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Over the past 55 years, Chicago’s own THE IDES OF MARCH have earned their place in Rock history with their stirring brass-driven platinum hit ‘Vehicle’. Ides singer/guitarist Jim Peterik, who wrote and sang that listener favorite, went on to co-write numerous other Top Ten smashes, including ‘Hold On Loosely’ for .38 Special, and ‘Eye Of The Tiger’ for Survivor. His...
Continuing with the JIM PETERIK-related requested music, here’s “The Songs“, a collection of his most celebrated songs freshly re-recorded in acoustic form, released via his own label World Stage International Records. For years Peterik fans and friends have been asking him to do an acoustic album of Jimbo biggest songs done in an intimate and more revealing way. Peterik enlisted...
“Winds Of Change” is the long-awaited follow-up to JIM PETERIK’s now legendary “Jim Peterik’s & World Stage” first album. Set for release on April 26, 2019 via Frontiers Music but just released in Japan today, “Winds of Change” is another melodic rock masterpiece featuring brand new Peterik songs in collaboration with a who’s who of melodic rock’s greatest superstars, including...
The year was 1964. The place was the working-class Chicago neighborhood of Berwyn.The British musical invasion was under way, but the homegrown schoolboys from the Chicago blue-collar western suburb had just formed a rock band of their own called THE IDES OF MARCH.Turned out that one of them, a young Jimmy Peterik had a knack for songwriting. One of his...
