East Side Beat
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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
- 1991: Ride Like the Wind
- 1991: Divin 'in the Beat
- 1992: I Didn't Know
- 1992: Alive & Kicking
- 1993: You're My Everything
- 1993: My Girl
- 1994: So Good
- 1995: I Want to Know What Love Is
- 1995: Back for Good
- 2019: Smalltown Boy
literature
- Frank Laufenberg: Frank Laufenberg's Rock and Pop Lexicon Vol. 1 , ISBN 3-612-26206-8 .
swell
- ↑ Chart sources: DE, AT, CH UK
Web links
- East Side Beat at Allmusic (English)
- East Side Beat at Discogs (English)
- Biography at Taurus Press