Device (pop rock band)
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| Genre (s) | Pop rock |
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Vocals, keyboards, bass |
Holly Knight |
singing |
Paul Engemann |
guitar |
Gene Black |
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Device was a short-lived American pop-rock trio that consisted of keyboardist, bassist and singer Holly Knight , singer Paul Engemann and guitarist Gene Black.
Career
The group's only album, 22B3 , was released in the spring of 1986. The decoupled Hanging on a Heart Attack reached number 35 in the US charts , the second single Who Says made it to number 79. Both songs were released as maxis with remixed versions, the videos were rotated by MTV . The third single from the album, which peaked at number 73 on the Billboard 200 and was produced by Mike Chapman , was Didn't I Read You Right .
Works outside the band
Knight, who is better known as a songwriter, began her career in the early 1980s with the band Spider . She wrote hits for Pat Benatar , Scandal , Heart , Cheap Trick , Tina Turner and many others. Turner covered Spiders Better Be Good to Me on her album Private Dancer , which was a hit in 1984.
After separating from Device, Holly Knight released a solo album of the same name in 1988, which also contained her own version of Love Is a Battlefield , which she had written for Pat Benatar, and continued to write songs for other artists. She released another solo album in the late 1980s.
Paul Engemann, who previously sang on soundtracks produced by Giorgio Moroder , joined Animotion . He replaced original singer Bill Wadhams and sang with Cynthia Rhodes on Animotion's top 10 hit, Room to Move, from the soundtrack of the movie My Stepmother Is An Alien . Coincidentally, Knight recorded the original version of Animotion's biggest hit, Obsession, as a duet with Michael Des Barres ; the two wrote the song that appeared on the soundtrack of the 1983 film A Heavenly Louting , together. After Animotion broke up, Engemann withdrew from music.
Gene Black continued to work as a session musician and played in the band Wild Blue, whose most famous singles were Fire with Fire and International Language of Dance .
22B3 was re-released on CD in 2007 by Renaissance Records.
Discography
Albums
- 1986: 22B3
Singles
- 1986: Hanging on a Heart Attack
- 1986: Who Says
- 1986: Didn't I Read You Right
- 1986: Who's on the Line
- 1986: Pieces on the Ground