Cutting crew

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Cutting crew
Cutting crew band.jpg
General information
Genre (s) Pop rock
founding 1985, 2005 (as Grinning Souls)
resolution 1993
Website http://www.cuttingcrew.biz/
Last occupation
Nicholas "Nick" van Eede
Kevin Scott MacMichael
Colin Farley
Martin "Frosty" Beedle
Anthony Moore (1986-1988)

Cutting Crew is a British - Canadian band best known in the 1980s with the singles (I Just) Died in Your Arms and I've Been in Love Before .

Band history

Cutting Crew was founded by the Englishman Nicholas "Nick" van Eede and the Canadian Kevin MacMichael. In 1986 the debut album Broadcast was released , which also became the band's most commercially successful album . The release (I Just) Died in Your Arms reached number 1 on the US charts . The two follow- up albums The Scattering and Compus Mentus could not build on the success of the debut.

After bassist Colin Farley and drummer Martin Beedle left the band after their second album, Cutting Crew finally broke up in the early 1990s. The band members stayed active in the music business. So playing guitarist MacMichael along with Robert Plant . Singer van Eede toured Germany at Christmas 2002 with “ The Nokia Night of the Proms ”.

MacMichael died of lung cancer on December 31, 2002 .

Nick van Eede started the music project "Grinning Souls" in 2003 and released an album of the same name in 2005, which he dedicated to his late friend MacMichael. The record was not available in retail stores, it could only be ordered online.

In January 2006, Grinning Souls was released in Germany as "the new cutting crew album". In February 2006 Nick van Eede toured Germany with guest musicians under the name Cutting Crew. Colin Farley and Martin Beedle were not on stage.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
1986 Broadcast DE49 (12 weeks)
DE 		UK41
silver
silver

(6 weeks)UK 		US16
gold
gold

(45 weeks)US
First published: July 30th, 1986
Producers: Cutting Crew, John Jansen
1989 The scattering - - US150 (6 weeks)
US
First published: January 1989
Producers: Cutting Crew, Don Gehman, Peter Vettese

More albums

  • 1992: Compus Mentus (release: October 21)
  • 2006: Grinning Souls (release: March 7th)
  • 2015: Add to Favorites (release: October 9th)

Compilations

  • 1993: The Best of Cutting Crew
  • 1999: Back to Back Hits
  • 2000: Best of the 80's: Cutting Crew
  • 2004: The Best of Cutting Crew

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1986 (I Just) Died in Your Arms
Broadcast 		DE4 (16 weeks)
DE 		AT9 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH4 (10 weeks)
CH 		UK4th
silver
silver

(14 weeks)UK 		US1 (19 weeks)
US
First published: July 1986
Author: Nick van Eede
I've Been in Love Before
Broadcast 		DE44 (11 weeks)
DE 		- - UK24 (20 weeks)
UK 		US9 (21 weeks)
US
First published: October 1986
Author: Nick van Eede
1987 One for the Mockingbird
Broadcast 		- - - UK52 (5 weeks)
UK 		US38 (11 weeks)
US
First published: February 1987
Author: Nick van Eede
Any color
broadcast 		- - - UK83 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: April 1987
Authors: Kevin MacMichael, Nick van Eede
1989 (Between A) Rock and a Hard Place
The Scattering 		- - - UK66 (4 weeks)
UK 		US77 (5 weeks)
US
First published: July 1989
Authors: Kevin MacMichael, Nick van Eede
The Scattering
The Scattering 		- - - UK96 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: October 1989
Authors: Kevin MacMichael, Nick van Eede

More singles

  • 1990: Everything but My Pride
  • 1992: If That's the Way You Want It
  • 2006: Hard on You

Video

  • 2006: Live at Full House Rock Show

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: Singles Albums UK US1 US2
  2. ↑ a b Gold / Platinum databases: UK US

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