Art-Nr.:CD4622 Date: 20. Oct. 2006 Format: CD	Price: EUR 15.80	Add to Cart
	Tracklist: It’s My Life (stand In My Shoes) Crazy World In The Dark When You Sleep Love Works In Strange Ways Like Father Like Son Is There Anybody Out There I’m Just Not Made For This World Just Like Me On To The Next This Is Not A Love Song The Road That Has No Turning In My Darkest Hour Book Of Love In To The Light Wonderful World

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2006, It begins 1978 the album, 'At The Third Stroke’ produced by Keith Olsen, featured guests David Paich, Jeff and Mike Porcaro from TOTO with Mike Baird also on session drums. Strangely Ballard’s solo work met little acclaim, that is, until Ballard’s undoubted song-writing prowess was seized upon by acts such as AMERICA (‘The Border’ and ‘You Can Do Magic’), RAINBOW (‘I Surrender’ and ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’), ROGER DALTREY (‘Come And Get Your Love’ and ‘Free Me’), GRAHAM BONNET (‘Liar’), ABBA’s Frida, HOT CHOCOLATE, SAMSON, SANTANA and KISS guitarist ACE FREHLEY (‘New York Groove’). With such artists many of Ballard's songs made their way high into the singles charts worldwide. Ballard continued to produce solo albums into the 80s and 1984's 'Russ Ballard' album featured veteran session drummer Simon Phillips, ex-FANCY and MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP bassist Mo Foster and keyboard player Greg Sanders. For the following year's 'The Fire Still Burns' Ballard utilized drummers Stuart Elliot and Mike Richardson. Ballard stayed low key throughout the 90's but did put in an appearance on ROBERT HART's second album in 1992. He made a comeback as a solo artist in 1994 with 'The Seer', but success in this field still eludes the man. His presence as a songwriter would be felt on the 2002 'Fight' opus of leading German Metal queen DORO. He also featured on THUNDER's 2005 album, 'The Magnificent Seventh', on a co-composition with guitarist Luke Morley for the track 'One Fatal Kiss'. Ballard would work on fostering the talents of a singer he spotted in a London pub, LAUREN HARRIS, recording demos for her not knowing that she was, in fact, the oldest daughter of IRON MAIDEN bassist Steve Harris.
Now he is back with his brand new album “Book Of Love”. It is a typical Ballard album. Pure melodic rock.