Tony Carey

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Tony Carey live at Logo Hamburg 2016

Anthony Lawrence "Tony" Carey (born October 16, 1953 in Watsonville , California ) is an American rock musician .

Life

As a keyboardist , Carey found international recognition in Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow from 1975 . Carey left the band in 1977 and then recorded some solo albums in Germany, where the first two Rainbow albums had already been produced. Later he was best known in German-speaking countries through his cooperation with Peter Maffay ( Tabaluga and the shining silence , Long Shadow , soundtracks for Der Joker and Gefangen im Yemen ).

In addition to his solo albums, two progressive rock albums were recorded and released in 1983 and 1984 under the name Planet P Project .

In Germany Carey achieved great fame at the end of 1988 through the song Room with a View used in the ARD three-parter Wilder West inclusive . In 1989 Carey composed the piece I Feel Good for the crime TV series Tatort (episode 225: Katja's silence ).

In 2003 Carey gave some concerts again after a long absence from the stage. With the CD 1931 - Go Out Dancing, Part 1 , released in 2004, the Planet P Project also found a continuation after 20 years. It followed: Levittown, Out in the rain, Steeltown and the GODbox, which includes the albums mentioned (except Steeltown ) plus a demo version for the record company, now called "Bootleg" because it was circulating on the Internet.

From January to June 2009 Carey was a member of the band Over the Rainbow . In 2009 he founded the formation EBC ROXX together with ELA and Jürgen R. Blackmore, the son of Ritchie Blackmore . In 2010 the album Winners was released . In the same year he released the album Pirates from Hell with Zed Yago and performed with the band at summer festivals.

Carey was also active as a producer, u. a. for Pat Travers , The Force , Bo Katzman , The Pinups, Caro , Geff Harrison , Peter Maffay , Debbie Bonham, Jennifer Rush , Max Carl , Natacha , Ina Morgan, Milva , Joe Cocker , John Mayall , Anne Haigis , Justine Johns, Chris Norman and David Knopfler . He worked with Diether Dehm on several productions .

Carey has been performing regularly with Zöller & Konsorten in German-speaking countries since 2016 .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Wild West Inclusive (Soundtrack)
  DE 23 01/23/1989 (11 weeks)
For you
  DE 46 01/08/1990 (12 weeks)
Singles
I won't be home tonight
  US 79 03/26/1983 (7 weeks)
West Coast Summer Nights
  US 64 07/02/1983 (9 weeks)
A fine fine day
  US 22nd 03/03/1984 (15 weeks)
The First Day of Summer
  US 33 06/09/1984 (11 weeks)
Room with a view
  DE 3 January 16, 1989 (18 weeks)
  AT 17th 03/15/1989 (10 weeks)
  CH 9 02/19/1989 (9 weeks)
I feel good
  DE 35 01/08/1990 (11 weeks)

solo

  • 1982: In the Absence of the Cat
  • 1982: I Won't Be Home Tonight (re-released 1987)
  • 1984: Some Tough City
  • 1985: Blue Highway
  • 1989: For You
  • 1990: Storyville
  • 1992: The Long Road
  • 1994: Cold War Kids
  • 1999: The Boystown Tapes (reissued "Reissued" 2007)
  • 2004: Islands and Deserts
  • 2007: Live in Sweden 2006 - Volume 1
  • 2008: Candlelight Concert - Live in Sweden (DVD)
  • 2008: Live in Sweden 2006 - Volume 2
  • 2008: The New Machine
  • 2008: Roundup
  • 2009: Christmas Hymns - The Inevitable Record (Limited edition: 200)
  • 2010: Stanislaus County Kid (Limited Edition: 200)
  • 2011: Stanislaus County Kid - Volume 2

Planet P Project

  • 1983: Planet P Project
  • 1984: Pink World
  • 2002: Go out Dancing (promo CD)
  • 2005: 1931 (Go Out Dancing, Part 1)
  • 2008: Levittown (Go Out Dancing, Part 2)
  • 2009: Out in the Rain (Go Out Dancing, Part 3)
  • 2013: Steeltown
  • 2014: The G: O: D: B: O: X:

Instrumental

Self-titled albums

  • 1982: Yellow Power
  • 1982: Heaven
  • 1982: No Human
  • 1982: Explorer
  • 1984: TCP

as Tony Carey

  • 2007: The Voyager Files

Film music

Separate maxi singles

  • 1994: Route 66 (Rose TC)
  • 2004: Everywhere You (with Mo Casal)

Compilations

  • 1989: The Story so Far
  • 1993: For You (Best Of - different cover than the studio album of the same name from 1989)
  • 1993: Rare Tracks (with 11 tracks unreleased on CD)
  • 1997: A Fine Fine Day
  • 1997: Storyville (Best Of - different cover than the studio album of the same name from 1990)
  • 2000: Retrospective 1982-1999 (new digital remastering )
  • 2008: Only the Young Die Good
  • 2008: A Lonely Life: The Anthology
  • 2014: Songs About People

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.deutsche-mugge.de/interviews/2014/4674-dr-diether-dehm.html
  2. ↑ Jürgen Zöller: ZÖLLER & Konsorten |. In: ZÖLLER & Co. Jürgen Zöller, September 22, 2017, accessed on October 16, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Chart discography albums
  4. ↑ Chart discography Singles
personal data
SURNAME Carey, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carey, Anthony Lawrence (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Watsonville , California