Firefall

The band's releases were on Atlantic Records during their career and "You are the Woman" was featured as a notable track on the record label's twin compact-disc 40-year history retrospective that was released in 1988. His album, The David Gates Songbook, released in 2002, featured several new songs. Other hits also include "Strange Way" from 1978 and "Staying with It" from 1981, which had a female vocalist Lisa Nemzo. Having spent several years out of music altogether, Gates returned to the spotlight in the 1990s, and is still writing and performing. The band's biggest hit single "You Are the Woman" peaked at #9 on the Billboard charts. However, many of his songs have been successfully covered by other artists, including "If" (a huge hit for Telly Savalas) and "Everything I Own" (covered by, among others, Boy George). The album track from 1977's Luna Sea, "Cinderella", is a narrative about a man dealing with the torn feelings regarding his girlfriend's unexpected pregnancy and the negative consequences on the relationship and is one of the most controversial tracks released in the rock era. Gates' distinctive singing voice and boy-next-door good looks helped ensure his popularity.

Firefall was a mainstay, album-oriented rock band that put out a large number of hits such as "You Are the Woman" and "Just Remember I Love You" in the late 1970's. After Bread split up, he composed the theme song for the Oscar-winning film, The Goodbye Girl. Mike Clarke was the drummer of The Byrds in its heyday and tragically died of liver failure on December 19, 1993 at the age of 47. Success came early, but it was with Bread that he gained a wide following and a string of hits including:. The band consisted of Rick Roberts on vocals, Larry Burnett and Jack Bartley on guitars, legendary Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne, and future Heart bassist Mark Andes, Mike Clarke on drums, and keyboardist David Muse, who joined the band in 1977. David Gates (born December 11, 1940) is a singer and songwriter, best known as the front man of the group, Bread (formed in 1967). Gates was born in Oklahoma, dropped out of college and married young, and set off for California to begin a career in music.
Firefall was a band that formed in Boulder, Colorado in the mid-1970's. "Lost without your Love" (1976).

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