Roy Bittan
Roy Bittan (* 2 July 1949 in Rockaway Beach , Queens , New York City ) is an American keyboardist , probably was best known for his involvement in the E Street Band of Bruce Springsteen . There Bittan (nickname "The Professor") plays piano , organ , accordion and synthesizer .
Roy Bittan has appeared on a few dozen music albums, not just with Springsteen, but also with Bon Jovi , David Bowie , Jackson Browne , Tracy Chapman , Chicago , Dire Straits , Peter Gabriel , Meat Loaf , Stevie Nicks , Bob Seger , Patti Smith , Jim Steinman and Bonnie Tyler .
Career
Bruce Springsteen
Roy Bittan has been a member of the E Street Band since August 23, 1974 and has appeared on most of Springsteen's albums. When he temporarily stopped working with the band in 1989, Bittan was the only member who continued to work with Springsteen, both in the studio and on stage. In 1999 the band completely reunited.
Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman
Roy Bittan played almost every keyboard instrument on Meat Loaf's debut album Bat out of Hell (1977). Jim Steinman was from Bittan since its participation in the 1975 feature album Born to Run convinced Springsteen so that he realized with him several projects (u. A. Two more Meat Loaf albums, the solo album Bad For Good , the Australian band Air Supply one the greatest successes with Making Love Out of Nothing at All , a single by Barbra Streisand , the concept album Original Sin by Pandora's Box and many more).
Fire Inc and Pandora's Box
In this "Wagnerian Rock" formation (as Steinman calls his style of music based on Richard Wagner himself), Bittan and Jim Steinman recorded two songs for the soundtrack to the film " Streets in Flames ". However, this did not become a great commercial success.
In 1989, Steinman formed a new "bombast rock" group called Pandora's Box , which brought together eight former members of Fire Inc.
Dire Straits
Bittan appears to have been an important influence on the Dire Straits career. The 1980 album Making Movies is considered by many to be the band's breakthrough, and Roy Bittan's Piano was a major contributor to that success. Mark Knopfler's keyboards were supposedly influenced by his love for the song Because the Night by Patti Smith (composed by Bruce Springsteen) - Roy Bittan played the keyboard.
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| SURNAME | Bittan, Roy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | The professor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American keyboardist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rockaway Beach , Queens |