While working as a hospital orderly, Cutting Crew frontman Nick van Eede was discovered by Slade’s manager, leading to a solo record deal and tours with David Essex and Hot Chocolate.
∙ Cutting Crew’s core members met when Kevin MacMichael’s band, Fast Forward, opened for Nick van Eede’s band, The Drivers, who were known for the Canadian hit “Tears on Your Anorak.”
∙ The band’s debut single, “(I Just) Died in Your Arms,” spent two weeks atop the US Pop chart in 1987.
∙ Cutting Crew was nominated for Best New Artist at the 1987 Grammy Awards.
∙ MacMichael and van Eede coproduced the original demo of Cher’s “Believe,” for which they were paid one bottle of whiskey.
∙ MacMichael cowrote three songs and contributed guitar to Robert Plant’s 1993 album, Fate of Nations.
∙ In 2020, Cutting Crew released Ransomed Healed Restored Forgiven, an album featuring the band’s biggest hits rerecorded with an orchestra.
Heimatort
London, England
Genre
Rock
Mitglieder von Cutting Crew
Cutting Crew wurde im Jahr 1985 gegründet. Zu den Mitgliedern von Cutting Crew gehören oder gehörten die folgenden 5 Mitglieder.