San Francisco rock singer/songwriter - who should have done way better. Catchy tunes with a rockin' feeling - that might describe his music. The voice reminding of Bruce Springsteen at times. All that talent must have been the reason why many famous Bay Area artists joined Rocky Sullivan on his albums.
Rocky Sullivan was born as Anthony Galante in New York in 1948 and that's also the place where he joined his first bands. He started with the doo wop group 'The Visuals' and then went on to play with 'The Braid'. Further information regarding these bands can be found in an interview with Rocky (link underneath) and the discography. When Rocky came to San Francisco he had not only changed his name but also started his solo career and recorded several albums.
"Illegal Entry" (1980), a nice enough album which includes the tasty "Everybodies Got A Price", features among others, Nicky Hopkins, Greg Douglass, John Cipollina and Mario Cipollina. The songs on this album were recorded even before Rocky had a record deal during several sessions in 1978 (March, July and October) at the Automat, San Francisco. Except two songs, which were written by John Cipollina, Rocky wrote all songs himself.
"Back Up Girl" and "Roxy" had already been released before on San Fransico's Jupiter Records compilation City Lights in 1979. Which also featured the first appearance by Tommy Tutone.
(From bay-area-bands.com)
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Everybody's Got A Price -- Leave It At That -- Jacknife Lover -- Who's Kiddin' Who -- Watcha Get -- You -- Bring Back The Night -- Back Up Girl -- Bigelow 6-5000 -- Roxy -- Fever Dreams
Musicians:
Rocky Sullivan, John Cipollina, Greg Douglass, Nicky Hopkins, Mario Cipollina, Mike Varney, Steve Lind, Greg Anton, Scott Matthews, Mac Cridlin, Mark Cummings, Carole Steele, Mark Shaiman, Jeffrey Cohen, Janet Morrison, Jeanette Sartain, Pam Moore
Album recorded: March, July and October 1978
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