Australian duo Air Supply is an iconic soft rock group whose majestic ballads dominated the charts in the early 1980s.
∙ Founding members Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell first met in 1975, when both were performing in an Australian production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar.
∙ The 1980 hits “Lost in Love” and “All Out of Love” kicked off a 3-year run of 7 straight Top 5 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including their first chart-topper, “The One That You Love.”
∙ Their breakthrough 1980 full-length, Lost in Love, was the first of three straight Platinum albums, and 1983’s Greatest Hits LP has been certified quintuple-Platinum.
∙ Air Supply was invited to participate in Australia’s 1988 bicentennial celebration and performed for the visiting Prince Charles and Princess Diana, who were both fans of the group.
∙ One of the first foreign bands invited to perform in Cuba, they played (in high winds) for a crowd of 175,000 people in 2005—one day before Hurricane Dennis hit the island.
∙ The Australian Recording Industry Association inducted Air Supply into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2013.
Hometown
Melbourne, Australia
Genre
Pop
Members of Air Supply
Air Supply was formed in 1975. Members of Air Supply include, or have included, the following 7 members.