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Mario Cipollina | |
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| Born | November 10, 1954 San Rafael, California, USA |
| Genres | Rock |
| Occupation(s) | Instrumentalist |
| Instrument(s) | Bass guitar |
| Years active | 1970s–present |
| Website | mariocipollina |
Mario Cipollina is an American musician, playing the bass guitar. He is a founding member of the American rock band Huey Lewis and the News.
Cipollina was born in San Rafael, California in 1954. His older brother, John Cipollina (1943–1989) was the guitarist for Quicksilver Messenger Service. [1] [2] Cipollina was in the band "Soundhole", based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their biggest competition was Clover. [3] In 1979, members of Soundhole and Clover joined forces to form Huey Lewis and the News.
The News' sound draws upon early pop, rnb, doo-wop, blue-eyed soul and new wave. [4] [5] [6] They had many top ten hits in the 1980s, including "Do You Believe in Love", "Heart and Soul", "I Want a New Drug", "The Heart of Rock & Roll", "If This Is It", "Hip to Be Square", "I Know What I Like", "Doing It All for My Baby" and "Perfect World".
Cipollina was in USA For Africa, and sang in the chorus for the charity single We Are the World. Cipollina was fired from Huey Lewis and the News in 1995 due to suffering from drug addiction. [7] From 2002 to 2004, Mario was a member of "Quicksilver Gold", a tribute band to Quicksilver Messenger Service. [8] In 2007, Cipollina joined the News on stage for a state fair in California. [2]
Huey Lewis and the News is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually achieving 19 top ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, and Mainstream Rock charts. Their sound draws upon earlier pop, rhythm & blues and doo-wop artists, and their own material has been labeled as blue-eyed soul, new wave, power pop, and roots rock.
Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. The band achieved wide popularity in the San Francisco Bay Area and, through their recordings, with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe, and several of their albums ranked in the Top 30 of the Billboard Pop charts. They were part of the new wave of album-oriented bands, achieving renown and popularity despite a lack of success with their singles. Though not as commercially successful as contemporaries Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver was integral to the beginnings of their genre. With their jazz and classical influences and a strong folk background, the band attempted to create an individual, innovative sound. Music historian Colin Larkin wrote: "Of all the bands that came out of the San Francisco area during the late '60s, Quicksilver typified most of the style, attitude and sound of that era."
Hugh Anthony Cregg III, known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor.
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Sports is the third album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released on September 15, 1983, by Chrysalis Records. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 on June 30, 1984, and ultimately charted for 160 weeks. Sports was ranked No. 2 on the Billboard year-end album chart for 1984 and spawned four top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Heart and Soul" and "The Heart of Rock & Roll" earning Grammy Award nominations. Sports also did very well internationally, where most of its singles charted in the top 40 in multiple countries. The album has been certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA.
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Gary Duncan was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was guitarist with The Brogues, then most notably with Quicksilver Messenger Service, where the complex interplay between himself and fellow-guitarist John Cipollina did much to define the unique sound of that San Francisco based band.
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The chapter reads as a review evaluating the qualities in Huey Lewis' albums— some are New Wave... some bring out his quintessential bluesiness— and these shifts in musical style of this bands are as much 'events' in the novel as anything happening in the lives of the characters.
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