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Album review: PAUL SABU – Heartbreak & Only Child

Rock Candy Records Remasters [Release date 07.08.20] From the moment he burst onto the disco music scene in the late seventies, the legend that is Paul Sabu has been inundated with accolades… “best this…”, “best that…”, but he never truly … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Classic Albums, classic rock, Heartbreak, melodic rock, Only Child, Paul Sabu, review, Rock Candy
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Album review: PAUL SABU – Sabu/Kidd Glove

PAUL SABU – Sabu Rock Candy Records [Release date 24.04.20] 1980: After building a name for himself as a producer of slicked back, funk-lite disco music, Paul Sabu took an out-of-the-blue offer from MCA Records to record a melodic rock … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Kidd Glove, melodic rock, Motown, Paul Sabu, re-issue, review, Rock Candy, Sabu
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Album review: JESSE DAMON – Damon’s Rage

AOR Heaven [Release date 28.02.20] Jesse Damon will be best remembered by many 80s rock fans as he was the lead singer and guitarist for the band Silent Rage. Silent Rage rose to fame in 1989 when signed by Gene … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR Heaven, Gene Simmons, hard rock, Jesse Damon, melodic rock, Paul Sabu, review, SILENT RAGE
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Album review: CRANSTON – II

Rock Company [Release date 20.11.18] Cranston is vocalist Phil Vincent (the man who never seems to be out of a recording studio!), melodic rock legend Paul Sabu and B.F. D’Ercole (whose own self-titled band Phil Vincent sings for – told … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cranston, D'Ercole, hard rock, II, melodic rock, Paul Sabu, Phil Vincent, pop rock, review, rock
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Album review: DENNIS CHURCHILL DRIES – I

AOR Heaven [Released 01.06.15] Vocalist/bassist Dennis Churchill Dries (DCD) is known to lovers of melodic rock as the vocalist in White Sister and their successor band Tattoo Rodeo. White Sister issued two immense melodic rock/AOR albums in the 80′s and … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, AOR Heaven, Dennis Churchill Dries, melodic, Paul Sabu, rock, White Sister
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Album review: AOR – LA Connection

Escape Music www.escape-music.com [Released 21.07.14] Frederic Slama is back with album number thirteen under the AOR handle and a new label after the last couple of releases were on the aptly named AOR Heaven label. On this album he is … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Bill Champlin, Frederic Slama, Jeff Paris, LA Connection, Paul Sabu, review, Tommy Denander
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Album review: JESSE DAMON – Temptation In The Garden Of Eve

AOR Heaven Jesse Damon is the guitarist/frontman with Silent Rage and this is his fifth solo album. He has renowned producer and melodic rocker Paul Sabu in the producer’s chair (Sabu also handles bass on the album) and Eden’s Curse … Continue reading
Album review: CHASING VIOLETS – Jade Hearts

AOR Records [Release date 14.06.13] I think producer Frederic Slama compromised Chasing Violets’ debut album ‘Outside Heaven’ (2012) by re-using the songs (and the backing tracks) for his own project album ‘LA Temptation’. Slama is a respected LA-based AOR mover … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Chasing Violets, Fontaine, Frederic Slama, Goran Edman, Jade Hearts, Melissa, melodic, Paul Sabu, review, rock, Sarah, Tommy Denander
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PAUL SABU – In Dreams

www.z-records.com Z Records continue their fine re-issue series of Paul Sabu’s back catalogue and this album first saw the light of day as a Japanese import back in 1994, before Now & Then picked it up. … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, AOR, In Dreams, Lee Aaron, melodic rock, Paul Sabu, Z Records
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Paul Sabu re-releases on Z Records

PAUL SABU SIGNS ANOTHER MULTI ABLUM DEAL WITH Z RECORDS! Its with great pleasure that we can announce that Paul Sabu has extended his dealings with Z Records for 3 classic reissues! Over the past two decades so … Continue reading