always written about things that are personal to us. While recording the song, we have made it accessible to everybody. A lot of people take our songs in different ways and that has really been one of the successes of Loverboy; you can take one of our songs and take ownership of it, even though I wrote it about something completely different. I think that is what helps develop a hit song; that people can take it into them and make it a part of themselves." (2014:iconvsicon) KILL ME [P] (Robert John 'Mutt' Lange) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums Produced: Paul Dean, Tom Allom Engineered: Mark Dodson Recorded at: Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, B.C., Canada KILL ME W
QUEEN OF THE BROKEN HEARTS	Mike Reno	1983	34	VIDEO	[P] (Paul Dean, Mike Reno) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums Produced: Bruce Fairbairn, Paul Dean Engineer: Lindsay Kidd Recorded at: Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, B.C., Canada KILL ME W
ALWAYS ON MY MIND	Mike Reno	1980	--	VIDEO	[P] (Paul Dean, Mike Reno) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums, Percussion Nancy Nash - backing vocals Produced: Bruce Fairbairn Engineerd/Mixed: Bob Rock Recorded at: Mountain Sound, Vancouver, B.C., Canada KILL ME
NOTORIOUS	Mike Reno	1987	38	VIDEO	[Q] Jon Bon Jovi: "We wanted to write for other people. It was at the time when [Bryan] Adams was doing stuff for Tina Turner and a lot of that was happening. So we wanted to write with other people. That, to us, was your peers saying they liked your music. So we sat with Des (Child) who did that for a living so he could shop the songs because we were in the process of writing the Slippery album. He said Loverboy was looking for songs. We got excited and the first song we wrote was Bad Name and said we think we ll keep this one. And a year later Paul Dean came down and spent some time with us in New Jersey and we wrote Notorious. There s five writers credited on that song. There were only three in the room, me, Paul and Richie, Jon recalls of the original writing session that produced Notorius. It was a rock song when it left my house. It turned into I don t know what when it got to Canada. They rewrote it lyrically. The only thing they kept was the chorus and a couple of the key lines in the lyric The song changed from an AC/DC free vibe to Loverboy which was different. We were disappointed because the song reached the top 40 but not much higher. It was a much better song we felt when it left us." (1990:American Songwriter) KILL ME [P] (Jon Bon Jovi, Todd Cerney, Paul Dean, Mike Reno, Richie Sambora) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums, Percussion Darrell Mansfield - Harp Produced: Bruce Fairbairn Engineerd/Mixed: Bob Rock Recorded at: Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, B.C, Canada KILL ME
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY	Mike Reno	2007	--	VIDEO	[I] The disc's first single that was inspired by Reno's divorce. (AllMusic) KILL ME [P] (Mike Reno, Dane DeViller, Adam Hursfield, Sean Hosein) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - guitars, backing vocals Doug Johnson - keyboards Ken Sinnaeve - bass Matt Frenette - drums, percussion Produced: Anthony Anderson, Steve Smith KILL ME
DANGEROUS	Mike Reno	1985	65	VIDEO	W
TOO HOT	Mike Reno	1989	84	VIDEO
HEARTBREAKER	Mike Reno	2012	--	VIDEO	[Q] Paul Dean: "The album started off with "Heartbreaker," a song outline sent to us by acclaimed producer and good friend Bob Rock. Bob and I go all the way back to 1980, when he was the engineer on our first self-titled album. The first time I heard the song, it was instant for me; I could hear Mike Reno singing the bejeezus out of it. We fleshed it out and rearranged it from its original 1:50 form to the structure you hear on the record. We sent it to Bob, and he was duly impressed. " (2012: Guitar World) KILL ME [P] (Paul Dean, Jaren Johnston, Mike Reno, Bob Rock) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson - keyboards, backing vocals Ken Sinnaeve - bass, backing vocals Matt Frenette - drums Produced: Paul Dean, Bob Rock KILL ME
LADY OF THE 80's	Mike Reno	1980	(43)	VIDEO
COUNTIN' THE NIGHTS	Mike Reno	2014	--	VIDEO
JUMP	Mike Reno	1982	101	VIDEO	[P] (Paul Dean, Mike Reno, Matt Frenette) Mike Reno - lead vocals Paul Dean - Guitar, backing vocals Doug Johnson Keyboards Scott Smith Bass Matthew Frenette Drums Produced: Bruce Fairbairn Engineer: Bob Rock Recorded at: Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, B.C., Canada KILL ME
LEAD A DOUBLE LIFE	Mike Reno	1986	68	VIDEO
LOVE WILL RISE AGAIN	Mike Reno	1987	--	VIDEO

LOVERBOY 1979 Present CLASSIC LINE-UP: Mark I
Mark I 1979 - 1988 Mike Reno - V Paul Dean - G Scott Smith - B Matt Frenette - D Doug Johnson - K	Mark II 1989 - 1989 Mike Reno - V Paul Dean - G Scott Smith - B Matt Frenette - D Geraldo Dominelli - K **	Mark I 1991 - 1996 Mike Reno - V Paul Dean - G Scott Smith - B Matt Frenette - D Doug Johnson - K ++	Mark III 1996 - 1998 Mike Reno - V Paul Dean - G Scott Smith - B Matt Frenette - D Richard Sera - K **
Mark I 1998 - 2000 Mike Reno - V Paul Dean - G Scott Smith - B Matt Frenette - D Doug Johnson - K ++	Mark IV 2001 - Present Mike Reno - V Paul Dean - G Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve - B Matt Frenette - D Doug Johnson** - K
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