80s DANCE-POP STARS AS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD THEM BEFORE!

80s DANCE-POP STARS AS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD THEM BEFORE!

 By: David crooks

 Belfast .UK

David crooks the Music PR was involved in this fanstastic project with James Arena 

“There is a life with fame, but it's not a real life. it's behind guarded  Windows and blacked out screens and private planes. it's like this weird Thing with famous people. It's like a sickness where they know each Other, like in a little club, and Iʼve found most of them to be self-obsessed, shallow, and absolutely vile.” Pete Burns of Dead or Alive/“You Spin Me Round ( Like A Record ).

Burns joins Academy Award winner MEL BROOKS, Modern Talking's

THOMAS ANDERS, Milli Vanilliʼs FAB MORVAN and many more International music legends of the ʼ80s to tell their incredible personal Stories in a groundbreaking, revealing NEW BOOK!

STARS OF 80s DANCE POP – THE EUROPEAN EDITION

THE NEW BOOK BY AUTHOR JAMES ARENA

More selected quotes from the book:

“It was almost 40 years after the war and the whole Hitler thing, and I figured what the hell – there shouldnʼt be a problem anymore. But I guess the Germans knew there were some bad things in their past, and maybe they didn't want to be reminded of it in a rap song.”

Mel Brooks on his hit “To Be Or Not To Be (The Hitler Rap)

“We signed the recording contract without an attorney or manager. We had no experience whatsoever. [As the scandal broke,] the media didnʼt care about any of that. The media were like wolves – they smelled blood and went after US.” - Fab Morvan of the duo Milli Vanilli (“Girl You Know Itʼs True”)

STARS OF 80s DANCE POP – THE EUROPEAN EDITION 

                

More about the book:

In-depth conversations with over 50 multi-million-selling stars from 9 nations,

such as Pete Burns of Dead Or Alive (“You Spin Me Round (Like A

Record)”, Thomas Anders of Modern Talking (“Youʼre My Heart, Youʼre My Soul”), Jennifer Rush (“The Power of Love”), Fab Morvan of Milli

Vanilli (“Girl You Know Itʼs True”), Amii Stewart (“Knock on Wood”),  Taco (“Puttinʼ On the Ritz”). Plus Sabrina, Boney M.ʼs Liz Mitchell, Hazell Dean, Jaki Graham, Desireless, Fancy, Gazebo, Luvʼs José Hoebee, Taco, Linda Jo Rizzo, Caroline Loeb, Five Starʼs Stedman Pearson, Imaginationʼs Leee John, Pedro Marín, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ryan Paris, MaiTaiʼs , Harriette Weels, Yazz, PWL Mixmaster and producer Phil Harding, Technotronicʼs Jo Bogaert, Tom Hooker, Tony Esposito, Spagna, “Dallas” TV star Audrey Landers, Academy Award winner Mel Brooks (“To Be Or Not To Be – The Hitler Rap”) and many more.

General Synopsis:

A massive revolution swept across Europe and Britainʼs pop music scene  beginning early in the 1980s. Merging rock, new wave, disco, worldbeat and classical sounds, an explosion of exciting electronic dance-pop music caused an international sensation. In this book of original interviews, more than 50 of the eraʼs most celebrated singers, songwriters, producers and industry professionals from 9 nations share fascinating memories of their lives and accomplishments during this extraordinary time.

About the Author:

James Arena is a New York-based published author, freelance writer, and commentator who has been featured on MSNBC, FOX, SiriusXM, Clear Channel, and other communications networks. In addition to Stars of 80s Dance Pop – The European Edition, he is the creator of First Legends of Disco and First Ladies of Disco, books that placed the spotlight on pioneering artists and industry professionals of the classic disco era. Combined, Mr. Arena has interviewed over 120 stars of the dance music genre. In his earlier book Fright Night on Channel 9, he detailed the horror film programming history of New York Cityʼs legendary indie television station WOR-TV. James is a Global Entertainment Media Arts Foundation honoree and a former executive with Bertelsmann Direct North America.

© 2015 James Arena. Published by AuthorHouse – a division of  Penguin-Random House. Available at AMAZON, Bookdepository.com and other sites worldwide. Digital on iTunes/iBooks, Amazon Kindle.

ISBN: 978-1-4969-6226-3 (softcover) ISBN: 978-1-4969-6227-0

(hardcover) ISBN: 978-1-4969-6228-7 (e-book)

STARS OF 80s DANCE POP – THE EUROPEAN EDITION 

                 

The full list of artists featured in this book:

Amii Stewart

Big Fun: Phil Creswick

Boney M.: Liz Mitchell

Carlos Pérez

Carmelo La Bionda: producer, composer

Caroline Loeb

Christian de Walden: producer, composer

Dead Or Alive: Pete Burns

Debut De Soiree: Sacha Goëller

Desireless: Claudie Fritsch

Engelbert Humperdinck

Fancy: Ric Tess Teiges

Five Star: Stedman Pearson

Gazebo: Paul Mazzolini

Gold: Alain Llorca

Hazell Dean

Hubert Kah: Klaus Hirschburger

Imagination: Leee John

Jack Robinson, songwriter

Jaki Graham

Jennifer Rush

Joy: Andy Schweitzer

Junior: Junior Giscombe

Kristian Conde

Les Avions: Jean-Pierre Morgand

Lian Ross

Linda Jo Rizzo

Lino Nicolosi: producer, composer

Luv': José Hoebee

MaiTai: Harriette Weels

Manfred Esser: photographer

Milli Vanilli: Fab Morvan

Modern Talking: Thomas Anders

Opus: Kurt René Plisnier

Pedro Marín

Phil Harding: PWL Mixmaster

Pierluigi Giombini: producer, composer

Romano Musumarra: producer, composer

Rondò Veneziano: Maestro Gian Piero Reverberi

Ryan Paris: Fabio Roscioli

Sabrina: Sabrina Salerno

Savage: Roberto Zanetti

Silent Circle: Jürgen CC Behrens and Martin Tychsen

Spagna: Ivana Spagna

Taco: Taco Ockerse

Technotronic: Jo Bogaert

The Twins: Ronny Schreinzer

Tom Hooker

Tony Esposito

Yazz: Yasmine Evans 

  

Plus special additional commentary from: ·Academy Award winner Mel Brooks, "Dallas" TV star and singer Audrey Landers, producer Johann Perrier, former CEO of BMG Europe

Thomas M. Stein, General Director of ZYX Records Christa Mikulski.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Arena

communicationarena@gmail.com 347-886-1703 Twitter: @jamesarenanow