East Side Beat

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Ride like the wind
  DE 24 December 23, 1991 (13 weeks)
  AT 29 01/26/1992 (1 week)
  CH 23 01/26/1992 (5 weeks)
  UK 3 11/30/1991 (11 weeks)
Alive & Kicking
  UK 26th 12/19/1992 (6 weeks)
You're My Everything
  UK 65 05/29/1993 (1 week)

East Side Beat is an Italian dance project from the 1990s that attracted attention through cover versions . The biggest hit was the 1991 single Ride Like the Wind .

Band history

Carl Fanini, an American of Italian descent, moved to Italy from the United States in 1990 . There he founded the East Side Beat project with Francesco Petrocchi, who already had experience with dance music as a keyboardist . Gianfranco Bortolotti joined as a producer .

The first single Ride Like the Wind , a cover version of the classic by Christopher Cross , which reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980 , was a success in Europe in 1991/92 . The title was in the top 30 in Germany , Austria and Switzerland , and even in third place in the United Kingdom .

Various other singles appeared by 1995. Alive & Kicking , a cover of the 1985 hit Simple Minds , entered the top 30 of the UK charts in 1992. Six months later, You're My Everything , the reinterpretation of the Lee Garrett song from 1976, still made it to position 65.

Fanini became singer in 1994 at Club House , another project by Gianfranco Bortolotti and Silvio Pozzoli, who became known as Silver Pozzoli in 1984 with Around My Dream . Their Light My Fire was a top 10 hit in the UK charts.

Members

  • Carl Fanini (Carlo Fanini, * New York ) - vocals
  • Francesco Petrocchi - keyboard
  • Gianfranco Bortolotti - producer

Discography

Albums

  • 1993: East Side Beat (Airplay Records)

Singles

literature

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE, AT, CH UK

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