Air Supply come the duo of pop musicians, consisting of English keyboardist/singer Graham Russell and independent lead vocalist Australian Russell Hitchcock, who got a succession of soft-rock ballad hits throughout the English-speaking globe through the late 1970s and early 1980s. A duo met around Might, 1975, once performing in the Australian production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Jesus Christ Superstar.

Late that month, a duo, along sustaining Chrissie Hammond, formed Air Supply as a five-human class action. Hammond left a band, to exist as replaced by Jeremy Paul in time for the group's 1st Australian hit individual, "Love and Other Bruises." This individual was followed by the self-titled debut album that reached Gold status in Australia, many more top Xl hits, & an Our contries tour opening for Rod Stewart. Jeremy Paul left a band in the period of this tour.

Hitchcock & Russell profits began retired recently over againside in 1978, and a band that was to record near a lot of the hit records was formed. It featured Frank Esler-Smith (arranger & keyboardist), David Moyse & Rex Goh (guitars) & a percussion of David Green (bass) & Ralph Cooper (drums).

Their 1980 album "Lost In Love" released their music to an American audience first, & contained ternion U.s. Top 5 singles, including a title track, "Every Woman In The World", & "All Out of Love" (sample). It was quickly followed by triad further hit albums, "The One That You Love," "Now and Forever," and "Greatest Hits."

When you took the mid-1980s a band (which would in the end exist as reduced to a duo) continued to keep around minor hits in the United states of america, including "Just as I Am," "The Power of Love," "Making Love (Out of Nothing at All)", & "Lonely is the Night." Fallowing recording "The Christmas Album" around 1987 Russell & Hitchcock separated & went their separate ways for many years.

Within 1991 a duo regrouped & recorded "The Earth Is," containing their hit individual "Without You." A album was followed by "The Vanishing Race" in 1993, "News from Nowhere" inside 1995, & "Now and Forever: Greatest Hits Live," the Video & DVD recording of a survive concert around Taipei, Taiwan, also around 1995.

It continued to tour & record into a freshly millennium, by having occasionally profits throughout south-sou'-east Asia in which romanticist ballads remain particularly popular. Their latest album, "Across the Concrete Sky," is available across their site.

Parodies
A earnestness of the music & lyrics develop mass produced Air Supply an object of parody long after their profits on the popular stock and index charts. Air Supply is manufactured information to around Fox's animated series Family Guy in the episode "Emission Impossible", when Stewie Griffin makes inquiries to his onboard computer regarding a status of his shrinking vessel. In The Simpsons, the music is known as "wuss rock" by Homer Simpson. A duo was besides parodied inside an episode of Saturday Night Live, where it is portrayed when homosexual lovers, who are non recognized per audience it is performing ahead of despite their self-praise of musical profits.

Albums
1976: Air Supply [Rainbow Records] 1977: A Whole Tool Started 1977: Love & Other Bruises 1979: Life Support 1980: Misplaced inside Love 1981: A 1 You Love 1982: Nowadays & Forever 1983: Greatest Hits 1983: Making Love... A Super Right Of Air Supply 1985: Air Supply [Arista] 1986: Hearts around Motion 1987: A Christmas Album 1987: Russell Hitchcock (Solo Album) 1991: A Globe Is... 1993: A Vanishing Race 1995: News from either Nowhere 1995: Greatest Hits Survive - Okay, & Forever 1997: A Book of Love 1999: A Definitive Collection 2001: Sweetly Dreams - A Encore Collection 2001: Yours Truly 2002: A Ultimate Collection: Millennium 2003: Through a Concrete Sky 2003: Forever Love 2003: A Ultimate Collection 2004: Pt & Gold Collection 2005: Love Songs 2005: A lot Away from Love Live 2005: It Was 30 Years Ago Today